Florida Coastal School of Law
• The school’s Hispanic American Law Student Association is preparing for a national convention in Washington, D.C. this fall. The group is planning to send a few of its students to the National Latino Law Student Association’s national conference in October. The event is hosted by American University and the Washington College of Law.
University of Florida Levin
College of Law
• Michael Gordon, an internationally known expert on corporate and trade law, has been named the John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Professor at UF’s Levin College of Law. Gordon, a professor at UF since 1968, is the first person to hold the recently created endowed professorship. The Dasburg professorship was created previously this year through a $1.5 million donation from the Dasburgs, the largest sum ever given for a professorship. Gordon is an interesting choice for the inaugural position being that both John and Mary Lou Dasburg were Gordon’s students while they were attending UF.
Stetson University College of Law
• The Florida Bar honored Stetson’s College of Law with two awards of professionalism at its annual meeting last month in Orlando. Stetson Law’s Centers for Excellence in Advocacy and Elder Law and professor Roberta Flowers both received awards from the Bar’s Standing Committee on Professionalism. Flowers received the committee’s Faculty Award for Professionalism.
Florida State University College of Law
• FSU Provost Larry Abele has appointed Dean Don Weidner to the newly created Alumni Centennial Chair at the College of Law. The Chair, which is endowed in excess of $1 million, was established by several alumni to honor Weidner for his many years of leadership at the law school. Weidner will hold the chair for as long as he is a member of the faculty and when he retires the position will be renamed the Donald J. Weidner Chair and will be used to support the sitting dean of the law school. Weidner served as dean of the law school from 1991-1997, interim dean from 1998-2000 and as dean from 2000-present.
University of Georgia School of Law
• UGA School of Law’s alumni association recently presented its highest honor, the Distinguished Service Scroll Award, to attorney John D. Comer of Macon, Ga., and Georgia Court of Appeals Judge J.D. Smith of Gainesville, Ga. The annual award goes to “worthy individuals whose selfless dedication to the legal profession and the School of Law merits special recognition” according to a UGA press release. The awards were presented during the Law School Association’s annual breakfast held in conjunction with the State Bar of Georgia’s Annual Meeting on June 11.
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