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Features
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College athletics for sale?
UF Law athletes weigh in on winds
of change buffeting college sports
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Cannabis confusion
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Fishing for justice
Cover photo illustration by Julian Pinilla
Marijuana policy staggers toward
a new normal
Alum tells U.S. Supreme Court why fishing
boat captains aren’t corporate accountants
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CONTENTS
U F L AW VO L . 5 1 , I S S U E # 1 FA L L 2 0 14
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DEAN’S MESSAGE
5NEWS BRIEFS
• UF Law No. 1 in Florida Bar exam results
• Trial, Moot Court teams advance to national competitions
•Former FISA judge talks privacy after Snowden
• Group recognized for tax assistance
•UF Law among top 20 best value law schools nationwide
•Second annual Florida Tax Institute returns to Tampa
•UF picks new president
•UF Law projects Hollywood legal image
21PARTNERS
• Gator Nation get-together
• Power play
• 50 years after library job, Kuersteiner gives back
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Heritage of Leadership
CLASS NOTES
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Cerio and Patel: Making friends, influencing a university
•A reunion for Cuban-American Lawyers
•Riggs a national voice against ‘voter suppression’
• New Fredric G. Levin biography
• Cousins makes career of Lemon Law
•In Memoriam: John Arthur Jones (JD 49)
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ANNUAL REPORT
FACULTY IN FOCUS: A NEW SECTION
•News
• Scholarship focus
• Research report
• Media hits
• New faculty
UP AND COMING • Gentry Mander (3L) and the Belize-chocolate connection
WEB-XTRAS: Visit UF LAW online at www.law.ufl.edu/uflaw to view:
• Alumni deaths since June 2014
• Videos of alumni events including:
–Present Threats to the Judiciary
–Legalize Marijuana? A Conversation with the Experts
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Links At www.law.ufl.edu:
FROM THE DEAN
The emphasis on combining skills training
with doctrinal teaching continues into the upper class years. For example, the plan calls for
INTERIM
a category of courses known as “practicums”
DEAN
that bridge training and doctrinal pedagogy by
GEORGE
DAW S O N
incorporating skills training in small enrollment doctrinal courses. One immediate example of this is the development of an entrepreneurship practicum in which a small number
of law students will assist a member of the bar
in providing pro bono representation on business-development planning and related matters to new entrepreneurs and small-business
owners in a high-growth technology setting.
In addition, the plan calls for the college to
expand its clinical offerings, particularly in
fields that will diversify the substantive focus
of current clinics.
In addition to clinical offerings, students
will continue to have the opportunity for training in legal skills in the college’s extensive
externship program. The revised Standards for
Approval of Law Schools, adopted last summer
by the American Bar Association Section of
Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, res I write this, I’m sitting in the office that Bob Jerry ocquire law schools to provide every student with
cupied for the past 11 years (less a little time in a portable at least six hours of credit in experiential courses. Experiential courses
while Holland Hall was being renovated). More than — defined as simulation courses, law clinics, and field placements (exever, I appreciate how much he accomplished during that ternships) — must integrate doctrine, theory, skills and ethics, develop
time and wonder how he did it all.
the concepts underlying the professional skills being taught and proMuch of the activity at the Levin College of Law this fall is a vide multiple opportunities for performance and self-evaluation.
result of initiatives begun during his deanship. In particular, the facFinally, the strategic plan calls for a “semester away” program to
ulty adopted a new strategic plan at its September
create opportunities to enhance teaching and exmeeting. The plan is the product of dedicated work
periential learning in urban employment centers.
There have been
by members of the committee charged with develThe program takes advantage of the fact that the
oping it as well as extensive input from the faculty.
and are likely to
revised Standards for Approval of Law Schools
The committee and the faculty recognize that
now permit schools to grant students up to 15
continue to be
there have been and are likely to continue to be
hours of credit for distance education courses.
significant changes in legal education and in the significant changes Students participating in a semester away will be
legal profession. The strategic plan represents a
to earn credit in an externship in a location
in legal education able
response to some of the issues arising out of those
other than Gainesville (or to work as a clerk in
changes. A major focus is on the development of
a law firm or agency) while also taking distance
and in the legal
skills graduates will need as they enter the practice
education classes developed and delivered by
profession.
of law.
college faculty members. With the combination
Students begin to acquire skills in areas such
of externship and distance-education credit, a
as writing before they enroll in law school. The plan recognizes student can spend a semester away from Gainesville while still earnit is important to ensure they have strong writing skills, even to ing enough credits to graduate on schedule. This program will enable
the extent of offering a preparatory writing program for admitted students to obtain further skills experience and could enhance their
students. As part of a two-year pilot program, one first-semester opportunities to network and find employment.
doctrinal course will be offered in three small sections. InstrucCommittees are now developing strategies for implementing the
tors teaching small sections will have the opportunity to coordinate strategic plan and are scheduled to report back to the faculty by the
doctrinal teaching with instruction by legal-research and legal- end of the fall semester. While much work remains, this new stratewriting teachers, and to assign written- or oral-skills exercises as gic plan provides a clear framework for further development of skills
part of the doctrinal course.
education at the college of law.
Curriculum to emphasize skills,
experiential learning
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UF LAW HAPPENINGS, EVENTS & ACHIEVEMENTS
News Briefs
The UF Law Trial Team
celebrates its American
Bar Association win. From
left are David Carlson (2L),
Shayna Finkelstein (3L),
Lauren Humphries (3L) and
Christopher Caproni (3L).
UF Law No. 1 in Florida
Bar exam results
after earning a J.D. degree from a law school
with a strong legal education program.”
U F L AW H A D T H E H I G H E ST F LO R I DA
B A R E X A M I N AT I O N PAS SAG E R AT E S
Trial, Moot Court teams
advance to national
competitions
in the state for the July 2014 exam,
according to the Florida Board of Bar
Examiners.
Graduates had a 90.6 percent passage
rate, with 241 out of 266 test-takers passing the exam. This is a 2.4 percent increase
in passage rate compared to the July 2013
exam.
Additionally, UF Law had the highest passage rates in Florida for August’s Multistate
Professional Responsibility Examination with
57 out of 60 passing the test for a 95 percent
passage rate.
UF Law Interim Dean George Dawson
praised the graduates sitting for the bar examination, noting that “passing the bar examination is never an easy task and requires
careful and conscientious preparation, even
T H E U F L AW T R I A L T E A M B E AT O U T
14 S C H O O L S to take first place in the
Southeast division of the 11th annual
American Bar Association Section of Labor
and Employment Law Trial Advocacy
Competition in Miami on Nov. 1. The team
will advance to compete against seven
schools in the national tournament in New
Orleans in January.
The UF Law Moot Court Team
advanced to nationals in the New York
City Bar Association’s National Moot
Court Competition. The team took second
place behind Stetson Law in the regional
round of the competition held Nov. 8 at
UF Law’s Martin H. Levin Advocacy Center
Courtroom. Moot Court Team members
Brandon Butterworth (2L) and Brandt
Carlson (2L) will represent UF Law.
For the Trial Team, Christopher
Caproni (3L), Shayna Finkelstein (3L),
Lauren Humphries (3L) and David Carlson
(2L) defeated Emory in the finals of the
competition, also beating teams from
Louisiana State University, University of
St. Thomas School of Law and Florida
International University in previous rounds.
They were coached by Roger Lambert (JD
75) and Jennifer White (JD 11).
The case, which the group will argue
again on Jan. 30 in New Orleans, involves a
labor law dispute for back wages.
“These students did an outstanding
job and had excellent help from their
coaches,” said Trial Practice Director and
UF Law Professor Jennifer Zedalis. “We are
extremely proud of them.”
Humphries said that going to nationals
in this competition places UF Law among the
top eight trial advocacy schools in the nation.
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UF LAW HAPPENINGS, EVENTS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Former FISA judge
talks privacy after
Snowden
F O R M E R US F O R E I G N I N T E L L I G E N C E
S U RV E I L L A N C E CO U RT J U D G E R O G E R
V I N S O N recalled his experiences serving
on the FISA court during the “National
Security and Privacy After Snowden”
panel at UF Law on Constitution Day,
Sept. 17.
Vinson explained the history, structure and processes of the court and
his personal experiences serving on it
from 2006 to 2013. He explained how
the court operated throughout changes
made to FISA law over the years.
“It is not my purpose today to defend
the statute’s language itself but to assure
you that the FISA court itself has implemented the statute and protected the
Fourth Amendment Rights of Americans
throughout the changes in the FISA law,”
Vinson said.
The panel also featured UF Journalism
Professor Sandra Chance (JD 90) and Director for UF Law’s Center for Government
Responsibility and Dean Emeritus Jon Mills
(JD 72) as moderator.
Chance focused on how the First
Amendment and the freedom of the press
relate to national security. She stressed the
importance of educating people concerning national security, the First Amendment
and privacy so they can debate the subject
and voice their opinions.
“Citizens — I’m looking at all of you —
must take a more active role in demanding
the protection of your fundamental rights.
Americans must either fight for their right
to privacy or lose it,” Chance said. “More
government accountability and citizen
oversight is necessary, not less.”
Group recognized for
tax assistance
T H E U N I T E D WAY H AS R ECO G N I Z E D
U F L AW A N D I TS ST U D E N T
O R G A N I Z AT I O N T H E AS S O C I AT I O N
F O R TA X L AW for its successful 2014
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance service.
Students prepared $773,321 in tax
returns and saved individuals $127,328 in
tax preparer fees. The combined $900,649
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From left, FISA court judge and Senior District Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. District
Court for the Northern District of Florida; Jon Mills (JD 72), director for UF Law’s Center for
Governmental Responsibility and dean emeritus; and Sandra Chance (JD 90), UF journalism
professor and executive director of the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information, spoke
on a panel as part of Constitution Day, Sept. 17. (Photo by Kelly Logan)
in community impact represented 35
percent of the combined impact for all 13
sites in Alachua County. It was the largest
single site in the county.
Site coordinator Josh Giancarlo
(JD 14), his assistant Christopher Weeg
(3L) and Faculty Adviser and UF Law
Professor Steven Willis oversaw the site.
To complete the project, 40 law students
contributed over 1,000 pro bono hours.
UF Law among top 20
best value law schools
nationwide
U F L AW H AS B E E N R A N K E D AS T H E
1 3 T H “ B E ST VA LU E L AW S C H O O L”
I N T H E N AT I O N by the National Jurist
magazine.
The rankings take into account fulltime tuition, cost of living, student debt,
employment rates and bar-passage rates.
“U.S. News ranks us in the top 25
percent of the nation’s law schools, but
students pay less in tuition, fees and
expenses while graduates have less
accumulated debt than nearly any of
our peers,” said UF Law Interim Dean
George Dawson. “This National Jurist
ranking should be of particular interest
to prospective students, since it also
considers the important factors of bar
passage and employment rates.”
Helping graduates find good jobs
has been a priority at the school, and
employment statistics are already on the
upswing. The nine-month employment
statistic for 2013 graduates was 82.05
percent, excluding students who enrolled
in LL.M. programs.
The National Jurist ranking reflects a
long tradition of UF Law as being among
the best value in legal education. UF
Law is the third most affordable out of
the top 50 law schools in the U.S. based
on American Bar Association data for
in-state tuition and fees plus annual
expenses.
Second annual Florida
Tax Institute returns
to Tampa Bay
TA X P R O F E S S I O N A L S, I N C LU D I N G
AT TO R N EYS, ACCO U N TA N TS A N D
F I N A N C I A L P L A N N E R S nationwide will
once again converge in Tampa for the second annual Florida Tax Institute. The threeday conference, organized by graduates
and tax professors of the UF Law Graduate
Tax Program, the nation’s No. 1 public tax
program, will be held at the Grand Hyatt
Tampa Bay, from April 22-24.
The institute will feature two days
devoted to business and individual taxation,
and one day focused on estate planning.
The list of guest speakers and
panelists features a mix of top tax
scholars and practitioners covering
today’s most timely topics. For complete
details, including agenda and speakers,
visit www.floridataxinstitute.org.
UF L AW
NEWS BRIEFS
University of Florida picks new president
W
. Kent Fuchs, provost
of Cornell University,
has been named the 12th
president of the University of Florida. Fuchs’ appointment is effective
Jan. 1, 2015.
The UF board of trustees selected
Fuchs on Oct. 15 and the Board of
Governors confirmed the choice.
Fuchs will replace President Bernie
Machen, who is retiring after 11 years.
Fuchs (pronounced “Fox”)
brings 20 years of leadership in
higher education at institutions
such as the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign and Purdue
University. For the past 12 years,
he served as a dean of the College
of Engineering, then provost at
Cornell. Like UF, Cornell is a
land-grant institution with a wide
range of colleges and professional
schools.
He earned a Ph.D. from the
University of Illinois in 1985; a
master of divinity from Trinity
Evangelical Divinity School in
1984; a master of science from the
University of Illinois in 1982; and a
bachelor of science in engineering
from Duke University in 1977.
Fuchs’ wife, Linda, taught at The
King’s Academy in West Palm Beach
before they met. He graduated from
Miami Killian Senior High School,
and his two younger brothers and
stepmother live in South Florida. Kent
and Linda have three sons and one
daughter ranging in age from 24 to 31
(Micah, Eric, Isaac and Christine).
To learn more about Fuchs,
visit http://our12thpresident.ufl.edu.
W. Kent Fuchs is the
12th president of the
University of Florida.
(Photo by Ray Carson –
UF Photography)
UF Law projects Hollywood legal image in library
P
hotographs from nearly 100
legal-themed movie and
television shows form the heart
of an electronic interactive exhibit now
operational on the first floor of the
Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center.
“Each attorney will find his favorites
here,” said William Zewadski (JD 69),
who donated the collection to the law
school. “From To Kill A Mockingbird,
to My Cousin Vinnie, on to my own
favorite television series, Rumpole of the
Bailey. Most are readily available for just
a little on eBay and Amazon.”
Each photograph in “Projecting the
Law: The Levin College of Law Legal
Movie Stills Collection” shows a single
scene or, sometimes, a cast portrait.
The collection proves the case that
legal themes have served as a staple for
movie plots since the dawn of Hollywood
through the present day.
The display allows viewers to
browse scanned images of the stills,
read summaries of the movies and
watch short video clips. The physical
collection is available to view in the
Marshall Korbin (1L) uses the new interactive movie
display “Projecting The Law” in the Lawton Chiles
Legal Information Center. (Photo by Julian Pinilla)
library. Zewadski compiled the stills from
his own larger collection at the urging of
former Dean Robert Jerry.
“Dean Jerry has a long interest in
using legal film and television to teach
about the law, both what to do, and
what not to do as trial techniques,
ethics, and more,” Zewadski wrote in
an email. “When he learned I had a
collection of movie publicity stills about
classic and epic films, numbering in the
many thousands, he suggested I might
assemble a collection of them in the
legal field for use at UF.”
The exhibit was also made possible
thanks to a donation from Julie C.
Miller (JD 05) in memory of her father,
Wilton R. Miller (JD 62). The electronic
exhibit was produced by the UF Law
Communications Office with assistance
from UF Law’s Technology Services.
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C O L L E G E AT H L E T I C S
Pay football and basketball players in big-time college athletics?
A federal judge says yes. UF Law’s athletes take a more nuanced view.
BY A N D R E W ST E A D M A N ( 3 L )
B
illy Steinmann (2L) traded a blue-and-orange
Gator football uniform for a brand new suit, fresh
off the rack at Jos. A. Bank. It was a graduation
gift, intended to ease the transition from college
life — and the gridiron — to the “real world”
where he was about to start a career away from
football.
The suit didn’t come from someone in his family. It came from
Florida athletics officials, purchased with money from the NCAA
Student Athletic Opportunity Fund, which provides money for athletes’ expenses like traveling home for a family member’s funeral.
Or, as in this case, it provides all players concluding their college
eligibility at Florida with a suit to use for job interviews and the like.
Steinmann got his in 2012 after a four-year football career.
It’s simultaneously a symbol of appreciation for the player’s contributions on the football field and a nod to the future —
acknowledgement that the world is waiting, whether it’s the promise
of a career in professional sports or an entirely different career path.
But the suit also dresses up an uncomfortable fact: NCAA rules
forbid universities from paying their athletes, and students can’t
receive payment from third-parties for their participation in collegiate athletics. College athletes have begun to push back against
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rules barring them from a cut of the profits with a string of legal and
regulatory challenges.
The most prominent of these is the Ed O’Bannon antitrust case.
A federal judge ruled in August that universities must pay athletes at
least $5,000 per year for the use of football and basketball players’
names, images and likenesses. The NCAA is appealing.
Steinmann is now enrolled in UF Law, hoping to launch his
career in sports law. He called the suit he was given upon graduation
a nice gesture useful for pursuing career opportunities. But he said
players would likely prefer a cut of the profits the program earned
from the use of their likenesses.
“Something like (that) could benefit a player much more,
especially if they immediately begin looking for a job and do not
continue with school or play professionally,” Steinmann said. “Even
guys that are free agents aren’t getting everything paid for while
training for a combine. So the money could benefit them, as well.”
WHO FILLS THE SEATS?
The athletes are the reason why the tickets are sold and the
seats are filled. They give the game their all, in the process bringing entertainment to sports fans and profits to universities. And
yet these players aren’t compensated for their efforts beyond the
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“Even guys that are
free agents aren’t
getting everything
paid for while training
for a combine. So the
money could benefit
them, as well.”
Billy Steinmann
(2L) played tight
end for the
Gators. (Photo
by Julian Pinilla)
—Billy Steinmann (2L)
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scholarships they receive. Their likenesses
appear in television ads and popular video
games, but the players don’t see a penny of
the money.
At least, that’s how some college football
and men’s basketball players see it. In 2009,
former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon
and other former college athletes joined
a class action antitrust lawsuit against the
NCAA, alleging that the collegiate sports
Fawbush
Russell
organization had deprived him and his fellow
athletes of his right to publicity. The quesO’Bannon dealt a blow to the NCAA’s
tion of whether college athletes should be
compensated for their efforts has continued long-standing contention that college athletes are purely amateurs: full-time students
to snowball.
A series of legal and regulatory deci- who happen to participate in athletics. Howsions this year is reshaping the environ- ever, O’Bannon raises more questions than it
ment in which student athletes compete. answers. The path to a definitive solution is
First, Northwestern University football fraught with problems ranging from Title IX
implications — federal statutes that
players successfully petitioned the Naprohibit discrimination on the
tional Labor Relations Board for
basis of sex at educational inthe right to create the nation’s
stitutions — to the financial
first college football playhealth of many university
ers union (athletes had not
athletic programs.
voted to establish a union
On top of all the
as of Nov. 1, 2014).
questions,
the NCAA
Then, Electronic Arts
“Who pays them,
is also facing anand the Collegiate
other threat in the
Licensing
Comand how much?
form of an antipany
departed
And if it is coming
trust lawsuit filed
from O’Bannon v.
by Jeffrey Kessler
NCAA and settled
out of the school
on the behalf of
their portions of
Martin Jenkins, a
the antitrust lawcoffer, how much
former Clemson
suit for $40 milfootball
player.
lion.
is it and where
Kessler is the lawFinally,
on
does the money
yer who negotiated
Aug. 8 federal Disfree-agency systems
trict Judge Claudia
come from?”
in the NFL and NBA,
Wilken issued her
and now he has set his
ruling in O’Bannon.
—Steve Russell,
Sports Director, WUFT
sights on the NCAA.
Wilken ruled that the
The NCAA has retained
NCAA could not enforce
Jeffrey Mishkin, who has
rules that prevented Divifaced off against Kessler while
sion I football and men’s basrepresenting NBA team owners.
ketball players from receiving
profits earned through use of their
GATOR ANGLES
likenesses in television broadcasts,
Andrew Fawbush (JD 74), the chair
advertisements and video games. Under the
ruling, the NCAA is enjoined from capping of the executive compensation and benscholarships below the cost of attendance efits practice at Smith, Gambrell & Russell,
and from banning trust funds created to pay played football for the Gators in 1964. As a
players for use of their names, images and walk-on, he played fullback and wide receiver. Fawbush described his role on the team as
likenesses, known as NILs.
Wilken wrote in her 99-page decision primarily a “tackling dummy,” but today he
that schools would be able to cap the amount leads University of Florida Athletic Associathat football and men’s basketball players tion as president of its board of directors. The
could receive for use of their NILs, but the UAA is a nonprofit support organization that
manages the university’s expansive athletic
cap can be no less than $5,000 per year.
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programs funded through ticket revenues,
student fees, Southeastern Athletic Conference revenue and donations from the Gator
Boosters.
Fawbush noted that he was not speaking
on behalf of the UAA and could not comment
specifically on the O’Bannon ruling. But he
said the recent litigation and rulings could
have far-reaching impacts.
Fawbush said few university athletic
programs operate in the black, but Florida
is one of them. The UAA contributes a
portion of its revenue to other campus programs, but many other university athletics
programs struggle simply to support their
sports teams. Fawbush said those programs
stand to suffer.
“At many of the schools that have
revenue issues anyway, the student athletic
opportunities may actually decrease as a
result of these rulings,” Fawbush said.
Steve Russell, sports director at WUFT
and host of Sportscene with Steve Russell,
said the question of coming up with the money is central to the issue of paying student
athletes.
“Who pays them, and how much?” Russell said. “And if it is coming out of the
school coffer, how much is it and where does
the money come from?”
Russell said that some universities have
already moved into the realm of selling alcohol at university athletic events. He said
universities likely would have to make more
decisions along those lines.
Grace Collins (3L), a UF Law student
who played softball at Barry University in
Miami, said federal rules banning discrimination on the basis of sex at educational institutions would put additional pressure on
colleges facing the prospect of paying their
athletes.
“They would have to pay the same number of female athletes in order to stay in Title
IX compliance,” Collins said. “Schools know
this and it’s one of the other reasons they don’t
want to pay, because they can’t afford both.”
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The Swamp erupts Sept. 6 after a touchdown
in Florida’s 65-0 win against Eastern Michigan.
(Photo by Julian Pinilla)
Fawbush said that schools have already
dropped some men’s sports in order to comply with Title IX requirements. The recent
rulings, then, could spell the end for athletic
programs that are already struggling.
“It may shrink the scholarship opportunities that are available for men and women at
many schools,” Fawbush said.
Glenn Cameron (JD 87), a college and
pro football player, said the question of fairness even extended to backup or walk-on
players who practice and workout with the
team but never play.
Cameron is a trial lawyer at Cameron,
Gonzalez & Maroney in West Palm Beach, and
played linebacker for
the Gators from 1971
to 1974 before being
drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals and
playing 11 seasons in
the NFL. After retiring from pro football,
Cameron returned to
UF Law to pursue a
Cameron
career as a lawyer.
“He works his
tail off to do that every week, but he doesn’t
get to run out of the tunnel in between the
band and the cheerleaders,” Cameron said
of the backups. “How do you pay Rudy for
what he does?”
For Russell, that question can be solved “That’s nice, but if he doesn’t have an educaby scaling the profits depending on the play- tion at the end of those four years, and he’s
ers’ roles, gauged by playing time
not in the NFL, what has all of this done
and screen time.
to help him better himself and
“If it’s (Gators quarfurther himself?”
terback) Jeff Driskel,
The scholarship covand it’s obvious
ers the work the playhe’s in that (video)
ers put in for the
“They’re getting
game a lot, then
team itself, Russell
he’s going to be
said. However, a
paid to go to
paid $5,000,”
scholarship alone
college, in the form
Russell said,
doesn’t
address
“as
opposed
the
money
univerof their education
to a guy who’s
sities pull in from
and their room
standing on the
using players’ likesidelines. But
nesses on television
and board.”
I still think they
and in video games.
—Glenn Cameron (JD 87)
ought to be com“I think that’s a
pensated if they’re in
separate issue from playthere at all.”
ers getting paid for use of
Fawbush said juggling
their likeness,” Russell said.
the responsibilities of attending
“In my opinion, these players were
classes, playing football and working gave him getting exploited.”
a unique perspective on the situation. Fawbush
said he considered the athletic scholarships EDUCATIONAL INVESTMENT
awarded to many college athletes to be an
Jim Barrie (JD 14) was a highly recruited
extremely valuable resource. Cameron agreed, offensive tackle who played for the Gators
saying that the money the athletes would from 2006 to 2009 before a torn ACL ended
receive is nearly inconsequential compared to his college football career. Barrie went on to
the value of a scholarship to a university.
attend UF Law, where he wrote a research
“So you pay the kid five grand a year paper arguing that NCAA licensing practices
and they put it in some trust,” Cameron said. violate antitrust laws.
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“The driving
force of the revenue is, of course,
the players, as
both the product
on the field and the
licensing
rights
to their names,
images, and likeBarrie
nesses,”
Barrie
said.
“Athletes,
particularly at elite institutions, essentially
work full-time jobs all year round without
receiving appropriate compensation.”
The definition of “appropriate compensation” varies. For example, Cameron said the
value of an athletic scholarship is often underestimated because people forget that scholarships allow athletes to skip the increasingly
stringent college admissions process.
“If you take away their athletic scholarship, I’d like to see how many actually qualify for entrance to the University of Florida,”
Cameron said. “How much is that worth to a
parent who has Gator ties and would like to see
their children go to the University of Florida?”
Cameron said he thought athletic scholarships were adequate compensation for
playing college sports, but with a caveat: an
academic scholarship is only valuable if the
student actually receives an education.
“They’re getting paid to go to college,
Cameron said the most important asin the form of their education and their
pect of the recent rulings had been lost
room and board,” Cameron said.
in the furor over the possibility of
“If you want to take the façade
college athletes getting paid.
down, just hire them to play
The players at Northwestern
football.”
didn’t unionize purely to
Cameron said the
make money. They wantcurrent state of college
ed increased negotiatathletics can prevent
ing power, which could
players from focustranslate to greater
ing on their educafreedom in choosing
tions. Grueling
classes.
practice schedules
“The thing that
shuffle players
interested me with
into certain acathis antitrust litigademic tracks that
tion was that kid at
leave them unpreNorthwestern seemed
pared for the prosto me like a real stupect of a career
dent-athlete, not just a
after sports. That’s
football player,” Cama far cry from Cameron said.
eron’s days playing
Steinmann,
who
for the Gators, when
majored in political sci—Jim Barrie (JD 14)
players arrived late to
ence and got a masters
practice because they
in entrepreneurship, said
had labs for their classes.
academic and athletic suc“I think that’s where the rubcess are not mutually excluber meets the road in this antisive at the University of Florida,
trust litigation,” Cameron said.
although time management can
That’s something we’ve lost sight of,
become a challenge with the additional
or these athletic departments have lost sight of.” responsibilities of playing football.
“Athletes,
particularly at
elite institutions,
essentially work
full-time jobs
all year round
without receiving
appropriate
compensation.”
Club takes advantage as opportunity knocks for sports law
R
ecent litigation is forcing changes
on collegiate athletics and
opportunities for sports lawyers
are on the uptick. UF Law’s Entertainment
and Sports Law Society wants to take
advantage. When the sports law society
shot back to prominence last year, UF Law
re-established itself as a destination for
law students interested in sports law.
Last year’s Society President and
current Symposium Chair Josh Corriveau
(3L) said he has been driven by a desire
to see more sports law offerings at UF
Law. He reinvigorated the group and
re-established UF Law’s Sports Law
symposium, an event that
attracts students and
professionals from
across Florida.
“It really
means a lot
to me to
12
see the growth of the organization and
how it has opened many doors for UF Law
students,” Corriveau said.
Society President Lauren Kerr (2L) said
the explosive growth of interest in sports
law at UF is evidenced by the success of
the group known as EASLS.
“It’s amazing to me that only two years
ago, EASLS had a budget of $80 and three
members,” Kerr said. “Now, we’re set to
host our second sports law symposium
with panelists who are at the top of the
field.”
Besides working throughout the year
to organize the March 20 symposium,
Corriveau also lobbied for adding
sports-related classes to the curriculum.
Currently, the only sports-law class is a
seminar, offered once a year, with a cap of
15 students.
“We are currently working with the
administration to re-configure a master
of science in sport management and
J.D. dual degree program with UF Law
and the UF College of Health and Human
Performance,” Corriveau said.
Corriveau said the society is continuing
to work with UF Law administration
to establish a connection with the
University Athletic Association, UF athletic
department, and other sports entities in
Florida for internship placement and other
jobs.
“The O’Bannon suit is only the tip of
the iceberg,” Corriveau said, referring to a
federal judge’s ruling that NCAA football
and basketball players be paid $5,000 per
year in return for their Division 1 play. “I
expect there will be a larger necessity for
more lawyers going forward in the next
three to five years to work for both the
NCAA as an institution and its member
schools.”
—Andrew Steadman (3L)
UF L AW
“For students who are medical or engineering majors, it is quite difficult to find the
time, especially in the fall, to truly dedicate
a large amount of time to studying,” Steinmann said. “I have seen it successfully done
by walk-ons and scholarship athletes, and I
have seen many fail.”
Russell said that rethinking current
NCAA regulations could put the focus back
on academics.
“If you truly are wanting the full
welfare of the athlete, of this student, then
don’t make football a year-round sport,”
Russell said. “Give kids (time) off, give the
coaches (time) off, give some relief in recruiting. Kids don’t have to be bombarded
with this stuff. They can get a job and they
can really focus on their studies.”
Steinmann got first-hand experience
juggling his academic and athletic responsibilities.
“Watching film, meetings, strength and
conditioning workouts, treatment and practices take a lot of time during the fall semester,” Steinmann said. “This is where having
a smart and seasoned academic adviser is
key for the athlete. The adviser can then
place the athlete in classes that are ‘easier’
for the fall and leave the more difficult ones
’till the spring and summer when the time
demand is much less.”
While it may seem that some universities
could change their own policies to ensure
academic success for their athletes, Russell
suggested that a desire to be successful in the
big-money arena of college sports has made
this unlikely.
“The problem is everybody’s scared
they’re going to lose the advantage,”
Russell said.
OPPORTUNITY FROM UPHEAVAL
Complications may be coming for college athletics, but Fawbush sees the situation
as an opportunity for law students.
“It’s attracted political attention and it’s
attracted legal attention,” Fawbush said.
“There are people who have varying views
on what should be done and how things
should be done. That involves using lawyers,
because people don’t agree and they end up
in court.”
For example, students interested in compliance will likely find employment options
at schools struggling to meet the new requirements.
“I think it’s going to create a lot of
opportunities for people to get involved in
Where the money goes
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University Athletic Association, Inc. Financial Statements and Operating Budget Executive Summary;
Fiscal year ending June 30, 2014 ♦All figures are rounded
various ways in a legal profession dealing
with sports,” Fawbush said.
Steinmann, Collins and Barrie have all
applied their own experiences in college athletics to their legal careers in varying ways.
Collins, in particular, wants to pursue a career in compliance at a university. The Entertainment and Sports Law Society at UF Law,
which had all but disappeared by 2012, is
enjoying a revival, thanks in no small part to
law students’ interest in the issues surrounding college athletics. The sports law seminar
class at UF Law is a consistently popular
course.
Come what may, the Gators expect to
ride out the storm.
“I don’t know that it changes a lot
that we have to do,” Fawbush said.
“Our role on the (UAA) board, basically,
is to make sure the program stays on its
mission, which is to continue to have
top-quality athletic programs and to provide
the education and opportunities for student
athletes.
“The leadership and the athletic program
at the University of Florida is so strong that
they’ll make the adjustments they need,”
Fawbush said.
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Cannabis
confusion
Can UF Law bring clarity?
The marijuana legalization debate rages as policy
takes halting steps toward a new normal
BY D I A N A M I V E L L I
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UF L AW
Saraya Pleasant (1L) uses marijuana so she
could stop using addictive prescription
narcotics to control her pain from a botched
ankle surgery. (Photo by Julian Pinilla)
T
he march toward marijuana legalization
“What would you say to someone actively suffering?”
in America is a misnomer. It’s more like she asked the two panelists. “Even though the chronic pain
an intoxicated ramble. Election Day saw pills are FDA-approved, the user could die. So, given that
victories for recreational marijuana in the potential for death as compared to marijuana, where
Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C., there is no known lethal dose risk, you can manage pain
even as Florida voters rejected a con- long term and in the privacy of your own home and as long
stitutional amendment that would have as you are abiding by the law, being a productive member
authorized medicinal marijuana. Thus
of society, and not watching TV all day,
continues a patchwork of policies nationwhy is this so wrong and why does the
wide as many states, and even localities,
state know more than the person in
have approved some form of legalizapain?”
tion. Yet the federal government bans the
Darnell, who argued against apsubstance as a Schedule 1 drug, the same
proval of Florida’s medicinal marijuana
classification as heroin.
constitutional amendment, said people
UF Law alumni and students have
using pot at home who are otherwise
attempted to bring order from the chaos
law abiding won’t come to the attention
—Saraya Pleasant (1L)
of state-by-state marijuana legalization,
of law enforcement — unless, that is,
diving into policy analysis, political adneighbors complain of the smell. If law
vocacy and public education ahead of the Florida referen- enforcement shows up, they have to enforce the law.
dum. Meanwhile, alumni in a recreational-use state sort out
Mills, a former speaker of the Florida House who directs
the rules for marijuana-industry clients in a climate filled UF Law’s Center for Governmental Responsibility, wrote
with legal uncertainty.
the Amendment 2 language that
For one first-year law student, marijuana was the garnered 58 percent of the vote
solution to a problem. The problem was the narcotics she on Nov. 4 (60 percent is required
was prescribed to fight chronic pain after a botched subta- for insertion into the state constilar-fusion surgery where a screw penetrated her ankle joint tution). He said Pleasant would
cartilage requiring corrective ankle-fusion surgery. Saraya be better off if the state had a
Pleasant said the pills caused nausea, vomiting and consti- regulated medicinal marijuana
pation. As her tolerance steadily increased she had to take regime.
more pills to reduce the pain and the side effects worsened.
But critics contend that leShe turned to marijuana for relief.
gal medicinal marijuana is about
Mills
In a town hall-style debate on medicinal marijuana fea- more than helping the sick.
turing UF Law Professor Jon L. Mills (JD 72) and Alachua
“There are two things you
County Sheriff Sadie Darnell, Pleasant told her story before don’t do with medicines — you don’t smoke them and you
a room full of UF Law students.
don’t vote on them,” said Scott Teitelbaum, professor of
“What would
you say to
someone actively
suffering?”
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psychiatry and pediatrics at the University
of Florida College of Medicine and vice
chair of the Psychiatry Department. He
called medical marijuana a “Trojan horse”
for recreational use.
Colorado Deputy Attorney General
David Blake told the story of a makeshift medical dispensary outside a Colorado Phish concert. People entered at one
end of the van and exited the other with
marijuana.
Blake and Teitelbaum were among six
national experts at Florida Law Review’s
Allen L. Poucher Educational Series analyzing the pros and cons of legalizing marijuana. The Oct. 24 discussion drew an estimated 650 to the Curtis M. Phillips Center
for the Performing Arts.
Imparting his experience from the
front-lines of the legalized marijuana policy realm, Blake said he opposed legalization in Colorado but is now in charge of
writing regulations to make it work.
“I’m ethically bound to be a lawyer for
Colorado and try and get it right, and we
haven’t gotten it right yet and it’s been five
years. So any state that’s going to step in and
take this on, don’t assume that overnight
you’re going to look like Colorado,” Blake
said. “You’re going to spend a lot of money,
a lot of time, a lot of toil trying to get there
Matthew Christ (3L) and Christopher
and from the medical side this debate is go- Johns (3L) waded into these minefields as
ing to continue, I promise. It’s been going they crafted draft medical marijuana rules
for 20 years and will go for 20 more.”
for Florida.
Vanderbilt University Law School Pro“We’ve started the process by researching
fessor Robert Mikos said there are “too states that have legalized medical marijuana,
many cooks in the kitchen” with respect to identifying what has worked, what hasn’t and
marijuana policy. The U.S. government’s where it’s too early to tell,” said Christ, who
strict prohibition is often not enforced but worked with the pro-medicinal marijuana
still on the books; some
group. The Conservation
states have legalized
Clinic’s role was to sort
possession, cultivation
out the the local governand distribution; and
ment, pre-emption and
some local governments
land-use issues associated
promulgate their own
with the medicinal marimarijuana policies. For
juana proposal.
instance, local governWith the defeat
ments are attempting to
of the constitutional
legalize it in some states
amendment, the new
—Colorado Deputy Attorney
that prohibit the subrules will not be needed
General David Blake
stance.
in Florida. Still, the reMikos said the federal
search gave them insight
government cannot force states to criminal- into the variability of our national mariize marijuana so the states are on solid legal juana policy.
footing when they legalize it. But a state also
Johns said medical marijuana laws “recan’t facilitate conduct that is illegal under flect the individual states’ personalities. For
federal law, and they can’t obstruct federal example, the framework that was written for
prosecutions. So people who are in compli- California tends to be more laid back versus
ance with state law can and occasionally do Massachusetts, where they have a bill with
still face federal prosecution.
more comprehensive provisions. They’ve
“This debate is
going to continue.
It’s been going for
20 years and will
go for 20 more.”
Federal Schedule 1 case previewed by Law Review
W
hat are the true risks of smoking marijuana? Should it retain
its classification as a Schedule I
drug, ruled out for approval by the Federal
Drug Administration as a safe and effective medical treatment?
Bertha K. Madras, professor of psychobiology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Carl Hart, associate
professor of psychology in the departments
of Psychiatry and Psychology at Columbia
University, testified on opposite sides of these
questions in a criminal case challenging the
constitutionality of marijuana’s Schedule I
classification.
But before clashing in a federal courtroom during an evidentiary hearing in U.S. v.
Schweder in the eastern district of California,
the scientists clashed on the stage of the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, where
they appeared as part of an expert panel
brought together by the Florida Law Review’s
Allen L. Poucher Educational Series.
Madras said during the Poucher Lecture that a drug is categorized as Schedule
16
I because it has potential for abuse, it lacks
medical purpose and has no proven safety
standard.
“There is poor evidence that an intoxicating drug is a wise decision when alternatives
may exist and I certainly do think that in terms
of compassionate concern for people who are
in end stages of diseases we have to examine
and try to accommodate the very narrow
focus for those individuals,” Madras said.
Hart has conducted tests and studied
the effects of marijuana on lab subjects. He
agreed that marijuana has abuse potential but
questioned whether abuse potential is reason enough to make it illegal or classify it as
Schedule I, the same category as heroin and
ecstasy. Hart contrasted the legal status of
marijuana to Adderall, an amphetamine approved to treat attention deficit disorder.
“When we think about marijuana’s abuse
potential and Adderall, marijuana probably
has less abuse potential than amphetamines
but amphetamines are an important medication that we use in our country and we use
them safely,” Hart said.
Carl Hart, associate professor of psychology in
the departments of Psychiatry and Psychology
at Columbia University (Photo by Julian Pinilla)
Madras and Hart also disagreed about the
psychological effects of marijuana.
“If it were safe — if it were broccoli, if it
were celery — we wouldn’t be here and there
would be zero need for marijuana to be put
on ballot initiatives in order to circumvent the
Food and Drug Administration because that’s
basically what this medicalization movement
is all about,” Madras said.
Hart compared Madras’ approach to the
attitude in 1937 when marijuana was outlawed. “I don’t know how to respond because
Dr. Madras listed a litany of study findings
without contextualizing things,” he said.
—Diana Mivelli
UF L AW
From left, Michael Thomas, founder and director of
Curious Ventures, confers with Kevin E. Regan (JD 03)
and Lance Reich (JD 94) in the Seattle office of Miller
Nash LLP. BELOW, prototypes of marijuana-infused
chocolate bars and lozenges that Thomas is awaiting
a license to market. (Photos by Diana Mivelli)
a crime that benefits criminal networks.
