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38 Fla. B. News 1 (2011)

handle is hein.barjournals/flabn0038 and id is 1 raw text is: Panel Studies Volume 38, Number 1 www.FloridaBar.org/News January 1, 2011 Three vie for Florida Bar presidency By Jan Pudlow Senior Editor It's been 26 years since The Florida Bar held a contested three-way race for president. (In 1984, eventual winner Patrick Emmanuel of Pensacola ended up in a runoff with William Trickel. Jr., of Orlando, with Michael Plunkett, of Berkely, CA, coming in a distant third.) The current three-way race for Bar president for 2012-13 offers three seasoned lawyers, all members of the Board of Governors. vying to lead more than 90,000 Florida lawyers: 9 Walter Skip Campbell. Jr.. a 62-year-old former Florida senator who is certified in civil trial law and is a partner at Krupnick. Campbell. Malone, Buser. Slama. Hancock, Liberman & McKee in Ft. Lauderdale; e John Jake Schickel, a 62-year-old former prosecutor and a founding partner of Coker. Schickel, Sorenson & Posgay in Jacksgnville,,where his law practice areas are medical malpractice, personal injury, professional liability, civil trial, workers' compensation, and mediation; Thirteen running for five Board of Governors seats CAMPBELL SCHICKEL YOUNG e Gwynne Alice Young, a 60-year-old former prosecutor, shareholder at Carlton Fields, and lelder of the Tampa Business Litigation and Trade Regulation Practice Group, practicing commercial, real estate, probate, and insurance litigation. See Candidates, page 16 . Thirteen lawyers are running for five seats on the Bar Board of Governors in the 2011 board elections. Seventeen other lawyers were also elected to the board unopposed when the filing period ended December. 15. For the Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors, there are four contested races, while 20 lawyers were elected without an opponent. The Bar Board of Governors will have contested races in the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, 13th, and 15th circuits. In the Fourth Circuit, Seat 2, Arthur Hernandez, Reginald Luster, and Michael G. Tanner, all ofJacksonville, filed to replace John J. Jake Schickel, who is running for Bar president. See Board, page 10 Phasing in e-filing Write this down, or more appropriately mark it 'With'a bookmark, add it to your favorites, or put a placeholder on it- whatever your Internet browser allows: www.myflcourtaccess.com. That's the official online address for the Florida court system's new statewide e- portal, the mechanism that. as of January 1 will begin to allow lawyers to file cases and paperwork from anywhere they have Internet access. The Florida E-Filing Authority, which oversees operation of the portal, met December 8 to take care of several issues, including picking the online address and setting fees for doing electronic filing. The panel also approved a resolution advocating that at some point e-filing be made mandatory for lawyers. The authority board, made up of eight county court clerks plus Supreme Court Clerk Tom Hall, considered. several possible Internet addresses before adopting one hammered out at the meeting. The address is one of the last steps in setting up electronic filing for courts, something mandated by the Legislature in 2009. So far, the Florida Supreme Court has approved five of 10 divisions in the See E-fillng, page 4 Progress made in moving foreclosures, but - courts brace for even more filings to come By Mark D. Killian supplemental in the coming year. Court Managing Editor legislative officials also discussed the An affidavit signed in California, but notarized in Minnesota, is hard for ajudge to ignore - even when the foreclosure is uncontested. That testimony was part of a presentation to the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee in December by judges and lawyers toiling in Florida's foreclosure morass. The courts are making progress in tackling the huge backlog of foreclosure cases - thanks in large part to funding -I but defective paperwork is still a big problem, and another wave of home C foreclosure RICHTER filings looms on the horizon. The judges said faulty and fraudulent documentation is the main cause of delays, and the courts are bracing for an anticipated deluge of commercial foreclosures limitations of the Supreme Court-ordered rhanaged mediation program. And a representative of the Bar's Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section told the panel the section is working on remedies to move uncontested foreclosures through the process quicker and reiterated opposition to nonjudicial foreclosures. Sen. Garrett Richter, R-Naples, the committee's Foreclosures, page 7 Haridopolos contemplates court system changes By Jan Pudlow Senior Editor . Maybe Florida Supreme .Court justices should deliberate in the Sunshine, like legislators do. Maybe, like the U.S. Senate. the Florida Sentte should confirm judicial candidates. Maybe more everyday - citizens should serve on the judicial nominating commissions. Maybe the Legislature's proposed constitutional amendments should bypass judicial review and go straight to the voters. All of those ideas are worth debating, Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt. Island, told reporters during a press availability discussion on December 8 that touched See Courts, page 4 DURINGTHEIR SCHEDULED BOARD meeting In North Florida last month, m-6mbebr of The Florida Bar Board of Governors helped with a landscaping project for The Barnabas Center, a nonprofit center that provides food and clothing for the homeless and disadvantaged in Nassau County. The center is working to enhanceits New to You store and main office in downtown Fernandina Beach. The Bar's board tries to participate in a local community service project in conjunction with its board meetings held across the state. Diversity scholarships available By Annie Butterworth Jones Associate Editor At its December meeting, the Board of Governors approved a $50,000 budget amendment to fund a new diversity program providing grant funding to local bar associations through the Bpr's Special Committee on Diversity and Inclusion. The new program is part of the Bar's expanded efforts to promote diversity at the local level. Voluntary bar associations can be awarded individual grants up to $1,500, and up to $3,000 may be awarded to multiple voluntary bars working together on a project. Grant applications are due to the special committee by January 18. BRYANT-WIWS We want to let local bars know that there is a deadline, and they need See Diversitt, page 8

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