A Sarasota lawyer has been elected as the Florida Bar’s president-elect designee in a recent Bar election. F. Scott Westheimer, a managing partner at the law firm Syprett Meshad, received an...
The Florida Bar has selected a Sarasota attorney to take over the group’s presidency in the 2023-2024 bar year. The organization announced Tuesday that its members had elected F. Scott...
‘It was a gratifying experience to travel the state and meet Florida Bar members, hear their concerns, and find new ways to help them out with their practice.’ Scott Westheimer...
Members of The Florida Bar expect our leaders to recognize the importance of pro bono legal service and personally uphold the values of our professional obligation to serve those in need. Leadership Academy Class IX Fellows Marc Marra, Danielle Weaver-Rogers, and Michel Morgan interviewed the candidates for Florida Bar president-elect — Lorna Brown-Burton of Ft. Lauderdale and Scott Westheimer of Sarasota — regarding their thoughts on pro bono service. Ballots for the election will be mailed or emailed around March 1, and must be returned no later than 11:59 p.m. March 21.
In March, The Florida Bar announced the launch of a test program—The Florida Bar Tech Support Helpline—to assist solo and small firm lawyers with technology issues and assistance. The three-month...
Twelfth Circuit board member Scott Westheimer and Out-of-State board member Brian Burgoon, both members of the University of Florida Levin College of Law Board of Trustees, were the adjunct professors for the course, which was among the offerings for the one-week, “compressed” pre-spring-semester courses at the law school.
The Ugly Sweater Bingo event for Voluntary Bar Leaders on Dec. 17, was by all accounts a jolly good time. Not only was it fun, we discovered some favorite drink recipes and after hour social skills of our colleagues. A special thank you to our prize contributors – Florida Bar Communications; Florida Bar Meetings and Convention; and Phipps Reporting!
The event featured a review of Bar resources to help lawyers with their personal and professional challenges, heightened by the coronavirus pandemic, as well as participants offering their tips and observations.
Offers to host the “Path to Unity” campaign — a traveling Florida legal history project that will tell the story of the Bar’s journey from its segregated past to the rich, multi-cultural organization that it is today — poured into the Zoom server as soon as the Diversity and Inclusion Committee convened its October 7 meeting.
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