However, it also notes that the Department of Justice will use its resources to
address the most significant threats. The
memo lists the eight priorities the Department of Justice will focus on. Among
them are: keeping marijuana away from
minors; preventing violence and use of
firearms in growing and distribution of
marijuana; and growing the plant on federal public lands.
In Washington state, there are three
types of licenses. Producers grow marijuana, while processors cure and package or extract active ingredients for edible products. And then there are retailers
who do the actual selling of the product,
Regan said.
“Under the current rules, you have to
make a choice whether you are involved
with the production or retail side; you
cannot do both. This system mirrors the
traditional rules for alcohol in Washington state,” he said.
Their clients face limited options for
opening bank accounts and hiring transportation services to move product. Working spaces are hard to come by due to a
1,000-foot buffer requirement prohibiting
working locations around schools, parks,
libraries, bus transit centers and other
places where those under 21 gather.
“In short, many problems that we are
seeing are analogous to what happened
when alcohol was legalized,” Reich said.
One of their clients, Michael Thomas, founder and director of Curious Ventures, has been working on product
prototypes, including chocolate
bars and lozenges, while he waits for his
license.
Unknowns abound in the marijuana
law arena. What will marijuana policies
look like under the next presidential administration? Will that administration
uphold the current marijuana laws? Will
the legalization of marijuana cut into
black market sales? How will recreational marijuana laws in some states affect
neighboring states?
“The most perplexing thing about being in this space is telling clients, ‘I don’t
know.’ There’s a whole host of interesting
issues and we’re here on
the front edge of the law
trying to make sense of it
all,” Reich said.
(Photo illustration by Diana Mivelli)
taken greater lengths to close some of the
loopholes that California saw.”
Meanwhile, two UF Law graduates
in Washington State are facing the unsettled legal issues of marijuana head on.
Lance Reich (JD 94) and Kevin E.
Regan (JD 03) had been working on
regulatory and intellectual property issues with the wine, beer, spirits and cider
industries before moving to the Seattle
office of Miller Nash LLP, where the firm
has a team of attorneys now representing
clients in the marijuana industry.
Marijuana is regulated by the same
Washington State Liquor Control Board
as alcoholic beverages. But if marijuana
is still illegal under federal law, how do
Reich and Regan protect their clients?
The answer to that question is complicated. They work with clients to comply with Washington’s statutory and
regulatory provisions governing recreational marijuana. They also consider
federal dimensions to marijuana issues,
including the most recent guidance set
out in the document that is known as the
Cole Memo. Written by James M. Cole,
the deputy attorney general of the United States, the memo provides guidance
to federal prosecutors about marijuana
enforcement under the Controlled Substances Act “in light of state ballot initiatives that legalize under state law the
possession of small amounts of marijuana and provide for the regulation of marijuana production, processing and sale.”
The memo reiterates Congress’s findings that marijuana is a dangerous drug
and that the illegal sale and distribution is
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FISHING
FOR
USTICE
A Florida boat captain was convicted of throwing back undersized
fish to avoid prosecution under a law aimed at accounting fraud.
John Badalamenti (JD 99) told the Supreme Court why that is wrong.
Y
ou might think catching
corporate accountants and
commercial fishermen accused of wrongdoing have
little in common. Not if
you’re the U.S. government. Because a statute lurks below the surface, one that can subject members of both
occupations to federal prosecution for destruction of evidence.
In 2007, fishing boat captain John Yates
found that out the hard way, when he personally experienced the far-reaching impact of
the landmark legislation known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
While Yates was on a fishing expedition in the Gulf of Mexico, a Florida Fish
and Wildlife Commission officer — crossdeputized as a federal agent for the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration —
cited him for harvesting undersized grouper.
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BY A N D R E W ST E A D M A N ( 3 L )
On the way back to port, Yates allegedly
tossed some of the incriminating fish overboard and replaced them with larger specimens. When the officer learned of the switch
from the fishing boat crew, Yates was charged
with violating Sarbanes-Oxley. He was convicted and sentenced to 30 days in jail and
three years of post-release supervision.
It was a unique and unprecedented use
of the law, said Assistant Federal Public Defender John Badalamenti (JD 99). And that’s
what Badalamenti told the nine justices of
the Supreme Court during oral arguments
Nov. 5.
The origins of the law lie far from the
fishing grounds of the Gulf. When Houstonbased energy-trading company Enron imploded in 2001, accountants scrambled to
destroy evidence that they had been cooking
the books. In the wake of the company’s collapse, toothless federal laws hampered pros-
ecution of the offenders. Congress remedied
the problem in 2002 with passage of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
A provision of the act makes it a crime
to knowingly destroy “any record, document
or tangible object” with intent to impede an
investigation. The “tangible object” portion
proved the key to the government’s case
against Yates, and the maximum sentence
for destroying a “tangible object” is 20 years
in prison.
“Why did Congress do that?” Badalementi asked the justices, according to a
transcript of the oral arguments. “It did that
because it recognized the harm that Enron/
Arthur Andersen type of situations did to the
financial well-being of this country and the
investors in public markets, and it wanted to
send a message to the public to not engage in
record destruction that could impede or influence the proper administration of any matter.
UF L AW
That’s why it’s important to
limit the subject matter of
this particular statute to just
record-related matters.”
Badalamenti did not represent Yates at the trial level.
But with an eye to a possible appeal, he helped
develop the trial strategy that was used before the
district court. Badalamenti took over the case on
appeal and argued before the 11th Circuit Court of
Appeals, where Yates’s conviction was affirmed.
Yates then appealed to the highest court in the land.
“When I wrote the petition for writ of certiorari, my angle had to be throwing some kind
of constitutional hook so that the court would be
more likely to look at it,” he said.
The question, Badalamenti argued, was
whether Yates was deprived of fair notice that he
could be prosecuted under this law for his actions.
The Supreme Court took the bait. Badalamenti noted that the case concerns an issue of
first impression, a relative rarity for the Supreme
Court.
“It was very unusual that they took the case
without a (circuit) split,” Badalamenti said.
“That’s not generally the kind of case the Supreme Court takes. It resolves disputes among
circuits, it doesn’t take one issue that’s been
reached by one circuit.”
John Badalamenti
(JD 99) argues
before the U.S.
Supreme Court on
Nov. 5. (By Art Lien,
courtartist.com)
Badalamenti said that accounting giant ArBrad Bondi (JD 98), a litigation partner at
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft who heads the thur Andersen’s actions during the final days of
firm’s Securities Enforcement and Investigation Enron were the direct motivation for creation of
Group, has known Badalamenti since the two the statute. The firm shredded records and docuwere UF undergraduates. Bondi wrote an amicus ments with the goal of impeding the impending
brief in the case on the behalf of the Cato Insti- federal investigation. But it escaped criminal
conviction due to the lack of a
tute, a libertarian think tank
statute specifically criminalizin Washington, D.C. Bondi
ing document destruction.
said that the Supreme Court
“The legislative history itwould take the case is a
testament to Badalamenti’s
self shows this was intended to
apply to corporations and busiskill as an appellate lawyer.
nesses in record-retention sorts
“I think he’s proven
himself and gained the
of things to stave off pre-emptive destruction of records or
respect of the judiciary
through his command of
documents or computer serv—John Badalamenti (JD 99)
ers,” Badalamenti said.
criminal law,” Bondi said.
Bondi said the govern“It’s a testament to his
strength as an advocate that he was able to con- ment’s interpretation of the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act could be carried to absurd extremes. He
vince the Supreme Court to take up this case.”
Badalamenti said Sarbanes-Oxley has been noted that throwing back undersized fish is only
used to charge people for destroying evidence a civil infraction, but it becomes a federal crime
ranging from drugs to a human corpse, all in- punishable by a 20-year prison sentence under
stances he believes lie beyond the intended scope the act.
“There are a couple sections of our brief
of the law. Fish, he said, were not what Congress
where we point out the astonishing applicahad in mind when the legislation was drafted.
“It’s a question of statutory interpretation,” tions of this anti-shredding statute,” Bondi said,
Badalamenti said. “Whether a fish is a record or suggesting that smoking a cigarette in a federal
a tangible object.”
building and putting the cigarette in a cup of
“It’s a question
of statutory
interpretation,
whether a fish
is a record or a
tangible object.”
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coffee to extinguish it could be construed as
destruction of evidence.
“Smoking near a federal building is a fine,”
Bondi said. “That could land you 20 years in
prison under the anti-shredding statute.”
Stuart Cohn, a professor and Sam T. Dell
Research Scholar at UF Law, said the statute
was indeed drafted broadly. However, he said
the language of the statute supports the government’s case: as drafted, disposal of unlawfully caught fish to avoid prosecution could
come within the language of the anti-shredding provision.
“It was probably not what Congress was
thinking, but the statutory language controls,”
Cohn said. “So I wouldn’t be surprised if the
Supreme Court affirms the conviction.”
It all turns on the question of what constitutes a “tangible object,” and Badalamenti
said the meaning of that phrase should be determined by context. In his argument, the tangible objects that fall under the statute should
be limited to flash drives and other documentstorage devices.
Badalamenti’s career trajectory has trended up since he graduated
from UF Law after also earning a bachelor’s degree with
highest honors and a master’s
degree from UF. Badalamenti
went to work as an Honors
Attorney in the U.S. Attorney
General’s Honors Program,
where he was assigned to litigation and represented the
government as agency counBondi
sel for the Federal Bureau of
Prisons in Atlanta. After a
year with the U.S. Attorney General, Badalamenti accepted a clerkship with Judge Frank
Mays Hall of the United States 11th Circuit
Court of Appeals. He worked for Carlton
Fields in Florida then clerked for Judge Paul
H. Roney, again in the 11th Circuit. Badala-
menti reached the Federal Public Defender’s
Office in Tampa in 2004.
Though Badalamenti has specialized in
appellate work with the Federal
Public Defender’s Office, this
case was his first chance to argue before the Supreme Court.
Badalamenti said he has worked
with experienced appellate lawyers and law professors to finetune his argument.
“It is much different than
preparations for a jury trial or
argument in the United States
Court of Appeals,” Badalamenti
said. “In addition to extensive
study of the subject matter, I’ve had moot
court sessions at law school Supreme Court
clinics across the United States.”
The Yates case is his biggest catch yet,
and it’s an opportunity he doesn’t intend to
let off the hook.
This oral argument is a keeper
whether a harsh federal obstruction-ofjustice statute can be applied to a fishing
captain who threw grouper overboard
to avoid prosecution for harvesting
undersized fish.
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JULIAN PINILLA
Badalamenti
ssistant Federal Public Defender
John Badalamenti (JD 99) squared
off against Assistant Solicitor
General Roman Martinez during Nov. 5
oral arguments for Yates v. United States
before the Supreme Court of the United
States. Each advocate had a half-hour to
make his case before the nine justices on
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JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: So did the
government mischarge here? Could they
have charged your client with violating
1512(c)? … What would have been your
defense if they did?
MR. BADALAMENTI: He didn’t corruptly
do it [destroy the fish]. And corruptly is
wrongful, immoral, depraved or evil, not
simply knowingly, which is required under
1519, which is voluntarily and intentionally
done. See, “corruptly” is used in 1512(c)
purposefully in that particular information
because it is, perhaps, a broader class,
and it is —
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Destroyed and
substituting fish is not a corrupt act.
MR. BADALAMENTI: It would have been
my defense.
(Laughter)
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Touché.
MR. BADALAMENTI: Which was the
question, your honor. E XC E R P T 2 MR. MARTINEZ: I think we’re not always
going to prosecute every case, and
obviously we’re going to exercise our
discretion. In this case, what the prosecutors
did was they looked at the circumstances
of the offense. And just to emphasize what
happened here, Mr. Yates was given an
explicit instruction by a law enforcement
officer to preserve evidence of his violation
of federal law. He directly disobeyed that. He
then launched a convoluted coverup scheme
to cover up the fact that he had destroyed
evidence. He enlisted other people, including
his crew members, in executing that scheme
and in lying to the law enforcement officers
about it. And then —
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: You make him
sound like a mob boss. I mean, he was
caught [throwing back fish].
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D E V E LO PM E N T & A LU M N I A F FA I R S
Gator Nation
Get-Together
The Marcia Whitney Schott Courtyard,
thanks to a donation from Lewis M.
Schott (JD 46) in honor of his late wife
and fellow alum, provides students with
a central area to meet and socialize.
Barbecue provided by a
Gene (JD 72) and Elaine
Glasser. A break each
semester when faculty, staff
and students can mingle.
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ALUMNI AND FRIENDS
“Through my fellowship
this summer, I was able
to confirm that I would
enjoy working at the
Power Play
WA S H I N GT O N D .C . - B A S E D
L A W Y E R S Bill McCollum (JD 68),
Dentons US LLP; Scott Ray (JD 88), U.S.
Attorney’s Office; and Marti Cochran
(JD 73), Arnold & Porter LLP, gave students advice on cracking the Washington, D.C. market inside the Chesterfield
Smith Ceremonial Classroom.
The trio is part of the UF Law
Alumni Group — D.C. Chapter, which
gives back to students and fellow
alumni with introductions and socializing in Washington, D.C.
Rachel Leggett (2L) knows all
about it. She worked at the Securities
and Exchange Commission over the
summer where she was assigned to
market oversight. A $2,500 fellowship
from the D.C. chapter helped cover her
living expenses.
SEC one day.”
— Rachel Leggett (2L)
“Through my fellowship this
summer, I was able to confirm that
I would enjoy working at the SEC
one day,” Leggett said. “I loved the
environment, and I strongly believe
in the SEC’s mission.”
Alumni can get involved with
the D.C. chapter by emailing
[email protected].
50 years after library job, Kuersteiner gives back
D
uring his time at UF Law, Richard
Kuersteiner (JD 64) worked at the
reference desk in the law library.
Fifty years after graduation, he can look
back on a rewarding career so he and his
wife, Barbara, are giving back to UF Law.
Kuersteiner practiced law for 46 years,
working 26 of those years as a federal attorney: a Navy Judge Advocate General,
the Navy Office of the General Counsel
and NASA. He followed his government
service with 22 years as a corporate attorney for Franklin Templeton Investments.
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A $100,000 gift will establish The
Richard L. Kuersteiner Endowment Fund.
Kuersteiner has given the dean flexibility
to use the gift to assist with what he sees
as the college’s greatest needs.
“Barbara and I appreciate and have
benefitted substantially from the firstrate legal education received at the
University of Florida,” said Kuersteiner,
a current member of the board of directors for Dynergy Inc. “We are delighted
our gift will benefit current and future
law students.”
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H ER I TAG E OF
Leadership
Marking legacies of leadership for Gibbons, McBride
BY R I C H A R D G O L D ST E I N
O
ne of the newest members of
UF Law’s Heritage of Leadership helped build a great Florida law firm and knock down
barriers in the workplace. The
other helped build the American Century as
one of the premiere members of the “Greatest Generation.”
Sam M. Gibbons (JD 47) and Bill McBride (JD 75) were inducted posthumously
Sept. 12 in a ceremony at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center.
Dean George Dawson told the audience,
which included students about to receive book
awards and their families, that future members
of the Heritage of Leadership could be sitting
among them, justifying the name of the combined programs: past, present and future.
Tim Gibbons, the son of Sam Gibbons, admonished students to build a legacy for themselves: “Do something that is going to have a
significant impact on future generations.”
His father certainly did.
Sam Gibbons led 101st Airborne Division
troops in Normandy, Holland and Bastogne,
earning a Bronze Star during the campaign.
He attended the University of Florida before
entering the U.S. Army and, after the war, UF
Law. He served as a member of the UF Hall
of Fame and Florida Blue Key. Gibbons practiced law in Tampa in his family’s law firm
and was later elected to the Florida Legislature. His push to establish a university in his
hometown earned him the reputation as father
of the University of South Florida.
He was elected to Congress in 1964 and
was a key mover of health care and early
childhood education and a key architect of
U.S. trade policy in the 1980s and 1990s. He
finished his congressional career as chairman
of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. Gibbons was awarded the French Legion of Honor. After retiring from Congress,
Gibbons provided counsel and advocacy on
public policy and international trade law to
businesses, universities and governments.
Tim Gibbons explained what his father
took from the formative elements of his life:
the Great Depression and World War II. “The
rule of force has to be replaced by the rule of
law. He believed that nations that trade together will not go to war with each other.”
Alex Sink, the wife of Bill McBride, explained his role in opening up the legal field.
“Bill was an early champion of diversity in a
profession long dominated by white males,”
Sink said.
Sink said she and her husband commuted halfway across the state for their jobs. At
times, he was in Tampa caring for their children, Bert and Lexi, while she worked in Miami. Lying in bed with babies 15 months apart
on each arm, Sink said her husband came to a
realization: “This is hard work!”
From his position as managing partner of
Holland & Knight, one of Florida’s largest law
firms, McBride was in a position to make a
difference. Sink said he changed firm policies
to help women balance their work and personal lives. Later, Sink said, McBride pushed
through the state’s first benefit granting medical coverage to same-sex partners of firm employees. And he instituted a “living wage” for
low-paid employees, such as janitorial staff.
Before he met Sink, McBride served as
a Marine officer in Vietnam where he led
troops into combat, earning a Bronze Star.
After leaving the military, McBride entered
UF Law, but took a break in 1973 to work for
Chesterfield Smith (JD 48), while Smith was
president of the American Bar Association.
Completing his degree in 1975, McBride en-
Gibbons
McBride
tered Holland & Knight and rose to managing
partner in 1992. McBride directed founding
of the pro bono practice of the law firm. He
was inducted into the Tampa Bay Business
Hall of Fame in 2000. In 2002 he won the
Democratic nomination for Florida Governor
by defeating former U.S. Attorney General
Janet Reno, but lost to Jeb Bush in the general
election. McBride was a partner in Tampa’s
Barnett, Bolt, Kirkwood, Long & McBride
from 2003 until his death in 2012.
Gibbons and McBride join 35 others in the
Heritage of Leadership Recognition Society. Inductees represent illustrious personalities in the
history of UF Law since its founding in 1909.
They assumed national leadership positions
and distinguished themselves in legal, governmental, academic and corporate sectors. They
improved the administration of justice and received the highest commendations for contributions to the profession and service to education,
civic, charitable and cultural causes. Their images and a summary of their most significant
accomplishments are etched into a glass display
on the second floor of Holland Hall.
Members of the Heritage of Leadership
Recognition Society are selected by the
Heritage of Leadership Committee, which
presents the slate for discussion and approval
to the full membership of the University of
Florida Law Center Association, Inc. board
of trustees.
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Class Notes
Send your class notes to [email protected] or to: UF LAW magazine, Levin
College of Law, University of Florida, P.O. Box 117633, Gainesville, FL 32611. The
class notes deadline for the spring issue of UF LAW magazine is March 14. Please
limit submissions to 75 words or fewer by focusing on new endeavors and recognition.
1964
1966
Gerald F. Richman, president of Richman
Greer law firm in West Palm Beach, has been
named “Lawyer of the Year” (2014-2015) by
Best Lawyers for West Palm Beach litigation –
securities. Only one lawyer per community and in
each practice area is honored as a “Lawyer of the
Year.” He has additionally been selected by the
Florida Chapters of the American Board of Trial
Advocates as the recipient of the 2014 “Joseph
P. Milton Professionalism and Civility Award.”
Richard M. Robinson, an attorney with
GrayRobinson’s Orlando office, has been named
to the Best Lawyers in America (2015) in the
areas of corporate law and tax law. He has
received the honor since 1995.
1965
Theodore Babbitt, of Babbitt, Johnson,
Osborne & Le Clainche, P.A., in West Palm
Beach, took part in the ice bucket challenge
on Aug. 21 in front of his home in Jupiter,
Florida. He was joined by his law partner’s son,
Alex Le Clainche, to raise money for the ALS
Foundation. Babbitt’s wife, Adrianne, died
from the disease, also known as Lou Gehrig’s
Disease, in November 2012.
Sidney A. Stubbs, an attorney with Jones,
Foster, Johnston & Stubbs P.A. in West Palm
Beach, has been recognized in Florida Super
Lawyers (2014). Additionally, he has been
named in the Best Lawyers in America (2015)
in the areas of bet-the-company litigation and
commercial litigation.
Richman 64
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Stubbs 65
1968
Stephen J. Bozarth, an attorney with Dean Mead
in Orlando, has been named in Florida Super
Lawyers (2014) in the area of real estate.
Donald D. Slesnick II, managing partner at the
Coral Gables firm Law Offices of Slesnick &
Casey LLP, has become the honorary consul
for Australia in Florida. In the capacity, he
provides assistance to Australians living in and
visiting Florida, enhancing trade, economic and
investment opportunities and building cultural
and educational linkages between the two
regions.
1969
Charles H. Egerton, founding shareholder with
Dean Mead in Orlando, has been named as
a leader in tax in Chambers USA- America’s
Leading Lawyers for Business (2014). He has also
been named in Florida Super Lawyers (2014) in
the area of tax. Additionally, he has been named
chairman of the YMCA Metropolitan Board. He
Slesnick II 68
Egerton 69
Greer 69
has been involved with the YMCA for more than
30 years, most recently in leading its $3.2 million
annual support campaign.
Alan G. Greer, an attorney with Richman Greer
in Miami, has been named in Best Lawyers in the
areas of appellate practice, bet-the-company
litigation, commercial litigation, legal malpractice
law – defendants, litigation – antitrust, litigation
– banking and finance, litigation – construction,
litigation – intellectual property, and professional
malpractice law – defendants and securities /
capital markets law.
Tom Sherrard, founding partner of Nashville
law firm Sherrard & Roe, has been named
“Nashvillian of the Year” (2014) by Easter Seals
Tennessee. The annual honor goes to a business
individual that conveys Nashville’s spirit while
demonstrating a commitment to the positive
growth and economic development of the city.
William Zewadski, an attorney with Trenam
Kemker’s Tampa office, has been named in Super
Lawyers Business Edition (2014) in the area of
business litigation.
1970
John M. Brumbaugh, an attorney with Richman
Greer in Miami, has been named in Best Lawyers
(2014-2015) in the areas of bet-the-company
litigation and commercial litigation.
Edward L. Kelly, an attorney with Rogers Towers
in Jacksonville, has been named to the “Best Lawyers” list in U.S News & World Report magazine.
John C. Randolph, an attorney with Jones,
Foster, Johnston & Stubbs P.A. in West Palm
Beach, has been named in the Best Lawyers
in America (2015) in the areas of municipal
litigation and municipal law.
Sherrard 69
Zewadski 69
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CLASS NOTES
Brumbaugh 70
Randolph 70
William E. Scheu, an attorney with Rogers
Towers in Jacksonville, has been named to the
“Best Lawyers” list in U.S. News & World Report
magazine.
H. Adams Weaver, an attorney with Jones,
Foster, Johnston & Stubbs P.A. in West Palm
Beach, has been recognized in Florida Super
Lawyers (2014). Additionally, he has been named
in the Best Lawyers in America (2015) in the
areas of eminent domain and condemnation law.
William E. Williams, an attorney with
GrayRobinson’s Tallahassee office, has been
recognized in Florida Super Lawyers (2014).
He specializes in administrative law.
1971
Larry B. Alexander, an attorney with
Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs P.A. in
West Palm Beach, has been named in the
Best Lawyers in America (2015) in the area
of real estate law.
Darryl M. Bloodworth, an attorney with Dean
Mead in Orlando, has been named as a leader in
litigation in Chambers USA - America’s Leading
Lawyers for Business (2014). He has additionally
been named in Florida Super Lawyers (2014) in
the area of business litigation.
Alexander 71
Glasser 72
Bunch 73
law – management, labor law – management
and litigation – labor and employment. He has
received the honor since 1989.
Gene Glasser, an attorney with Greenspoon
Marder Law in Fort Lauderdale, has been
recognized in Florida Super Lawyers (2014). He
specializes in estate and probate.
Richard C. Grant, a senior shareholder at Grant
Fridkin Pearson P. A. in Naples, Florida, has been
named “Citizen of the Year” (2014) by the Naples
Daily News. He has also been named the Fort
Myers area “Corporate Lawyer of the Year” by
Best Lawyers in America (2015). He currently
serves as the 2014-2015 chairman of the Real
Estate Certification Committee of The Florida Bar.
G. Carson McEachern, a partner with Roetzel in
Naples, has been named in the Best Lawyers in
America (2015) in the area of trusts and estates.
Mel Pearlman is currently serving as vicechair of the West 192 Development Authority,
created by the Osceola County Board of County
Commissioners to direct and oversee the longterm economic development and revitalization
of the 15-mile corridor adjacent to Walt Disney
World. Pearlman has served on the authority
since its inception in 2012.
Rosenthal 73
1973
Dean Bunch, a partner in the Tallahassee office
of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP,
has been elected to serve as chairman for The
Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee. He
has served as a member of the committee for six
years.
Lynn J. Hinson, an attorney with Dean Mead
in Orlando, has been named in Florida Super
Lawyers (2014) in the area of business litigation.
Pamela O. Price, an attorney with GrayRobinson’s
Orlando office, has been recognized in Florida
Super Lawyers (2014). She has also been named
to the Best Lawyers in America (2015) in the
practice areas of tax law and trusts and estates.
She has received the designation since 2012.
Ronald S. Reed, an attorney with GrayRobinson’s
Tampa office, has been recognized in Florida
Super Lawyers (2014). He specializes in family law.
Gerald A. Rosenthal, of Rosenthal, Levy, Simon &
Ryles in West Palm Beach, recently spoke to the
American Association for Justice in Baltimore. He
gave an overview of the significant aspects of the
Affordable Care Act and how it affects Workers’
Compensation.
Phillip Finch, an attorney with GrayRobinson in
Orlando, has been named to the Best Lawyers in
America (2015) in the practice area of real estate.
He has received the designation since 2008.
John K. Vreeland, an attorney with
GrayRobinson’s Lakeland office, has been
recognized in Florida Super Lawyers (2014).
He has also been named to the Best Lawyers in
America (2015) in the area of trusts and estates.
He has received the honor since 2008.
1972
William H. Andrews, an attorney with
GrayRobinson’s Jacksonville office, has been
recognized in Florida Super Lawyers (2014).
He also has been named to the Best Lawyers
in America (2015) in the area of employment
Faithful fans
Ronald L. Fick (JD 70) and his
son, UF alumnus Ron Jr., attend
the Florida home game against
Eastern Michigan on Sept. 6. This
marked the 87th consecutive
Gator football game appearance,
both home and away, for father
and son. (Photo by Julian Pinilla)
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CLASS NOTES
1974
1976
Joseph P. Carolan III, an attorney with
Winderweedle, Haines, Ward & Woodman in
Orlando, has been named in Florida Super
Lawyers (2014) in the area of banking.
Additionally, he has been named in the Best
Lawyers in America (2015) in the areas of
banking and finance law, business organizations
and corporate law.
Michael J. Dewberry, an attorney with Rogers
Towers in Jacksonville, has been named to
the “Best Lawyers” list in U.S. News & World
Report magazine.
Charles H. Johnson, an attorney with Richman
Greer in Miami, has been named in Best Lawyers
in the areas of trusts and estates.
Frederick Leonhardt, an attorney with
GrayRobinson’s Orlando office, has been
recognized in Florida Super Lawyers (2014).
He has also been named to the Best Lawyers
in America (2015) in the areas of government
relations practice and real estate law. He has
received the honor since 2006.
Leslie J. Lott, a member of The Florida Bar
Board of Governors, was named “Lawyer of the
Year” by Best Lawyers (2015) in the category of
Miami litigation – intellectual property. She was
also selected by her peers for inclusion in the
Best Lawyers in America (2015) in the areas of
arbitration, copyright law, litigation – intellectual
property, litigation – patent, mediation, patent
law and trademark law. Lott has been listed in
the Best Lawyers in America for more than 20
years.
1975
Terry A. Moore, an attorney with GrayRobinson’s
Jacksonville office, has been named to the
Best Lawyers in America (2015) in the areas of
litigation – real estate and real estate law.
Harold E. Morlan II has joined Fisher Rushmer in
Orlando.
Samuel Grier Wells, a shareholder at
GrayRobinson’s Jacksonville office, was
presented with “The Florida Bar President’s
Award of Merit” at The Florida Bar’s 64th
annual convention. Each year, The Florida Bar
president recognizes individuals who have
provided distinguished service to the legal
profession and the justice system.
Carolan III 74
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Johnson 74
Allen R. Tomlinson, an attorney with Jones,
Foster, Johnston & Stubbs, P.A. in West Palm
Beach, has been recognized in Florida Super
Lawyers (2014). He specializes in business
litigation.
1977
Lauren Y. Detzel, an attorney with Dean
Mead in Orlando, has been named as a leader
in estate planning tax in Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers for Business
(2014). Additionally, she has been listed
among the “Top 50 Women” by Florida Super
Lawyers (2014) and has been previously
recognized as such. She was also recognized
on a national scale for her work in wealth
management in the eastern region.
Richard T. Fulton, an attorney with
BakerHostetler in Orlando, has been named in
Best Lawyers (2015). Fulton was recognized
for his work in real estate law.
Ellen Ostman, an attorney with Givens Givens
Sparks in Tampa, has been selected by Super
Lawyers (2014).
David B. Rothman, a partner in
Rothman & Associates P.A. in Miami,
has been reappointed by The Florida Bar
to a three-year term on the board of
The Florida Bar Foundation, a statewide
charitable organization tasked with providing
greater access to justice. Rothman practices
federal and state criminal defense and bar
defense.
1978
William A. Boyles (LLMT, JD 76), an attorney
with GrayRobinson’s Orlando office, has been
named to the Best Lawyers in America (2015)
in the areas of health care law. He has been
recognized in Florida Super Lawyers (2014).
Ostman 77
Rothman 77
Patricia A. Petruff, senior partner at Dye,
Deitrich, Petruff & St. Paul law firm in
Bradenton, Florida, was recently presented the
2014 “William C. Grimes Award for Lifetime
Achievement in Community Service” by the
Manatee County Bar Association. She has
been an attorney in Manatee County for
more than 35 years and has provided pro
bono legal services and board leadership to
community organizations such as the Manatee
County Girls Club and Lemur Conservation
Foundation.
Scott N. Richardson, an attorney at the Law
Office of Scott N. Richardson P.A. in West Palm
Beach, has been appointed by the Florida
Supreme Court to serve on the Supreme Court
Committee on Standard Jury Instructions in
Criminal Cases.
Thomas J. Wilkes, an attorney with
GrayRobinson’s Orlando office, has been named
to the Best Lawyers in America (2015) in the
area of government relations practice.
1979
Joni Armstrong Coffey, Broward County
attorney, received the 2014 “Justice Harry
Lee Anstead Award for The Florida Bar Board
Certified Lawyer of the Year.”
Carmen Dominguez, college legal counsel at
Miami Dade College, was selected by her peers
as one of Florida Trend magazine’s “Florida Legal
Elite” (2014), in the government and nonprofit
fields. She has been college legal counsel since
2005.
James A. Edwards, a shareholder
with Zimmerman Kiser Sutcliffe P.A. in Orlando,
was a featured speaker at the Orange County
Bar Association’s recent half-day program,
“Advanced Legal Writing in a Paperless, Digital
Age.” Edwards led a panel, “Professionalism,
Civility and Ethics in Written Advocacy,” with
Judge Thomas B. Smith, Judge Wendy Berger
and Judge Alice Blackwell. Additionally, he has
been named in the Best Lawyers in America
(2015) in the area of personal injury litigation –
defendants.
Petruff 78
Edwards 79
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during their student
leadership days or,
more recently, pertaining to professional advice and
their involvement in UF alumni activities. He
expects his term as president to be no different.
Cerio, UF Alumni Association presidentelect and shareholder at GrayRobinson with
specialties including government affairs and
health care regulation, said he plans to continue increasing alumni engagement as UF
strives for pre-eminence.
“It truly is unique that the governor and the
Legislature have recognized the special role
and place of the University of Florida, and have
allocated additional resources to help enhance
UF and make it one of the top 10 public universities in the United States,” Cerio said.
“One of the ways we can most contribute to that effort and help the university is
to really grow our membership numbers and
grow the value that our members derive from
being a part of the alumni association,” Cerio
added.
Patel’s and Cerio’s involvement in giving back to UF originated while they were still students. They worked with each
other in Florida Blue Key. Patel
was also chairman of the Reitz
Union Board of Managers. Cerio
was president of his fraternity, Phi
Delta Theta, student lobby director, and was appointed by Gov.
Lawton Chiles (JD 55) as the student member of the Florida Board of Regents.
Currently, both Patel and Cerio sit on the
UF Law board of trustees, and Patel is a trustee of the University of Florida Foundation.
Between alumni activities and referring
clients to one another’s law firms, it hasn’t
been difficult for the two to remain close.
“I usually talk to Rahul at least once a
week and I’ll see him probably a dozen times
a year,” Cerio said. “If I have clients with any
corporate needs outside the state of Florida, I
send them to Rahul and his firm — he’s simply one of the best mergers and acquisitions
lawyers in the country.”
Likewise, Patel doesn’t hesitate to pick
up the phone to call Cerio if his clients have
any health care or governmental needs in
Florida. “I tell my clients that Tim is just always able to find a way to get things done
in Tallahassee and Florida. He gets results.”
Rahul Patel (JD 97) of
King & Spalding in Atlanta,
interviews Anthony Sirven
(2L) Aug. 11 during early
interview week. (Photo by
Julian Pinilla)
Two of a kind
Cerio and Patel make friends, aid alma mater
B Y M AT T W A L K E R
I
t was the fall of 1993, the Gators football
team was playing an away game and law
student Tim Cerio (JD 95) met up with a
group of friends in Gainesville to watch the
action on TV. Economics undergrad Rahul
Patel (JD 97) was among the group gathered
to cheer on the Gators. It was the first time
Cerio and Patel’s paths crossed, but certainly not the last. A year later, Cerio would be
crashing on Patel’s couch three days a week
while he finished law school, commuting between Gainesville and Tampa, where his wife
was working.
“I think Rahul was expecting me at some
point to offer to pay rent, and as I recall, that
never came to fruition,” Cerio said.
Fast-forward to the fall of 2014 — Cerio
and Patel are still staunch supporters of the
Gators but it goes well beyond the gridiron.
Each has proven his love for the Gator Nation through the years while excelling in their
professions and alumni leadership.
The two law grads have each served terms
as president of the Law Alumni Council, with
Cerio serving in 2005-2006 and Patel serving as president two years later. When Cerio
takes the reins as president of the University
of Florida Alumni Association in July, he’ll
be following in the not-so-distant footsteps
of Patel, who served as UFAA president for
the 2013-2014 term.
Patel — now a partner in King & Spalding’s Corporate Practice Group in Atlanta
and a member of his firm’s management
committee — discussed his time as UFAA
president.
“Our main goal last year was to support
the university’s overall pre-eminence initiative to become one of the country’s top 10 public universities,”
Patel said.
One of Patel’s primary strategies towards that goal was to help
bolster alumni engagement by, in
part, increasing the number of
members in the Alumni Association.
Cerio
“For the first time last year
(we) crossed the 50,000 mark,
so we’ve got more than 50,000
members in the alumni association, which
will ultimately help our university’s ranking,” he said.
Patel himself practices alumni engagement
each year. This fall was his 18th in a row interviewing UF Law students for King & Spalding
during on-campus interviews. An hour before
the start of interviews in August, Patel told 360
UF Law students gathered in a Reitz Union
ballroom for new-student orientation that Dean
George Dawson had offered him $100 to deliver the alumni exhortation. Patel said he declined, noting that the dean could probably find
someone more accomplished. Then the dean
offered four tickets to the Florida-Georgia football game. “So, my name is Rahul Patel and it’s
my pleasure to give the alumni exhortation today,” he said to laughter.
Cerio said he and Patel use each other often
as a sounding board for ideas, whether it was
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the executive committee for the Northern Palm
Beach County Chamber of Commerce, Inc. The
chamber serves the business community in 10
municipalities and unincorporated northern
Palm Beach County. He has been involved with
the chamber since 1982.
Raymond Lee, an attorney with Greenberg Traurig
in Orange County, California, has been named
in Best Lawyers in America (2015) in the area of
corporate law.
Denis H. Noah, managing partner of Henderson
Franklin in Fort Myers, has been named in Florida
Super Lawyers (2014) for his fifth consecutive
year for his work in real estate. Additionally, he
has been named in Best Lawyers for the area
of real estate law. Noah serves on the Horizon
Council of Lee County’s board of directors and is
a member of the Attorney’s Title Insurance Fund
Advisory Board. He is past chairman for Habitat
for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties and
the Florida Law Network.
A reunion for Cuban-American Lawyers
J
ose F. Valdivia Jr. earned a certificate from the mid-1970s UF Law program that
offered exiled Cuban lawyers a path into the American legal profession. In October,
Valdivia and other Cuban lawyers with their families attended a commemoration
of the program at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. Courthouse in Miami, which was sponsored
by the judges of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida. All participants in
the 1973-1976 Cuban-American Lawyers Program, regardless of whether they went on
to practice law in Florida, are invited to a UF Law commemoration to be held in October
2015. Cuban-American Lawyer Program participants should update contact information
with the Office of Alumni Affairs. Email [email protected] or call 352-273-0640.
Robert S. Griscti, an attorney with Dean Mead
in Gainesville, has been named in Florida Super
Lawyers (2014) in the area of white collar
litigation.
1980
Clayton W. Crevasse, a partner with Roetzel in
Fort Myers, has been named in the Best Lawyers
in America (2015) in the areas of commercial,
construction and real estate litigation.
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John W. Foster, an attorney with BakerHostetler in Orlando, has been named by Florida Super Lawyers (2014). He has also been
named in Best Lawyers (2015) for his work in
commercial litigation.
Philippe Jeck, managing partner of the law firm
of Jeck, Harris, Raynor & Jones, P. A. in Juno
Beach, Florida, has been elected to the board
and as chair elect for 2014-15 and serves on
Lane Jr. 81
Rush 81
David L. Smith, managing shareholder in GrayRobinson’s Tampa office, has been elected to
continue to serve as chairman for the Tampa
Downtown Partnership for the 2014-2015 term.
The Tampa Downtown Partnership fosters
Tampa’s vibrant and diverse multiuse downtown
neighborhoods and plays a key role in creating
a 24-hour urban center where people can learn,
live, work and play.
Robert J. Webb, an attorney with BakerHostetler in
Orlando, has been named in Best Lawyers (2015).
Webb was recognized for his work in leisure and
hospitality law and real estate law. 1981
R. Mason Blake, an attorney with Dean Mead in
Viera, Florida, has been named in Florida Super
Lawyers (2014) in the area of real estate.
Richard B. Comiter (LLMT, JD 80), senior
partner at Comiter, Singer, Baseman & Braun in
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, has been named
in Florida Super Lawyers (2014). He has been
selected for the honor nine times and is currently
included on the top of the list. Finney 82
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Kimberly Leach Johnson, chairwoman
of Quarles & Brady, based in Naples, has
been named in Florida Super Lawyers
(2014).
William R. Lane Jr. (LLMT), an attorney
with Holland & Knight in Miami, has once
again been selected for inclusion in the Best
Lawyers in America guide. He is recognized in
the area of tax law, trusts and estates as well
as closely held companies and family business
law. Additionally, he was named the “Lawyer
of the Year” in the Tampa Bay market in the
categories of closely held companies and
family businesses law.
Randolph J. Rush (LLMT, JD 80), an attorney
with Winderweedle, Haines, Ward and Woodman
in Winter Park, Florida, has been named in the
Best Lawyers in America (2015) in the area of
real estate law.
1982
Walter G. Benjamin has joined Kelley
Kronenberg in Orlando.
