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The Florida Bar is the integrated, or unified bar organization for the state of Florida. It is the third largest such bar in the United States. [3] Its duties include the regulation and discipline of attorneys and the governance of Florida Registered Paralegals. [4] As elsewhere in the United States, persons seeking admission to the bar must ...
Referral services are often provided by state and local bar associations as a public service. Referral services may also be offered by non-profit organizations and advocacy groups. For-profit referral services [ 1 ] may connect lawyers with clients who pay a membership fee, or a fee for successfully referred clients, subject to rules against ...
Maricopa 61–62 [10] 1 2: Samuel A. Thumma [a] April 11, 2012 University of Iowa College of Law: Jan Brewer: Maricopa 62–63 [9] 1 2: Kent E. Cattani [a] Feb. 9, 2013 UC Berkeley School of Law: Jan Brewer: Maricopa 67–68 [9] 1 2: Paul J. McMurdie Nov. 14, 2016 Arizona State University College of Law: Doug Ducey: Maricopa PJM: Jennifer B ...
For example, Maricopa County refers to its branch as "The Judicial Branch of Arizona in Maricopa County." Since 2015, the Maricopa County Superior Court has included a specialized business court docket, known as the Commercial Court. The "Commercial Court is a specialty calendar within the Civil Department to resolve controversies that arise in ...
The Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) is the agency charged with licensing and regulating more than 1.6 million businesses and professionals in the State of Florida, such as alcohol, beverage & tobacco, barbers/cosmetologists, condominiums, spas, hotels and restaurants, real estate agents and appraisers, and veterinarians, among many other industries.
1979 – President Jimmy Carter appoints Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Valdemar Aguirre Cordova as the first Mexican American federal judge in the U.S. District of Arizona. 1980 – Cecil B. Patterson, Jr. becomes the first black judge appointed to the Maricopa County Superior Court. In September 1995 he became the first black judge ...
Florida Bar v. Went For It, Inc., 515 U.S. 618 (1995), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld a state's restriction on lawyer advertising under the First Amendment's commercial speech doctrine. The Court's decision was the first time it did so since Bates v.
Monica K. Lindstrom is an attorney and legal analyst who has served as a criminal prosecutor, as well as practicing in the areas of criminal defense, complex civil litigation and general civil litigation, as well as making frequent media appearances to comment on court cases in the news.