Linnes Finney, an attorney with Greenspoon
Marder Law in Port St. Lucie, Florida, has been
recognized in Florida Super Lawyers (2014).
Stephen B. Hatcher (LLMT), president of the law
firm Zimmerman Kiser Sutcliffe P.A. in Orlando,
was named “Alumnus of the Year” by Lifework
Leadership Inc. The organization is a national
Christian program founded in Orlando that
teaches leadership principles, conducts case
studies with local leaders and hosts nationally
recognized speakers.
Michael R. Levin, an attorney with BakerHostetler in Orlando, has been named in Best
Lawyers (2015). Levin was recognized for his
work in real estate law, commercial litigation
and litigation – intellectual property.
Michael D. Minton (LLMT, JD 81), a
shareholder at Dean Mead in Fort Pierce, has
been named as a leader in tax in Chambers
USA - America’s Leading Lawyers for Business
(2014). He has also been named in Florida
Super Lawyers (2014) in the area of tax.
Additionally, he was honored as the alumni
guest speaker at the Spring 2014 UF Law
commencement ceremony on May 16 at the
Stephen C. O’Connell Center.
Gregory A. Nelson, a partner with Novak
Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg LLP in West
Palm Beach, has been named to the list of
Florida Super Lawyers (2014). It is his fifth
year receiving the honor. He was also named in
Managing Intellectual Property magazine’s list
of “IP Stars” (2014).
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Hornreich 83
Michael J. Nolan II (LLMT, JD 81), an attorney
with GrayRobinson’s Tampa office, has been
named to the Best Lawyers in America (2015)
in the practice area of trusts and estates.
He has received the honor since 2008.
Additionally, he has been recognized in Florida
Super Lawyers (2014). He specializes in tax law.
Mark Somerstein, an attorney with Greenspoon
Marder Law in Fort Lauderdale, has been
recognized in Florida Super Lawyers (2014).
He specializes in banking.
Tim Volpe, a partner at Adams and Reese
in the firm’s Jacksonville office, has been
appointed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott to the 1st
District Court of Appeal Judicial Nominating
Commission as part of the governor’s 27
appointments across the state to judicial
nominating commissions in Florida. The 1st
District encompasses most of North Florida
from Jacksonville to the Panhandle.
1983
Alan H. Daniels (LLMT, JD 81), a partner with
Roetzel in Orlando, has been named in the
Best Lawyers in America (2015) in the area
of tax law.
Robert H. Dellecker, a civil trial lawyer with
Dellecker, Wilson, King, McKenna, Ruffier &
Sos in Orlando, has been named in Florida
Super Lawyers (2014). This is his eighth year to
receive the honor.
James A. Gale, co-founder of Feldman Gale
P.A. in Miami, has been selected as the
recipient of the 2014 “International Intellectual
Property Award” from Acquisition International
Magazine, a monthly publication with a global
circulation covering corporate finance news.
William F. Hamilton, an attorney with Quarles
& Brady in Naples, has been named in Florida
Super Lawyers (2014).
Scott G. Hawkins, an attorney with Jones,
Foster, Johnston & Stubbs P.A. in West Palm
Beach, has been recognized in Florida Super
Lawyers (2014). Additionally, he has been named
in the Best Lawyers in America (2015) in the
areas of bet-the-company litigation, commercial
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litigation, environmental, intellectual property,
land use and zoning and real estate litigation.
Michael Hornreich has recently joined
Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial LLC in
Miami as a partner. He will work with the firm’s
construction litigation and design professional
liability litigation practices. Stephen Kussner, an attorney with
GrayRobinson’s Tampa office, has been
recognized in Florida Super Lawyers
(2014). He has also been named to the Best
Lawyers in America (2015) in the area of real
estate law. He has received the honor since
2003.
John “Jay” G. White III, an attorney with
Richman Greer in West Palm Beach, has been
named in Best Lawyers (2015) in the areas
of bet-the-company litigation, commercial
litigation, legal malpractice law – defendants,
legal malpractice law – plaintiffs, product
liability litigation – defendants and product
liability litigation – plaintiffs.
Dennis R. O’Connor, an attorney in Winter Park,
Florida, has been inducted as a fellow of the
American College of Trial Lawyers.
1984
David Akins, an attorney with Dean Mead in
Orlando, has been named in Florida Super
Lawyers (2014) in the area of estate and
probate.
Bruce Ward Bennett, the partner-in-charge
at Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP’s Tampa office,
celebrated the 20th anniversary of the branch
in June. The occasion was commemorated with
a cocktail party with office members, clients
and friends within the legal community.
David B. Haber, an attorney with the Miamibased Law Office of David B. Haber P.A., has
been elected to the University of Florida Hillel’s
board of directors.
Christopher C. Hazelip, an attorney with
Rogers Towers in Jacksonville, has been
named to the “Best Lawyers” list in U.S.
News & World Report magazine.
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people apply to have their civil
rights restored, such as the right
to vote or apply for professional
licensing.
Professor Meshon Rawls, the
project coordinator and faculty
adviser, gave Riggs the opportunity to make the
project what she wanted and Riggs ran with it.
“She went over and beyond the average
volunteer,” Rawls said. “Allison was intentional and deliberate in making sure that we
helped as many people as possible. I gave
her autonomy as the administrative assistant
because I knew she understood the importance of the work and had a vision to move
the project forward.”
And Riggs is making sure the Gator Nation keeps rolling along. Not only did a Gator
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court’s graduate help her get her job, but her orgaconservative majority, arguing that the need has nization hired George Eppsteiner (JD 10), a
passed for the federal government’s supervision UF Law graduate who she helped recruit to
the organization. She hopes to further build
of states’ voting policies.
“Largely because of the Voting Rights Act, the university’s reputation and get more Gator
voting tests were abolished, disparities in voter graduates involved in the work that she does.
“I’m always interested in helping,” she said.
registration and turnout due to race were erased,
and African-Americans attained political office “Another Florida Gator grad up here helped me
in record numbers,” Chief Justice John Roberts get my job. I think Florida grads are really good
said in the opinion of the court. “And yet the at helping each other out.”
In the Shelby case, Riggs served as counsel
coverage formula that Congress reauthorized in
2006 ignores these developments, keeping the for political science and law professors who filed
amicus briefs arguing that Secfocus on decades-old data
tion 5 should be retained. Riggs
relevant to decades-old prob“I think Florida
attended the Supreme Court
lems, rather than current data
grads are really oral arguments where her side
reflecting current needs.”
Riggs said the court’s
good at helping realized the justices’ line of
questioning was not going favoiding of Section 5 has
each other out.” vorably for them and expected
made it much easier for states
the flood gates to open shortly
to change voting laws.
—Allison Riggs (JD 09)
after the ruling.
“Changes had to be subNorth Carolina was part
mitted to the Department of Justice,” Riggs said.
of
that
deluge.
In
Riggs’ current home and
“They would post those changes on the website
and we would monitor them. We could keep our the headquarters for the Southern Coalition of
eyes and ears open everywhere. Now things get Social Justice, legislators were quick to push
flipped through before anyone knows what hap- through a bill calling for identification requirements on voting day and a shorter window for
pened.”
Policing voter discrimination now takes early voting among other moves she said would
much more time and effort, Riggs said. Hours hamper minority voter turnout. This prompted
once spent litigating and researching are now her appearance in front of the rules committee
where she was given two minutes to comment
spent fundraising.
“My clients are nonprofit organizations out of the 20 minutes granted to the public.
While the law was a setback for Riggs and
or loosely banded groups of citizen activists,”
her organization, she is still grateful for the work
Riggs said. “They aren’t corporations.”
Riggs’ interest in voting rights can be traced she gets to do. The ability to argue before the
to her first two weeks at UF Law, when she got Florida Supreme Court and to intervene in landinvolved in the Restoration of Civil Rights Proj- mark Supreme Court hearings are opportunities
ect. The project’s goal was and still is to help she won’t take for granted.
Allison Riggs
(JD 09) has
become a
national
advocate on
behalf of voter
access.
Vote defender
Riggs a national voice against ‘voter suppression’
BY T I M G R OV E S ( 1 L )
A
llison Riggs (JD 09) stood before the
North Carolina Senate Rules Committee members in a scene memorialized on YouTube and shook their bill at them.
“I was angry,” she told UF LAW magazine.
“It’s poor process. This is voter suppression at its
very worst. There had been no articulated justifications for what they were doing. I was fired
up.”
Riggs has channeled that anger to defend
voter rights in North Carolina, Texas, Florida,
Tennessee and Indiana since joining the Southern Coalition of Social Justice (www.southerncoalition.org) in 2009. Her official title is staff
attorney, but she might be the unofficial face of
voting rights advocacy as she appears regularly
in national media laying out the case against
what she sees as laws leading to voter suppression and race-based redistricting. Riggs has argued in front of the Florida Supreme Court, represented multiple clients in U.S. Supreme Court
cases and recently argued a 4th U.S. Circuit case
whose injunction was stayed by the Supreme
Court.
Her fight got tougher with a Supreme Court
decision.
Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
was rendered toothless by Shelby County v.
Holder in June 2013. Section 5 provided notification of potential harmful changes to state
election policies to organizations looking out for
voter discrimination across the nation.
Congress passed the landmark law in response to widespread opposition by white
local and state government officials against
blacks’ right to cast ballots. In the 5-4 vote,
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Neukamm 84
Cohn 85
Paul K. Heuerman, a partner with Roetzel in
Naples, has been named in the Best Lawyers
in America (2015) in real estate law.
John Neukamm, a shareholder with the
Mechanik Nuccio law firm in Tampa,
was recognized at The Florida Bar’s Real
Property, Probate & Trust Law Section’s 2014
annual convention. For his contributions in
promoting the highest standards of ethics
and professionalism, he was presented the
“William S. Belcher Lifetime Professionalism
Award.”
David R. Punzak, an attorney with Carlton
Fields Jorden Burt in Tampa, has been named
by UF and the Pinellas County Gator Club as
the “Gator Great” (2014).
1985
W. Michael Clifford (LLMT, JD 76), an attorney
with GrayRobinson in Orlando, has been named
to the Best Lawyers in America (2015) in the
practice area of trusts and estates. He has
received the designation since 2007.
Alan B. Cohn (LLMT, JD 84), an attorney with
Greenspoon Marder Law in Fort Lauderdale,
has been recognized in Florida Super
Lawyers (2014). He specializes in estate and
probate.
Lynn Drysdale an attorney with Jacksonville
Area Legal Aid, has been honored with the Florida Bar Consumer Protection Law Committee’s
“Florida Consumer Lawyer of the Year” award.
Attorney General Pam Bondi presented her the
award at a ceremony in August.
Stephen R. Looney (LLMT), an attorney with
Dean Mead in Orlando, has been named as a
leader in tax in Chambers USA - America’s
Leading Lawyers for Business (2014). He has
also been named in Florida Super Lawyers
(2014) in the area of tax.
Robert P. Major, an attorney with
Winderweedle, Haines, Ward & Woodman
in Orlando, has been named in the Best
Lawyers in America (2015) in the areas of
commercial litigation.
Major 85
Schifino Jr. 85
Michael Neukamm, an attorney with
GrayRobinson’s Orlando office, has been
named to the Best Lawyers in America
(2015) in the areas of corporate compliance
law, corporate law and securities/capital
markets law. He has received the distinction
since 2010.
William J. Schifino Jr., managing partner at
Burr & Forman LLP in Tampa, has received
the prestigious “Hillsborough County Bar
Association Outstanding Lawyer Award.”
The annual honor recognizes an attorney
who has made a significant difference
in the practice of law and the Tampa
Bay community through personal and
professional ethics and conduct. He was also
recently named president of the Hillsborough
County Bar Foundation for the 2014-2015
term.
Guy Whitesman (LLMT), an attorney with
Henderson Franklin in Fort Myers, has been
named in Florida Super Lawyers (2014) for
the ninth year for his work in tax law. He is
past chair of the tax section of The Florida
Bar, and he serves as chair of Henderson
Franklin’s mergers and acquisitions, business
organizations and planning, tax and
intellectual property practice areas. 1986
James M. Craig has joined Constangy,
Brooks & Smith in Tampa.
Elizabeth A. Green, an attorney with
BakerHostetler in Orlando, has been selected
for inclusion in Florida Super Lawyers (2014).
She has also been named to Florida Trend’s
“Legal Elite” list (2014). She specializes in
general litigation.
Herbert V. McMillan III has joined Michael T.
Gibson P.A. in Orlando.
William E. Ruffier, a civil trial lawyer with
Dellecker Wilson King McKenna Ruffier &
Sos in Orlando, has been named in Florida
Super Lawyers (2014). This is his eighth year
to receive the honor. He was additionally
appointed to serve on the medical
Green 86
Ruffier 86
malpractice subcommittee for the Board
of Legal Specialization and Education.
Frederick Schrils, an attorney with
GrayRobinson’s Tampa office, has been
recognized in Florida Super Lawyers
(2014). He has also been named to the Best
Lawyers in America (2015) in the area of
commercial litigation.
1987
W. Scott Callahan, a partner with Roetzel
in Orlando, has been named in the Best
Lawyers in America (2015) in the area of real
estate law.
Mayanne Downs, shareholder and firmwide
chair of the litigation department in
GrayRobinson’s Orlando office, has been
recognized in Florida Super Lawyers (2014).
She was also recently named to Orlando
Magazine’s “50 Most Powerful” list, on
which she is listed as the ninth most powerful person in the city. Additionally, she
has been named to Best Lawyers in
America (2015) in the areas of bet-thecompany litigation, commercial litigation
and family law.
James Etscorn, an attorney with
BakerHostetler in Orlando, has been named
in Florida Super Lawyers (2014). He has
also been named in Best Lawyers (2015) in
the areas of commercial litigation, litigation
– intellectual property and product liability
litigation – defendants. Kenneth Goldsmith, a professor of
legal studies at Chattanooga State
Community College, was recently
elected to the ABA Commission for
Paralegal Education. He spent last fall in
China, teaching business law to Chinese
accounting students at Ningbo University
of Technology. He serves as program
director for paralegal education and faculty
senate president at Chattanooga State
Community College.
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Gunderson 87
Shear 87
Thacker 87
Thomas H. Gunderson, an attorney with
Henderson Franklin in Fort Myers, has
been included in Florida Super Lawyers for
the sixth consecutive year for his work in
real estate. His primary areas of practice
include commercial real estate transactions,
commercial and residential real estate
development, banking law and property
owners’ association law.
Paul S. Quinn Jr., an attorney with
GrayRobinson’s Orlando office, has been
named to the Best Lawyers in America (2015)
in the area of real estate law. He has received
the distinction since 2013.
David Schick, an attorney with BakerHostetler
in Orlando, has been named by Florida Super
Lawyers (2014). He was additionally named in
Best Lawyers (2015) in the areas of corporate
law and employee benefits (ERISA) law.
Jeffrey Shear, an attorney with Gunster in
West Palm Beach, was elected to serve a oneyear term on the board of directors of the
Real Estate Investment Council. The nonprofit
hosts dinners featuring prominent figures in
commercial real estate as guest speakers.
Jo Thacker, a partner in the Orlando office of
Broad and Cassel, was appointed by Mayor
Buddy Dyer (JD 87) to serve on the City of
Orlando’s Community Venues Oversight
Committee. Thacker joins eight other committee
members in providing oversight and review of
the various community venues projects in the
city, including the Dr. Phillips Center for the
Performing Arts, the Florida Citrus Bowl and the
MLS Soccer Stadium.
Tamela E. Wiseman has joined Cheffy
Passidomo in Naples.
1988
Jack Bovay (LLMT, JD 82), an attorney with
Dean Mead in Gainesville, has been named in
Florida Super Lawyers (2014) in the area of
estate and probate.
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Davis 88
Meland 88
Gerald Davis, an attorney with Trenam
Kemker’s St. Petersburg office, has been
named in Super Lawyers Business Edition
(2014) in the area of creditor debtor rights.
Mark Meland, co-founder and shareholder
in Miami law firm Meland Russin & Budwick,
won the third-annual Battle of the Legal Bands
benefitting Dade Legal Aid. He played bass
guitar with his bandmates Fred Fein, from
Thornton Davis & Fein, Dean Crews and Frank
Del Campillo. More than 450 people attended
the event. He was additionally named in Florida
Super Lawyers (2014) in the areas of real
estate and business/corporate.
Cathy Mitchell has joined the law firm of
KALIS & KLEIMAN based in Davie, Florida.
She concentrates her practice in the areas of
intellectual property, copyright, trademark,
entertainment, arts and sports law,
technology, licensing, business transactions,
employment-related agreements and
counseling and family law. She is admitted to
practice in Florida, New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania.
Jorge J. Perez has been appointed as a
partner with Squire Patton Boggs law firm
in Miami. Perez, a former circuit court
judge, joins the practice from McDonald
Hopkins, where he was chair of the National
Receivership Practice division.
John F. Potanovic, an attorney with
Henderson Franklin in Fort Myers, has been
named in Florida Super Lawyers (2014) for
the sixth consecutive year for his work in
employment and labor law. He serves as chair
of Henderson Franklin’s employment law
practice group. J. Timothy Schulte, an attorney with
Zimmerman Kiser Sutcliffe in Orlando,
has been named in the Best Lawyers in
America (2015) in the area of commercial
litigation. Schulte heads the firm’s
commercial litigation practice group.
Potanovic 88
Schulte 88
Additionally, he was recently appointed by
Florida Gov. Rick Scott to the 9th Judicial
Circuit Nominating Commission. Schulte’s
term will run until July 1, 2018. He succeeds
Edward Storey III (JD 02).
Spencer H. Silverglate, managing shareholder
at Clarke Silverglate P.A. in Miami, was
appointed to serve on its MPF Advisory Board
beginning June 15. Additionally, he has been
named in the Best Lawyers in America (2015).
He has served as president of the Florida
Defense Lawyers Association and was recently
elected president of the Florida Association of
Managing Partners.
Michael S. Singer (LLMT, JD 87), managing
partner at Comiter, Singer, Baseman & Braun
in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, has been
named in Florida Super Lawyers (2014). His
main focus of practice is in the areas of tax
law, estate planning, probate, estate and
guardianship litigation, asset protection and
health-care law. He has been selected for the
past six years to the Super Lawyers list.
1989
Jeff Paskert, of Mills Paskert Divers in Tampa,
recently completed a two-year term as chairman
of the Hillsborough County Bar Association’s
construction law committee. Paskert also
recently addressed a construction industry
conference in Orlando on the topic of proper
selection and use of expert witnesses.
Mark A. Sessums, founding partner at Sessums
Law Group in Lakeland, has been elected to the
American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
Florida Chapter Board of Managers.
1990
Joseph W. Bain, a partner with Novak Druce
Connolly Bove + Quigg LLP in West Palm Beach,
has been named to the list of Florida Super
Lawyers (2014). He has more than 20 years
of intellectual property litigation experience in
more than 100 IP disputes in various district
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courts throughout the nation as well as several
trials before the International Trade Commission.
Steve Bernstein, a partner at Fisher & Phillips
LLP in Tampa, has been recognized by Florida
Super Lawyers. Additionally, he has been
selected by his peers for inclusion in the Best
Lawyers in America (2014). He was honored
for his labor and employment work.
Don E. Goebel (LLMT) has recently been
named chief legal officer and chief tax officer
of Maxim Crane Works L.P. The company is a
leading provider of large construction cranes
and turnkey lift services throughout the U.S.
Gregory F. Lunny, an attorney with Rogers
Towers in Jacksonville, will lead the expansion
of the firm’s new office in Wesley Chapel
Edward McCarthy III, an attorney with Rogers
Towers in Jacksonville, has been named to the
“Best Lawyers” list in U.S. News & World Report
magazine.
Cynthia Crofoot Rignanese, an attorney in
Winter Haven, has been re-elected as president
of the Winter Haven, Florida, Women’s Bar
Association. She is also a founding member of
Females Advancing Business, which has grown
to 51 members in its third year.
Bradley M. Saxton, an attorney with
Winderweedle, Haines, Ward & Woodman in
Orlando, has been named in Florida Super
Lawyers (2014) in the area of business
bankruptcy. Additionally, he has been named in
Florida Trend as a “Legal Elite” and in the Best
Lawyers in America (2015).
Robert W. Thielhelm, an attorney with
BakerHostetler in Orlando, has been named in
Best Lawyers (2015). Thielhelm was recognized
for his work in commercial litigation.
1991
Todd L. Bradley, a partner at Cummings &
Lockwood LLC in Naples, has been selected for
inclusion in the U.S. News & World Report list
Saxton 90
Bradley 91
New Levin biography out
F
redric G. Levin (JD 61) graduated
third in his class from UF Law to
become one of the nation’s most
successful trial lawyers. And that was
before figuring out a tweak to Florida
law that led to historic anti-tobacco
legislation and then embarking on a
career as one the nation’s premiere
boxing managers. Levin’s only-in-America life is painted
in the new book, And Give up Showbiz?
How Fred Levin Beat Big Tobacco,
Avoided Two Murder Prosecutions,
Became a Chief of Ghana, Earned Boxing
Manager of the Year and Transformed
American Law. Proceeds will be donated
to the Chabad House at the University of
Florida and Florida State University.
New York Times best-selling author
Josh Young tells the story of Levin’s rise
from UF Law where he finished third in
his class to become one of America’s
celebrated tort lawyers. Levin has won
more than 25 cases with jury verdicts
of more than $1 million and six of more
than $10 million, according to the website
of his firm, Levin, Papantonio, Thomas,
of “The Best Lawyers in America” (2015) in the
practice area of trusts and estates. Bradley has
been included in the list since 2008.
Michael S. Budwick, co-founder of Meland
Russin & Budwick in Miami, has been named in
Florida Super Lawyers (2014).
Nelson Castellano, an attorney with Trenam
Kemker’s Tampa office, has been named in
Super Lawyers Business Edition (2014) in the
area of business/corporate.
Tad A. Delegal III, an attorney with Delegal
Law Offices in Jacksonville, has become a
Budwick 91
Castellano 91
Mitchell, Rafferty &
Proctor, P.A. He says
that consumer safety
improvements have
been driven by the
success of members
of the plaintiff’s
bar like him who
hold businesses
accountable for
injuries and deaths
caused by their
products.
Levin continues to give back to
the law school through endowment of
professorships, cash gifts and, most
recently, funding for a trial advocacy
facility, the Martin H. Levin Advocacy
Center, named for his son Martin, who
graduated from UF Law in 1988.
“As for my career, my name is going
to be on that University of Florida law
school forever, so in 50 or 100 years
people may stop to look me up,” Levin
said in the book. “Hopefully history will
be kind to me, but if not, I hope they at
least spell my name right.”
fellow with the American Bar Association
Foundation.
Keith Grossman, managing partner of
Grossman Law & Conflict Management in Fort
Myers, spoke on “Conflict Management in the
Workplace” at the Rotary Club of Cape Coral
Goldcoast in July.
Julio C. Jaramillo, an attorney in Miami,
took office July 1 as president-elect of The
Florida Bar Foundation, a statewide charitable
organization tasked with providing greater
access to justice. Jaramillo practices in the
area of civil litigation.
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making her one of fewer than 30 attorneys in
the state of Florida with both certifications.
1993
Paul Bain, an attorney with Trenam Kemker’s
Tampa office, has been named in Super Lawyers
Business Edition (2014) in the area of eminent
domain. Additionally, he was named in Florida
Trend’s “Legal Elite” list (2014).
Jere F. Daniels Jr., a shareholder with
Winderweedle, Haines, Ward & Woodman, was
recently appointed to a two-year term on the
Winter Park Chamber of Commerce board of
directors. Daniels, a Winter Park native, practices
mainly in the area of real estate law, assisting
corporate and individual clients with transactions
and disputes throughout the Southeast. Gator installation
T
he June 7 Palm Beach County Bar installation banquet at The Breakers in Palm Beach saw
Gators take top jobs in the organization. Theo S. Kypreos (JD 02), center, was installed
as the bar’s president, and James G. “Grier” Pressly III (JD 99), right, was installed as
president-elect. Circuit Court Judge Joe Marx (JD 89), who administered the oath of office for
the new term, joins his fellow Gator lawyers demonstrating Gator pride. Scott Hawkins (JD 83), a
former president of The Florida Bar Association, also participated in the program.
Daniel Kanner, a partner since 1998 at Bauman
& Kanner in Plantation, Florida, has been
appointed as a Broward County judge. He fills
the vacancy of Edward Merrigan, a judge who
was promoted by appointment to the Broward
Circuit. Kanner was an assistant state attorney in
Broward from 1992-1998.
Steven J. Solomon, an attorney with
GrayRobinson’s Miami office, has been
recognized in Florida Super Lawyers (2014).
He has also been named to the Best Lawyers
in America (2015) in the areas of bankruptcy
and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and
reorganization law as well as litigation –
bankruptcy. He has received the honor since
2010.
John V. Tucker, managing shareholder at Tucker
& Ludin P.A. in St. Petersburg, has been named
in Florida Super Lawyer (2014) in the area of
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employee benefits. For 23 years, Tucker has been
assisting claimants in fights against insurance
companies for disability benefits.
1992
Nelson C. Bellido, a partner in the Miami office of
Roig, Tutan, Rosenberg, Martin, Stoller, Zumpano
& Bellido, has been recognized in Florida Trend’s
“Florida Legal Elite” list (2014) for his work in the
area of commercial litigation. He has additionally
been selected to serve as managing partner of
the firm’s Miami office.
Nancy S. Freeman, a shareholder with
Winderweedle, Haines, Ward & Woodman
P.A. in Orlando, recently received her board
certification in tax law from The Florida
Bar Board of Legal Specialization and
Education. Freeman already holds her board
certification in wills, trusts and estates,
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McKenna 94
Kevin L. Lienard, an attorney with Zimmerman
Kiser Sutcliffe P.A. in Orlando, has been named
in Florida Super Lawyers (2014) for the area of
workers’ compensation.
Erik Shuman, an attorney with GrayRobinson’s
Melbourne, Florida, office, has been recognized
in Florida Super Lawyers (2014). He has also
been named to the Best Lawyers in America
(2015) in the practice area of corporate law. He
has received the designation since 2010.
1994
Christopher C. Casper has been named
managing partner of James, Hoyer, Newcomer, &
Smiljanich in Tampa.
Donna L. Longhouse (LLMT, JD 93), a partner
at Allen Dell P.A. law firm in Tampa, has been
named in Super Lawyers (2014) for the
third year. She has also been designated a
“Florida Legal Elite” by Florida Trend magazine
(2014). Longhouse practices law in the areas of
tax, trusts and estates.
Kenneth J. McKenna, a civil trial lawyer with
Dellecker, Wilson, King, McKenna, Ruffier & Sos in
Orlando, has been named in Florida Super Lawyers
(2014). This is his fifth year to receive the honor.
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Meier 96
Adams 97
Lance Reich has joined Miller Nash’s Seattle
office as a partner. He joins the firm’s
intellectual property practice team with a focus
on IP procurement and defense, IP litigation
and transactions and the Washington beverage
industry.
Marc A. Wites, of Wites & Kapetan P.A. in
Lighthouse Point, Florida, presented the
“Welcome to New Citizens” remarks on
behalf of the Federal Bar Association at the
naturalization ceremony held at the U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of
Florida in West Palm Beach on Sept. 12. He also
authored the 2014 edition of his longstanding
publication The Florida Litigation Guide, as well
as the first editions of The New York Litigation
and The California Litigation.
1995
Timothy Cerio, an attorney with
GrayRobinson’s Tallahassee office, has been
reappointed by Gov. Rick Scott to the 1st
District Court of Appeal Judicial Nominating
Commission. He was reappointed from a list
of nominees submitted by The Florida Bar for
a two-year term beginning in July. He has also
been recognized in Florida Super Lawyers
(2014).
Nichole M. Mooney, an attorney with
Dean Mead in Orlando, has been named in
Florida Super Lawyers (2014) in the area of
employment and labor.
1996
Lisa Z. Hauser (LLMT, JD 95), an associate
with Comiter, Singer, Baseman & Braun in
West Palm Beach, has been named in Florida
Super Lawyers (2014). Her practice areas
include estate planning, probate, estate
& trust administration and guardianship
administration.
Steven Lessne, an attorney with
GrayRobinson’s Fort Lauderdale office, has
been recognized in Florida Super Lawyers
(2014). He specializes in estate trust and
litigation.
Belcastro 97
Burgoon 97
William R. Lowman Jr. (LLMT), a partner
with the law firm of ShuffieldLowman in
Orlando, has been named by Florida Trend
as a “Legal Elite.” Lowman practices in the
areas of corporate, business taxation, estate
and charitable planning, business succession
planning and tax law. Gregory W. Meier (LLMT), a partner with the
law firm of ShuffieldLowman in Orlando, has
been named by Florida Trend as a “Legal Elite.”
Meier practices in the areas of corporate,
business taxation, estate and charitable
planning, business succession planning and
tax law. F. Scott Westheimer, a managing partner of
the Sarasota-based law firm Syprett Meshad,
has been named to Florida Trend magazine’s
prestigious “Legal Elite” list for the third
consecutive year. 1997
Christine T. Adams, a shareholder with Rogers
Towers in Jacksonville, has been elected
to the firm’s board of directors. She is the
third woman in the firm’s history to hold the
position.
J. Matthew Belcastro, an attorney with Henderson Franklin in Fort Myers, has been recognized in Florida Super Lawyers magazine
for the fourth year for his work in construction
litigation. During his career, he has been recognized by Florida Trend Magazine’s “Up and
Comers” list and Florida Trend Magazine’s “Legal Elite.” He is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell. C. Todd Burbank has joined the real estate
investment and development team at
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton’s Charlotte,
North Carolina office. He was previously a
partner at McGuireWoods.
Brian D. Burgoon, of the Burgoon Law
Firm LLC in Atlanta, was awarded the “Tony
Boggs Excellence in Discipline Award” by
The Florida Bar President Eugene Pettis (JD
85) at the annual convention. Burgoon was
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also re-elected as an out-of-state member
of The Florida Bar Board of Governors and
to the board of directors of the University
of Florida Alumni Association. Additionally,
he was elected to The Florida Bar Executive
Committee.
Robert H. Gebaide, an attorney with
BakerHostetler in Orlando, has been named in
Best Lawyers (2015). Gebaide was recognized
for his work in real estate law.
Nicole L. Goetz, an attorney in Naples, has
been elected secretary of the Family Law
Section of The Florida Bar. Goetz has also been
appointed as vice chairwoman of the Ad Hoc
Bylaws Committee and a member of the Long
Range Planning and Finance committees of
the section, and she received the 2013-2014
Florida Bar Family Law Section “Above and
Beyond Award.” She practices exclusively in
marital and family law at the trial and appellate
level.
1998
Matthew Ahearn (LLMT), an attorney with
Dean Mead in Orlando, has been named in
Florida Super Lawyers (2014) in the area of
estate and probate.
J. Carter Andersen, an attorney at Bush Ross
in Tampa, has been elected president of the
Hillsborough County Bar Association.
Rebecca L. Brock, a partner with Schwed Kahle
Kress, has been elected to membership in the
American Board of Trial Advocates and the
Palm Beach Chapter of ABOTA.
Fabienne E. Fahnestock, a shareholder in
Gunster’s business litigation practice in West
Palm Beach, has been elected to serve as
secretary of the Early Learning Coalition
of Broward County board of directors. The
nonprofit is dedicated to the implementation of
an integrated, high-quality and seamless early
care and education service delivery system for
children.
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Marilyn G. Moran has joined FordHarrison
as a partner. Moran, who has more than
12 years of experience as a managementside employment attorney, comes from
BakerHostetler. Moran, a fifth-generation
Floridian whose ancestors came to Florida
before the Civil War to farm and raise cattle,
said she was drawn to FordHarrison’s strong
presence in her home state and across the
Southeastern United States.
Cristine M. Russell, an attorney with Rogers
Towers in Jacksonville, has been named to the
“Best Lawyers” list in U.S. News & World Report
magazine.
Lori V. Vaughn, an attorney with Trenam
Kemker’s Tampa office, has been named in
Super Lawyers Business Edition (2014) in the
area of business bankruptcy. Additionally, she
was named in Florida Trend’s “Legal Elite” list.
1999
John L. Badalamenti, an assistant federal
defender in Tampa, has been appointed to the
2014-2015 chairman of The Florida Bar’s Federal
Practice Committee.
Ryan E. Davis, a shareholder at Winderweedle,
Haines, Ward & Woodman P.A. in Orlando, has
been selected as an academy fellow of The Florida Bar Leadership Academy. Davis completed
a competitive process to join this select group
of attorneys from around the state who will
network, interact, collaborate and build relationships. He was also named a “Rising Star” in the
area of business bankruptcy by Florida Super
Lawyers (2014).
Kenneth H. Haney, a partner with Quarles
& Brady LLP in Naples, has been appointed
as an advisory board member for the Junior
Achievement 2014 Business Hall of Fame, Collier
County. The advisory board selects laureates
for the 2014 Business Hall of Fame, Collier
County, honoring their contributions to the
local business community and recognizing their
service as positive role models for young people.
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Vaughn 98
Davis 99
Roberts 99
Latonia P. Hines, a veteran prosecutor in
Atlanta, has been named editor-in-chief of
Justicia, the official Cobb County Bar magazine.
Hines also currently serves as a regular legal
expert on local and national television news
channels such as HLN/CNN.
2000
Brian Oblow, an attorney with GrayRobinson’s
Tampa office, has been recognized in Florida
Super Lawyers (2014). He specializes in business
litigation.
LaTeasha J. Benson has joined the Florida
Department of Children and Families’ Children’s
Legal Services as a senior attorney in the
Daytona Beach office.
Joel Roberts, an attorney with BakerHostetler
in Orlando, has been named by Florida Super
Lawyers (2014). He specializes in business litigation. He also hosted the Association of Eminent
Domain Professionals meeting. Additionally, he
has accepted the role of vice president of the
Dommerich Foundation.
Douglas A. Cherry, an attorney with Shumaker,
Loop & Kendrick LLP in Sarasota, has become
president of the Sarasota County Bar
Association. Cherry will focus his presidency on
the future of the legal profession, empowering
its members to embrace and take advantage of
the opportunities that upcoming changes to the
profession will present. Julie Singer Brady, an attorney with
BakerHostetler in Orlando, has been named a
“Rising Star” by Florida Super Lawyers (2014).
She specializes in business litigation.
Katie Schweikhardt has been appointed as the
executive director of the United Arts Council of
Collier County. For the past three years, she has
been with the Harry Chapin Food Bank, serving
as director of programs and Collier County food
coordinator.
Mark H. Dahlmeier, an attorney with Jones,
Foster, Johnston & Stubbs P.A. in West Palm
Beach, has been recognized as a “Rising Star” by
Florida Super Lawyers (2014). He specializes in
real estate.
Matthew Sperry (LLMT, JD 97) has been
promoted to partner in DLA Piper’s Chicago
office. Sperry practices in the area of corporate
law.
Tiffany T. Payne, an attorney with BakerHostetler in Orlando, has been appointed to the
University of Central Florida Alumni board of
directors.
Renee E. Thompson, an attorney with Mateer
Harbert in Orlando, was recently honored with
the “President’s Award of Merit” at The Florida
Bar’s annual convention. Bar President Eugene
Pettis (JD 85) presented the award to Thompson.
2001
Trevor Arnold, an attorney with GrayRobinson’s
Orlando office, has been recognized in Florida
Super Lawyers (2014). He has also been named to
the Best Lawyers in America (2015) in the areas
of construction law and litigation – construction.
He has received the honor since 2010.
John Burns (LLMT), an attorney with Dickinson
Wright PLLC in Nashville, has been elected by
the Tennessee Bar Association as chair of its tax
law section.
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Kevin B. Cook, an attorney with Rogers Towers
in Jacksonville, has been named to the “Best
Lawyers” list in U.S. News & World Report
magazine.
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Gonzalez 02
Christine Marlewski, an attorney with
GrayRobinson’s Tampa office, has been
recognized as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers
(2014). She specializes in business litigation.
William Riley Jr., an attorney with
GrayRobinson’s Miami office, has been
recognized as a “Rising Star” (2014). He
specializes in land use/zoning.
2002
T. Robert Bulloch, an attorney with Quarles &
Brady in Naples, has been named a “Rising Star”
by Florida Super Lawyers (2014). He specializes
in estate and probate.
Nancy E. Cason, managing partner of
Syprett Meshad in Sarasota, has been
named a “Rising Star” by Florida Super
Lawyers (2014). Her practice areas focus on
all aspects of real estate law, both
transactional and litigation.
Chris Codling, an attorney with Givens
Givens Sparks in Tampa, has been selected
by Florida Super Lawyers as a 2014
“Rising Star.”
Debra Deardourff Faulk, an attorney with
GrayRobinson’s Tampa office, has been
recognized in Florida Super Lawyers (2014).
She has also been named to the Best Lawyers
in America (2015) in the practice area of
intellectual property.
John Gihon has joined newly renamed firm
Shorstein & Lasnetski as a partner in its second,
new office in Orlando. Gihon, formerly a senior
attorney with U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement and a division chief with the Office
of the State Attorney, will focus on criminal
defense and immigration law.
Evan Glasser, an attorney with Greenspoon
Marder Law in Fort Lauderdale, has been
recognized as a “Rising Star” by Florida Super
Lawyers (2014). He specializes in general
litigation.
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Olmedo-Rodriguez 02
Daniel N. Gonzalez, a partner at Miami law
firm Meland Russin & Budwick, has been
recognized as a “Rising Star” by Florida Super
Lawyers (2014) in the category of bankruptcy/
business litigation.
Brian H. Koch, a shareholder with Greenberg
Traurig’s Fort Lauderdale office, was awarded
the “Paul May Young Lawyers Section
Professionalism Award” at the Broward County
Bar Association’s Annual Installation Dinner.
He was additionally named as one of the South
Florida Business Journal’s “40 Under 40,”
the annual listing of South Florida’s best and
brightest leaders under the age of 40.
Theodore S. Kypreos, an attorney with Jones,
Foster, Johnston & Stubbs P.A. in West Palm
Beach, has been recognized in Florida Super
Lawyers (2014). He specializes in estate and
trust litigation.
Benjamin J. LeFrancois, a shareholder in the
Lakeland office of GrayRobinson P.A., has
been elected to the board of directors for the
YMCA of West Central Florida. He has also been
elected to the board of trustees for All Saints’
Academy, a college-preparatory institution
in Polk County. He is past president of the All
Saints’ Academy Parents’ Association and a Polk
County School Board mentor.
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Regan 03
Jennifer Olmedo-Rodriguez, a shareholder
at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney in Miami, has
been elected to serve on the board of directors
of the 3rd District Court of Appeal Historical
Society for a one-year term. Olmedo-Rodriguez
is a shareholder in the office’s litigation practice
group and focuses on the area of commercial
litigation and civil appellate litigation.
Michael J. Pike, managing partner of Pike
& Lustig, LLP–Turnpike Law in West Palm
Beach, Florida, was recently admitted to
Esteemed Lawyers of America. The admission
recognizes the most respected lawyers in the
U.S. In addition, he was named in Florida Super
Lawyers (2014) in the practice area of business
litigation.
2003
Jessica P. Malchow, a partner with BakerHostetler
in Orlando, has been selected as a recipient of
the Florida Achievement Award from the Florida
Commission on the Status of Women.
Kevin Regan has joined Miller Nash’s Seattle
office as counsel. He joins the firm’s intellectual
property practice team with a focus on IP
procurement and defense, IP litigation and
transactions and the Washington beverage
industry.
JAG training
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apt. Charles Pino (JD 01),
left, and Capt. Christopher
Vallandingham (JD 00),
who is head of collections in the
UF Law Legal Information Center,
completed the Operational Law of
Armed Conflict course Aug. 8 at
the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate
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Tony Sos, a civil trial lawyer with Dellecker,
Wilson, King, McKenna, Ruffier & Sos in
Orlando, has been named in Florida Super
Lawyers (2014). This is his sixth year to receive the honor.
2004
Cheryl Priest Ainsworth has been promoted
to partner at Affeld Grivakes Zucker LLP in
Los Angeles. She was additionally named a
“Rising Star” by Southern California Super
Lawyers and included in Los Angeles Magazine’s “Top Women Lawyers in Southern
California” list. Before moving to Los Angeles, she practiced commercial litigation at
Holland & Knight in Tampa.
Jason H. Baruch has joined Holland & Knight
in Tampa as a partner in its litigation practice group. He was previously a shareholder
with Trenam Kemker.
John Castro, a Tampa attorney and partner at
Anton Castro Law, volunteers for Lawyers for
Literacy and serves on the board of directors
for the First Tee of Tampa Bay. He has built on
the success of his firm, started in 2010 with
partner and fellow UF alumna Christina Anton
(JD 06), by devoting his practice to criminal/
DUI defense and personal injury.
Hollie Croft, an attorney with Broad and
Cassel in Orlando, has earned an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell,
achieving the organization’s highest marks
for both competency and ethics.
Gregg Hutt, an attorney with Trenam Kemker’s Tampa office, has been named in Super
Lawyers Business Edition (2014) in the area
of construction litigation. He has also recently received his board certification from
The Florida Bar in the area of construction
law. Additionally, he was named to Florida
Trend’s “Legal Elite” list.
Jennifer Kuyrkendall has recently published a book that is now available on
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Castro 04
Hutt 04
Persis 04
Amazon.com. Deadly Escape follows the
investigation of two murderers from the discovery of the body to a multistate manhunt
to the ultimate prosecution. Benjamin B. Brown, an attorney with Quarles & Brady in Naples, has been named a
“Rising Star” by Florida Super Lawyers
(2014). He specializes in business litigation.
William T. Link Jr., an associate with Reed
& Mawhinney P.L. in Lakeland, has been
named a recipient of the “Polk Emerging
Leaders Award,” given by a collaboration of
chamber groups from Bartow, Lakeland and
Winter Haven, recognizing young professionals whose work and community activities significantly contribute to Polk County.
Christopher Carmody, an attorney with
GrayRobinson’s Orlando office, has been
recognized as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers (2014). He has also been designated
regional vice president of the University of
Florida Alumni Association.
Karen Persis, an attorney in Orlando, has
been inducted as president of the Young
Lawyers Section of the Orange County Bar
Association. She has also been chosen as a
“Rising Star” by Super Lawyers and as a “Legal Elite Up and Comer” by Florida Trend.
2005
Nadia Ahmad has joined Pace Law School
in White Plains, New York, as a visiting assistant professor in environmental law. Her
research explores the intersections of energy law and the environment and draws on
international investment law, energy justice,
corporate best practices and corporate social responsibility. Kimberly Davis Bocelli, an associate with
Roetzel & Andress LPA in Fort Myers, has
been named a “Rising Star” by Florida Super
Lawyers (2014).
Abbi S. Freifeld, an attorney at Roig Lawyers’ Deerfield Beach office, has recently
been promoted to partner. She concentrates
her practice in the areas of insurance defense and the defense of PIP/no-fault insurance claims.
Erin E. Houck-Toll (LLMT) has been named
a “Rising Star” in business and corporate
law by Florida Super Lawyers (2014). She
is Gulfshore Business Magazine’s “Top 40
Under 40” winner (2012) and is AV rated
by Martindale-Hubbell. She serves on the
executive council for the tax section of The
Florida Bar and on the board of directors
for Empowerment of Alliance of Southwest
Florida, Inc. and Special Equestrians, Inc. Jessica Z. Martin, a partner in the
Deerfield Beach, Florida, office of Roig
Lawyers, has been recognized as a 2014
March of Dimes “Women of Distinction”
honoree. The award goes to women who
have the ability to effect change. They
recognize the present and future innovators,
influencers and entrepreneurs. This
is a multi-generational gathering of leaders
who forge partnerships, find solutions and
make the Broward community a better place
to live.
W. Doug Martin, a civil trial lawyer
with Dellecker, Wilson, King, McKenna,
Ruffier & Sos in Orlando, has been named
in Florida Super Lawyers (2014). This is his
fourth year to receive the honor.
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Photo by Julian Cousins
Sweet Deal
but Cousins knew better. “I just started laughing,” Cousins said about the moment he
heard Toyota’s argument.
“You’re telling me that every car near
the water is subject to this kind of environmental rust?” he thought. “Shouldn’t this
be happening to all of (Toyota’s) vehicles if
that’s the case? That’s preposterous.”
Cousins filed the action against the
manufacturer, and after six months he got
the client out of the defective truck and all
of his money back: $33,000.
While this case might seem straightforward, Cousins said he faces myriad challenges arguing the consumer side. One, he
noted, is that his opponents have much more
money and better resources — namely the
experts and engineers who created the cars
— than he has access to.
Robert Murphy (JD 87), a UF Law adjunct professor and a consumer rights attoruse, value or safety of a new or demonstra- ney in Fort Lauderdale, noted one of the detor vehicle,” according to the Florida Office fendant’s prime advantages: “The manufacof the Attorney General. Under the law, the turer has infinite knowledge of their product
purchaser is entitled to remedies up to a full and are in a better position to defend their
refund of cost of the car if the defects can’t Lemon Law case.”
Last year, Cousins
be fixed after a “reasonwas
recognized by Palm
able number of repair atA UF Law degree
Beach Post’s Legacy
tempts,” according to The
“really equips you with Magazine as one of Palm
Florida Bar.
Beach County’s Most
And so Cousins, at 25,
the ability to make
Powerful and Influential
took on his first Lemon
your own way.”
Black Professionals in
Law case — his own —
—Patrick Cousins (JD 89)
Business and Industry
which he won. From there
his law career took off — at first defending for 2013. His firm, Cousins Law, was also
GM and then other large manufacturers. honored with the 2013 Business of the Year
From 1991-97, he worked on their side — title.
Since 1997, Cousins has expanded from
until the day his 5-year-old son Julian, said:
handling Lemon Law cases to taking on per“So you keep good people in bad cars?”
sonal injury and entertainment law cases, too.
“That made me feel bad,” Cousins said.
He’s done everything from managing muHe knew there were consumers losing good
cases because of shoddy or no representation, sician and actor Prince’s legal affairs to takhe said, so he made the swap to the client side, ing on dozens of personal injury claims from
a fatal accident when a bus crashed into an
where has remained for the last 17 years.
In a recent case against Toyota, Cousins overpass at the Miami International Airport in
represented a man who purchased a Tacoma December 2012.
Amid a variety of charitable endeavors,
pickup almost entirely rusted underneath. A
South Florida TV news station was covering Cousins serves on the board of trustees for UF
the issue when Cousins was hired to repre- Law and for the College of William and Mary
in Williamsburg, Virginia.
sent the man.
“Even though the job market can some“(The Tacoma) looked like a vehicle that
was 20 years old,” Cousins said, “like it had times seem tough, it (a UF Law degree) really
been sitting in salt water for a long time or equips you with the ability to make your own
way,” Cousins said, praising the value of a
something.”
The manufacturer argued that Florida UF Law degree. “We don’t see a lot of Gator
weather and environment was causing the rust, lawyers starving around here.”
Cousins makes career of Lemon Law
BY J E N N A B OX ( 4 J M )
T
he word “lemon” might not at first
bring an automobile to mind. But when
a person sinks his teeth into a purchase
of a new vehicle that turns out to be defective,
it can certainly leave a sour taste.
Patrick Cousins (JD 89) knows that experience.
The South Florida consumer protection
and personal injury attorney got his first taste
of “lemon” fresh out of law school, when he
bought a red Chevrolet IROC-Z Camaro convertible top from General Motors.
“It was cool at the time,” Cousins said,
but the excitement wore off quickly. “In the
first six months (the car) was in the shop like
36 times.”
The random break-downs were eating
into Cousins’ time and making him late for
work almost daily.
“My boss finally said, ‘Look, you know,
whatever it is that you’re doing, you’ve got
to stop because you’re going to be out of
work,’ ” Cousins said.
Cousins brought him to the parking garage where the Camaro sat. “Let me show
you who she is that’s keeping me so busy,”
Cousins said, pointing to the car.
His boss chuckled — then told Cousins
about a new law: Florida’s Motor Vehicle
Lemon Law.
The Lemon Law is a consumer-protection measure that applies when chronic defects or conditions “substantially impair the
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Heather Nason has recently joined Rogers Towers P.A. She will work out of the firm’s Orlando
office. Daniel Nordby has joined Shutts & Bowen LLP as
a partner in its Tallahassee office. Previously, he
served as general counsel to the Florida House of
Representatives under Speaker Will Weatherford
and as general counsel to Florida’s Secretary
of State. He is the 2014-2015 chairman of The
Florida Bar’s Administrative Law Section and is
a member of the Florida Supreme Court Judicial
Nominating Commission.
Adina Pollan, an attorney with GrayRobinson’s
Jacksonville, office, has been named as a “Rising
Star” by Florida Super Lawyers (2014). She
specializes in business bankruptcy.
2006
Steven Burres has become the assistant general
counsel for Rotech Healthcare Inc., a national durable medical equipment company headquartered
in Orlando. He was also recently awarded an AV
preeminent ranking by Martindale-Hubbell. Jorge A. Castillo, an attorney with BakerHostetler in Orlando, has been named by Florida
Super Lawyers (2014). He specializes in business
litigation.
Kelly Lyon Davis, an attorney with Quarles &
Brady in Naples, has been named a “Rising Star”
by Florida Super Lawyers (2014). She has also
become the vice president of the Collier County
Women’s Bar Association for the 2014-2015
term. She previously served on the board as
secretary.
Dillon 06
Groover Hyland 06
Kimberley A. Dillon (LLMT, JD 05), an attorney
with Quarles & Brady in Naples, has been named
a “Rising Star” by Florida Super Lawyers (2014).
She has also been elected president of the Collier
County Women’s Bar Association for the 20142015 term
Amanda Groover Hyland, an attorney with Taylor
English in Atlanta, has received the MartindaleHubbell AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating. The
recognition is a result of direct feedback from
attorneys and judges on their peers’ legal abilities
and professional ethical standards.
Alissa Lugo, an attorney with BakerHostetler in
Orlando, has been appointed to the Mid Florida
Chapter Board of the National Multiple Sclerosis
Society. The chapter works to improve the quality
of life for people affected by MS in 23 counties
in Central Florida and raises funds for critical MS
research.
Justin B. Mazzara, an associate with Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP in Naples, has been named a
“Rising Star” in Florida Super Lawyers (2014).
Mazzara devotes his practice to litigating civil
matters within the firm’s complex commercial
litigation group.
Sarah G. Toppi has joined Nelson Mullins Riley
& Scarborough in Jacksonville as of counsel.
2007
Tiffany Cummins, an attorney with BakerHostetler in Orlando, has been named to Florida
Trend’s “Florida Legal Elite” list (2014).
Lugo 06
Cummins 07
Yelizaveta B. Herman, an attorney with Rosenbaum Mollengarden PLLC in West Palm Beach,
has been appointed as a committee co-chair of
the Florida Association for Women Lawyers, Palm
Beach County Chapter.
Jonathan Kaskel has joined Gunster in West Palm
Beach as an associate. He focuses on complex commercial litigation, appeals, real property litigation
and white-collar defense. He additionally serves as
director of the Dade County Bar Association.
Sean M. Lebowitz, an associate at Gutter Chaves
Josepher Rubin Forman Fleisher Miller P.A. in Boca
Raton, has been installed as treasurer of the South
Palm Beach County Bar Young Lawyers Section.
Latasha Scott has joined Burr & Forman LLP in
Tampa as a financial services litigation associate.
Her practice includes representing financial institutions, investors and mortgage loan servicers in
residential mortgage foreclosures.
Christine L. Weingart (LLMT, JD 06) has joined
Zimmerman Kiser Sutcliffe P.A. in Orlando. She
will practice in the areas of tax and general business law within the firm’s corporate section. 2008
Thomas W. Davison, a senior associate at Alston
& Bird LLP in Washington, D.C., has been named
a “Rising Star” in Super Lawyers (2014) for his
practice in intellectual property litigation and
counseling.
Jillian L. Estes has been named partner of James,
Hoyer, Newcomer & Smiljanich in Tampa.
Sean T. Estes has been named partner of James,
Hoyer, Newcomer & Smiljanich in Tampa.
Kaskel 07
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Scott 07
Robinson 08
Simmons 08
Brian Hayden, an attorney with Rumberger, Kirk
& Caldwell in Tallahassee, has become one of 21
members selected to be part of the inaugural
class of Thunderdome Tallahassee, a hands-on legal group training program designed by the Legal
Aid Foundation of the Tallahassee Bar Association to provide education, mentoring, networking
and leadership to a new generation of lawyers
serving Leon County.
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CLASS NOTES
Ilan G. Kaufer was elected to the town council of
Jupiter, Florida, in 2013. He is currently serving as
the town’s vice mayor.
Scott J. Kennelly, an attorney with Rogers Towers
in Jacksonville, Florida, has accepted an invitation to become a barrister with the Inn of Court
for a three-year term. As a barrister, Kennelly will
assist the Inn of Court in helping lawyers become
more effective advocates.
Brian M. Malec (LLMT, JD 07), an associate with
Dean Mead P.A. in the Orlando office, has earned
his Florida Bar board certification in wills, trusts
and estates. Certification is The Florida Bar’s
highest level of evaluation of the competency and
experience of attorneys in the 24 areas of law
approved for certification by the Supreme Court
of Florida.
Benjamin Robinson has joined Broad and Cassel’s
Orlando office as an associate in the Commercial
Litigation Practice Group. Prior to joining Broad
and Cassel, Robinson was a deputy rules officer
in the Office of the General Counsel for the Administrative Office of the United States Courts in
Washington, D.C.
Meredith L. Sasso has joined Hayes Law in
Orlando.
Chelsea L. Simmons, with the Public Defender’s
Office in Orlando, has recently earned The Florida
Bar board certification in criminal trial law. She
was one of eight Florida lawyers to earn that certification.
2009
Lindsay Dykstra has joined Burr & Forman’s Orlando office. She will practice in the firm’s financial services group.
All-Gator appellate panel
A
n all-Gator lawyer panel recently sat for a session of the United States Court of Appeals
for the 11th Circuit. Eleventh Circuit Judge Peter T. Fay (JD 56) was joined by U.S.
District Judges Paul C. Huck (JD 65) and William Terrell Hodges (JD 58) as acting circuit
court judges. Fay said the circuit court was declared an emergency after four vacancies left the
court with only eight active judges.
cial litigation and banking and financial service
litigation. Before joining the firm, Karp was
an associate at White & Case LLP, where his
practice focused on appeals and commercial
litigation.
Enita Kushi has opened Kushi Law Firm P.A. in
Naples. The firm focuses on foreclosure defense,
general civil litigation, consumer law, bankruptcy,
immigration and appeals. Lindsay M. Saxe, an attorney with Quarles &
Brady in Naples, has been named a “Rising Star”
by Florida Super Lawyers (2014). She specializes
in business litigation.
Kevin J. Healey has joined Smolker, Bartlett,
Schlosser, Loeb & Hinds P.A. in Tampa. He has a
wide range of legal experience but largely concentrates his practice on state and federal commercial litigation as well as insurance disputes.
Jessica Shapiro has joined Gunster in West Palm
Beach as an associate. She has prior experience
with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development. At Gunster, she focuses her practice on commercial real estate transactions and
real estate development and finance.
David Karp has joined Coral Gables litigation
boutique León Cosgrove LLC as an associate. In
that capacity, he will handle appeals, commer-
Shawn Taylor has joined the litigation practice
at Akerman in Chicago. Previously, he worked at
Dykstra 09
Healey 09
Karp 09
Kushi 09
Winston & Strawn LLP, where he was a litigation
associate and a summer associate. His practice
has focused on commercial and intellectual property litigation. David N. Torre has recently joined Winter Park
law firm Murrah, Doyle, Wigle & Torre, P.A. He
will focus on the firm’s estate planning, probate
and trust administration work. Additional firm
practice areas include real estate, taxation and
corporate law.
2010
Jordan D. August (LLMT, JD 09) has joined Carlton Fields Jorden Burt in Tampa.
Claire M. Brueck has joined Saxon, Gilmore, Carraway & Gibbons as an associate in Tampa.
Mitchell W. Goldberg (LLMT, JD 09), an attorney with Gutter Chaves Josepher Rubin
Forman Fleisher Miller P.A. in Boca Raton, has
been installed as president of the South Palm
Beach County Bar Association Young Lawyers
Section.
Shapiro 09
Torre 09
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CLASS NOTES
Darren Heitner, a sports and entertainment lawyer in Miami, recently announced the forming of
Heitner Legal. Through the firm, he represents
some of the biggest and most prestigious names
in sports and entertainment in addition to handling complex transactional and commercial
litigation matters.
Christopher Ramsey, an attorney with GrayRobinson’s Orlando office, has been recognized as
a “Rising Star” by Florida Super Lawyers (2014).
He specializes in intellectual property.
Monica L. Wilson, an associate at Bradley Arant
Boult Cummings LLP in Charlotte, North Carolina,
has been recognized by the Carolinas Chapter
of the Associated Builders and Contractors as its
“Individual Member of the Year” (2014).
2011
Anthony A. Fouladi has joined Clayton & McCulloh’s Maitland, Florida, office.
Jessica M. Kennedy has joined McDonald Toole
Wiggins in Orlando.
Patrick F. Mize, an attorney with Laird A. Lile
P.A. in Naples, was elected as an at-large member to the executive council of the Real Property,
Probate and Trust Law section of The Florida Bar
during the section’s convention May 29-June
1. Mize will represent the 20th Judicial Circuit
– which includes Collier, Lee, Charlotte, Hendry
and Glades counties – and will provide input on
issues and updates to circuit members on proceedings of the section.
C. Andrew Roy, an attorney with Winderweedle,
Haines, Ward & Woodman in Orlando, has been
named a “Rising Star” by Florida Super Lawyers
(2014) in the area of business bankruptcy.
2012
Leigh Anne Miller has joined Fisher Rushmer in
Orlando as an associate.
Ronnell D. Robinzine, an associate with Akerman in Miami, has become the recipient of the
“George Edgecomb Bar Association Outstanding
Young Lawyer’s Award.”
Heitner 10
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Wilson 10
Melissa F. Williams has joined the law firm of
Boyette, Cummins & Nailos. She will be part
of the firm’s new office located in the retirement community of The Villages, Florida. Williams’ practice focuses on the areas of estate
planning, elder law, guardianship, Medicaid
and probate. Prior to joining the firm, Williams was an associate with Mary F. Trotter PA
in The Villages, where she concentrated her
practice in the areas of elder law and estate
planning.
2013
Scott Hyman has joined Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole & Boniske in Fort Lauderdale. He will focus his practice in the community association, club and resort practice
group. He is active in the community and is
involved in both the Young Lawyers Division
of The Florida Bar and the Leadership Broward
Foundation.
Nicolette Iannaccone, an attorney at Williams, Ristoff & Proper PLC, has recently been
published in Southern Lawyer’s Trial Division
magazine. Her article, co-written by Steve Williams, was titled “If You Knew Touhy.”
Armando Nozzolillo, an attorney with Rogers
Towers in Jacksonville, has accepted an invitation to become a barrister with the Inn of Court
for a three-year term. As a barrister, Nozzolillo
will assist the Inn of Court in helping lawyers
become more effective advocates.
2014
John Bunge (LLMT) has been chosen as a winner in a Tax Analysts writing competition. His
paper, titled “Is the Belgian Fairness Tax in
Conformity With European Union Law?” will
be published in the magazine, the leading
trade journal for tax practitioners in the U.S.
Entry rules required students to be enrolled
in a law, economics, or tax postgraduate program. Papers were between five and 25 pages
long and focused on an unsettled question in
tax law or tax policy. Submissions were judged
on argument, content, grammar and overall
quality.
Mize 11
Hyman 13
In Memoriam
JOHN ARTHUR JONES
(JD 49), known as “Mr.
Probate” and the “Father of
Probate Law,” passed away
Aug. 12. He was 92. Jones
was a mainstay of the law
firm Holland & Knight
and the entire Florida Bar,
working to build the state’s
thriving legal industry.
During World War II, Jones served in the
European Theater under the command of Gen.
George Patton’s 3rd Army and received a Bronze
Star for his actions in the Battle of Metz, France.
Jones ultimately finished his military career
through the reserves and attained the rank of
lieutenant colonel.
Before the war, he worked as a bookkeeper
at a lumber company in Immokalee, Florida.
After the war, he attended business college
in Jacksonville before enrolling in UF as an
undergraduate student. He obtained both his
bachelor’s and law degrees in three years.
Upon graduating from UF Law in 1949,
Jones joined the Tampa law firm of Knight,
Thompson, Knight and Bell. Jones later
partnered with Chesterfield Smith to create the
law firm with the iconic name Holland & Knight
and build it into an international enterprise.
Throughout his long career, Jones earned a
national reputation in the field of trusts, estates
and fiduciary law. Jones served as chair of the
Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
of The Florida Bar. He served for many years as
chair of the section’s Probate and Guardianship
Forms Committee, and developed what’s widely
recognized as the most comprehensive set of
probate and guardianship forms in the country.
Jones was the first recipient of the
Section’s William S. Belcher Lifetime
Professionalism Award, and the section’s
annual service award is named after him.
Holland & Knight has honored Jones many
times including as one of the first recipients
of the firm’s highest individual accolade for
a partner, the Chesterfield Smith award. In
2009, he was honored by the firm for his six
decades of contributions to the field of law.
Jones is survived by his four children,
Matthew, Lisa, Malcolm and Darby. His wife,
Sally, who he married in 1949, passed away
in 2013.
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Investing in the Future
U F L E V I N C O L L E G E O F L AW A N N UA L R E P O R T 2 0 1 3 - 2 0 1 4
T H A N K YO U F O R
YO U R S U P P O RT.
Donations support the
law school’s mission to
train ethical, practiceready lawyers.
The difference you make
T H I S PAST F I S C A L YE A R ( 2 0 1 3 - 14 ) AT T H E L AW
C E N T E R AS S O C I AT I O N , we saw the Levin College of Law
and its graduate programs achieve new milestones under the
leadership of Dean Robert Jerry. We are also beginning the
process for a dean search to replace Dean Jerry, who stepped
down as dean of the College of Law after 11 years at the helm.
We are glad that Dean Jerry will continue as a member of the
College of Law faculty.
Our Annual Fund contributions remain at near record levels
with more than $825,845 raised this past year. In addition,
alumni participation increased to over 7 percent this year,
moving us closer to meeting our goal of a $1 million annual fund.
It is due to the generosity of dedicated alumni and friends that
our law school has continued to thrive despite significant reductions in public funding. On
behalf of the College of Law and alumni everywhere, I cannot thank you enough.
With the University of Florida being designated by the Legislature as the Pre-Eminent
Institution in the State of Florida, the law school competed for and was awarded funding
to attract a new prominent professor. I am pleased to report that Professor Robert Rhee
has joined the UF Law faculty in the corporate and business law areas of practice.
The Graduate Tax Program also achieved a new milestone by successfully cosponsoring the inaugural Florida Tax Institute which was held this past February in Tampa.
This program received rave reviews and successfully raised $25,000 for the Graduate Tax
Program. Please plan to join us next year for this annual program which will be held in
Tampa on April 22-24, 2015.
To prove the Gator Nation knows no boundaries, the law school has also joined
the MOOC revolution (Massive Open Online Course) with a program entitled The Global
Student’s Introduction to U.S. Law.
On April 5, 2014, the LCA Board of Trustees honored Dean Jerry and his wife, Lisa, by
presenting an endowed scholarship in their name for students attending the Levin College
of Law. During the quiet phase of this campaign, the board raised almost $230,000.
Anyone wishing to contribute to this scholarship in honor of the leadership our law school
enjoyed under Bob and Lisa Jerry, please contact Development Coordinator Missy Poole
at [email protected] or 352-273-0647.
As we embark on the coming year under Interim Dean George Dawson, our first
priority will be the effort to fill the big shoes left by Bob Jerry and select a dean who will
inspire and challenge all of us to build upon the foundation and continue to improve the
quality of education, reputation and stature of the College of Law. In order to attain these
lofty goals, we will be undertaking the challenge set forth by the University of Florida
Foundation to raise funds for endowed chairs and to provide supplemental support
through the Annual Fund to allow our law school to achieve excellence.
I encourage you to join your fellow alumni of the College of Law and its LLM programs
by contributing to the Annual Fund or one of the many other giving opportunities. We
have kind, helpful people waiting to hear from you!
I thank you for your continued service to and support of the Levin College of Law.
G R E ET I N G S U F
L AW A LU M N I . On
behalf of the Levin
College of Law and
alumni everywhere,
I thank you sincerely
for your past
contributions. Your
gifts have enhanced
significantly the
education of UF Law
students and provided
critical discretionary
resources to send students to conferences and
competitions, fund law journals and publications,
provide scholarships and financial aid, support
student organizations and provide unique
enrichment to future UF Law alumni.
This year has seen many changes at the
College of Law yet the passion and commitment of
our alumni remains strong. Working out of state
in Washington, D.C., I am frequently reminded
of our national presence and inspired by the
enthusiasm and patronage of our alumni across
the country. Due to the generosity of dedicated
alumni and friends, the College of Law raised more
than $825,000 for its Annual Fund during the past
fiscal year. Moreover, this year saw record alumni
participation rates for both the Annual Fund and
overall giving.
Your generosity has directly enhanced our
college resulting in current students enjoying
the most distinguished faculty, advanced
facilities and foremost learning environment
ever experienced. To continue UF Law’s rise
in national prominence, however, we need
your help. We ask that you please consider
participating in the Law Firm Giving Program,
sponsoring a Book Award, or making a financial
contribution. With your continued participation
in and support of the Annual Fund you help
assure the continued success of UF Law.
MICHAEL D. MINTON (BS 79, JD 81, LLMT 82)
Chair, Law Center Association
TAYLOR K. ROSE (JD 98)
President, Law Alumni Council
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Go Gators!
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T H A N K YO U to the
many UF Law alumni and
friends who have made
contributions of time,
treasure and talent.
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Financial Report
G I F TS R EC E I V E D July 1, 2013, through June 30, 2014
Total Cash Received
New Pledges
3,500,000
0
$499,351
$3,987,787
$2,361,037
$1,257,450
2,000,000
1,000,000
500,000
0
2008
2009
2010
2011 2012
2013 2014
FISCAL YEAR
2008-2013: Represents all gifts from all sources
(including realized bequests) to the Levin College of
Law. State matching money has been excluded.
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3,000,000
$1,929,604
$2,831,570
$1,864,202
4,000,000
$1,975,077
1,000,000
$2,589,457
1,500,000
$2,244,845
2,000,000
$2,838,067
2,500,000
$3,159,262
5,000,000
$1,731,655
3,000,000
$5,763,287
6,000,000
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012 2013 2014
FISCAL YEAR
2008-2014: Includes new documented
expectancies and new gifts for each fiscal year.
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ENDOWMENT INCOME
UF LAW ENDOWMENT AT JUNE 30, 2014
Interest
FY
Fund Balance
Transferred
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
UF Law Annual Fund
$825,845
$848,389
$836,460
$729,295
$723,661
600,000
$737,018
800,000
$834,053
1,000,000
$46,903,630$2,287,087
$52,975,580$1,582,204
$59,588,895$1,634,109
$67,250,539$2,004,200
$81,594,986$2,512,741
$83,571,816$2,929,866
$66,753,395$2,746,444
$72,624,762$2,319,036
$82,987,733$2,434,991
$81,852,018 $2,865,006
$86,501,927 $2,902,053
$97,125,469$3,074,224
400,000
T H E U F F O U N DAT I O N I N V E ST M E N T CO M PA NY
( U F I CO ) carefully invests this fund to yield a dependable,
stable source of income in perpetuity. Approximately
4 percent of earned interest from the market value of
the fund was transferred and spent for uses specified by
donors and college administrators for annual operating and
administrative costs (earned interest above 4 percent is
returned to the fund balance).
200,000
0
2008 2009 2010
2011
2012
2013 2014
FISCAL YEAR
2008-2014: Contributions received to
nonendowed, nonbuilding funds.
2%
4%
2%
1%
9%
32%
21%
29%
Chairs & Professorships 32%
Unrestricted 29%
Scholarships 21%
Academic Program Support 9%
Co-Curricular Student 4%
Activities
Endowed Lecture Series 2%
Other Student Support 2%
Other 1%
Grand Total: $97,125,469
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Endowed Fund
T H A N K YO U F O R YO U R S U P P O RT
The Endowed Fund provides a permanent foundation for the college and provides ongoing support for important programs and activities. The donors recognized
on these and the following pages made a cash gift in the 2013-2014 fiscal year.
CHAIRS & PROFESSORSHIPS
David H. Levin Chair in Family Law
Lisa Levin Davidson Charitable Trust
Dennis A. Calfee Eminent Scholar
Chair in Federal Taxation
Dennis A. & Peggy M. Calfee
Paul D. Fitzpatrick & Mary Jo Buckingham
Robin K. Froug
Edward F. & Louise P. Koren
Peter M. MacNamara & M. Therese Vento
Everett R. Moreland
David M. & Regina W. Richardson
Rogers, Dempsey & Paladino
John J. & Lynn G. Scroggin
Guy E. Whitesman & Ilene M. Whitesman
Patricia A. & Charles H. Willing, Jr.
James J. Freeland Eminent Scholar Chair in
Federal Taxation
Colburn & Colburn
Harry S. Colburn, Jr.
Richard B. Stephens Eminent Scholar
Chair in Federal Taxation
Colburn & Colburn
Harry S. Colburn, Jr.
Richard E. Nelson Chair in Local
Government
Jane B. Nelson
Marion J. & Ellyn A. Radson
SCHOLARSHIPS
Benjamin H. Ayres Scholarship
Marion County Bar Association
Bill McBride Public Interest Practice
Fellowship
Michael A. & Jill S. Abel
A. Brian Albritton
Joseph N. & Carrie Alexander
Mark G. & Beverly B. Alexander
W. Dehart & Patty Ayala
Scott L. Baena
Gregory A. Baldwin
Leslie J. & Hope C. Barnett
Martha W. & Richard R. Barnett, Sr.
Craig E. Behrenfeld
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Samuel P. Bell III & Elizabeth B. Castor
Herbert & Gloria Berkowitz
Elizabeth L. Bevington
John C. & Tifi Bierley
Robert S. & Nancy W. Bolt
Susan J. Booth
Chris W. & Kristine S. Boyett
Frederick D. Braid
Karl J. Brandes
Broad & Cassel
William P. & Maureen L. Byrne
L. Kinder & Barbara S. Cannon
Charles A. & Rebecca L. Carlson
Coker, Schickel, Sorenson, Posgay,
Camerlengo & Iracki
Francis W. & Cynthia M. Costello
Jesus E. Cuza & Carmen H. Bou
Donald K. Duffy
G. Richard & Eugenie Dunnells
Richard O. Duvall
Richard R. & Marianne F. Edmonds
Steven M. Elrod
Robert J. Friedman
Warwick R. Furr, II
W. C. & Susan R. Gentry
James P. & Margaret Rose R. Gills
Steven D. Gordon &
Leslie S. McAdoo-Gordon
Stephen H. & Fay F. Grimes
Grossman & Roth
Stephen F. & Frances G. Hanlon
J. Fraser & Maria Himes
Holland & Knight
Leslie W. Hudock
Scott C. Ilgenfritz & Margaret D. Mathews
Suzanne M. & Robert A. Judas
Christopher G. Kelly
Peter T. & Karla D. Kirkwood
Paul M. & Judith M. Korchin
Allan J. & Paula T. Landau
Law Offices of Adam J. Kohl
Marie Lefere
Levin & Papantonio Family Foundation
Fredric G. Levin
Rochelle Levin
Jerome L. Levine
Thomas G. & Wendy W. Long
James L. & Susan D. Main
James E. McDermott, Jr. &
Sharon A. Bazarian
Howell W. & Cathi H. Melton
Mark C. Michalowski
Michael D. & Kim B. Miller
Ashley B. Moody
Moore Family Foundation
Stephen B. & Rhoda G. Moss
Godfrey P. & MaryAnn B. Oakley
Summey Orr
Frederick D. & Lisa M. Page
Steve J. & Anne K. Pajcic
Robert L. Rhodes, Jr.
Joseph Ryan
Philip D. & Janis B. Schiff
Buddy & Mary Lou Schulz
Searcy, Denney, Scarola, Barnhart, & Shipley
William S. & Alice L. Sessions
James & Amy Shimberg Charitable Trust
Adelaide A. Sink
D. Culver Smith III
Rodney W. & DeeDee C. Smith
Brian D. & Cheryl L. Starer
Janet R. Studley & Robert P. Trout
Charlie & Dottie Sykes
John H. & Susan W. Sykes
Bob L. & Terri Tankel
Susannah L. Thayer
The Yerrid Foundation
Thomas & LoCicero
Trenam Kemker Law Firm
Mark E. & Karen D. Walker
Morris Weinberg, Jr. & Rosemary E.
Armstrong
Jerry & Jane Williams
William B. & Suzanne T. Wilson
James D. Wing
C. Steven Yerrid
Central Florida Women’s Leadership
Scholarship
Kaye Collie
Anne C. Conway
Lauren Y. Detzel
Karen L. Persis & John P. Sheehan
DeeEllen Robinson
Marjorie Bekaert & Bryan M. Thomas
Chester Ferguson Scholarship
Howell L. Ferguson
E. Thom Rumberger Everglades Fellowship
John C. & Christine L. Ball
Mary Lyn Barley
J. Richard Caldwell, Jr.
Kitson-Evergreen
Drew T. Melville
W. Douglas & Faith A. Pitts
Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell
I. C. Spoto Scholarship
John F. & Helen A. McGrath
James D. Camp and Suzanne W. Camp
Excellence Fund in Law
James D. & Suzanne W. Camp
Jim and Sharon Theriac Florida Opportunity
Scholarship in Law
Jonathan M. Blocker
Robert H. & Lisa Jerry
Judge Ben Krentzman Scholarship
Akerman
Sally H. Foote & Forrest S. Crawford
Elizabeth R. Krentzman
Wayne Lee Thomas
Judge Paul C. and Donna Huck Federal
Judicial Fellowship
Paul C. Huck
Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges Tuition
Scholarship
James B. Baldinger
Scott G. Blews & Shelly Sharp-Blews
Charles A. & Rebecca L. Carlson
James J. & Betty L. Dean
C. Lee Essrig
Stephen P. & Sally A. Geraghty
Ross M. & Marci L. Goodman
Arthur S. & Ann W. Hardy
Leslie R. Hoffman
Nathalina A. Hudson
Daniel C. & Sheena T. Irick
Stephanie M. & Brian K. Marchman
Richard J. & Terrin F. McKay
James B. & Jane M. Murphy
Robert V. Potter & Beth Zeller-Potter
Cristine M. Russell
Eliot J. & Barbara W. Safer
Samuel J. Salario, Jr. & Karen J. Hoppmann
Sheila L. Seig
D. Frank Winkles
Barbara W. Wood
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THE ENDOWED FUND
provides a permanent
foundation for the college
and provides ongoing
support for important
programs and activities.
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Honor Roll
The Honor Roll includes the names of all donors to the UF Levin College of
Law from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014. If your name is not included and you
think it should be, one of the following may be the reason it is not:
•The gift was made before July 1, 2013 (and was recognized in a previous
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Law School General Scholarship Fund
Kathryn Linden
Juan J. Rodriguez & Marvie Ann
Garcia-Rodriguez
Michael D. & Jennifer L. Simons
Lewis “Lukie” Ansbacher Memorial
Scholarship
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship
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Michael D. and Mary P. Minton Scholarship
in Law
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Professor Michael Gordon Scholarship in
Comparative Law
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Scott G. & Lisa V. Hawkins
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Scholarship
T. Paine Kelly, Jr. (D) and Jean B. Kelly (D)
Terrye Coggin Proctor Memorial
Scholarship
Kim O’Connor
Mark J. Proctor
Warren M. Cason Florida Opportunity
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Stacy D. Blank
Michael L. & Yvette M. Chapman
Dino A. Doyle
John F. & Mary Ellen Germany
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Michael P. Maguire
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Patrick W. & Joanne M. Skelton
Joseph H. Varner
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OT H E R
Benjamin F. and Marilyn Overton
Endowment
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Campbell Thornal Moot Court
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Center for Race and Race Relations Lecture
Series Fund
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Charles and Linda Wells Judicial Process
Teaching and Research Fund
Charles T. & Linda F. Wells
Eugene Pettis Family BLSA Academic
Support Endowment
Eugene K. & Sheila L. Pettis
Florida Constitutional Law Book Award
Endowment by Alex Sink and Bob Bolt in
honor of Bill McBride
Robert S. Bolt
Adelaide A. Sink
Florida Constitutional Law Endowment in
Memory of Justice Ben F. Overton
by Judge Karen Miller
Karen Miller
Florida Moot Court Endowment
Robert A. & Jessica C. Andrade
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Jonathan M. & Amy David
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Bradley John Ellis
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Daniel R. Lazaro
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Leigh Anne Miller
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Dwayne A. Robinson
UF L AW
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Joseph E. & Stephanie H. Ankus
Dana M. & Nicolas A. Apfelbaum
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David L. Bilsker
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Robert J. Braxton
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Sarah Cortvriend
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Jonathan D. & Tracy L. Gerber
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Bequest Society recognizes those who
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Anonymous
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LEGACY SOCIETY
Timothy C. Blake
Robert Eugene Glennon
Betty S. LaFace
Edward C. Rood
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Professor Emeritus Mandell Glicksberg
Endowed Book Award in Property,
established by Andrew C. Hall &
James A. Hauser
Judith O. Rosenkranz
Richard H. Simons Charitable Trust
Book Award in Taxation of
Gratuitous Transfers
Robert M. & Judith S. R. Kramer
Richard H. Simons Charitable Trust
Robert B. Cole Health Law
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Richard P. Cole
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GIVING
BOOK AWARDS honor top students in each course while providing unrestricted Annual
Fund support for UF Law students, student organizations, faculty and programs.
ADOPTION LAW
•Jeanne T. Tate, P.A.
ADVANCED BANKRUPTCY
•Jacksonville Bankruptcy Bar
Association In Memory of the
Honorable George L. Proctor
•Stichter, Riedel, Blain &
Prosser, P.A.
ADVANCED CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
•Carter Andersen, Bush Ross In
Honor of Professor Sharon Rush
ADVANCED TRIAL PRACTICE
•Murphy & Walker, P.L.
AGRICULTURAL LAW & POLICY
•Ernest A. Sellers
AMERICAN LEGAL THOUGHT
In Memory of The Honorable R.
Grable Stoutamire
APPELLATE ADVOCACY
•Bruce S. Rogow, Esq./Rogow
Greenberg Foundation
•Hicks, Porter, Ebenfeld
& Stein, P.A.
•Gary Lee Printy, Esq.
•George A. Vaka
CIVIL PROCEDURE
•Gwynne A. Young
•W. C. Gentry, Esq.
CIVIL TAX PROCEDURE (LL.M.)
•R. Lawrence Heinkel, Esq.
CONFLICT OF LAW
•Oscar A. Sanchez
CONSERVATION CLINIC
•Alton & Kathleen Lightsey
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
•Patrick E. Geraghty, P.A.
•Kenneth Johnson & Kimberly
Leach Johnson
•Bruce S. Rogow, Esq./Rogow
Greenberg Foundation
CONSUMER LAW
•James, Hoyer, Newcomer,
Smiljanich & Yanchunis, P.A.
CONTRACTS
•Foley & Lardner, LLP
•Mark and Shari Somerstein In
Honor of George Dawson
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CORPORATE TAXATION (LL.M.)
•Jerald August In Memory of
Professor James Jackson
Freeland
•Robert Glennon
CORPORATIONS
•Brian D. Burgoon
•Rahul Patel, Esq.
•W. Crit Smith
CREDITORS’ REMEDIES &
BANKRUPTCY
•Jeffrey W. Warren, Esq.
•Ian Leavengood In Memory of
Richard T. Leavengood, Esquire
CRIMINAL CLINIC - PUBLIC
DEFENDER CLINIC
•The Hon. W. Fred Turner
Memorial (ENDOWED)
CRIMINAL LAW
•Bedell, Dittmar, DeVault, Pillans
& Coxe, P.A.
•Thomas Edwards
•Harris, Guidi, Rosner, Dunlap &
Rudolph P.A.
CRIMINAL PROCEDURES - POLICE
PRACTICES
•Warren W. Lindsey and Eileen
Forrester
DEFERRED COMPENSATION,
NON-QUALIFIED ARRANGEMENTS
(LL.M.)
•Andy & Lin Fawbush
ESTATE PLANNING
•Edward F. Koren, Esq.
(ENDOWED)
ESTATES AND TRUSTS
•Bruce H. Bokor
•Jones, Foster, Johnston &
Stubbs, P.A.
•Brian M. O’Connell (ENDOWED)
LAND FINANCE
•Rick and Aase Thompson
LAND USE PLANNING & CONTROL
•Lewis and Linda Shelley In Honor
of John DeGrove
FEDERAL COURTS
•F. Wallace Pope, Jr., Esq.
LAW & ECONOMICS
•Taylor K. Rose, The West River
Group, Inc.
FIDUCIARY ADMINISTRATION
•Pressly & Pressly, P.A.
FIRST AMENDMENT LAW
•Becky Powhatan Kelley
FLORIDA ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
•Cathy and Larry Sellers
FLORIDA CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
•Alex Sink & Bob Bolt In Honor of
Bill McBride (ENDOWED)
IMMIGRATION LAW
•Mark Citrin, Esq.
INCOME TAXATION
•Law Offices of Mark L. Horwitz,
P.A.
•Harper Meyer LLP
INCOME TAXATION OF ESTATES
AND TRUSTS (LL.M.)
•Terrence Dariotis (LLM’03),
Heath Dedmond (LLM’02) &
Stacy Kenyon (LLM’02)
EMINENT DOMAIN
•Harris, Harris, Bauerle & Sharma
INSURANCE LAW
•Lee D. Gunn IV
EMPLOYMENT LAW
•Allen, Norton & Blue, P.A.
(ENDOWED)
•Scott G. Blews, Taylor English
Duma LLP
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
•Robert Houpt Thornburg
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
•Jesse W. Rigby, Clark Partington
Hart Larry Bond & Stackhouse
LABOR LAW
•Fisher & Phillips, LLP In Memory
of Rebecca Jakubcin Memorial
(ENDOWED)
EVIDENCE
•Clarke Silverglate & Campbell,
P.A.
•GrayRobinson, P.A. (ENDOWED)
DEFERRED COMPENSATION,
QUALIFIED PLANS (LL.M.)
•Michael & Honi Abbott in Honor
of Professor Michael A. Oberst
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
•Jack and Leslie Bovay In Honor
of Chuck Bovay, W. Henry
Barber, Jr. (JD 57) & Keith C.
Austin (JD 52, LLMT 79)
JURISPRUDENCE
•Bill Hoppe, Esq.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
LITIGATION
•Feldman Gale, P.A.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
TRANSACTIONS
•John C. Bierley (ENDOWED)
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL
CRIMES
•In Honor of Professor Fletcher
N. Baldwin by the 1966 UF Moot
Court Team
LAW & PSYCHIATRY
•Keefe Anchors and Gordon, P.A.
LAW REVIEW
•Lowndes Drosdick Doster
Kantor & Reed and Hal Kantor
(ENDOWED)
•Mandell and Joyce Glicksberg
& Brian and Joan O’Connell
(ENDOWED)
•Shook Hardy & Bacon
(ENDOWED)
•Williams Parker Harrison Dietz
& Getzen and Mark O. Bagnall
(ENDOWED)
LEGAL DRAFTING
•Betsy Ellwanger Gallagher
LEGAL WRITING
•Ben Diamond, In Honor of
Judge Emmett Ripley Cox
MEDIA LAW
•Thomas & LoCicero PL
MEDIATION
•Theodore Deckert In Memory of
Michael Thomas Deckert
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
AND THE LAW
•James E. Thomison
MOOT COURT
•William J. Schifino, Jr.
PARTNERSHIP TAXATION
(LL.M.)
•Brett T. Hendee
PERSPECTIVES ON
FAMILY LAW LAB
•Raleigh “Lee” Greene
UF L AW
2013-2014
PRE-TRIAL PRACTICE LAW
•Rebecca Brock
PROCEDURES IN TAX FRAUD
CASES (LL.M.)
•A. Brian Phillips
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
& THE LEGAL PROFESSION
•Dean Mead, In Memory of
Andy Fredericks (ENDOWED)
•Hill, Ward & Henderson, P.A.
•Rush & Glassman
PROPERTY
•Michael A. Bedke & DLA Piper
•Professor Emeritus Mandell
Glicksberg/Established by
Andrew C. Hall and James A.
Hauser (ENDOWED)
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS
•Jack and Mary Hackett
SECURED TRANSACTIONS IN
PERSONAL PROPERTY
•Avila Rodriguez Hernandez
Mena & Ferri LLP
SECURITIES REGULATION
•Daniel Aronson
STATE AND LOCAL TAXATION
(LL.M.)
•Ausley & McMullen, P.A.
TAXATION OF GRATUITOUS
TRANSFERS
•Richard H. Simons Charitable
Trust (ENDOWED)
TORTS
•R. Vinson Barrett
•Gerald D. Schackow, Schackow
& Mercadante
TRADE SECRET LAW
•Oscar A. Sanchez, Esq.
TRADEMARK LAW
•Lott & Fischer, PL
TRIAL PRACTICE
•Bill Bone, Esq.
•Bush Ross, P.A.
•Coker, Schickel, Sorenson and
Posgay
•Constangy, Brooks & Smith
•Greg and Bettina Weiss
•Liles, Gavin & George, P.A.
•Mary Lou and Buddy Schulz
In Honor of Robert J. Beckham
(JD 55)
•Milton, Leach, Whitman,
D’Andrea & Eslinger, P.A.
•John T. Rogerson, II & Timothy
W. Volpe
•Monte J. Tillis Memorial
(ENDOWED)
•In Honor of E.G. “Dan” Boone
by Jeff Boone, Steve Boone &
Caroline Boone
UNINCORPORATED BUSINESS
ENTERPRISES
•William A. Weber
U.S. INTERNATIONAL TAX I (LL.M.)
•Richard Jacobson
WATER LAW
•In Honor of Louis de la Parte, Jr.
WHITE COLLAR CRIME
•In Honor of Charles P. Pillans, III
(ENDOWED)
WORKERS’ COMPENSATION &
OTHER EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS
•Rosenthal, Levy & Simon, P.A.
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ALUMNI RECEPTIONS are opportunities for alumni to connect with one another
and the college.
OCTOBER 10, 2013
San Francisco UF Law
Alumni Reception
INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS
Carol M. Brewer and Andy J. Ogilvie
OCTOBER 31, 2013
Beat the Bulldogs UF Law
Alumni Reception
FIRM SPONSORS
Akerman Senterfitt
Bedell, Dittmar, DeVault,
Pillans & Coxe, P.A.
Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP
LONGEVITY INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS
W. C. Gentry
Doug J. Milne
INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS
Charles E. Commander III
Robert A. Heekin
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
Florida Tax Institute UF Law
Alumni Reception
INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS
Dennis A. Calfee
Michael K. Friel
Louis Nostro
Donald R. Tescher
Dean, Mead, Egerton, Bloodworth,
Capouano & Bozarth, P.A.
Proskauer
Shutts & Bowen LLP
FEBRUARY 28, 2014
Tallahassee UF Law
Alumni Reception
INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS
Martha W. Barnett
R. Vinson Barrett
Tim Cerio
Joseph Mellichamp
Jon Moyle – Moyle Law Firm
Gary Lee Printy
Larry and Cathy Sellers
W. Crit Smith
Susan S. Thompson
Jason L. Unger
MARCH 6, 2014
Miami UF Law Alumni Reception
INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS
Oscar A. Sanchez & Lida R.
Rodriguez-Taseff
FIRM SPONSORS
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Hunton & Williams LLP
APRIL 4, 2014
Heritage of Leadership Reception
FIRM SPONSORS
FIRM SPONSOR
A. Brian Phillips, P.A.
Comiter, Singer, Baseman & Braun, LLP Carlton Fields Jorden Burt
APRIL 24, 2014
Tampa UF Law Alumni Reception
Dean, Mead, Egerton, Bloodworth,
Capouano & Bozarth, P.A.
INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS
John Bales
Kevin Comer, Co-Founder ActualLawyers.com
Travis Horn, Co-Founder ActualLawyers.com
Ian & Robin Leavengood
Jeffrey W. Warren
LONGEVITY INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS
Mayanne Downs
William J. Schifino, Jr.
Cathy & Larry Sellers
Gwynne A. Young
FIRM SPONSORS
Bush Ross, P.A.
Hill Ward Henderson
MAY 22, 2014
Atlanta UF Law Alumni Reception
INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS
Carter Andersen – Bush Ross, Tampa
Lance Chernow
Larry Kunin – Morris, Manning &
Martin, LLP
Rahul Patel
John “Jeff” J. Scroggin
Julie Sellers
FIRM SPONSOR
Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, LLP
JUNE 26, 2014
Florida Bar Annual Convention
FIRM SPONSORS
Bedell, Dittmar, DeVault,
Pillans & Coxe, P.A.
INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS
Rebecca Brock
Rick Chaves & Misty Taylor Chaves
Edward Downey
Betsy Ellwanger Gallagher
Ben H. Hill, III Gary Lee Printy
Oscar A. Sanchez
W. Kelly Smith
Stephen N. Zack
T H A N K YO U F O R
YO U R S U P P O RT.
Donations support the
law school’s mission to
train ethical, practiceready lawyers.
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Distinguished Donors
T H A N K YO U F O R YO U R S U P P O RT
Names followed by an asterisk (*) are members of the 1909 Society, a diamond (♦) indicates life members of the Trusler Society, and a star (H) indicates
Premium Charter Members of the UF Law Young Alumni Society. Due to space limitations and printing costs, Loyalty Society members are recognized in
the online version of the Annual Report.
FOUNDERS SOCIETY - PLATINUM
Anonymous
AT&T
James D. & Suzanne W. Camp
Marshall M. & Paula P. Criser
John H. & Mary Lou D. Dasburg
Lisa Levin Davidson Charitable Trust
Jack C. Demetree
The Florida Bar
The Florida Bar Foundation
Ellen Bellet Gelberg
Fredric G. Levin
Teri Levin
Martin Z. Margulies
John M. McNatt, Jr.
National Center for Automated
Information Research
Jane B. Nelson
J. Quinton Rumph
Lewis M. Schott
The Lewis Schott Foundation
W. Kelly Smith
Stein/Gelberg Foundation
Stephen N. Zack
FOUNDERS SOCIETY - GOLD
Charles W. & Betty Jo E. Abbott*
Attorneys’ Title Insurance Fund
Robert S. & Mildred M. Baynard Trust
John C. & Tifi Bierley
E. G. (Dan) & Alfreda S. Boone
David E. & Mollie M. Bowers*
Carol M. Brewer & Andrew J. Ogilvie
Walter G. & Lynn A. Campbell
Carlton Fields Jorden Burt
Jack G. Clarke
Luther W. & Blanche Coggin
Coker, Schickel, Sorenson & Posgay
Howard C. Coker
Richard P. Cole
Daniel J. Collin
Community Foundation of Tampa Bay
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Dean Mead
Edward & Julia B. Downey
The Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation
Jessie Ball duPont Fund
Everglades Foundation
Chancellor Ray Ferrero, Jr.
Fonvielle, Lewis, Foote & Messer
Michael K. & Jacqueline Friel
Betsy Ellwanger Gallagher*
W. C. & Susan R. Gentry
Gene K. & Elaine A. Glasser
GrayRobinson
William V. & Eva G. Gruman
Andrew C. Hall & Gail S. Meyers
Scott G. & Lisa V. Hawkins
Inez A. Heath
Justin Hillenbrand
Wayne & Patricia R. Hogan
Edith E. Holiday & Terrance B. Adamson
Holland & Knight Charitable Foundation
Holland & Knight
Icard, Merrill, Cullis, Timm, Furen & Ginsburg
Casey Johnson & Debra L. Donner
Justice Story Book Exchange
Robert G. Kerrigan
Kerrigan, Estess, Rankin & McLeod
The Kresge Foundation
Lane, Trohn, Bertrand & Vreeland
Levin & Papantonio Family Foundation
Stephen A. Lind
Lawrence A. Lokken & Mae M. Clark
Lake H. Lytal, Jr.
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation
MacFarlane, Ferguson & McMullen
Margaret MacLennan
Michael C. & Diane Maher
McLin Burnsed
Robert G. & Joelen K. Merkel
Mershon, Sawyer, Johnston, Dunwody &
Cole
Michael D. & Mary P. Minton
Montgomery Family Charitable Trust
Morgan & Morgan
John B. & Ultima D. Morgan
Motley Rice
James H. Nance
Brian M. & Joan B. O’Connell
Whit & Diane F. Palmer
David H. & Cheryl R. Peek
Kitty & Philip B. Phillips
F. Wallace & Christine R. Pope*
Allen L. Poucher, Jr. & Dianne L. Larson
Betty K. Poucher
Stephen Presser & Diane Archer
Lynn B. Reeves
Justus W. & Phyllis C. Reid
Stephen H. & Elizabeth P. Reynolds
David M. & Regina W. Richardson
Mike M. & Linda L. Rollyson
William E. Rosenberg Foundation
Gerald A. & Ingrid M. Rosenthal
Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell
Saliwanchik, Lloyd & Eisenschenk
Jake & Carol B. Schickel
Buddy & Mary Lou Schulz
Scruggs Law Firm
T. Terrell Sessums, Sr.
Richard H. Simons Charitable Trust
Gerald & Phyllis C. Sohn
Steel, Hector & Davis
Larry S. & Pat K. Stewart
Sidney A. & Annette Stubbs
Glenn W. Sturm
Carl S. Swisher Foundation
The W. C. Gentry Family Foundation
James S. & Sharon L. Theriac
Robert L. & Doris M. Trohn*
United Way of Miami-Dade
Upchurch Watson White & Max
Philip E. & Valerie B. Von Burg
Jeffrey W. & Susan P. Warren*
Michael A. & Betty M. Wolf
Samuel J. & Evelyn Wood Foundation
Yegelwel Family Foundation
Evan J. & Arlene S. Yegelwel
C. Steven Yerrid
Zimmerman, Kiser & Sutcliffe
FOUNDERS SOCIETY - SILVER
Anonymous
Al & Nancy Burnett Charitable Fund
C. Wayne & Kethryn Alford
Allen, Norton & Blue
DuBose & Sallie M. Ausley
David S. & Myrna L. Band
Barnett, Bolt, Kirkwood, Long & McBride
Bedell, Dittmar, DeVault, Pillans & Coxe
Bruce H. & Joanne K. Bokor*
Broad & Cassel
Bush Ross
Community Foundation of Central Florida
Hugh F. & Eliza Culverhouse
Cynthia G. Edelman Family Foundation
Meredyth Anne Dasburg Foundation
The Deaver Phoenix Foundation
George H. DeCarion
Dunwody, White & Landon
Elizabeth Ordway Dunn Foundation
Philip I. & Barbara L. Emmer
Ladd H. & Renee M. Fassett
Feldman Gale
Jeffrey D. Feldman
Henry A. Finkelstein Memorial
Fisher & Phillips
The Florida Bar Tax Section
James A. & Stacy S. Gale
Peter J. & Gina A. Genz
Robert E. Glennon, Jr.
Mandell & Joyce K. Glicksberg*
K. Lawrence & Maureen G. Gragg
Sandra & Leon G. Gulden Private
Foundation
Marie C. Hansen Trust
Stumpy Harris
James A. Hauser
Frederick A. Hazouri & Barbara J. Pariente
Hill, Ward & Henderson
Corinne C. Hodak
Please report any corrections to Missy Poole
at [email protected] or call 352-273-0647.
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D I ST I N G U I S H E D D O N O R S
are individuals, businesses and
organizations contributing at the
following levels: Founders Society,
Dean’s Council, 1909 Society,
Trusler Society, Enrichment
Society and Loyalty Society.
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Donor Level Descriptions
FOUNDERS SOCIETY
PLATINUM
Cumulative giving and five-year
pledges of $500,000 and up
ASSOCIATE
Annual Gifts and five-year
pledges of $5,000-$9,999
1909 SOCIETY
GOLD
Cumulative giving and five-year
pledges of $100,000-$499,999
Annual Gifts of $2,000 and up
See description on page 58.
SILVER
Cumulative giving and five-year
pledges of $50,000-$99,999
Annual Gifts of $1,000-$4,999
DEAN’S COUNCIL
BARRISTER
Annual Gifts and five-year
pledges of $25,000-$49,999
PARTNER
Annual Gifts and five-year
pledges of $10,000-$24,999
TRUSLER SOCIETY
ENRICHMENT SOCIETY
Annual Gifts of $100 to $999
LOYALTY SOCIETY
Annual gifts of up to $99
Loyalty Society members are
recognized in the online
version of the Annual Report.
Wayne & Patricia Hogan Family
Foundation
Paul C. Huck
Elizabeth A. Jenkins & Charles E. Hudson
Kenneth R. & Kimberly Leach Johnson*
Richard A. & Irene Johnston
Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs
Paul T. & Sonia Jones
Hal H. Kantor
E. C. Deeno & Patricia G. Kitchen
Edward F. & Louise P. Koren
Robert M. & Judith S. R. Kramer
Krome Realty
Paul R. Linder & A. Michelle Jernigan
Kevin A. & Jeannette Malone
Dorothy S. McCurry Trust
Gene Moore III
Jon C. & Jean M. Moyle
Mark A. & Debra G. Nouss
Lindy L. Paull
A. Brian Phillips
James G. & Kathryn S. Pressly
Mark J. Proctor
Jorge F. Ramirez
Reid, Ricca & Rigell
Richman Greer
Richard M. & Gail M. Robinson
Raymond W. & Catherine S. Royce
Clifford A. Schulman
Searcy, Denney, Scarola, Barnhart & Shipley
Ernest A. & Norma M. Sellers*
Lawrence E. & Cathy M. Sellers
Shutts & Bowen
Benedict A. Silverman & Jayne E. Bentzen
Adelaide A. Sink
Stearns, Weaver, Miller, Weissler,
Alhadeff & Sitterson
Richard B. & Mary E. Stephens
Hans G. & Deborah H. Tanzler
Terrell Hogan Ellis Yegelwel
John Thatcher
The Yerrid Foundation
Samuel C. & Barbara A. Ullman
United States Sugar Corporation
A. Ward & Ruth S. Wagner
Glenn J. & Sheryl Waldman
Charles T. & Linda F. Wells
Scott L. & Lynda J. Whitaker
White & Case
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Jill Carolyn White
J. J. & Susan L. Wicker
Winderweedle, Haines, Ward, &
Woodman
Susan S. Winn
BARRISTERS
Mary Lyn Barley
Alan M. & Elizabeth D. Gerlach
John H. Haswell
John Paul Stevens Fellowship Foundation
Karen Miller
Iain P. C. Moffat
Eugene K. & Sheila L. Pettis
Douglas A. & Patricia J. Wright
PARTNERS
Michael A. & Honi V. Abbott*
Michelle Anchors & Stephen A. Medina
J. Carter & Dana D. Andersen
F. Eugene Atwood
Ausley & McMullen
Mark O. Bagnall & Maria I. Urbina-Bagnall
The Batchelor Foundation
S. C. Battaglia Family Foundation
Michael A. & Rachelle D. Bedke
Stacy D. Blank
Scott G. Blews & Shelly Sharp-Blews*
Robert S. & Nancy W. Bolt
Bill Bone*
Jeffery A. & Shirley L. Boone*
William A. & Laura M. Boyles
Rebecca L. Brock & Jonathan T. Krone*
Hazel B. Bundy Memorial Fund
Brian D. Burgoon*
John W. & Mona P. Campbell*
Mark & Andrea H. Citrin
Clarke, Silverglate Attorneys at Law
Martha L. Cochran
Alan B. & Lauren K. Cohn
Comiter Singer Baseman & Braun
Terrence T. & Jeanne E. Dariotis
Theodore A. & Marie B. Deckert*
Heath K. Dedmond
de la Parte & Gilbert
Benjamin F. & Christina I. Diamond
Mark P. & Beverly J. Dikeman
DLA Piper
Mayanne A. Downs
Thomas L. Edwards & Christine A.
Farris-Edwards
Robert S. Egerman
Andrew J. & Melinda W. Fawbush*
Florida Tax Education Foundation
Foley & Lardner
John N. & Ruth T. Giordano
Raleigh W. & Beverly J. Greene*
Stephen H. & Fay F. Grimes*
Gunn Law Group
Jack O. & Mary O. Hackett
Harper Meyer Perez Hagen O’Connor
Albert & Dribin
Bruce M. & Medea D. Harris
Baya M. Harrison III
R. Lawrence & Elizabeth E. Heinkel*
Brett T. & Rhonda K. Hendee*
Hicks, Porter, Ebenfeld & Stein
Mark & Ann Hicks
Hobby Lobby Stores
James, Hoyer, Newcomer & Smiljanich
Keefe, Anchors & Gordon
Lawrence & Lynn M. Keefe
Becky Powhatan & Mark Kelley*
Stacy L. & David M. Kenyon
Bradford D. & Cynthia M. Kimbro
Ian R. & Robin L. Leavengood
Liles, Gavin & George
Warren W. Lindsey & Eileen C. Forrester*
Lott & Fischer
Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed
R. Neal Manners
Clifton R. & Claudia C. McDonald
Brian J. & Georgia McDonough
Robert W. Mead, Jr.*
Julie C. Miller*
Milton, Leach, Whitman, D’Andrea & Eslinger
Jacquelyn E. Moorhead
Murphy & Walker
Lewis W. Murphy, Jr.
Louis & Janet Miller Nostro
Rahul & Swati R. Patel*
Matthew N. & Suzanne S. Posgay
Pressly & Pressly
David S. & Mary Pressly
J. Grier & P. Kristen Pressly
Pamela O. & Charles T. Price
Gary Lee & Suzanne G. Printy*
John W. & Katherine A. Randolph
John M. & Jennifer G. Rawicz
Gerald F. & Gwen Richman*
Jesse W. & Margo S. Rigby*
Robert A. Rush
Rogers, Dempsey & Paladino
Rogow Greenberg Foundation
Bruce S. Rogow
Taylor K. & Manjiri S. Rose*
Randolph J. & Sue S. Rush*
Oscar A. Sanchez & Lida R. Rodriguez-Taseff
Gerald D. & Joanne W. Schackow*
William J. & Paola F. Schifino*
Roger D. & Carol F. Schwenke
John J. & Lynn G. Scroggin
David M. & Rachel K. Seifer
Abraham M. & Joy M. Shashy*
Lewis E. & Linda L. Shelley*
W. Crit & Dee Ann Smith
Louis & Bessie Stein Foundation
Mark T. & Jeanne T. Tate*
Laura J. & Clarence L. Thacker
Robert H. & Ashley H. Thornburg
George A. & Shaun Vaka
Timothy W. & Roslyn B. Volpe
Casey Walker
William A. & Kathleen M. Weber
Gregory S. & Bettina W. Weiss*
K. Taylor White
Gwynne A. Young*
ASSOCIATES
Anonymous
T. W. & Margrette P. Ackert
Jordan J. & Shirley A. Ansbacher
Sidney F. Ansbacher
Baker & Hostetler
Leslie J. & Hope C. Barnett
R. Vinson & Carlene A. Barrett
Becker & Poliakoff
Berger Singerman
David L. Bilsker
John C. & Leslie Bovay
Chris W. & Kristine S. Boyett
Maria C. Carantzas
J.P. & Lynn Carolan
Michael L. & Yvette M. Chapman
Cobb Family Foundation
Kolleen P. Cobb
Collier Cos.
R. Scott & Monica O. Costantino
Cary Baxter & Kelly F. Davis
Tad & Jeri Davis
Philip A. & Phyllis S. DeLaney
A. J. & Maureen N. Donelson
John H. & Karen C. Dyer
Ron L. & Marcia C. Fick
Florida Chapter of American
Board of Trial Advocates
Patrick E. & Dena Geraghty*
Ross M. & Marci L. Goodman
Harris Guidi Rosner Dunlap Rudolph
Phyllis P. & Raymond T. Harris
D. Bruce & Trish A. Hoffman
John W. Holloway Rev Trust
Marie Hyman
Scott C. Ilgenfritz & Margaret D. Mathews
Bradley R. & Gail H. Johnson
Christopher G. Kelly
Peter T. & Karla D. Kirkwood
Rochelle Levin
Peter M. MacNamara & M. Therese Vento
Marion County Bar Association
McKee/Crawford R2 Charitable Foundation
Moore Family Foundation
Brenna E. Moorhead
Everett R. Moreland
C. Ryan & Kristin N. Morgan
Tracy A. Nichols & Gerald K. Sanchez
Robert P. O’Linn
Darrell W. & Deborah J. Payne
Mark S. & Kathleen B. Peters
Richard C. Pfenniger, Jr. &
Gemma M. Rosello
Phelps Dunbar
James C. & Gloria M. Rinaman
John T. & Leah A. Rogerson
Todd & Julie Rumberger
Joseph Ryan
Paul S. & Marte V. Singerman
Barry S. & Carole N. Sinoff
George H. & Barbara M. Starke
Janet R. Studley & Robert P. Trout
Michael S. & Tammy W. Taaffe*
Joseph H. Varner
Kelsey J. & Alan R. Veitengruber
Morris Weinberg, Jr. & Rosemary E.
Armstrong
Guy E. Whitesman & Ilene M.
Safron-Whitesman
Marc A. & Jennifer S. Wites
TRUSLER SOCIETY
Cheryl P. & Aaron A. Ainsworth
Akerman
A. Brian Albritton
Joseph N. & Carrie Alexander
Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath, & Gilchrist
Herbert L. Allen♦
W. George & Enid Allen
UF L AW
D I ST I N G U I S H E D D O N O R S
Robert W. & Donna S. Anthony
Daniel H. & Joanne F. Aronson
Richard C. & Robin G. Ausness
Gregory A. Baldwin
John C. & Tracy F. Bales
John C. & Christine L. Ball
James B. & Caroline V. Barnes
Martha W. & Richard R. Barnett, Sr.
Samuel P. Bell III & Elizabeth B. Castor
Salvatore & Lauren W. Bochicchio
Kimberly J. Brannan
Norman Broad & Carol Salomon
William P. & Maureen L. Byrne
J. Richard Caldwell, Jr.
Dennis A. & Peggy M. Calfee
Campbell Law Firm
Dennis M. & Deborah D. Campbell
L. Kinder & Barbara S. Cannon
J. Thomas & Kathy A. Cardwell
Charles A. & Rebecca L. Carlson
Central Florida Gator Club®
Rick R. & Misty Taylor Chaves
Allan P. & Martha F. Clark
Kaye Collie
Dean C. Colson
Richard B. & Marilyn T. Comiter
Anne C. Conway
Susan E. Cook & Drew S. Fine*
Corinne C. Hodak Family Foundation
Sarah Cortvriend
Francis W. & Cynthia M. Costello
Patrick S. & Kaydene Roberts Cousins
Raul A. & Lynn Cuervo
Jesus E. Cuza & Carmen H. Bou
Barry R. & Paula M. Davidson
George L. & Sally K. Dawson*
Lauren Y. Detzel
John A. & Sue S. DeVault
Sally A. Dorn
Rosanne M. Duane
Donald K. Duffy
G. Richard & Eugenie Dunnells
Richard O. Duvall
Charles H. & Karen C. Egerton
Kenneth C. & Mary B. Ellis
Thomas J. Farkash
Michael T. & Paula S. Fay
Howell L. Ferguson
Michael & Jane M. Ferguson
William H. Ferguson*
Marco Ferri
Fine, Farkash & Parlapiano
Jack J. & Cherie H. Fine
Paul D. Fitzpatrick & Mary Jo Buckingham
James C. & Mary K. Fleming*
Florida Power & Light Company
W. Ray & Jacquelyn Fortner*
Robert J. Friedman
Frontiers of Freedom Foundation
Stephen D. Gardner & Mary F. Voce
Asnardo & Mindi K. Garro
Jonathan D. & Tracy L. Gerber
Claire M. Germain & Stuart M. Basefsky*
Ellen R. & Jim A. Gershow
James P. & Margaret Rose R. Gills
Steven D. Gordon & Leslie S. McAdoo-Gordon
Richard C. & Marjory E. Grant
Alan G. Greer & Patricia Seitz
Grossman & Roth
Gregory S. & Gina M. Hagopian
Matthew F. Hall
Daniel B. & Kathy E. Harrell
Archie B. Hayward, Jr.
Michael & Jeanne S. Heekin
Eugenio Hernandez
Benjamin H. & Marte A. Hill
J. Fraser & Maria Himes
B. Douglas Hind-Marsh♦
John L. Holcomb*
Cynthia A. Holloway & C. Todd Alley
Hopping, Green & Sams
Richard A. & Mary H. Horder
Steve C. & Maxine S. Horowitz
Mark L. & Susan J. Horwitz*
E. L. Roy Hunt*
Hunton & Williams
Gary W. & Mary E. Huston
Wilton B. & Amanda B. Hyman
Yolanda C. Jackson
The Jelks Family Foundation
Allen N. Jelks, Jr.
Robert H. & Lisa Jerry*
Johnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel, & Burns
Frederick W. & Patricia P. H. Jones
Thomas R. & Maritza A. Julin
JustGive
Randy Meg Kammer & Jeffry R. Wollitz
Kimberly R. Keravouri
Kitson-Evergreen
Donald S. & Marilynn Kohla*
Roger C. & Ellen J. Lambert
Bruce D. & Elizabeth C. Landrum
David M. & Theresa R. Layman*
Frederick W. & Victoria C. Leonhardt
Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell,
Rafferty & Proctor
Robert R. & Cheryl K. Lindgren
Joseph W. & Lucille A. Little*
Thomas G. & Wendy W. Long
Donna L. Longhouse
James L. & Susan D. Main
Arnold P. May & Allison K. Myers*
Ira W. & Ingrid S. McCollum
Michael A. McCulloch
Marybeth McDonald & Eric W. Jarvis
Martin J. & Pamela S. McMahon
Joseph C. Mellichamp III & Barbara J. Staros
Manuel & Linda L. S. Menendez
David B. Mishael & Barbara Kaszovitz*
Leroy H. Moe
James S. Moody III
James B. & Jane M. Murphy
James B. & Jingli C. O’Neal
Summey Orr
Frederick D. & Lisa M. Page
Steve J. & Anne K. Pajcic
Eduardo Palmer*
Alan R. & Catherine A. Parlapiano
Hugh W. & Cynthia E. Perry
Robert A. & Caryl G. Pierce*
W. Douglas & Faith A. Pitts
David F. Pressly
Kathleen Price*
Eduardo J. Quinones
Proskauer Rose
Harley E. & Posey C. Riedel
DeeEllen Robinson
George W. & Brenda H. Rohe
Katrina D. & Garrison A. Rolle
Sharon E. Rush
E. Lanny & Denise M. Russell
Ronnie A. & Whitney Sabb
Samuel J. Salario, Jr. & Karen J. Hoppmann
Philip D. & Janis B. Schiff
George E. Schulz, Jr.
James & Amy Shimberg Charitable Trust
John A. & Kari A. Shipley
Donald D. & Jeannett B. Slesnick
D. Culver Smith III
Daniel E. Smith II
M. Stephen & Maureen T. Smith
Michael W. Smith & Jodi L. Scheurenbrand*
Smith, Gambrell & Russell
Brian D. & Cheryl L. Starer
Cliff Stearns
Deborah B. & J. Cameron Story III
Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan
Charlie & Dottie Sykes
Bob L. & Terri Tankel
Susannah L. Thayer
Thomas & LoCicero
Marjorie Bekaert & Bryan M. Thomas
Wesley D. & Lara J. Tibbals
Jason M. Trager
Trenam Kemker Law Firm
David H. Vickrey & Gary R. Ensana
Waldman Trigoboff Hildebrandt
Marx & Calnan
Mark E. & Karen D. Walker
Jerry & Jane Williams
Richard H. & Shirley G. Wilson
William B. & Suzanne T. Wilson
James D. Wing
Leighton D. & Phyllis H. Yates
William K. Zewadski♦
Peter W. & Cynthia G. Zinober
ENRICHMENT SOCIETY
Anonymous
Barry A. Abbott
Michael A. & Jill S. Abel
Bill R. Abrams & Susan G. Goffman
Alfred B. Adams
Barbara A. Adams
Glenn A. & Stacey Y. Adams
Louie N. & Mary S. Adcock
Marci & Moshe Adler
Matthew J. & Rebecca M. Ahearn
Akerman
David J. & Jerrie L. Akins
Justin S. Alex
Ben & Katie V. Alexander
Larry B. & Susan M. Alexander
Mark G. & Beverly B. Alexander
Thomas J. & Mary B. Ali
A. Graham & Marjorie C. Allen
Jeffrey L. & Jamie L. Allen
W. Reynolds & Louise B. Allen
Douglas S. Allison
Ian M. & Lauren M. Alperstein
Joshua S. Altshuler
Ricardo Alvarez
Alberto R. & Debra D. Amirin
Amanda K. Anderson
Timothy G. & Carole W. Anderson
Scott P. & Kara V. Andrew
William H. & Susan M. Andrews
Joseph E. & Stephanie H. Ankus
Michael R. & Carolyn S. Ansay
Dana M. & Nicolas A. Apfelbaum
Alan M. Applegate
Eric N. & Nadine M. Appleton
Monica D. Armstrong
Kevin A. & Prudence L. M. Ashley
Avera & Smith
W. Dehart & Patty Ayala
Christopher D. & Frances M. Baehman
Scott L. Baena
Alton D. & Kelly S. Bain
Fred R. Baisden, Jr.
Anthony L. Bajoczky, Jr.
Peter Baker
Charles L. Balch III
James B. Baldinger
Fletcher N. & Nancy T. Baldwin
Haywood M. & Anne T. Ball
Michael R. & Marice C. Band
David C. & Janet W. Banker
Oshia G. & Martin Banks
Aleksas A. Barauskas
Michael D. Barber
Danelle D. & Joseph B. Barksdale
Robert J. Barna
Harris H. & Sandra S. Barnes
William N. & Suzanne R. Barnes
Dwayne W. Barrett & Miriam L. Bliss
George B. Barrs
Bernie A. Barton, Jr.
Douglas D. & Julia B. Batchelor
George Z. Bateh
Robyn L. & Asaf Batelman
Douglas A. & Lisa L. Bates
James P. Beadle
Joseph W. & Geremy G. Beasley
Judith E. Beasley & Dan Hamm
Joan F. & Dennis J. Beer
Craig E. Behrenfeld
Steven L. & Vivian H. Beiley
John M. & Brannon B. Belcastro
Caryn L. Bellus
David L. & Angela F. Benjamin
Carlton F. & Sue Bennett
Kathryn E. Bennett
Robert T. & Wings S. Benton
Mitchell W. Berger
Jeffrey F. & Maria C. Berin
Herbert & Gloria Berkowitz
Yahn W. & Nell E. Bernier
Elizabeth L. Bevington
Brian M. & Lois M.C. Bez
Clem Bezold & Rosemarie I. Philips
Jarrett D. & Lisa P. Bingemann
James O. & Ann L. Birr
Susan H. & Louis E. Black III
Neil W. Blackmon
R. Mason & Amelia S. Blake
M. Robert & Julia H. Blanchard
Elizabeth F. & George E. Blanco
W. J. & Rachel S. Blechman
Byron B. & Pamela Block
Jonathan M. Blocker
Darryl M. & Mary Bloodworth
Barbara P. Blue & Daniel H. Vining
Boies, Schiller & Flexner
Brian K. & Amy N. Bokor
John R. & Nancy W. Bonner
Susan J. Booth
Bradley T. & Samantha L. Borden
Luisa R. Bosso
Catherine B. Bowles
Scott A. & Meghann Hoskinson Bowman
Robert J. & Alice H. Boylston
Stephen J. & Sharon J. Bozarth
Jacqueline Bozzuto & Christopher Fountas
Frederick D. Braid
Karl J. Brandes
Robert J. Braxton
Cathleen G. & Mark Bremmer
David W. Briggs
Randy R. & Diana A. Briggs
Todd C. Brister
Heather B. Brock & Edwin W. Parkinson III
W. Bard & Kathryn W. Brockman
Theotis & Jeanelle G. Bronson
Andrew S. & Jennifer G. Brown
Thomas R. & Margaret M. Brown
Peter J. & Nita Brudny
John M. Brumbaugh
Penelope E. Bryan & Albert W. Alschuler
Virginia M. Buchanan & Samuel A. Budnyk
Martin T. & Pamela R. Buckley
Michael L. Buckner
Toby J. Buel & Tamara E. Knox-Buel
Mark P. & Courtney R. Buell
Karen Meyer & Robert H. Buesing
Charles A. Buford
T. Robert Bulloch
John J. Burke
Faye A. Burner
Malcolm B. Burns & Virginia C. Burris
Patricia G. & James F. Butler III
Austin R. Byars
Jane D. Callahan
Joseph V. & Karen M. Camerlengo
John R. & Dara M. Campbell
David E. Cannella
Mary Beth Cantrell
Christopher L. & Lauren F. Carmody
John D. Carnahan
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Michael P. & Jennifer N. Carolan
Robert J. & Kathryn Angell Carr
Elizabeth A. Carrie
Allan L. Casey
Barbara L. Casey
Nelson T. & Celeste R. Castellano
Denise B. Cazobon
Timothy M. & Jayne Cerio
Marc D. & Tracy D. Chapman
Michele Chappell
Jon C. & Claire G. Chassen
Lance A. & Erin K. Chernow
Wooje Choi
Neil H. & Patricia Chonin
Russell P. Chubb
Marc A. & Inez Cianca
Kurt M. Ciell
Paul C. & Jennifer Cipparone
Deborah M. & John A. Clancy, Jr.
Mercer K. & Mary F. Clarke
Lisa & William F. Clasen
Walter G. Clayton III
Shawn M. Cline
Robert B. & Judith A. Cochonour
Gary J. Cohen
Gerald M. & Robin E. Cohen
Jay P. Cohen & Christine K. Bilodeau
Thomas C. & Angela M. Coker
Ivan A. Colao
Colburn & Colburn
Harry S. Colburn, Jr.
Jonathan S. Coleman
Lowell D. & Anthonette B. Collie
John J. & Lynn M. Collins
Kevin A. Comer
Andrew R. & Pamela M. Comiter
Charles E. & Victoria C. Commander
Christopher G. & Barbara C. Commander
John T. Conner & Jessica C. Miles
Lindsay A. Conner-O’Brien
Anne T. & Robert A. Cooney
Charles L. & Greta Cooper
Derek S. Cooper
Stephen L. & Debra M. Cordell
Christopher B. & Christina C. Cortez
Derrick E. & Stacey D. Cox
Carnesha J. Craft
Frederick C. Craig, Jr.
David M. Crane
Robert D. & Amy K. Critton
Jerry B. & Anne O. Crockett
Mary C. Crotty & Daniel S. Livingstone
Patrick C. Crowell
Paul M. & Jolie M. Cummings
Deborah E. Cupples
Gerald B. & Lane F. Curington
1909 Society
THE 1909 SOCIETY commemorates
the founding year of the University
of Florida Levin College of Law,
while recognizing alumni and
friends who sustain and advance the
college with gifts to the annual fund
in the amount of $2,000 and up
during a single fiscal year. Support
at this level improves the quality and
innovation of programs for students,
student organizations, teaching
and research, academic programs
and services, and outreach efforts.
Gifts to the annual fund include
those designated to nonendowed,
nonbuilding funds. All current
members of the 1909 Society are
designated in this report by an
asterisk (*).
Charles W. & Betty Jo E. Abbott
Michael A. & Honi V. Abbott
Scott G. Blews & Shelly Sharp-Blews
Bruce H. & Joanne K. Bokor
Bill Bone
Jeffery A. & Shirley L. Boone
David E. & Mollie M. Bowers
Rebecca L. Brock &
Jonathan T. Krone
Brian D. Burgoon
John W. & Mona P. Campbell
Susan E. Cook & Drew S. Fine
George L. & Sally K. Dawson
Theodore A. & Marie B. Deckert
Andrew J. & Melinda W. Fawbush
William H. Ferguson
James C. & Mary K. Fleming
W. Ray & Jacquelyn Fortner
Betsy Ellwanger Gallagher
Patrick E. & Dena Geraghty
Claire M. Germain &
Stuart M. Basefsky
Mandell & Joyce K. Glicksberg
Raleigh W. & Beverly J. Greene
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Stephen H. & Fay F. Grimes
R. Lawrence & Elizabeth E. Heinkel
Brett T. & Rhonda K. Hendee
John L. Holcomb
Mark L. & Susan J. Horwitz
E. L. Roy Hunt
Robert H. & Lisa Jerry
Kenneth R. & Kimberly Leach
Johnson
Becky Powhatan & Mark Kelley
Donald S. & Marilynn Kohla
David M. & Theresa R. Layman
Warren W. Lindsey & Eileen C.
Forrester
Joseph W. & Lucille A. Little
Arnold P. May & Allison K. Myers
Robert W. Mead, Jr.
Julie C. Miller
David B. Mishael &
Barbara Kaszovitz
Eduardo Palmer
Rahul & Swati R. Patel
Robert A. & Caryl G. Pierce
F. Wallace & Christine R. Pope
Kathleen Price
Gary Lee & Suzanne G. Printy
Gerald F. & Gwen Richman
Jesse W. & Margo S. Rigby
Taylor K. & Manjiri S. Rose
Randolph J. & Sue S. Rush
Gerald D. & Joanne W. Schackow
William J. & Paola F. Schifino
Ernest A. & Norma M. Sellers
Abraham M. & Joy M. Shashy
Lewis E. & Linda L. Shelley
Michael W. Smith &
Jodi L. Scheurenbrand
Michael S. & Tammy W. Taaffe
Mark T. & Jeanne T. Tate
Robert L. & Doris M. Trohn
Jeffrey W. & Susan P. Warren
Gregory S. & Bettina W. Weiss
Gwynne A. Young
J. Edward & Janice S. Curren
Joshua D. Curry
William L. & Dorothy H. Curry
Mark H. & Kimberly C. Dahlmeier
Kevin M. & Carol A. Daly
Willem A. & Carmody G. Daman
Paul W. & Georgia R. Danahy
Alys N. & Steven L. Daniels
Jonathan M. & Amy David
Clay H. Davis & Ann Stuebe-Davis
Clay S. & Anita G. Davis
Robert W. Davis, Jr.
Ryan E. Davis
Jeanne Dawes Crenshaw
Andrea M. & David De Camara
Paul E. De Hart IIIH
J. Boyd De Loach
James J. & Betty L. Dean
George R. & Lane D. Dekle
Susan F. Delegal
Luis Delgado, Jr.
Charles J. Delpapa
Kevin E. & Barbara L. Dembinski
Anthony E. & Tina A. Denapoli
V. Robert Denham, Jr.
Thomas G. DePeter & Alvalyn Lancaster
Joseph M. Depew
C. Matthew & Lauren B. Detzel
Alexander D. DeVitis
Miriam C. Dillard
William G. & Deborah J. Dillon
William M. & Kimberley A. Dillon
General Charles W. & Mariellen Dorman
Glen E. Douglas, Jr.
Dino A. Doyle
Randal H. & Julie J. Drew
James O. & Lila S. Driscoll
Ashley C. Drumm
Elizabeth J. du Fresne
W. Ford & Freda Duane
F. Joseph & Sally A. DuBray
Andrea L. & Edwin J. Ducayet III
Aubrey H. Ducker, Jr. &
Laurie K. Weatherford
Kelly G. Dunberg
David D. & Dayna G. Duncan
William E. & Virginia H. Dunwody
Donald A. & Gene S. Dvornik
David A. & Josefa M. Eaton
Daniel D. & Virginia A. Eckert
Nathaniel M. & Claudia M. Edenfield
Richard R. & Marianne F. Edmonds
Hunter S. & Ashley A. Edwards
Martin I. & Betty S. Edwards
Robert S. & Patricia R. Edwards
Larry L. Eger
Rashad H. & Mary C. El-Amin
Jeffrey R. & Linda R. Elkin
Bradley John Ellis
Julie H. & George B. Ellis
Steven & Stacey P. Ellison
Steven M. Elrod
Guy S. & Annette L. Emerich
John D. & Patricia J. Emmanuel
Theodore A. Erck III
Lisa A. Esposito & Scott B. Strange
C. Lee Essrig
Christy S. & William D. Evans, Jr.
William A. & Carol D. Evans
Michael J. Faehner
Elizabeth A. Faist
Christina L. & Harris J. Faubel
Peter T. & Pat Fay
Irwin J. Fayne
Christopher M. & Carol D. Fear
Ashley K. Feasley & Michael Hyland
Jonathan A. & Jenifer Feldman
Anthony P. Felice
Luis & Anna C. Fernandez
Gregg H. & Jessica Fierman
Phillip R. & Carole S. Finch
Dina S. Finkel
Allison Fischman
Byron D. Flagg & Whitney M. Untiedt
Wayne E. & Kathleen B. Flowers
James L. & Nancy H. Fly
Stephen E. Fogel
Sally H. Foote & Forrest S. Crawford
P. Campbell Ford
James W. & Lisa M. Forsyth
Joseph E. & Sherry E. Foster
Andrea K. Fourman
M. Lanning & Jane P. Fox
Fred D. Franklin, Jr.
Thomas J. Fraser, Jr.
Nathan A. & Laura B. Frazier
Michael K. Freedman
Julia L. Frey & David J. Carter
Irene B. & Robert S. Frick III
Adam N. & Sierra D. Frisch
Richard D. Fultz & Patricia L. Burquest-Fultz
Warwick R. Furr, II
Jessica Furst-Johnson & Todd R. Johnson
George D. & Judith A. Gabel
W. Scott & Jane W. Gabrielson
Charles M. Gadd, Jr.
Charles V. & Kathryn M. Gagliardi
Robert P. Gaines
Sherrie B. Galambos
Paul R. & Ann Z. Game
Melinda Penney & Albert J. Gamot, Jr.
Elizabeth M. & John Gannon
Joseph & C. Anne Garcia
Alan S. & Marcia Gassman
David L. Gay & Christine L. Fuqua-Gay
Dwight L. Geiger
Robert T. & Eve B. Geis
Alexander P. Gelep
Michael J. Gelfand & Mary C. Arpe
John F. & Mary Ellen Germany
Stephen F. & Alice D. Gertzman
Linda R. Getzen
Robin & Jean H. Gibson
Robert H. Gidel, Jr.
Leonard H. & Jean B. Gilbert
Ryan L. & Jhanna C. Gilbert
Stephen B. & Clara Z. Gillman
Daniel J. Glassman
Garry M. Glickman
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Mitchell W. Goldberg
Robert I. & Barbara C. Goldfarb
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David M. & Dorothy M. Gonzalez
Jose A. Gonzalez, Jr. & Mary S. Copeland
Don H. Goode & Patrice D. Pendino-Goode
Freddie L. Goode
Robert F. & Karen Goodrich
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Jonathan C. Gordon
Jonathan C. & Mary S. Gordon
Robert E. & Leesa Gordon
Bradley R. & Vanessa R. Gould
Bryan S. & Barbara Gowdy
Grant Thornton Foundation
Peter J. & Amy S. Gravina
J. Charles & Saundra H. Gray
Mac A. Greco, Jr.
Shirley S. & Christopher J. Greene
Adam D. Griffin
Courtney K. & L. Scott Grimm
Robert S. & Nannette M. Griscti
Bradley C. & Candace Grossenburg
Dennis C. Gucciardo
A. Felipe Guerrero
Frank B. & Susan G. Gummey
Thomas H. & Leslie Gunderson
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Haddon Hall Publishing
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Martin L. Haines
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Linda C. Hankins
Stephen F. & Frances G. Hanlon
Marynelle Hardee & Howard R. Rivers
Arthur S. & Ann W. Hardy
Gregory C. & Stephanie S. Harrell
Christy F. & Martha C. Harris
Robert M. Harris & Paola Parra-Harris
Pamela Jo Hatley & John S. Olmstead
Todd A. & Mary L. Hauss
Cynthia A. Hawkins
Jason J. & Dionne L. Hawkins
Michael S. Hawley & Katherine J. Pierce
Jeffrey M. & Joan M. Hazen
Maureen M. & James E. Hazen, Jr.
Robert J. & Elizabeth M. Head
Andres C. Healy
Paul J. Healy
Robert A. & Mary L. Heekin
Teresa Heekin-Davlantes &
Timothy M. Davlantes
Phares M. & Linda A. Heindl
Cathy Helton
William L. & Etta M. Hendry
Harley S. Herman
Marc B. Hernandez
Michael A. Hersh & Jacqueline E. Hirschberg
Richard H. & Jane G. Hiers
Lewis H. & Sally S. Hill
Erin R. Hines & Charles L. Bopp III
Lynn J. & Evelyn R. Hinson
Jeffrey A. & Lennie S. Hirsch
Bruce E. & Anthe L. Hoffman
Craig P. Hoffman
Jarrett R. & Amanda H. Hoffman
Leslie R. Hoffman
J. Bruce & Marion S. Hoffmann
John M. Hogan
Charles I. Holden, Jr.
Charlene E. & Gerald H. Honeywell
Michael J. Hooi
Emily Hooks
Travis L. Horn
Colonel Edwin F. Hornbrook
Glenn R. Hosken
Dorothy A. Houk
Laurence W. & Marcia M. Howard
Heather J. Howdeshell & David T. Burr
Han Huang
Louis F. & Nancy B. Hubener
Andrew T. & Jami L. Huber
Leslie W. Hudock
Nathalina A. Hudson
John M. Hunt
Scott E. & Susan J. Hunt
Thomas R. & Elizabeth M. Hurst
Steven & Pitzy P. Hurwitz
Phillip H. & Renee G. Hutchinson
Larry E. & Kathleen Hutton
Thomas B. & Jenina E. Hyman
Thomas F. Icard, Jr.
Francis V. & Amy T. Iennaco
Shalonda N. & Carlton G. Inniss
Daniel C. & Sheena T. Irick
Adriane M. Isenberg
Nancy H. Jackson & Dino Anastasiades
Bruce R. & Ann W. Jacob
Jeffrey A. Jacobs
Kenneth B. & Allison B. Jacobs
Kevin E. & Martha A. Jakab
James P. Jamieson
Grant C. & Rosemarie P. Jaquith
Philippe C. & Susan O. Jeck
Adria M. & Matthew S. Jensen
Jewish Council of North Central Florida
Kevin M. & Susan E. Jinks
C. Gray & Elizabeth Z. Johnsey
Bob & Patricia A. Johnson
Clarence T. & Shirley T. Johnson
Edmond D. & Ann S. Johnson
Kevin D. & Lorien S. Johnson
Ronald W. Johnson
Timothy A. & Clair S. Johnson
James F. & Mary Beth K. Johnston
Arthur B. & Joanne P. Jones
Jennifer Erin Jones
John H. Jones & Martha A. Lott
Peter C. Jones
William S. & Mary Lee Josey
Suzanne M. & Robert A. Judas
Gary M. & Cynthia A. Kaleita
Michael D. Kaminer
Cathy A. & Grayson C. Kamm
Andrew J. & Linda C. Kane
Richard F. & Johanna P. Kane
Murray & Fredda Kanetsky
Keith C. Kantack
Elena Kaplan
Kimon P. & Constance H. Karas
Neisen O. & Ana R. Kasdin
Ilan G. & Stephanie M. Kaufer
Bradley D. & Carrie A. Kay
Bryan W. & Dawn C. Keene
Christopher W. Kellam & Bari J. Aronesty
Susan Kelly-Gilbert
Marc J. Kennedy
Scott J. & Leah B. Kennelly
Frank W. Kenniasty
Donna M. Kern
David M. Kerner
Carolyn M. & Jesse B. Kershner
Mark S. & Laurette S. Kessler
Nicole C. Kibert
Kathryn Anne Kimball
Robert A. & Emilie H. Kimbrough
Frances Spinale King
Allison L. Kirkwood
Carole T. & Daniel R. Kirkwood
Harris B. Kirsch
Marvin A. & Rhona L. Kirsner
Gerald R. & Sarah S. Kleedehn
Ronald J. & Dori D. Klein
Mark W. Klingensmith & Wendy H. Werb
Stephen R. Klorfein & Marlo
Silverman-Klorfein
Charles E. & Victoria Klug
John E. & Leslie H. Knight
Melton E. & Marti Knotts
Brian H. & Jill Koch
Eric S. Kolar
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Russell & Shannon Koonin
Paul M. & Judith M. Korchin
Jeremy A. Koss
Amanda J. Kotula
Daryl J. Krauza
Elizabeth R. Krentzman
David K. Kuklewicz & Veronique Janin-Trudeau
Nicole P. Kuncl
Larry H. & Linda M. Kunin
Alex J. & Robyn J. Kurkin
Theodore S. & Jennifer L. Kypreos
Althea M. Lachicotte
Allan J. & Paula T. Landau
Frank A. & Gillian Landgraff
William R. & Sylvia H. Lane
Joseph H. & Elsie O. Lang
Joseph H. & Annette M. Lang
Suzanne D. Lanier & Ed Murphy
Barry D. & Rachel S. Lapides
William W. Large
Roger A. & Melinda K. Larson
Natalie C. Lashway
Roy H. & Elizabeth M. Lasris
Marisol G. & E. A. Lauerman III
Law Offices of Adam J. Kohl
John E. & Joan C. Lawlor
Daniel R. Lazaro
John J. & Sharon Lazzara
Martin E. Leach
Leavengood & Nash
SCHOLARSHIP
SUPPORT
T H E C E N T R A L F LO R I DA W O M E N ’ S
L E A D E R S H I P S C H O L A R S H I P was conceived
by Marjorie Bekaert Thomas (JD 76) and founded by
Thomas, Mayanne Downs (JD 87) and Lauren Detzel
(JD 77) in 2011. The $2,000 annual scholarship
supports a student with financial need from
the Central Florida area (Marion, Sumter, Lake,
Seminole, Orange, Osceola, Polk, Hardee, Highlands
and Volusia counties) who is a student member of
the Florida Association for Women Lawyers or the
Law Association for Women and has a mentoring
component. Several other regional women’s
scholarships to UF Law will follow the same model
thanks to the Central Florida Women’s Leadership
Scholarship founders and their vision.
ABOVE: From left standing are Lauren Detzel (JD 77 ) and
Mayanne Downs (JD 87). From left seated are Marjorie Bekaert
Thomas (JD 76) and this year’s recipient, Dorice Voecks (3L).
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Thomas W. Ledman & Dana L. Ford-Ledman
Adam J. & Morgan D. Lee
Steven C. & Ann Lee
Marie Lefere
Ross T. & Silvana Lessack
Jennifer C. & Robert F. Lester
Joshua R. Levenson & Kara M. Cavuoto
Michael A. Levey & Linda Gorens-Levey
Martin H. & Terri L. Levin
Brian R. Levy
Mark F. & Rochelle N. Lewis
Brett D. & Susan A. Lieberman
Jeffrey P. & Ghada S. Lieser
Rutledge R. & Noel D. Liles
Mark K. & Sherri K. Lindenberg
William J. & Leah R. Lindsay
Donna C. Litman
Michael G. & Analisa Little
Charles H. & Lorraine E. Livingston
James F. Loebl
Robert M. & Cynthia A. Loehr
James J. Logue & Alice C. Spirakis
Caren L. & Michael J. Loguercio
James J. Long & Marsha K. Scott
Lamont C. & Leslie E. Loo
Stephen R. & Paige B. Looney
Bernardo Lopez & Janice L. Bergmann
Adam C. & Mary Catherine E. Losey
Wm. Bruce & Molly O. Louden
Robert J. & Jennifer Luck
Stephen E. Ludovici
Matthew I. Lufrano
Charlene D. & Trevor S. Luke
Jacquelyn P. Lumpkin Wooden
Michael W. Luongo
Lykes Bros.
Donald A. & Linda S. Lykkebak
Peter N. & Elaine Macaluso
William F. Machen
Alexander C. & Cynthia Z. MacKinnon
Alexandra M. MacLennan &
Richard A. Beavers
Scott R. MacLeod
Gavin W. MacMillan
Michael P. Maguire
Robert C. & Jill R. Maland
Brian M. Malec
Alfred J. Malefatto & Moria Rozenson
John D. Malkowski
David E. & Carla E. Mallen
Jonathan L. Mann
Jeffrey L. & Susan W. Mapen
Frank M. Mari
Marisa Marinelli
Andrew J. & Wendy A. Markus
Kathy-Ann W. & Chris Marlin
Elizabeth C. & Thomas K. Marshall
John T. Marshall
Katherine A. & William E. Martin, Jr.
Wendy S. & Fred S. Martin, Jr.
Antonio & Brenda Martinez
Morris C. Massey
Maureen M. & Gerald G. Matheson
Janice M. Matson-Rickert & Dale J. Rickert
James M. & Joan T. Matthews
J. Mark & Maureen Maynor
Virgil Q. & Frances C. Mayo
C. Parkhill & Mason C. Mays
Thomas M. & Shannon C. McAleavey
Alan K. & Karen K. McCall
Veronica S. & Robert E. McCrackin
Stephen A. & Molly L. McCullers
James E. McDermott, Jr. &
Sharon A. Bazarian
Paul A. McDermott &
Sasha A. Lohn-McDermott
Parker L. & Velma R. McDonald
G. Carson & Laurinda F. McEachern
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William D. McFarlane, Jr.
J. Thomas & Mary J. McGrady
John F. & Helen A. McGrath
Robert D. & Elizabeth A. McIntosh
Jesse S. McIntyre
Richard J. & Terrin F. McKay
Kristen M. McKinney
L. Robin McKinney
Marie L. McLeod-Been
Michael A. McMillan
Diana B. & Dale J. McPherson
Jennifer H. & John R. McRae
Kathleen M. McRoberts
Christopher J. & Dani K. McVety
Keith G. & Laura Medleau
Pat Meehan
Queen E. & Emmanuel V. Meheux
Dana B. Mehlman
Telly J. Meier & Liisa K. Vehik
Howell W. & Kristin Y. Melton
Howell W. & Cathi H. Melton
Alexandra E. Menegakis
Jamie L. & Philip J. Meola
Elysa R. Merlin
Drew & Dawn M. Meyers
Mark C. Michalowski
Nicholas G. Milano & Lori J. Johnson-Milano
Holly R. Miller
John L. Miller, Jr.
Leigh Anne Miller
Michael D. & Kim B. Miller
Robert L. & Penne W. Miller
Jon L. & Beth B. Mills
Douglas J. & Nora P. Milne
Martin P. Miner
Charles P. & Deborah A. Mitchell
James R. & Nanette L. Mitchell
Charles S. & Carol J. Modell
Ashley B. Moody
James S. & Kelli O. Moody
George R. & Karen K. Moraitis
Ivan A. Morales & Andrea Brant
M. Scotland & Margaret K. Morris
Ryan J. Moseley
Stephen B. & Rhoda G. Moss
Robert T. Mounts
James E. Moye, Jr.
James E. & Mari Moye
Moyle, Flanigan, Katz, Raymond & Sheehan
Edward M. & Rima Y. Mullins
Chad M. Muney
Murphy & Anderson
Douglass E. & Janet M. Myers
Robert J. & Michelle L. Naberhaus
Jonathan H. & Leigh M. Nason
Noel H. & Marianne H. Nation
Dax O. Nelson
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Vanessa & Paul V. Newtson
James P. & Leslie C. Nilon
M. Scott & Kimberly S. Noble
Noble Energy
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Ailish C. O’Connor & Timothy M. Robinson
Dennis R. & Jillian S. O’Connor
Sonia E. O’Donnell
Matthew R. & Julie H. O’Kane
Jamie W. & Damon B. Olinto, Jr.
Keith M. Olivia
Eric T. & Julie A. Olsen
Michael L. & Barbara A. O’Neill
Kevin S. Opolka
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Neil M. & Janet R. O’Toole
Wm. A. & Leila S. Oughterson
William C. & Anne E. Owen
Ryan G. & Samantha H. Padgett
Angela M. Pagan
Gregory M. & Kimberly E. Palmer
Suzanne M. Palms
Gary M. Pappas & Nancy Stevens
William A. Parady & Salome J. Zikakis
Adriana M. Paris
Dale L. Parker
Rhett C. Parker
Marshall R. Pasternack
Ami R. Patel & Nagendra Setty
Neil & Christina M. Patel
Ben Patterson
Darin Patton
Neal G. & Joan L. Patton
Frank A. & Joanne C. Pavese
Christopher A. Pavilonis
George Pearce
Ray W. Pennebaker
Steven A. Pepper
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Law Firm Giving
T H E L AW F I R M G I V I N G P R O G R A M encourages Gators to
make a gift to the Levin College of Law and support a variety of
worthwhile programs. Listed are the firm names, office locations,
and volunteer champions of the participating firms in the categories
of 100 percent and 50-99 percent. Thank you for your engagement!
100% PARTICIPATION
•
Brown, Garganese, Weiss &
D’Agresta, P.A., Orlando
Champion: Jeffrey S. Weiss
•Coker, Schickel, Sorenson &
Posgay, Jacksonville
Champion: Matthew Posgay
•Dean Mead, Fort Pierce
Champion: Dana M. Apfelbaum
•Dean Mead, Gainesville
Champion: Felipe Guerrero
•Fassett, Anthony & Taylor, Orlando
Champion: Ladd Fassett
•Harris Guidi Rosner Dunlap &
Rudolph, Jacksonville
Champion: Robert Harris
•Hill Ward Henderson, Tampa
Champion: Paul E. Pakidis
•Johnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel &
Burns, Clearwater
Champion: Wally Pope
•Johnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel &
Burns, Tampa
Champion: Wally Pope
•Keefe, Anchors & Gordon, Fort
Walton Beach
Champion: Larry Keefe
•Leavengood, Dauval & Boyle, St.
Petersburg
Champion: Ian R. Leavengood
•Levin, Papantonio, Thomas,
Mitchell, Rafferty & Proctor,
Pensacola
Champions: Robert Blanchard & Virginia Buchanan
•Murphy & Walker, Vero Beach
Champion: Lewis W. Murphy, Jr.
•Pressly & Pressly, West Palm Beach
Champion: J. Grier Pressly III
•Quarles & Brady, Naples
Champion: Kimberly Leach Johnson
•Quarles & Brady, Tampa
Champion: Kimberly Leach Johnson
•Waldman, Trigoboff, Hildebrandt,
Marx & Calnan, Weston
Champion: Glenn J. Waldman
50%-99% PARTICIPATION
• Akerman, Tampa
Champion: Wesley D. Tibbals
• Alston & Bird, Atlanta
Champion: Brian Bokor
• Arnall Golden Gregory, Atlanta
Champion: Steven A. Pepper
• Bedell Firm, Jacksonville
Champion: Courtney K. Grimm
• Berger Singerman, Miami
Champion: Barry D. Lapides
• Boone, Boone, Boone & Koda,
Venice
Champion: Jeffrey A. Boone
• Bush Ross, Tampa
Champions: J. Carter Andersen &
Howell Melton III
•
Clark, Partington, Hart, Larry,
Bond & Stackhouse, Pensacola
Champion: Jesse W. Rigby
• Dean Mead, Orlando
Champion: Felipe Guerrero
• Dean Mead, Melbourne
Champion: Laura Minton Young
• Farr Law Firm, Punta Gorda
Champion: Jack O. Hackett II
• GrayRobinson, Orlando
Champion: William A. Boyles
• GrayRobinson, Tallahassee
Champion: Timothy M. Cerio
• Greenberg Traurig, Fort Lauderdale
Champion: Jeffrey Allan Hirsch
• Hogan Lovells, Washington, DC
Champions: Dennis C. Gucciardo &
Robert E. Glennon
• Law Offices of Jeanne T. Tate,
Tampa
Champion: Jeanne T. Tate
• Jones Foster, West Palm Beach
Champions: Ben Alexander,
Chris Cortez, Theo Kypreos
• Kubicki Draper, Miami
Champion: Betsy Ellwanger Gallagher
• Kubicki Draper, Fort Myers
Champion: Betsy Ellwanger Gallagher
• Kubicki Draper, West Palm Beach
Champion: Betsy Ellwanger
Gallagher
•
Morgan, White-Davis & Martinez,
Winter Park
Champion: Ryan A. Feinberg
• Richman Greer, West Palm Beach
Champion: Gerald F. Richman
• Sutherland, Atlanta
Champion: Jonathan A. Feldman
T H A N K YO U F O R
YO U R S U P P O RT.
Florida law graduates
benefit from the
generosity of those who
graduated before them.
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J.D. Alumni By Class
T H A N K YO U F O R YO U R S U P P O RT
Names are listed for gifts of $100 and up. Names followed by a diamond (♦) are life members of the Trusler Society and names followed by a star (H) are
Premium Charter Members of the UF Law Young Alumni Society. Loyalty Society members are recognized in the online version of the Annual Report.
Class of 1948
Class Total:
$150.00
No. in Class:
49
Participation:4%
Enrichment Society
William C. Owen, Jr.
Class of 1949
Class Total:
$250,350.00
No. in Class:
66
Participation:6%
Enrichment Society
Larry G. Smith
Class of 1950
Class Total:
$750.00
No. in Class:
57
Participation:7%
Enrichment Society
John R. Bonner, Sr.
Parker L. McDonald
Wm. A. Oughterson
Class of 1951
Class Total:
$45,302.83
No. in Class:
68
Participation:
10%
Founders Society - platinum
James D. Camp, Jr.
Founders Society - silver
Mandell Glicksberg
Enrichment Society
J. Boyd De Loach
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to Missy Poole at poole@law.
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Virgil Q. Mayo
Clarence M. Wood
Class of 1953
Class Total:
$4,200.00
No. in Class:
38
Participation:5%
Founders Society - gold
Charles W. Abbott
Enrichment Society
Robert S. Edwards
Class of 1954
Class Total:
$6,500.00
No. in Class:
30
Participation: 10%
Founders Society - gold
E. G. (Dan) Boone
Robert L. Trohn
Partners
Stephen H. Grimes
Class of 1955
Class Total:
$4,450.00
No. in Class:
27
Participation:11%
Trusler Society
W. Ray Fortner
Enrichment Society
Lewis H. Hill III
Edward Siegel
Class of 1956
Class Total:
$27,532.32
No. in Class:
28
Participation:18%
Enrichment Society
Louie N. Adcock, Jr.
Jerry B. Crockett
Peter T. Fay
Robert P. Gaines
Class of 1957
Class Total:
$2,150.00
No. in Class:
39
Participation:18%
Founders Society - silver
A. Ward Wagner, Jr.
Enrichment Society
Paul W. Danahy, Jr.
James O. Driscoll
Joseph Garcia
Jose A. Gonzalez, Jr.
William L. Hendry
Young J. Simmons
Class of 1958
Class Total:
$100.00
No. in Class:
46
Participation:2%
Enrichment Society
Clarence T. Johnson, Jr.
Class of 1959
Class Total:
$10,850.00
No. in Class:
50
Participation:10%
Partners
Clifton R. McDonald, Jr.
Enrichment Society
George B. Barrs
Robert J. Boylston
Stephen W. Sessums
Joseph Q. Tarbuck
Class of 1960
Class Total:
$1,200.00
No. in Class:
55
Participation:5%
Enrichment Society
Thomas R. Brown
Robert A. Kimbrough
L. David Shear
Class of 1961
Class Total:
$3,050.00
No. in Class:
63
Participation:13%
Founders Society - platinum
Fredric G. Levin
Founders Society - silver
Jon C. Moyle
Raymond W. Royce
Enrichment Society
Robert J. Carr
Neil H. Chonin
Paul M. Goldman
C. Parkhill Mays, Jr.
Thomas H. Thurlow, Jr.
Class of 1962
Class Total:
$8,550.00
No. in Class:
86
Participation:13%
Founders Society - silver
DuBose Ausley
Ernest A. Sellers
Trusler Society
W. George Allen
Norman Broad
Enrichment Society
Byron B. Block
J. Edward Curren
Robin Gibson
J. Charles Gray
Peter C. Jones
Antonio Martinez, Jr.
David P. Newman
Class of 1963
Class Total:
$114,571.00
No. in Class:
84
Participation:11%
Founders Society - gold
John C. Bierley
Larry S. Stewart
Partners
Bruce S. Rogow
Enrichment Society
Murray Kanetsky
Joseph H. Lang, Sr.
Wm. Bruce Louden
Class of 1964
Class Total:
$7,250.00
No. in Class:
120
Participation:7%
Founders Society - silver
Charles T. Wells
Partners
Gerald F. Richman
Trusler Society
Stephen D. Gardner
Enrichment Society
W. Reynolds Allen
Haywood M. Ball
UF L AW
J. D. A LU M N I BY C L AS S .
Alumni from many graduating
classes made financial commitments
to help the college grow stronger
and expand programs and services,
thereby permitting the college to
strive toward its full potential.
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J. D. A LU M N I
Make a Contribution
T H E O F F I C E O F D EV E LO P M E N T A N D
A LU M N I A F FA I R S coordinates alumni activities
and fundraising for the Levin College of Law. This
includes activities of the Law Center Association,
Inc. Board of Trustees and the Law Alumni Council.
To make a contribution, please make your check
payable to UF Law Center Association to the
address below. Donations are tax-deductible as
allowed by law. For more information on making an
endowed or estate gift, please contact the Office of
Development & Alumni Affairs at 352-273-0640
or [email protected].
George D. Gabel, Jr.
Charles I. Holden, Jr.
Robert M. Johnson
Class of 1965
Class Total:
$61,079.46
No. in Class:
128
Participation:9%
Founders Society - gold
Sidney A. Stubbs, Jr.
Founders Society - silver
Paul C. Huck
Partners
Gerald D. Schackow
Trusler Society
Benjamin H. Hill III
Steve C. Horowitz
Leroy H. Moe
Richard H. Wilson
Enrichment Society
Russell P. Chubb
Charles E. Commander
Wallace H. Hall
Class of 1966
Class Total:
$16,860.00
No. in Class:
166
Participation:10%
Founders Society - platinum
W. Kelly Smith
Founders Society - silver
Richard M. Robinson
Partners
Baya M. Harrison III
Trusler Society
L. Kinder Cannon III
J. Thomas Cardwell
Allan P. Clark
Enrichment Society
Robert B. Cochonour
Elizabeth J. du Fresne
Rutledge R. Liles
George R. Moraitis
Robert T. Mounts
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Charles P. Pillans III
Stephen J. Powell
Gregory A. Presnell
John F. Roscow III
Class of 1967
Class Total:
$21,175.00
No. in Class:
195
Participation:9%
Founders Society - silver
E. C. Deeno Kitchen
Samuel C. Ullman
Associates
Barry S. Sinoff
Trusler Society
Barry R. Davidson
John A. DeVault III
Enrichment Society
W. Dehart Ayala, Jr.
Susan H. Black
Jeanne Dawes Crenshaw
W. Ford Duane
Robert J. Head, Jr.
Roger A. Larson
John J. Lazzara
Alexander C. MacKinnon
William H. Seaver
Clifford L. Somers
Class of 1968
Class Total:
$9,025.00
No. in Class:
176
Participation:10%
Associates
Patrick E. Geraghty, Sr.
Trusler Society
Herbert L. Allen♦
Richard C. Ausness
Ira W. McCollum, Jr.
Donald D. Slesnick II
Enrichment Society
Fred R. Baisden, Jr.
Douglas D. Batchelor, Jr.
Stephen J. Bozarth
Dwight L. Geiger
Jonathan C. Gordon
Edwin F. Hornbrook
Robert D. McIntosh
Douglas J. Milne
Charles T. Sands
Mitchell H. Spingarn
Warren E. Williams
Class of 1969
Class Total:
$16,510.10
No. in Class:
172
Participation:11%
Founders Society - gold
F. Wallace Pope, Jr.
Partners
Robert W. Mead, Jr.
Trusler Society
Charles H. Egerton
Howell L. Ferguson
James C. Fleming
Alan G. Greer
George W. Rohe
William K. Zewadski♦
Peter W. Zinober
Enrichment Society
A. Graham Allen
James O. Birr, Jr.
Marc A. Cianca
Martin I. Edwards
William A. Evans
Thomas B. Hyman, Jr.
Timothy A. Johnson, Jr.
Noel H. Nation
Ben Patterson
Donald R. Tescher
Robert F. Williams
Class of 1970
Class Total:
$12,949.69
No. in Class:
193
Participation:8%
Associates
Ron L. Fick
Trusler Society
J. Richard Caldwell, Jr.
Joseph C. Mellichamp III
Alan R. Parlapiano
Enrichment Society
Robert T. Benton II
John M. Brumbaugh
Mercer K. Clarke
William E. Dunwody III
Guy S. Emerich
W. Scott Gabrielson
Charles M. Gadd, Jr.
Christy F. Harris
Donald A. Lykkebak
Peter N. Macaluso
John Kendrick Tucker
Class of 1971
Class Total:
$20,150.00
No. in Class:
212
Participation:8%
Founders Society - platinum
Stephen N. Zack
Founders Society - gold
W. C. Gentry
Partners
Robert S. Bolt
Associates
Leslie J. Barnett
Trusler Society
J. Fraser Himes
Richard A. Horder
Enrichment Society
Larry B. Alexander
Darryl M. Bloodworth
Phillip R. Finch
Louis F. Hubener III
Charles H. Livingston
Bruce G. Shaffner
Brent D. Shore
Martin J. Sperry
Wayne Lee Thomas
Class of 1972
Class Total:
$47,901.41
No. in Class:
339
Participation:11%
Founders Society - gold
Gene K. Glasser
Jeffrey W. Warren
Founders Society - silver
Bruce H. Bokor
Hal H. Kantor
James G. Pressly, Jr.
Clifford A. Schulman
Partners
Mark Hicks
Trusler Society
Richard C. Grant
Mark L. Horwitz
Donald S. Kohla
Manuel Menendez, Jr.
Enrichment Society
William H. Andrews
Wings S. Benton
Barbara P. Blue
Allan L. Casey
Christopher M. Fear
Stephen F. Gertzman
Frank B. Gummey III
James M. Matthews
G. Carson McEachern III
William D. McFarlane, Jr.
Emeritus Jon L. Mills
James S. Moody, Jr.
James P. Nilon
David A. Schmudde
James W. Sherby
L. Haldane Taylor
Robert L. Taylor
D. Frank Winkles
Richard W. Withers
Class of 1973
Class Total:
$58,586.26
No. in Class:
376
Participation:10%
Founders Society - platinum
John H. Dasburg
Founders Society - gold
Gerald A. Rosenthal
Buddy Schulz
Partners
Martha L. Cochran
Raleigh W. Greene III
Abraham M. Shashy, Jr.
Associates
Philip A. DeLaney
Trusler Society
Martha W. Barnett
Kenneth C. Ellis
Mary B. Ellis
Leighton D. Yates, Jr.
Enrichment Society
George Z. Bateh
Joseph W. Beasley
Paul M. Cummings
George R. Dekle, Sr.
Susan F. Delegal
Charles W. Dorman
F. Joseph DuBray
Lynn J. Hinson
Ronald W. Johnson
Richard F. Kane
Andrew J. Markus
Douglass E. Myers, Jr.
S. Daniel Ponce
Marion J. Radson
Patricia V. Russo
Jan K. Seiden
Frederick D. Smith
Kenneth A. Treadwell
Rene G. VanDeVoorde
Joseph H. Williams
Art Wroble
Robert L. Young
Class of 1974
Class Total:
$216,660.35
No. in Class:
275
Participation:13%
Founders Society - gold
Richard P. Cole
Robert G. Merkel
James S. Theriac III
Founders Society - silver
K. Lawrence Gragg
Edward F. Koren
Robert M. Kramer
Partners
Andrew J. Fawbush
Gwynne A. Young
Associates
J.P. Carolan III
Trusler Society
Frederick W. Jones
Frederick W. Leonhardt
James L. Main
Harley E. Riedel II
Enrichment Society
Timothy G. Anderson
Clay S. Davis, Jr.
Daniel D. Eckert
UF L AW
J.D. ALUMNI
Julie H. Ellis
Theodore A. Erck III
James L. Fly
M. Lanning Fox
Stephen B. Gillman
Garry M. Glickman
J. Bruce Hoffmann
Judith M. Korchin
J. Thomas McGrady III
Ray W. Pennebaker
Louis K. Rosenbloum
Eliot J. Safer
Frank D. Upchurch III
John A. Weiss
Bill White
Bruce I. Yegelwel
Class of 1975
Class Total:
$37,049.66
No. in Class:
349
Participation:13%
Founders Society - silver
Maureen G. Gragg
Mark J. Proctor
Barristers
Alan M. Gerlach, Jr.
Partners
John W. Campbell
Theodore A. Deckert
Trusler Society
James B. Barnes
Anne C. Conway
B. Douglas Hind-Marsh♦
Roger C. Lambert
John A. Shipley III
M. Stephen Smith III
Enrichment Society
Barry A. Abbott
Bernie A. Barton, Jr.
Carlton F. Bennett
Jeffrey F. Berin
Randy R. Briggs
Wayne E. Flowers
Charles V. Gagliardi
Robert M. Harris
Robert A. Heekin
Jeffrey A. Hirsch
John H. Jones
Paul M. Korchin
Althea M. Lachicotte
John E. Lawlor III
Robert C. Maland
Howell W. Melton, Jr.
Austin F. Reed
Patrick W. Skelton
Rodney W. Smith
Tito S. Smith
Sheldon D. Stevens
Gregory T. Stewart
Robert P. Summers
Daniel Y. Sumner
James B. Tilghman, Jr.
C. Warren Tripp, Jr.
Jose F. Valdivia, Jr.
Craig G. Wolfson
Class of 1976
Class Total:
$86,554.60
No. in Class:
372
Participation:11%
Founders Society - platinum
Ellen Bellet Gelberg
Founders Society - gold
Betsy Ellwanger Gallagher
Founders Society - silver
Elizabeth A. Jenkins
Partners
William A. Boyles
Becky Powhatan Kelley
William A. Weber
Associates
R. Vinson Barrett
Peter M. MacNamara
Janet R. Studley
M. Therese Vento
Trusler Society
Sally A. Dorn
Thomas J. Farkash
William H. Ferguson
Jack J. Fine
Daniel B. Harrell
Marjorie Bekaert Thomas
Enrichment Society
Michael R. Band
Mark P. Buell
Robert D. Critton, Jr.
Gerald B. Curington
Mark F. Lewis
Donna C. Litman
James J. Long
Alan K. McCall
Tanja Ostapoff
Marilyn Wolf Peterson
Glenna J. Reeves
Charles A. Reinhardt, Jr.
Paul E. Rosenthal
Tura L. Schnebly
Andrew B. Thomas
Amanda M. Traweek
Sonia E. O’Donnell
Thomas B. Smith
Max N. Wallace
Class of 1977
Class Total:
$54,711.76
No. in Class:
318
Participation:9%
Partners
Jesse W. Rigby
John J. Scroggin
Lewis E. Shelley
Linda L. Shelley
Trusler Society
Lauren Y. Detzel
Barbara J. Staros
Enrichment Society
Joan F. Beer
Toby J. Buel, Sr.
Sally H. Foote
Don H. Goode
Freddie L. Goode
James P. Jamieson
Roy H. Lasris
James J. Logue
Charles S. Modell
Class of 1979
Class Total:
$57,150.43
No. in Class:
319
Participation:12%
Founders Society - gold
Carol M. Brewer
Founders Society - silver
Ladd H. Fassett
Lindy L. Paull
Lawrence E. Sellers, Jr.
Partners
Jack O. Hackett II
Warren W. Lindsey
David S. Pressly
Associates
Peter T. Kirkwood
Trusler Society
John L. Holcomb
David M. Layman
James B. Murphy, Jr.
Enrichment Society
James P. Beadle
Class of 1978
Class Total:
$15,901.00
No. in Class:
369
Participation:10%
Founders Society - gold
Cheryl R. Peek
David H. Peek
Partners
W. Crit Smith
Associates
A. J. Donelson
Trusler Society
Dennis M. Campbell
Kaye Collie
Michael Heekin
Patricia P. H. Jones
Randy Meg Kammer
Enrichment Society
Marci Adler
Peter Baker
Jeanelle G. Bronson
Theotis Bronson
Jay P. Cohen
Luis Fernandez
Richard D. Fultz
Melinda Penney Gamot
Cheryl L. Gordon
Robert E. Gordon
Peter J. Gravina
Harley S. Herman
Mark S. Kessler
Steven C. Lee
Diana B. McPherson
Francis E. Pierce III
Jeffrey D. Segal
Joseph S. Silver
Michael H. Streater
Herbert W. A. Thiele
Thomas J. Wilkes, Jr.
Christine K. Bilodeau
Faye A. Burner
V. Robert Denham, Jr.
Joseph E. Foster
Fred D. Franklin, Jr.
Robert S. Griscti
Craig P. Hoffman
Glenn R. Hosken
Neisen O. Kasdin
Carole T. Kirkwood
Alfred J. Malefatto
J. Mark Maynor
Steven A. Pepper
Mary Anne Price
Moria Rozenson
Richard J. Sarafan
David L. Sobel
Richard L. Stockton
Timon V. Sullivan
Jennifer A. West
Gail I. Winson
Class of 1980
Class Total:
$10,612.50
No. in Class:
348
Participation:9%
Founders Society - platinum
Mary Lou D. Dasburg
Partners
Randolph J. Rush
Trusler Society
Richard B. Comiter
E. Lanny Russell
Enrichment Society
Anonymous
Charles A. Buford
Jon C. Chassen
Patrick C. Crowell
C. Lee Essrig
Robert I. Goldfarb
Cynthia A. Hawkins
Michael S. Hawley
Philippe C. Jeck
Ross T. Lessack
James R. Mitchell
Neil M. O’Toole
Marshall R. Pasternack
Lillian J. Reyes-Joyce
Susan S. Thompson
Richard B. Troutman
Richard I. Wallsh
Charles N. White
Charles D. Wingate
Class of 1981
Class Total:
$70,268.50
No. in Class:
375
Participation:13%
Founders Society - gold
Casey Johnson
Michael D. Minton
Founders Society - silver
Jeffrey D. Feldman
Kenneth R. Johnson
Kimberly Leach Johnson
Partners
Eileen C. Forrester
Jeanne T. Tate
Trusler Society
Susan E. Cook
Cherie H. Fine
Cynthia A. Holloway
Thomas R. Julin
Cheryl K. Lindgren
Robert R. Lindgren
Bob L. Tankel
David H. Vickrey
Enrichment Society
Mary C. Arpe
David C. Banker
R. Mason Blake
Penelope E. Bryan
Patricia L. Burquest-Fultz
Gary J. Cohen
Frederick C. Craig, Jr.
Stephen E. Fogel
Phares M. Heindl
Bruce E. Hoffman
Charlene E. Honeywell
Nancy H. Jackson
William S. Josey
Nelly N. Khouzam
Marvin A. Kirsner
Stephen R. Klorfein
Martha A. Lott
James E. Moye
Neal G. Patton
D. Lawrence Rayburn
Howard M. Rosenblatt
Tracy W. Upchurch
Laurie W. Valentine
Wallace C. von Arx III
Colonel Marc L. Warren
Patricia A. Willing
Carl J. Zahner
Sharon A. Zahner
Class of 1982
Class Total:
$42,678.00
No. in Class:
391
Participation:9%
Founders Society - silver
Paul R. Linder
Partners
Jeffery A. Boone
John N. Giordano
R. Lawrence Heinkel
Louis Nostro
Gary Lee Printy
Oscar A. Sanchez
Associates
John C. Bovay
Margaret D. Mathews
Richard C. Pfenniger, Jr.
Trusler Society
Robert W. Anthony, Jr.
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John C. Bales
Marybeth McDonald
Enrichment Society
Catherine B. Bowles
Karen Meyer Buesing
Kathryn Angell Carr
Alys N. Daniels
David A. Eaton
Julia L. Frey
Alan S. Gassman
Michael J. Gelfand
Linda R. Getzen
Robert F. Goodrich
Grant C. Jaquith
Gary M. Kaleita
Frances Spinale King
Kevin S. Opolka
Robert V. Potter, Jr.
Darryl R. Richards
E. J. Richardson
Paul D. Scala
Sheila L. Seig
Morris Silberman
Class of 1983
Class Total:
$70,979.16
No. in Class:
329
Participation:10%
Founders Society - gold
Scott G. Hawkins
Founders Society - silver
James A. Gale
Glenn J. Waldman
Partners
Mark T. Tate, Jr.
Associates
Scott C. Ilgenfritz
Paul S. Singerman
Trusler Society
Archie B. Hayward, Jr.
Eugenio Hernandez
David B. Mishael
Enrichment Society
Thomas J. Ali
M. Robert Blanchard
Gerald M. Cohen
Susan G. Goffman
Guy S. Haggard
John E. Hale
Richard H. Hiers
Steven Hurwitz
Edmond D. Johnson
John E. Knight III
Suzanne D. Lanier
Keith G. Medleau
Michael D. Miller
Dennis R. O’Connor
T. Clay Phillips
William E. Reischmann, Jr.
Sidney S. Simmons II
Class of 1984
Class Total:
$11,521.00
No. in Class:
321
Participation:9%
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Founders Society - gold
Edward Downey
Partners
Michael A. Bedke
Bill Bone
Associates
Tracy A. Nichols
Trusler Society
Allen N. Jelks, Jr.
Enrichment Society
David J. Akins
Mark G. Alexander
Brian M. Bez
John J. Burke
Deborah M. Clancy
Randal H. Drew, Sr.
Larry L. Eger
John D. Emmanuel
P. Campbell Ford
Teresa Heekin-Davlantes
Cynthia Z. MacKinnon
Alexandra M. MacLennan
Elizabeth C. Marshall
Michael L. O’Neill
Catherine G. Reischmann
Sarah Ritterhoff-Williams
Rose Q. Spano
Brian J. Stack
Andrea E. Zelman
Class of 1985
Class Total:
$31,224.85
No. in Class:
363
Participation:10%
Founders Society - gold
Glenn W. Sturm
Barristers
Eugene K. Pettis
Partners
William J. Schifino, Jr.
Associates
Marci L. Goodman
Ross M. Goodman
Trusler Society
Raul A. Cuervo
Eduardo Palmer
Michael W. Smith
Deborah B. Story
Enrichment Society
Elizabeth L. Bevington
Patricia G. Butler
Rashad H. El-Amin
Steven Ellison
Gregg H. Fierman
Linda C. Hankins
Mark W. Klingensmith
Elizabeth R. Krentzman
Mark K. Lindenberg
Scott L. Richardson
Peter S. Roumbos
Ali Steinbach
Lisa L. Troutman
Salome J. Zikakis
Class of 1986
Class Total:
$11,503.06
No. in Class:
387
Participation:6%
Barristers
Douglas A. Wright
Partners
Lawrence Keefe
Trusler Society
Hugh W. Perry
Enrichment Society
Alan M. Applegate
William N. Barnes
Mary C. Crotty
Jeffrey R. Elkin
Paul R. Game
Shirley S. Greene
Scott E. Hunt
Charles E. Klug, Jr.
Jeremy A. Koss
Robert M. Loehr
Morris C. Massey
John L. Miller, Jr.
William A. Parady
Frank A. Pavese, Jr.
Susan M. Seigle
T. Howard Smith, Jr.
James A. Taylor III
Class of 1987
Class Total:
$8,687.50
No. in Class:
373
Participation:6%
Partners
Mayanne A. Downs
Laura J. Thacker
Associates
Bradley R. Johnson
Trusler Society
Charles A. Carlson
Ronnie A. Sabb
Enrichment Society
Jane D. Callahan
John D. Carnahan
Thomas H. Gunderson
John F. Halula
Arthur S. Hardy
Maureen M. Matheson
Dawn M. Meyers
Drew Meyers
Gregory M. Palmer
Gary M. Pappas
Paul S. Quinn, Jr.
Jeffrey S. Weiss
Class of 1988
Class Total:
$7,410.40
No. in Class:
362
Participation:8%
Associates
Kolleen P. Cobb
R. Scott Costantino
Darrell W. Payne
Enrichment Society
Glenn A. Adams
Jacqueline Bozzuto
Virginia M. Buchanan
Jonathan S. Coleman
Robert T. Geis
Nancy P. Halula
Paul J. Healy
Laurence W. Howard III
Amy T. Iennaco
Frank A. Landgraff
Martin H. Levin
Beth B. Mills
Jorge J. Perez
Pierre J. Seacord
Ted R. Tamargo
Katherine Upchurch
Gerard F. Wehle, Jr.
Class of 1989
Class Total:
$9,233.00
No. in Class:
354
Participation:7%
Founders Society - silver
Corinne C. Hodak
Trusler Society
Patrick S. Cousins
Michael Ferguson
Bruce D. Landrum
Enrichment Society
Joseph E. Ankus
Judith E. Beasley
Cathleen G. Bremmer
W. Bard Brockman
Peter J. Brudny
Marc D. Chapman
Donald A. Dvornik
Elizabeth M. Gannon
Francis V. Iennaco
Maria B. Kaduck-Perez
Charles P. Mitchell
Eric T. Olsen
Gail M. Otero
Stephen G. Stanton
Lee P. Teichner
Charles D. Tobin
Robert D. Walker, Jr.
Class of 1990
Class Total:
$7,325.00
No. in Class:
375
Participation:7%
Associates
David L. Bilsker
Trusler Society
Yolanda C. Jackson
Enrichment Society
Tracy D. Chapman
Derrick E. Cox
Marcia M. Howard
Suzanne M. Judas
Bernardo Lopez
John D. Malkowski
David E. Mallen
Edward M. Mullins
Stefanie M. Newman
Ailish C. O’Connor
Andrew T. Pozzuto
Francisco J. Roza
Kristine E. Sarkis-Rozeboom
Bradley M. Saxton
Robert G. Stern
Amy M. Tamargo
Tate Taylor
Class of 1991
Class Total:
$10,742.00
No. in Class:
374
Participation:8%
Partners
Michelle Anchors
Bradford D. Kimbro
Lewis W. Murphy, Jr.
Associates
Chris W. Boyett
Trusler Society
Katrina D. Rolle
Enrichment Society
Steven L. Beiley
Nelson T. Castellano
Thomas G. DePeter
Marynelle Hardee
Michael D. Kaminer
Alex J. Kurkin
Rima Y. Mullins
Sylvia G. Norris
Dale L. Parker
Andrea D. Perkins
Paul C. Perkins, Jr.
Robert J. Pile
Kimberly Bonder Rezanka
Scott L. Rogers
Kelly B. Rose
Richard G. Salazar
Mark N. Tipton
David K. Tobiassen
Wendy H. Werb
Class of 1992
Class Total:
$9,150.00
No. in Class:
364
Participation:5%
Partners
John W. Randolph, Jr.
Associates
D. Bruce Hoffman
Trusler Society
Frederick D. Page
Mark E. Walker
Enrichment Society
Danelle D. Barksdale
Elizabeth A. Carrie
Lisa A. Esposito
Courtney K. Grimm
Kenneth B. Jacobs
Eric S. Kolar
Jennifer C. Lester
Caren L. Loguercio
Barbara A. Puestow
Pamela E. Rogers
John A. Sapora
DeeDee C. Smith
UF L AW
Class of 1993
Class Total:
$13,336.00
No. in Class:
405
Participation:7%
Partners
Scott G. Blews
Bruce M. Harris
Trusler Society
Jonathan D. Gerber
Gregory S. Hagopian
Donna L. Longhouse
Karen D. Walker
Enrichment Society
Nancy T. Baldwin
Yahn W. Bernier
Heather B. Brock
Martin T. Buckley
David E. Cannella
Anne T. Cooney
Sherrie B. Galambos
William W. Large
Janice M. Matson-Rickert
Veronica S. McCrackin
Jennifer H. McRae
Ami R. Patel
Rachel P. Ray
Kathleen H. Roberts
Caran L. Rothchild
Michael D. Simons
Robert G. Thornhill III
Jason L. Unger
Class of 1994
Class Total:
$10,426.00
No. in Class:
380
Participation:7%
Partners
Matthew N. Posgay
P. Kristen Pressly
Trusler Society
Tracy L. Gerber
Enrichment Society
Stacey Y. Adams
Joseph V. Camerlengo
Kevin D. Johnson
Lorien S. Johnson
Larry H. Kunin
Martin E. Leach
Thomas W. Ledman
Jacquelyn P. Lumpkin Wooden
Thomas M. McAleavey
Marie L. McLeod-Been
Sharon H. Proctor
Jack R. Reiter
Barbara L. Richard
Keith W. Rizzardi
Class of 1995
Class Total:
$6,631.00
No. in Class:
377
Participation:6%
Trusler Society
Misty Taylor Chaves
Kimberly R. Keravouri
Enrichment Society
Scott P. Andrew
Kevin A. Ashley
Caryn L. Bellus
Timothy M. Cerio
Christopher G. Commander
Willem A. Daman
Jonathan M. David
Anthony E. Denapoli
Tina A. Denapoli
Joseph H. Lang, Jr.
Timothy M. O’Brien
Christine R. Sensenig
Jeffrey M. Taylor
Lisa S. Taylor
Class of 1996
Class Total:
$5,100.00
No. in Class:
373
Participation:4%
Partners
Casey Walker
Enrichment Society
Carolyn S. Ansay
Michael R. Ansay
Michele Chappell
Lowell D. Collie, Jr.
Andrea M. De Camara
Adriane M. Isenberg
James F. Johnston
Frank W. Kenniasty
Marisol G. Lauerman
Kathryn W. Oberto
Jeremy M. Sensenig
Ketan S. Vakil
F. Scott Westheimer
Class of 1997
Class Total:
$13,360.00
No. in Class:
372
Participation:5%
Partners
Brian D. Burgoon
Rahul Patel
Associates
Maria C. Carantzas
Trusler Society
Rick R. Chaves
Lara J. Tibbals
Enrichment Society
John M. Belcastro
Lance A. Chernow
Leslie R. Hoffman
Phillip H. Hutchinson
Larry E. Hutton, Jr.
Jeffrey A. Jacobs
John T. Marshall
M. Scotland Morris
John B. Ryan
Christopher M. Tuccitto
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NEW YORK
STATE OF MIND
LO O K AT T H E R I G H T T I M E during the fall semester,
and you would have found a couple of big city lawyers
in UF Law’s Marcia Whitney Schott Courtyard. This shot
of Karen Dyer (JD 87) and Mike Smith (JD 85) was taken
during a break at the UF Law board of trustees meeting in
September.
Dyer’s firm, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, hosted a reception in
New York City for UF Law alumni. It’s something that Dyer
and Smith are planning on a regular basis with a group of
New York City-based Gator lawyers.
Dyer is the administrative partner for the Orlando office of
Boies, Schiller & Flexner, one of the nation’s top law firms.
She practices commercial litigation while splitting her time
between Orlando and New York City.
As for Smith, he’s chief operating officer for one of the
world’s largest insurers, American International Group, Inc.,
better known as AIG.
So why are key players leading international enterprises
joining the UF Law board of trustees?
Dyer said she wants to make sure UF Law gets the credit
it deserves: “This school tries to do a very good job of
taking care of its alumni and support people coming out
and getting jobs. I’m just proud of this school. I just think it
needs to be recognized for the national presence it has.”
And Smith said he wants to support those who come next:
“We have an opportunity, having some experience after
we left UF, to help some people along the way, so that they
might have a good career, do some good and benefit the
state of Florida as well.”
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Class of 1998
Class Total:
$16,605.00
No. in Class:
385
Participation:9%
Partners
J. Carter Andersen
Rebecca L. Brock
Taylor K. Rose
Gregory S. Weiss
Trusler Society
Marco Ferri
Wesley D. Tibbals
Enrichment Society
Bill R. Abrams
Eric N. Appleton
Brannon B. Belcastro
Thomas J. Fraser, Jr.
Irene B. Frick
Jeffrey M. Hazen
Bryan W. Keene
Daryl J. Krauza
Ivan A. Morales
M. Scott Noble
Cristine M. Russell
Brian J. Sasadu
Jeffrey A. Sudduth
Brian K. Szilvasy
E. John Wagner II
Moneque S. Walker-Pickett
Joshua B. Weingard
Class of 1999
Class Total:
$8,125.00
No. in Class:
386
Participation:5%
Partners
J. Grier Pressly III
Enrichment Society
Bradley T. Borden
Ryan E. Davis
Dino A. Doyle
Aubrey H. Ducker, Jr.
Jonathan A. Feldman
David M. Gonzalez
Bryan S. Gowdy
Kimberly J. Gustafson
Gregory C. Harrell
Maureen M. Hazen
Antony B. Kolenc
Kathy-Ann W. Marlin
Katherine A. Martin
Richard N. Sherrill
Class of 2000
Class Total:
$5,525.00
No. in Class:
393
Participation:5%
Partners
Ian R. Leavengood
Trusler Society
Asnardo Garro, Jr.
Enrichment Society
Mark H. Dahlmeier
Andrea L. Ducayet
Ashley D. Foster-Pinnock
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Russell Koonin
Ashley B. Moody
Michelle L. Naberhaus
Robert J. Naberhaus III
Julie L. Sellers
Amy G. Sudduth
Class of 2001
Class Total:
$3,610.09
No. in Class:
384
Participation:5%
Partners
Robin L. Leavengood
Enrichment Society
Ben Alexander
Carol A. Daly
Paul E. De Hart IIIH
Christy S. Evans
Bradley R. Gould
Duane L. Pinnock
Stacey A. Prince-Troutman
Sarah Reiner
Kathleen L. Wubker
Class of 2002
Class Total:
$10,060.00
No. in Class:
401
Participation:5%
Partners
Robert H. Thornburg
Trusler Society
Salvatore Bochicchio
Enrichment Society
Elizabeth F. Blanco
T. Robert Bulloch
Shawn M. Cline
Byron D. Flagg
Andrea K. Fourman
Adam N. Frisch
Sierra D. Frisch
Steven T. Gold
Brian H. Koch
Jennifer L. Kypreos
Theodore S. Kypreos
Wendy S. Martin
Vanessa Newtson
Alexa Sherr Hartley
Michael A. UngerbuehlerH
Allen C. Winsor
Nikitas G. Zissimopulos
Class of 2003
Class Total:
$7,690.00
No. in Class:
428
Participation:5%
Trusler Society
Sarah Cortvriend
James S. Moody III
Enrichment Society
Robyn L. Batelman
Miriam C. Dillard
Pamela Jo Hatley
Kevin E. Jakab
Nicole C. Kibert
Barry D. Lapides
Jeffrey L. Mapen
Angela M. Pagan
Darin Patton
Donald D. Pritchett, Jr.
Cecil D. Rolle
Kelly K. Samek
W. G. Steube
Scott A. Underwood
Class of 2004
Class Total:
$5,704.75
No. in Class:
398
Participation:6%
Trusler Society
Cheryl P. Ainsworth
Jason M. Trager
Enrichment Society
Douglas A. Bates
Lisa L. Bates
Lindsay A. Conner-O’Brien
Derek S. Cooper
David L. Gay
Emily Hooks
Daniel C. Irick
Sheena T. Irick
Adria M. Jensen
Robert J. Luck
Paul A. McDermott
L. Robin McKinney
Chad M. Muney
Karen L. Persis
Laura Minton Young
Class of 2005
Class Total:
$8,630.92
No. in Class:
376
Participation:9%
Partners
Julie C. Miller
Trusler Society
Daniel E. Smith II
Enrichment Society
Ricardo Alvarez
Angela F. Benjamin
David L. Benjamin
Todd C. Brister
Christopher L. Carmody, Jr.
Kevin A. Comer
Deborah E. Cupples
Kimberley A. Dillon
William M. Dillon
Michael K. Freedman
A. Felipe Guerrero
Jarrett R. Hoffman
Travis L. Horn
Cathy A. Kamm
Carolyn M. Kershner
Ryan G. Padgett
Samantha H. Padgett
Adina L. Pollan
Whitney M. Untiedt
Thomas G. Wilson III
Jessica R. Zissimopulos
Class of 2006
Class Total:
$6,715.00
No. in Class:
407
Participation:9%
Trusler Society
Eduardo J. Quinones
Enrichment Society
Oshia G. Banks
Jarrett D. Bingemann
Amy N. Bokor
Brian K. Bokor
Lauren F. Carmody
Joshua D. Curry
David D. Duncan
Dayna G. Duncan
Anthony P. Felice
Christine L. Fuqua-Gay
Daniel J. Glassman
Jason J. Hawkins
Shalonda N. Inniss
Kevin M. Jinks
Harris B. Kirsch
Jeffrey P. Lieser
Gavin W. MacMillan
Howell W. Melton III
Kristin Y. Melton
Nicholas A. Norden
Brian A. Roof
Veronica T. Roof
John H. Seibert
Sara E. Stephenson
Lauren L. Valiente
Joseph R. Worst
Class of 2007
Class Total:
$7,372.40
No. in Class:
445
Participation:9%
Enrichment Society
Jeffrey L. Allen
Douglas S. Allison
Ian M. Alperstein
Neil W. Blackmon
Scott A. Bowman
Michael P. Carolan
Carnesha J. Craft
C. Matthew Detzel
Bradley John Ellis
Christina L. Faubel
Ashley K. Feasley
Dina S. Finkel
Jessica Furst-Johnson
Erin R. Hines
Meghann Hoskinson Bowman
Ghada S. Lieser
Brian M. Malec
Jesse S. McIntyre
Holly R. Miller
Neil Patel
John H. Rains IV
Elizabeth F. Runyon
Darryl F. Smith
Kevin S. Sobel
Joshua L. Spoont
Carolyn R. Ward
Joshua C. Webb
Daniel A. Weisman
Olivia Z. Weisman
Alexandra N. Wilson
Kristeen R. Witt
Class of 2008
Class Total:
$4,510.00
No. in Class:
304
Participation:8%
Enrichment Society
Lauren M. Alperstein
John R. Campbell
Andrew R. Comiter
Christopher B. Cortez
Luis Delgado, Jr.
Elizabeth A. Faist
Michael A. Hersh
Michael J. Hooi
Ilan G. Kaufer
Christopher W. Kellam
Scott J. Kennelly
Joshua R. Levenson
Jamie L. Meola
Simon A. Rodell
Emily S. Sherlock
Class of 2009
Class Total:
$7,351.00
No. in Class:
419
Participation:10%
Enrichment Society
Joshua S. Altshuler
Dana M. Apfelbaum
Christopher D. Baehman
Aleksas A. Barauskas
Jonathan M. Blocker
Denise B. Cazobon
Lisa Clasen
David M. Crane
Hunter S. Edwards
Mitchell W. Goldberg
Dennis C. Gucciardo
Heather J. Howdeshell
Han Huang
Jennifer Erin Jones
Natalie C. Lashway
Adam J. Lee
Brian R. Levy
Brett D. Lieberman
Sasha A. Lohn-McDermott
Adam C. Losey
Mary Catherine E. Losey
Matthew I. Lufrano
Michael W. Luongo
Christopher J. McVety
Christopher A. Pavilonis
Jason A. Pill
Marisa E. Rosen
Shawn M. Taylor
Carly C. Todd
Wesley A. Todd
Natasha L. Waglow
Francis R. Waters
Reggie Zachariah
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Class of 2010
Class Total:
$6,256.10
No. in Class:
380
Participation:9%
Trusler Society
Michael A. McCulloch
Enrichment Society
Robert J. Braxton
Paul C. Cipparone
Robert W. Davis, Jr.
Ashley C. Drumm
Andres C. Healy
David M. Kerner
Allison L. Kirkwood
David K. Kuklewicz
Michael P. Maguire
Dana B. Mehlman
Jessica C. Miles
Jamie W. Olinto
Francis E. Pierce IV
Kristen Rasmussen
Tiffany C. Raush
Gustav L. Schmidt
Kevin Sharbaugh
Courtney A. Umberger
Monica L. Wilson
Sam Youn
Class of 2011
Class Total:
$6,392.00
No. in Class:
404
Participation:8%
Trusler Society
Matthew F. Hall
Enrichment Society
Justin S. Alex
Amanda K. Anderson
Anthony L. Bajoczky, Jr.
Michael D. Barber
Andrew S. Brown
Nathaniel M. Edenfield
Nathan A. Frazier
Adam D. Griffin
John M. Hunt
Frank M. Mari
Kristen M. McKinney
Elysa R. Merlin
Ryan J. Moseley
Suzanne M. Palms
Rhett C. Parker
Christine K. Pratt
Matthew J. Richardson
Dwayne A. Robinson
Darren Schweiger
Jennifer N. Shepard
Kyle A. Stevens
Jennifer L. White
Class of 2012
Class Total:
$4,312.00
No. in Class:
326
Participation:10%
Enrichment Society
Kelly G. Dunberg
Allison Fischman
Robert H. Gidel, Jr.
Kathryn Anne Kimball
Amanda J. Kotula
Daniel R. Lazaro
Jonathan L. Mann
Michael A. McMillan
Leigh Anne Miller
Adriana M. Paris
Jordan E. Pratt
Jonathan D. Ramsey
Selden R. Ross
Rachel E. Sgroi
Robyn A. Shelton
Adam J. Smith
Tara L. Tedrow
Craig P. Thompson
Georgia A. Thompson
Deborah K. Tyson
Melissa F. Williams
Diana M. Yankee
Class of 2013
Class Total:
$2,640.39
No. in Class:
358
Participation:7%
Enrichment Society
Kurt M. Ciell
Charles J. Delpapa
Glen E. Douglas, Jr.
Ryan L. Gilbert
Nicole P. Kuncl
Stephen A. McCullers
Alexandra E. Menegakis
Maria R. Schiuma
Dylan R. Shea
Samantha D. E. Tucker
Tamara Van Heel
Class of 2014
Class Total:
$2,687.00
No. in Class:
299
Participation:38%
Associates
Anonymous
Enrichment Society
Kathryn E. Bennett
Alexander P. Gelep
Marc B. Hernandez
Stephen E. Ludovici
James E. Moye, Jr.
Patricia L. Reid
Dane R. Ullian
BACK FOR
OFFICE HOURS
W H E N DAV I D B I L S K E R ( J D 9 0) set foot on the
UF Law campus for the first time in 25 years this fall,
he had two reactions: disorientation and nostalgia.
Disorientation because the buildings and layout have
changed since he was a student. Nostalgia because, well,
it’s his law school.
“I’m not sure I can actually navigate my way around here
by myself, but, yeah, I do feel a little homesick about being
here and I think it’s kind of cool,” Bilsker said.
Back in his new hometown of San Francisco, Bilsker
handles antitrust, intellectual property and life sciencesrelated cases for Quinn Emanuel. The photo shows
Bilsker’s return to his alma mater giving a hand to a
current law student after teaming up with UF Law’s
Office of Career Development. He gave advice and talked
with students about their job search on an informal
basis. It was called “office hours.”
“I try to stay in touch with UF law school alumni in the San
Francisco area,” Bilsker said. “And, you know, my heart is
still kind of here having grown up here and having gone to
the law school here, so I want to help out.”
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to Missy Poole at poole@law.
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Tax Alumni By Class
T H A N K YO U F O R YO U R S U P P O RT
Names are listed for gifts of $100 and up. Loyalty Society members are recognized in the online version of the Annual Report.
Class of 1975
Class Total:
$2,530.71
No. in Class:
38
Participation:11%
Founders Society - silver
K. Lawrence Gragg
Trusler Society
Dennis A. Calfee
Enrichment Society
Harry S. Colburn, Jr.
Class of 1976
Class Total:
$4,725.00
No. in Class:
41
Participation:17%
Trusler Society
James B. O’Neal
Robert A. Pierce
Enrichment Society
Bernie A. Barton, Jr.
Walter G. Clayton III
John H. Jones
Ronald L. Rowland
Class of 1977
Class Total:
$57,855.00
No. in Class:
39
Participation:15%
Founders Society - platinum
Ellen Bellet Gelberg
Associates
Peter M. MacNamara
Enrichment Society
John J. Collins, Jr.
James A. Watson
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Class of 1978
Class Total:
$5,250.00
No. in Class:
66
Participation:11%
Partners
William A. Boyles
Associates
Everett R. Moreland
Trusler Society
Paul D. Fitzpatrick
Enrichment Society
Kevin M. Daly
Don H. Goode
Bradley C. Grossenburg
Ronald L. Siegel
Class of 1979
Class Total:
$7,810.00
No. in Class:
44
Participation:20%
Founders Society - gold
David H. Peek
Partners
John J. Scroggin
Enrichment Society
Cheryl L. Gordon
Jonathan C. Gordon
C. Gray Johnsey
Kimon P. Karas
Steven C. Lee
William J. Lindsay, Jr.
Class of 1980
Class Total:
$11,370.00
No. in Class:
47
Participation:15%
Founders Society - silver
Lindy L. Paull
Associates
Peter T. Kirkwood
Enrichment Society
Harris H. Barnes III
Gerald R. Kleedehn
Class of 1981
Class Total:
$10,530.00
No. in Class:
65
Participation:23%
Founders Society - gold
David E. Bowers
Partners
Randolph J. Rush
Trusler Society
Richard B. Comiter
Enrichment Society
Anonymous
Marci Adler
Michael S. Hawley
Craig P. Hoffman
William R. Lane, Jr.
Gerald F. Stack
Anton H. Zidansek
Class of 1982
Class Total:
$19,932.50
No. in Class:
60
Participation:10%
Founders Society - gold
Michael D. Minton
Enrichment Society
Patricia L. Burquest-Fultz
Gary J. Cohen
Marvin A. Kirsner
Alan L. Rubens
Patricia A. Willing
Class of 1983
Class Total:
$7,275.00
No. in Class:
60
Participation:15%
Partners
Michael A. Abbott
John N. Giordano
R. Lawrence Heinkel
Trusler Society
Ellen R. Gershow
Enrichment Society
Stephen L. Cordell
Alan S. Gassman
Michael A. Levey
Robert L. Miller
Class of 1984
Class Total:
$3,450.00
No. in Class:
72
Participation:6%
Partners
Mark T. Tate, Jr.
Enrichment Society
Michael D. Miller
Fred Williams
Sharon A. Zahner
Class of 1985
Class Total:
$2,414.16
No. in Class:
73
Participation:10%
Associates
Guy E. Whitesman
Enrichment Society
Charles L. Balch III
John E. Knight III
Stephen R. Looney
Class of 1987
Class Total:
$8,475.00
No. in Class:
61
Participation:10%
Barristers
Douglas A. Wright
Partners
Louis Nostro
Enrichment Society
Scott E. Hunt
Melton E. Knotts, Jr.
Mark A. Prater
Class of 1988
Class Total:
$8,800.00
No. in Class:
43
Participation:7%
Associates
John C. Bovay
Enrichment Society
Jane D. Callahan
Edward E. Wollman
Class of 1989
Class Total:
$550.00
No. in Class:
63
Participation:6%
Enrichment Society
Charles L. Cooper, Jr.
James W. Forsyth
John E. Lawlor III
Joe F. Yonek
Class of 1990
Class Total:
$650.00
No. in Class:
53
Participation:8%
Enrichment Society
Glenn A. Adams
William L. Curry
Clay H. Davis
Jonathan H. Nason
Class of 1991
Class Total:
$750.00
No. in Class:
63
Participation:6%
UF L AW
TA X A LU M N I BY C L AS S .
Graduates of the Graduate Tax
Program, ranked No. 1 among
publics, provided significant
financial support so the college
could continue to meet the
challenge of achieving top-tier
excellence in legal education.
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TA X A LU M N I
Other Graduate
Alumni
A LU M N I F R O M O U R M A NY
G R A D UAT E D EG R E E
P R O G R A M S made financial
commitments to help the college
continue to be an institution of
excellence. Names are listed for
gifts of $100 and up. Loyalty Society
members are recognized in the online
version of the Annual Report.
Class of 2003
Class Total:
$10,000.00
No. in Class:
12
Participation:8%
Founders Society - silver
Jorge F. Ramirez
Class of 2006
Class Total:
$100.00
No. in Class:
8
Participation:13%
Enrichment Society
Queen E. Meheux
Class of 2011
Class Total:
$100.00
No. in Class:
12
Participation:8%
Enrichment Society
Byron D. Flagg
Enrichment Society
Todd A. Hauss
Michael G. Little
Charles Pillitteri
Daniel H. Waters, Jr.
Class of 1992
Class Total:
$200.00
No. in Class:
60
Participation:2%
Enrichment Society
Ailish C. O’Connor
Class of 1993
Class Total:
$2,900.00
No. in Class:
57
Participation:12%
Trusler Society
Rosanne M. Duane
Wilton B. Hyman
Enrichment Society
Dwayne W. Barrett
Elizabeth A. Carrie
Tance E. Roberts
William P. Zox
Class of 1994
Class Total:
$3,700.00
No. in Class:
63
Participation:8%
Trusler Society
Gary W. Huston
Donna L. Longhouse
Arnold P. May
Enrichment Society
Mary P. Williamson
Camille L. Worsnop
Class of 1995
Class Total:
$295.00
No. in Class:
70
Participation:6%
Enrichment Society
Bruce R. Jacob
Class of 1996
Class Total:
$425.00
No. in Class:
69
Participation:6%
Enrichment Society
Lamont C. Loo
Matthew R. O’Kane
Peter A. Rivellini
Class of 1997
Class Total:
$100.00
No. in Class:
53
Participation:2%
Enrichment Society
Keith M. Olivia
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Class of 1998
Class Total:
$1,775.00
No. in Class:
69
Participation:12%
Enrichment Society
Matthew J. Ahearn
Monica D. Armstrong
Robert J. Barna
Tina A. Denapoli
Andrew T. Huber
Dan C. Young
Class of 1999
Class Total:
$900.00
No. in Class:
45
Participation:9%
Enrichment Society
Joseph M. Depew
Rahul P. Ranadive
James H. Sutton, Jr.
E. John Wagner II
Class of 2000
Class Total:
$825.00
No. in Class:
64
Participation:6%
Enrichment Society
Bradley T. Borden
James F. Loebl
Renee C. Samson
Class of 2001
Class Total:
$900.00
No. in Class:
64
Participation:6%
Enrichment Society
Alton D. Bain
Keith C. Kantack
Kathleen M. McRoberts
Class of 2002
Class Total:
$4,800.00
No. in Class:
63
Participation:8%
Partners
Heath K. Dedmond
Stacy L. Kenyon
Enrichment Society
Elena Kaplan
Stacey A. Prince-Troutman
Kerry A. Ryan
Class of 2003
Class Total:
$3,950.00
No. in Class:
80
Participation:8%
Partners
Terrence T. Dariotis
Trusler Society
Salvatore Bochicchio
Enrichment Society
Telly J. Meier
Alan M. Schlissel
Benjamin A. Swift
Class of 2004
Class Total:
$580.00
No. in Class:
79
Participation:5%
Enrichment Society
Alexander D. DeVitis
Adam N. Frisch
Barry D. Lapides
Class of 2005
Class Total:
$295.00
No. in Class:
78
Participation:5%
Enrichment Society
Michael J. Faehner
Shawn M. Richter
Class of 2006
Class Total:
$310.00
No. in Class:
73
Participation:4%
Enrichment Society
Kimberley A. Dillon
Class of 2008
Class Total:
$2,575.00
No. in Class:
85
Participation:9%
Trusler Society
David F. Pressly
Enrichment Society
Scott A. Bowman
David D. Duncan
Daniel J. Glassman
Brian M. Malec
Kristeen R. Witt
Joseph R. Worst
Class of 2009
Class Total:
$1,225.00
No. in Class:
91
Participation:5%
Enrichment Society
Andrew R. Comiter
Elizabeth A. Faist
Jamie L. Meola
Dax O. Nelson
Grant W. Steadman
Class of 2010
Class Total:
$1,210.00
No. in Class:
110
Participation:9%
Enrichment Society
Dana M. Apfelbaum
Denise B. Cazobon
Wooje Choi
Mitchell W. Goldberg
Han Huang
Christopher A. Pavilonis
Class of 2011
Class Total:
$275.00
No. in Class:
96
Participation:2%
Enrichment Society
Robert J. Braxton
Class of 2012
Class Total:
$400.00
No. in Class:
101
Participation:7%
Enrichment Society
Bradley D. Kay
Jonathan C. Squires
Class of 2013
Class Total:
$270.13
No. in Class:
113
Participation:4%
Enrichment Society
Austin R. Byars
Adam J. Smith
UF L AW
MEMORIALS AND TRIBUTES
Memorials
In Memory:
Carolyn S. Castagna
John F. & Helen A. McGrath
In Memory:
Dean C. Houk, Jr.
Dorothy A. Houk
In Memory:
Earl D. Farr, Jr.
Guy S. & Annette L. Emerich
In Memory:
Henry Latimer
Caran L. Rothchild
In Memory:
Marion M. Cromwell
Luisa R. Bosso
Martin L. Haines
Susan Kelly-Gilbert
Donna M. Kern
In Memory:
Mark Hulsey, Esq.
William H. Ferguson
In Memory:
Matilde H. Landrum
Bruce D. & Elizabeth C. Landrum
In Memory:
Naomi S. Fawbush
Andrew J. Fawbush, Jr.
In Memory:
Professor Grace W. Taylor
Fletcher N. & Nancy T. Baldwin
In Memory:
Robert A. Harper, Jr.
Camille E. Sheppard
In Memory:
Ronald L. Stetler
James A. Pilon
In Memory:
The Hon. David A. Glant
Fletcher N. & Nancy T. Baldwin
In Memory:
The Hon. Isaac B. Krentzman
Sally H. Foote & Forrest S. Crawford
In Memory:
The Hon. John H. Moore II
Arthur B. & Joanne P. Jones
In Memory:
The Hon. Johnny R. Hobbs, Jr.
Fletcher N. & Nancy T. Baldwin
In Memory:
W. Dexter Douglass
Mitchell W. Berger
Jean H. Bower
Bettie J. Grant
Wayne & Patricia R. Hogan
Clara Jane Smith
Martha Gene Wigginton
In Memory:
William H. McBride, Jr.
W. Dehart & Patty Ayala
Gregory A. Baldwin
Martha W. & Richard R. Barnett, Sr.
Alex Berger Foundation
Susan J. Booth
Mary Beth Cantrell
Leslie W. Hudock
Martin P. Miner
Stephen B. & Rhoda G. Moss
D. Culver Smith III
Bob L. & Terri Tankel
Gregory C. Yadley
Tributes
In Honor:
Dean Bob Jerry
Charles W. & Betty Jo E. Abbott
Bill R. Abrams & Susan G. Goffman
Matthew J. & Rebecca M. Ahearn
Ben & Katie V. Alexander
W. George & Enid Allen
J. Carter & Dana D. Andersen
Dana M. & Nicolas A. Apfelbaum
Daniel H. & Joanne F. Aronson
DuBose & Sallie M. Ausley
Avera & Smith LLP
John C. & Tracy F. Bales
Martha W. & Richard R. Barnett, Sr.
John C. & Tifi Bierley
Susan H. & Louis E. Black III
R. Mason & Amelia S. Blake
Darryl M. & Mary Bloodworth
Bruce H. & Joanne K. Bokor
E. G. (Dan) & Alfreda S. Boone
Jeffery A. & Shirley L. Boone
John C. & Leslie Bovay
David E. & Mollie M. Bowers
William A. & Laura M. Boyles
Stephen J. & Sharon J. Bozarth
Carol M. Brewer & Andrew J. Ogilvie
Heather B. Brock & Edwin W. Parkinson III
Rebecca L. Brock & Jonathan T. Krone
Theotis & Jeanelle G. Bronson
Brian D. Burgoon
Dennis A. & Peggy M. Calfee
Jane D. Callahan
Maria C. Carantzas
J. Thomas & Kathy A. Cardwell
J.P. & Lynn Carolan
Marc D. & Tracy D. Chapman
Rick R. & Misty Taylor Chaves
Martha L. Cochran
Coker, Schickel, Sorenson & Posgay
Richard B. & Marilyn T. Comiter
Anne C. Conway
Corinne C. Hodak Family Foundation
Patrick S. & Kaydene Roberts Cousins
Barry R. & Paula M. Davidson
Lauren Y. Detzel
John A. & Sue S. DeVault
Edward & Julia B. Downey
Mayanne A. Downs
Martin I. & Betty S. Edwards
Charles H. & Karen C. Egerton
Ladd H. & Renee M. Fassett
Andrew J. & Melinda W. Fawbush
Jeffrey D. Feldman
Jonathan A. & Jenifer Feldman
Michael & Jane M. Ferguson
Michael K. & Jacqueline Friel
James A. & Stacy S. Gale
Betsy Ellwanger Gallagher
W. C. & Susan R. Gentry
Patrick E. & Dena Geraghty
Jonathan D. & Tracy L. Gerber
Ellen R. & Jim A. Gershow
Gene K. & Elaine A. Glasser
Mandell & Joyce K. Glicksberg
Paul M. & Mollene Y. Goldman
Bradley R. & Vanessa R. Gould
Robert S. & Nannette M. Griscti
A. Felipe Guerrero
Jack O. & Mary O. Hackett
Bruce M. & Medea D. Harris
Alexa Sherr Hartley &
Charles J. Hartley III
Scott G. & Lisa V. Hawkins
Benjamin H. & Marte A. Hill
Lynn J. & Evelyn R. Hinson
Corinne C. Hodak
Jarrett R. & Amanda H. Hoffman
Charlene E. & Gerald H. Honeywell
Laurence W. & Marcia M. Howard
Paul C. Huck
Yolanda C. Jackson
Elizabeth A. Jenkins & Charles E. Hudson
Johnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel, & Burns
Thomas R. & Maritza A. Julin
Keefe, Anchors & Gordon
Becky Powhatan & Mark Kelley
Carolyn M. & Jesse B. Kershner
Kathryn Anne Kimball
E. C. Deeno & Patricia G. Kitchen
Mark W. Klingensmith & Wendy H. Werb
Daryl J. Krauza
Roger C. & Ellen J. Lambert
Ian R. & Robin L. Leavengood
Mark Leavitt
Steven C. & Ann Lee
Frederick W. & Victoria C. Leonhardt
Jennifer C. & Robert F. Lester
Paul R. Linder & A. Michelle Jernigan
Warren W. Lindsey & Eileen C. Forrester
Brian M. Malec
Ira W. & Ingrid S. McCollum
Marybeth McDonald & Eric W. Jarvis
Robert W. Mead, Jr.
Joseph C. Mellichamp III &
Barbara J. Staros
Howell W. & Cathi H. Melton
Manuel & Linda L. S. Menendez
Robert G. & Joelen K. Merkel
Holly R. Miller
Michael D. & Mary P. Minton
James S. Moody III
George R. & Karen K. Moraitis
Murphy & Walker
Lewis W. Murphy, Jr.
Robert J. & Michelle L. Naberhaus
Louis & Janet Miller Nostro
Rahul & Swati R. Patel
Darin Patton
Lindy L. Paull
David H. & Cheryl R. Peek
Hugh W. & Cynthia E. Perry
Eugene K. & Sheila L. Pettis
J. Grier & P. Kristen Pressly
James G. & Kathryn S. Pressly
Gary Lee & Suzanne G. Printy
Kimberly Bonder & Paul W. Rezanka
Taylor K. & Manjiri S. Rose
Gerald A. & Ingrid M. Rosenthal
Sharon E. Rush
Oscar A. Sanchez &
Lida R. Rodriguez-Taseff
William J. & Paola F. Schifino
George E. Schulz, Jr.
John J. & Lynn G. Scroggin
Lawrence E. & Cathy M. Sellers
Abraham M. & Joy M. Shashy
Morris Silberman & Nelly N. Khouzam
Donald D. & Jeannett B. Slesnick
W. Crit & Dee Ann Smith
W. Kelly Smith
Robert G. & Susan L. Stern
Sidney A. & Annette Stubbs
Mark T. & Jeanne T. Tate
Terrell Hogan Ellis Yegelwel
Laura J. & Clarence L. Thacker
James S. & Sharon L. Theriac
Robert H. & Ashley H. Thornburg
Wesley D. & Lara J. Tibbals
Waldman, Trigoboff, Hildebrandt,
Marx & Calnan
Casey Walker
Jeffrey W. & Susan P. Warren
Joshua C. & Andrea R. Webb
William A. & Kathleen M. Weber
Guy E. Whitesman & Ilene M. SafronWhitesman
Lauren M. Wilcox
Michael A. & Betty M. Wolf
Bruce I. & Betsy F. Yegelwel
Gwynne A. Young
Laura Minton & Robert E. Young
Stephen N. Zack
Peter W. & Cynthia G. Zinober
In Honor:
Harris I. Yegelwel
Bruce I. & Betsy F. Yegelwel
In Honor:
Bryce H. Alley
Cynthia A. Holloway & C. Todd Alley
In Honor:
Buddy Schulz
Edward F. Ryan
In Honor:
Gary D. Fox
Florida Chapter of America
Board of Trial Advocates
In Honor:
Gregg S. Truxton
Joshua J. & Danielle K. Truxton
In Honor:
Kari M. Lieber
David S. & Kari M. Lieber
In Honor:
Mayanne A. Downs
DeeEllen Robinson
In Honor:
Professor Dennis A. Calfee
Harris H. & Sandra S. Barnes
Denise B. Cazobon
James F. Loebl
In Honor:
Professor George L. Dawson
Sean B. Bedford
In Honor:
R. Keith Williams
Brett T. Williams
In Honor:
Warren W. Lindsey
E. Lanny & Denise M. Russell
In Memoriam
We honor those donors who passed
away during the year of their giving.
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Law Center Association, Inc.
2 0 1 3 - 2 0 14
Michael D. Minton, Chair, JD 81, LLMT 82
Oscar A. Sanchez, Vice Chair, JD 82
Scott G. Hawkins, Secretary, JD 83
Laura J. Thacker, Assistant Secretary, JD 87
Dennis A. Calfee, Treasurer, LLMT 75
Jeanne T. Tate, Assistant Treasurer, JD 81
Ladd H. Fassett, Immediate Past Chair, JD 79
AC T I V E M E M B E R S
J. Carter Andersen, JD 98
John C. Bales, JD 82
Michael A. Bedke, JD 84
Jeffrey A. Boone, JD 82
John C. Bovay, JD 82, LLMT 88
David E. Bowers, LLMT 81
William A. Boyles, JD 76, LLMT 78
Carol M. Brewer, JD 79
Martha L. Cochran, JD 73
Richard B. Comiter, JD 80, LLMT 81
Patrick S. Cousins, JD 89
Lauren Y. Detzel, JD 77
Edward Downey, JD 84
Mayanne Downs, JD 87
Ladd H. Fassett, JD 79
74
Andrew J. Fawbush, JD 74
Jeffrey D. Feldman, JD 81
James A. Gale, JD 83
Betsy E. Gallagher, JD 76
Jonathan D. Gerber, JD 93
Jack O. Hackett II, JD 79
Scott G. Hawkins, JD 83
Ben H. Hill III, JD 65
Charlene E. Honeywell, JD 81
Marcia M. Howard, JD 90
Paul C. Huck, JD 65
Yolanda C. Jackson, JD 90
Lawrence Keefe, JD 86
Mark W. Klingensmith, JD 85
Paul R. Linder, JD 82
Warren W. Lindsey, JD 79
Bill McCollum, JD 68
Manuel Menendez Jr., JD 72
Michael D. Minton, JD 81, LLMT 82
Louis Nostro, JD 82, LLMT 87
Rahul Patel, JD 97
David H. Peek, JD 87, LLMT 79
Hugh W. Perry, JD 86
Gary L. Printy, JD 82
Oscar A. Sanchez, JD 82
William J. Schifino, Jr., JD 85
John J. Scroggin, JD 77, LLMT 79
Abraham M. Shashy Jr., JD 73
Jeanne T. Tate, JD 81
Laura J. Thacker, JD 87
Glenn J. Waldman, JD 83
Guy E. Whitesman, LLMT 85
E X- O F F I C I O
J. Bernard Machen
Dennis A. Calfee, LLMT 75
Robert H. Jerry II
Taylor K. Rose, Law Alumni
Council President, JD 98
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Taylor K. Rose, President, JD 98
Brian D. Burgoon, President Elect, JD 97
Rebecca L. Brock, Secretary, JD 98
Ian R. Leavengood, Immediate
Past President, JD 00
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Scholars,
Teachers,
Leaders
A new section about
the impact, influence
and innovation of
UF Law professors.
Jeffrey Davis, Gerald A. Sohn Research
Scholar, teaches next to the bingo ball
he uses to choose students to call on
during his contracts class.
Page 78. Robert Rhee
argues for cash competiton
to make rating agencies
compete on Wall Street
Page 80. Stuart Cohn writes
the first-in-Florida law for a
new class of corporations that
work for the greater good
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FACULT Y ACCOMPLISHMENT
Faculty News
Angelo
DiMatteo
Angelo joins Everglades
water research team
M A RY JA N E A N G E LO, director of
the Environmental and Land Use Law
Program, is part of a six-member
University of Florida research team this
fall that is conducting a technical review
of the options to move water from
Lake Okeechobee to the Everglades.
The Florida Senate contracted the UF
interdisciplinary team for the research
project, which will conclude with a
report from the team in early 2015.
The group will review documents and
reports, and gather information from
agencies, organizations and individuals
with expertise on reducing regulatory
discharges from Lake Okeechobee to
the estuaries and increasing the flow of
water from the lake to the Everglades.
DiMatteo scholarship quoted
in New Mexico Supreme
Court decision
A F F L I AT E P R O F E S S O R L A R RY
D I M AT T EO was recently quoted
in a decision of the New Mexico
Supreme Court: “Ruling on substantive
unconscionability is an inherent
equitable power of the court, and does
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Russell-Brown
Seigel
not require prior legislative action.
‘Equity supplements the common law;
its rules do not contradict the common
law; rather, they aim at securing
substantial justice when the strict rule of
common law might work hardship.’ Larry
A. DiMatteo, “The History of Natural
Law Theory: Transforming Embedded
Influences into a Fuller Understanding of
Modern Contract Law,” 60 U. Pittsburgh
Law Review 839, 890 (1999).” King v.
B & B Investment Corp., 329 P.3d 658,
670-71 (Supreme Court of New Mexico
2014).
Russell-Brown selected as
Dunlevie Honors Professor
K AT H E RYN R US S E L L- B R O W N ,
director of the Center for the Study
of Race and Race Relations, was
selected as an Elizabeth Wood Dunlevie
Honors Term Professor for the 20142015 academic year. The goal of the
professorship program is “to encourage
the most esteemed faculty at the
University of Florida to participate
in the University Honors Program as
instructors and mentors.” Between two
and four faculty from across the campus
are selected for this program each year
in a competitive application process.
Russell-Brown will teach an honors
Vallandingham
Sokol
undergraduate course on Race, Criminal
Law, and Justice in the spring semester.
Scholarship established
in Seigel’s honor
THE MICHAEL L. SEIGEL CRIMINAL
J UST I C E F E L LO WS H I P F U N D has
been established in honor of Professor
Michael Seigel, who had a recurrence
of lymphoma earlier this year that will
prevent him from returning to teach at
UF Law. Seigel was the moving force
in the creation of the Criminal Justice
Center and the faculty recognized
his long-standing service to and
relationship with UF Law with the
fellowship fund. The income from the
fund will provide stipends to assist law
students in meeting living expenses
while they gain unpaid field experience
with federal criminal justice agencies.
Vallandingham awarded
Army Achievement Medal
C A P T. C H R I STO P H E R
VA L L A N D I N G H A M ( J D 0 0 ) was
awarded the Army Achievement
Medal. This medal is awarded to
members of the U.S. Armed Forces
who have distinguished themselves by
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meritorious service or achievement.
He earned the medal on Feb. 22
for his presentation of a day-long
seminar at Camp Parks in California
on intelligence law to members of the
75th Legal Operations Detachment.
Vallandingham, who is head of
collections in the Lawton Chiles Legal
Information Center and a UF Law
adjunct professor, is a member of
the Judge Advocate General’s Corps,
United States Army.
Sokol named Chamber’s
academic adviser on
antitrust
P R O F E S S O R D. DA N I E L S O KO L has
been named academic adviser for the
Antitrust Council of the U.S. Chamber
of Commerce. “He is well connected
both within academic circles, but also
with practitioners,” explained Sean
Heather, vice president of the Center
for Global Regulatory Cooperation
and executive director, International
Policy & Antitrust Policy for the U.S.
Chamber. “As a result his insights
and advice both domestically and
internationally are deeply appreciated
as we deliberate matters of
competition policy and enforcement.”
Sokol took over the position from
Bill Kovacic, former Federal Trade
Commission Chairman and George
Washington Law School professor.
Kovacic left the academic adviser role
to serve as a director of the United
Kingdom’s Competition and Market
Authority. The Chamber represents
over 3 million businesses on domestic
and global issues and the Antitrust
Council serves as the premier forum
for the development of antitrust policy
for the business community.
Scholarship’s home address
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F Law professors stand daily
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SCHOLARSHIP FOCUS
Can ratings get real?
Article calls for cash competition among Wall Street agencies
BY M AT T WA L K E R
“On Duopoly and Compensation Games in
the Credit Rating Industry,” Northwestern
University Law Review, Vol. 108, 2013
I
t’s all about having skin in the game,
said UF Law Professor Robert Rhee.
He’s talking about competition
— a concept he knows well as a former Wall Street investment banker —
among the big three credit rating agencies.
In a recent article published in the
Northwestern University Law Review,
Rhee addresses how this lack of competition contributed to the significant failures of the agencies to properly assess
asset risks leading to the 2008 financial
crisis. His paper proposes a simple way
to avoid the same mistakes in the fu-
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ture by introducing monetary incentives
for rating agencies to accurately gauge
those risks.
Sitting in his third-floor office in Holland Hall, UF Law’s new John H. and Marylou Dasburg Professor of Law explains
the inherent problems with the credit ratings agencies and how his article, “On
Duopoly and Compensation Games in the
Credit Rating Industry,” came about.
“One of the major storylines to come
out of the financial crisis is that these
mortgage-backed bonds … had been represented to the global investment community as something very safe,” Rhee said.
But the reality was that the bonds were
“toxic securities” and never should have
been rated as investment grade to begin
with.
So how did this happen?
In his article, Rhee illuminates several
factors that lead to inaccurate credit ratings and the short answer is: “Credit rating
agencies suffer from a lack of competition
and a will to do better than other agencies,
which diminishes the quality of credit ratings.”
The big three agencies — Standard &
Poor’s, Fitch, and Moody’s — are complacent in the current system because there is
no motivation for one to out-perform another. (Small credit rating agencies also
operate, but the big three take up an estimated 97 percent-plus of the market, according to data compiled by Bloomberg
Businessweek in 2011.)
“Right now they are enjoying a situation in which there are only three of them,”
Rhee said. “The market really needs credit
ratings and every time there’s a bond is-
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sued we can be sure that at least two of the
three or possibly all three will be enjoying
an engagement from that. So given that nice
situation, where’s the incentive to really do
well?”
Rhee explained that the credit rating
agencies are protected in that they are
making a commercial form of speech.
And as such, there are no real repercussions if a bond is inaccurately rated. In
a faux-innocent tone, Rhee adopts the
voice of the credit rating agencies: “I’m
just giving my opinion, no one has to listen to me.”
In reality, bond issuers do have to listen
to them and they rely on those ratings. The
credit industry is far too vast for bond issuers to even attempt to compile all the necessary data to rate bonds on their own, Rhee
said. The credit rating agencies provide an
essential aggregation service that facilitates
the desired result — a rating — much like
a library aggregates research materials for
scholars to access the information necessary
to complete their research.
And adding to the already-fuzzy nature
of this game, the agencies operate on an
issuer-pay model, which Rhee said results
in a built-in bias towards the client.
“It’s really a question of does a dog tend
to bite the hand that feeds it?” Rhee said.
He noted that the tendency to try and please
those who are paying you can mean bumping up a borderline toxic security to an investment grade rating.
Rhee said even if credit ratings turn out
to be inaccurate on one bond, the issuers
still come back for ratings on the next bond
because there are so few choices. So besides
dominating the credit ratings market, the
big three rating agencies earn revenue from
the bond issuers they are providing ratings
for. They please the issuers that pay them,
and since ratings are necessary there is no
real reason for the agencies to step up their
games.
Not surprisingly, since 2008 there has
been much talk about how to improve upon
this flawed system, ranging from doing
away with the credit rating agencies altogether, having the government assign agencies to bond issuers, or completely revamping the issuer-pay model.
“I haven’t been really satisfied with any
of these proposals and that’s the reason why
UF Law Professor Robert Rhee.
(Photo by Julian Pinilla)
I wrote my own law review article on this workshops and conferences. Several journals
problem,” Rhee said.
have invited him to write follow-up pieces to
Rhee’s article offers a solution so sim- the article, which are in progress.
ple it may leave some wondering why the
UF Law Professor D. Daniel Sokol beidea hasn’t been suggested sooner.
lieves Rhee is on to something.
“If competition doesn’t in fact exist now,
“The paper provides an analytical
why don’t we just create an artificial competi- sound way to address the problem and,
tion with real stakes?” Rhee asked.
more importantly, a possible workable soIn the article, Rhee
lution,” said Sokol,
proposes creating a coman
internationally
“If competition
pensation game where
recognized expert in
doesn’t in fact exist antitrust law.
each of the big three credit rating agencies would
Besides being a
now, why don’t
take a small percentage
straightforward soluwe just create an tion to incentivizing
of their revenue and put it
into a bonus. They would
better performance,
be evaluated at regular artificial competition Rhee’s plan does
intervals to see which
with real stakes?” not require complex
agency provided the most
regulations or a fun—Robert Rhee
accurate credit ratings
damental change in
during the time period.
the current issuer-pay model.
“Whoever performed the best takes the
Rhee said while the amount an agency
pot,” he said. Thus, rating agencies would would initially pay into the pool would be
be mandated to participate in a competi- a small percentage of their overall revetion for a bonus pool that is funded by a nue, winning the pool on a consistent basis
portion of their earned revenue.
would result in quite a large sum of money
Rhee compares it to competitions in at the expense of the losers, thus creating
other industries like the rivalry between the proper incentives to perform.
Samsung and Apple. Competition is fierce
“The point here is that even in small
to put out a better product than the com- financial increments — as a matter of perpetitors.
centages — can actually yield quite a lot
Rhee said his proposal has garnered posi- of shareholder value for the company that
tive feedback and he has presented it at several does the job the best,” he said.
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MAKING THE NEWS
The benefit in business
Professor helps create new category of Florida corporations
BY M AT T WA L K E R
I
f corporations are people, does that
mean they can also have a conscience?
In July, Florida corporations
gained the chance to move just a
little closer to an altruistic existence by
using a larger portion of revenue for the
greater good, thanks in part to UF Law
Professor Stuart Cohn and the passage of
a new law allowing for corporations to
operate as “benefit corporations” or “social purpose corporations.”
Cohn, an active member of The
Florida Bar Business Law Section, was
a principal author of the legislation. The
difference between these new classifica-
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tions and what defines a traditional corporation is the bottom line.
“For traditional corporations there is
always a concern that the directors have
a fiduciary duty not to go too far (using
revenue for social causes),” Cohn said,
“because they must think of the best interest of the stockholders in terms of creating dividends for them and maximizing the profits of the corporation for the
long term.
“This new legislation is intended for
corporations that want to go further.”
Florida was the second state — one
of only three — to adopt both the benefit corporation and the social purpose
corporation, Cohn said. He explained
that directors of benefit corporations are
required to consider all categories relevant to public interest when making any
corporate decision. Directors of a social
purpose corporation can consider narrower goals.
James Glover (JD 13), a real estate
attorney in Miami at the Law Office
of Steven M. Lee, P.A., worked with
Cohn on The Florida Bar Business Law
Section committee that produced the
legislation.
Glover said it was an exciting opportunity as a law student to participate
in the drafting process and “state-level
policy discussions surrounding a complex area of law.”
For Glover, the most difficult part
of the project was not drafting the leg-
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islation, but waiting for the Legislature
to act.
“I hadn’t considered that the entire effort would be at the mercy of the political
process, but thankfully we received bipartisan sponsorship and unanimous support
for the bill,” Glover said.
He credits success to the thorough job
the committee did on the project and to
Cohn’s “exemplary reputation throughout
the Florida legal community.”
“Florida is a leading state in environmental protection, innovation and policy.
It only makes sense for Florida to adapt
its corporate law to the needs of our environmental and social entrepreneurs, and to
encourage green businesses to incorporate
in our state,” Glover said.
Cohn said the law is expected to bring
business to Florida because of the increasing number of socially minded investors
and entrepreneurs looking to set up shop.
“It’s very new so we don’t have much
history here, but we’ve already had some
existing corporations convert,” Cohn said.
The first of those companies was Clean
the World Foundation, Inc., an Orlandobased company that collects and recycles
unused and discarded soap and shampoo
throughout hotels in the U.S. It then distributes them and other donated hygiene
products to people in need throughout
the world to help “prevent the millions of
deaths caused by hygiene-related illnesses
every day,” according to the Clean the
World website.
The company was founded as a nonprofit in 2009. It added a for-profit LLC
division in 2011 to increase opportunities
to bring in investment capital and help
further the goals of the company, said
Seipler
Glover
UF Law Professor
Stuart Cohn.
Shawn Seipler, co-founder and CEO of profit company is very limiting because it’s
Clean the World.
hard to make a decent living if you’re inter“Benefit corporations made sense to ested in having a large family and sending
Clean the World really from day one be- your kids to college.
cause the entire reason for having our LLC
The benefit corporation offers the perin place — which is now
fect solution for a growour B-Corp — was to
The law is expected ing number of socially
drive social impact and
conscious entrepreneurs
to bring business
environmental impact at
and investors, he said.
to Florida because
a greater pace,” Seipler
Clean the World’s social
said.
cause is built directly
of the increasing
Seipler listed the
its business plan.
number of socially into
financial advantages to
At the same time, it is
minded investors
adding a for-profit arm:
working to draw more
“From a banking perand entrepreneurs. social entrepreneurs to
spective, from a loanCentral Florida.
ing perspective and debt equity perspective,
“We have a vision and we have a goal to
you’re in a better position when you have a make Florida the global hub for social enfor-profit company.”
trepreneurs, so we are partnering with some
Cohn said traditional corporations can significant entities in town that really drive a
still engage in public benefits, but the new lot of philanthropy,” Seipler said.
law gives entrepreneurs more options for
Cohn said lawyers must keep up with
constructing their businesses.
changes in their field, citing the new benefit
Seipler said socially minded entrepre- and social purpose corporations as prime
neurs face challenges in traditional corpo- examples.
rations and under the nonprofit approach.
“The word is out in the social responThe best option for financially support- sibility community and those entrepreneurs
ing social causes in a traditional for-profit are going to want to form (corporations),
company was to make as much money as and they’re going to go to lawyers,” he said.
possible and donate it. Conversely, a non- “Lawyers need to know this.”
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PUBLISHED SCHOLARSHIP
Research Report
The following papers are all included in the UF Law Scholarship Repository (with the exception of Professor Elizabeth Rowe’s book).
Visit the repository online at http://scholarship.law.ufl.edu for access to this and much more published scholarship by UF Law faculty.
“Lawsuits are
usually charged,
stressful periods
for the parties.
Listening with
an open mind in
the midst of such
conflict can be particularly difficult.
Ego, anger, fear,
and distractedness
— to name but a
few factors — may
all kick in, making
parties in conflict
particularly resistant to new ideas
and information.”
—JONATHAN COHEN
Professor of Law
“Open-Minded Listening”
Charlotte Law Review, Vol. 5
No. 1 (Spring 2014)
82
“Over the past few years, a broad consensus
has formed around the need to reduce prison
populations, with even prominent ‘tough on
crime’ conservatives calling for criminal justice
reform. In response, states have instituted various measures to reduce prison populations and
correctional spending, including increased use
and diversity of early-release mechanisms.”
—LEA JOHNSTON
Associate Director of Law; Assistant
Director, Criminal Justice Center”
“Smoke and Mirrors: Model Penal Code §
305.7 and Compassionate Release” 4 Wake
Forest Journal of Law & Policy 49, 2014
“Put simply, the effort to
control state information
requires human, organizational, technological,
and textual mechanisms
that often fail in the
checks and balances of a
democratic state, sometimes by design and
sometimes by the weakness of bureaucratic
control. Secrecy of any
sort and to any degree
is costly and difficult to
accomplish and can only
stem the authorized flow
of official information.”
—MARK FENSTER
Professor of Law; Cone, Wagner,
Nugent, Hazouri and Roth Tort
Professor
“The Implausibility of Secrecy”
Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 65,
No. 2, 2014
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“In recent years, the
geographic background of the United
States Supreme Court,
for instance, has shifted from one which is
representative of the
nation, to one dominated by appellate
judges from the
northeast. The importance of this shift
cannot be overstated,
as studies have shown
that judges are as
much as twice as likely to affirm opinions
from their geographic
‘home’ courts as
those from any other.”
— SHARON RUSH
Associate Dean for Faculty
Development; Irving Cypen
Professor of Law; Associate
Director, Center on Children
and Families; Co-founder,
Center for the Study of Race
and Race Relations
“Federalism, Diversity,
Equality, and Article III
Judges: Geography, Identity,
and Bias” Missouri Law
Review, Vol. 79, No. 1, 2014
“Virtually all businesses have a presence,
either directly or indirectly, on the Internet
and in ‘the Cloud.’ Unfortunately, the inherently public nature of the Internet poses many challenges to an intellectual property framework that relies on secrecy.”
—ELIZABETH ROWE
University of Florida Research
Foundation Professor of Law; Feldman
Gale Term Professor of Intellectual
Property; Director, Program in Intellectual
Property Law
Trade Secrets and Undisclosed
Information (Critical Concepts in
Intellectual Property Law series No. 10),
author, editor, (Edward Elgar Pub, 2014)
“Under the current
legal doctrine,
students have almost
no legal recourse to
address conditions
creating prison-like
environments in
schools. This Article
offers a reformulated
legal framework
under the Fourth
Amendment
that is rooted in
the foundational
Supreme Court cases
evaluating students’
rights under the
First, Fourth,
and Fourteenth
Amendments.”
—JASON NANCE
Associate Professor of Law;
Associate Director, Center on
Children and Families
“School Surveillance and the
Fourth Amendment” Wisconsin
Law Review 79 (2014)
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EXPERT OPINION
Media Hits
“People will
look at the
report and
assume that
things are
better than
they are, and
there won’t be
pressure on
lawmakers and
the governor
to make the
changes that
have to be
made to keep
kids safe.”
—SHANI KING
Professor of Law; Co-Director,
Center on Children and Families
“Some grand jurors critical
of own report hailing DCF
improvements” (Aug. 14,
2014, The Miami Herald)
“Mental illness
is a medical
concept.
Insanity is a
legal concept.”
“It’s liberating
to post. The
conversation is
informal, freewheeling, so
you feel like
anything goes.
But the truth is,
you can be held
accountable
if you make
comments that
damage the
reputation of
someone else.”
—LYRISSA LIDSKY
Professor of Law; Stephen C.
O’Connell Chair; Associate Dean
for International Studies
“Beach man sued for defamation
over YouTube video” (Sept. 9,
2014, The Virginian-Pilot)
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—BOB DEKLE
Master Lecturer; Director,
Criminal Prosecution Clinic;
Assistant Director, Criminal
Justice Center
“When the
Supreme Court
decides this
issue, courts
presiding over
pending cases in
Florida and elsewhere will have
to follow this
new precedent.”
“Fla. military mom on trial for
killing kids” (April 28, 2014, The
Associated Press)
—DARREN HUTCHINSON
Professor of Law; Stephen C.
O’Connell Chair
“Locally, gay marriage ruling
brings excitement” (July 17,
2014, The Gainesville Sun)
“I would be surprised
if she had said
anything else.”
—TERESA DRAKE
Director, Intimate Partner Violence Assistance
Clinic; Visiting Legal Skills Professor
“Experts not surprised as Janay Rice
defends Ray Rice” (Sept. 9, 2014, Tampa
Bay Times)
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New faculty deliver expertise in business, energy, employment
Stephanie Bornstein –
Assistant Professor
AS A N E W AS S I STA N T
P R O F E S S O R at UF Law,
Stephanie Bornstein is teaching
Employment Law this fall and Civil
Procedure in the spring. Bornstein
practiced labor and employment
law in California, which is the area
she hopes to develop at UF Law,
she said.
Bornstein has published
multiple papers in the area,
including one on gender
stereotyping and another entitled
“Work, Family, and Discrimination
at the Bottom of the Ladder.”
Bornstein wants to inspire
passion in students for the study
of law and to encourage strategic
thinking about networking and
their careers. She also wants to
teach them ways they can use their
law degrees to serve the public
interest, she said.
Bornstein received her J.D.
from the Berkeley School of Law
at the University of California
and her A.B. from Harvard
University. Before coming to UF,
she practiced as an employment
discrimination attorney. She also
worked as a visiting assistant
professor and deputy director
of the Center for WorkLife Law
at the University of California
Hastings College of the Law.
Robert Rhee - Professor
R O B E RT R H E E , T H E N E W J O H N
H . A N D M A RYLO U DAS B U R G
P R O F E S S O R O F L AW, brings a
background of business to UF Law.
Rhee, a former investment
banker, corporate advisor and
professor at Johns Hopkins
Carey Business School, taught
Unincorporated Business
Enterprises in the fall and will
teach Corporate Finance and
Corporations in the spring.
Rhee’s background as an
investment banker and corporate
adviser helps him to communicate
to students the complexities
of business topics in a more
manageable way, he says. He hopes
to help students by ensuring the
school has a “vibrant curriculum” in
the area of business law.
Rhee said his writings and
research also give him new
perspectives to bring to the
classroom.
Rhee is working on several
projects, including: an article
about executive compensation, a
casebook on corporate finance, and
a “multimedia training package”
on business concepts for junior
lawyers in law firms. Additionally, he
is about to start work on an article
about shareholder primacy.
Rhee received his J.D. from
George Washington University
and his MBA from the University
of Pennsylvania (Wharton). Before
working in the business world and
becoming a professor, he practiced
law as an attorney with the U.S.
Department of Justice.
Rhee was hired under the
University of Florida’s Preeminence
Plan, which aims to boost the
university’s reputation into the
strata of the nation’s top-ranked
research universities. The state has
promised $15 million annually for
five years. Adding money raised
by UF from alumni and friends, as
many as 130 new faculty members
will be hired in coming years
through the initiative.
Amy Stein –
Associate Professor
A MY ST E I N H AS TAU G H T
E N E R GY L AW for the past six
years and published multiple
articles on topics including energy
storage and regulations and the
federal government’s role in
developing renewable energy.
This fall she joined UF Law as
an associate professor teaching
Energy Law and Policy.
“It’s what I live and breathe,”
Stein said.
Stein said she makes sure
no prerequisites are required
for her energy classes because
she wants them accessible to
all students. Stein wants to help
students who already love the
subject “dig deeper into energy,”
but also wants to light the spark
in “students who have no idea,”
she said.
Prior to UF Law, Stein was
an associate professor of law at
Tulane Law School, an adjunct
professor in the Environmental
Studies program at The George
Washington University, and a
visiting associate professor of
Legal Research and Writing,
acting associate director of the
Legal Research and Writing
Program, and co-director of the
Scholarly Writing Program at The
George Washington University
Law School. Before her academic
appointments, she practiced as
an environmental and litigation
associate for Latham & Watkins
LLP in the firm’s Washington, D.C.,
and Silicon Valley offices.
Bornstein
Rhee
Stein
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Law in the shade of
CHOCOLATE
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only three players: farmers, exporters, and craft
chocolate makers. These players divided the
entry Mander normally refuses revenue from Belizean chocolate, which ranged
from $35 to $65 per pound.
the offer.
Then Mander set out with her Maya guide
“Chocolate?” she said. “No
thanks, I’m not really a choco- and translator, Elmer Tzalam, to interview farmers. Their five- to 10-mile treks through the forlate eater.”
But Mander (3L) isn’t refusing the opportu- est and communities were hot, with temperanity to help start a chocolate company as an off- tures regularly reaching 100 or more degrees.
After talking to 14 or 15 cacao farmers,
shoot of planting shade-grown cacao to protect
Tzalam and Mander were shocked to learn that
and restore the forests of Belize.
“Most people love the chocolate compo- farmers were typically only paid about $1.25 per
nent,” Mander said. “But for me, it’s about the pound of beans. A pound of beans is roughly the
amount of beans needed to produce a pound of
forest and the farmers.”
She’s talking about a project that echoes from chocolate. The exporters earned little more than
a Massachusetts superfund site to the jungles of the farmers in the transaction, and the chocolate
Belize where indigenous farmers struggle to make makers were raking in the rest.
This discovery upset Mander.
a living, back to the neighborhoods of Gainesville
“I had a hard time sleeping for the first couand a nascent chocolate business. All carried on
ple weeks,” she said. “It just
the wings of songbirds.
SIX STEPS TO CHOCOLATE
killed me, and it killed Elmer
See, planting cacao in Betoo.”
lizean jungles is part of a reMander spreads the
As they walked around
forestation project headed up
beans onto a pan before
the villages and discussed the
putting them in the oven
by the Belize Foundation for
for roasting.
issue, Mander said they realResearch & Environmental
ized solving the farmers’ inEducation, or BFREE. ReforOnce roasted, the beans
come problem required conestation helps protect the winare ground in a hand
trol of the end product. And
tering habitat of migratory neogrinder.
by improving the price for a
tropical songbirds — including
pound of cocoa beans she figwarblers and thrushes. Their
The shells are then
ures she could also boost the
warm-weather habitat was
separated from the
chocolate in a process
number of farmers who will
damaged by hazardous chemicalled winnowing.
abandon sun-loving pineapcals at the Nyanza Chemical
ples for canopy-loving cacao.
Waste Dump Superfund Site
The ground chocolate
“The solution is to make
in Ashland, Massachusetts, acis put into a juicer to be
chocolate,”
Mander said.
cording to the U.S. Department
made into a chocolate
Some
of
the
profit
would be
of the Interior. Tropical crops
liqueur.
shared with farmers to ensuch as pineapple require recourage them to grow the
moving trees to let in the sun,
The chocolate liqueur,
sugar and soy lecithin
highest quality, most environbut cacao grows with the tree
are poured into a wet
mentally and bird-friendly orcanopy intact. So reforestation
grinder and processed for
ganic beans they could.
could make a viable business
14 hours.
So Mander, Jacob Marout of cacao beans as a cash
lin,
executive director of
crop.
The liquid chocolate
BFREE,
and Heather Bar“The law school was the
is drizzled into a silicon
rett of BFREE are becoming
impetus of it all,” Mander said.
mold to harden.
chocolate makers.
A spring break trip in
They met this fall in Marlin’s house in
2013 led by UF Law Professor and Conservation Clinic Director Tom Ankersen (JD 86) took Gainesville to start experimenting with their first
her to Belize and the BFREE’s research station. batches. Using Marlin’s oven and small-batch
There she learned that BFREE was in search of equipment purchased by BFREE, the budding
a master’s student to help research Belizean ca- entrepreneurs coaxed 70-percent dark chocolate
cao, the plant from which cocoa beans, the cen- from the Belizean cacao beans.
Marlin said the company will use beans
tral ingredient of chocolate, are harvested.
When Mander arrived in Belize, she inves- from BFREE’s farm and the farms that are a part
tigated its cacao supply chain and found it has of the Belize Cacao-based Agroforestry RestoBY L AU R A H O G A N
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Gentry Mander (3L), who also is a
candidate for a master’s degree in
sustainable development practice,
is helping to start a chocolate
company to help protect and restore
the forests of Belize. (Photo provided)
ration Project, which is comprised of eight farmers with 53 acres of land.
Ankersen said Mander researched the legal
issues associated with making cacao into chocolate and using it to benefit the Belize farmers.
She also researched whether they could trademark the geographic origin of this cacao, which
has been grown by the Maya since ancient times
in this region of Belize.
“She was looking at development assistance and international law,” Ankersen said.
“Suddenly here she is looking at … forming
start-ups and entrepreneurship, as well as intellectual property law.”
Mander is now writing a business plan for
the chocolate company, and she spent the summer learning about regulations for food products
and how to obtain permits. She also took Unincorporated Business Enterprises at UF Law to
learn more about the business aspect. Mander,
who graduates in December, plans to go to Belize in the spring after taking the bar exam to
figure out the logistics of exporting cacao beans
to the U.S. She added that she never could have
imagined law school would lead to starting a
chocolate company.
And Mander said she hasn’t found a
better way to do the things she cares about most.
“I could fight for the environment in court,
or I can go to the rainforest and see first-hand:
There are 10 acres that we saved. There is a
farmer who is getting a little higher wage,” she
said. “For me, it feels more hands-on and a way
to see the difference I have helped make.”
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Oct. 20 in the Martin H. Levin
Advocacy Center after delivering the Overton Lecture.
Labarga will be honored
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