University of Florida Levin College of Law
• Pensacola attorney Fred Levin contributed $2 million as the lead gift to the University of Florida Levin College of Law to build a $5.2 million complex that will include a modern courtroom and faculty offices. Along with two other significant gifts, Levin’s gift is eligible for matching funds from the State of Florida Facilities Enhancement Challenge Grant Program (which would bring the value of the gift to $5.2 million). Levin, a 1961 alumnus and namesake of the UF law school, also provided a $10 million cash gift in 1999 that, with state matching funds, moved the college’s endowment into the top 10 of all public law schools in the nation.
• The Center on Children and Families is teaming up with UF’s Askew Institute on Politics and Society to host a statewide conference on collaboration between public and private sectors to respond to child abuse and neglect. The March 30 conference at the UF Hilton Conference Center is expected to draw legal and policy leaders and citizens from around the state. Law school alumni interested in child welfare are encouraged to register. Following the Askew conference, the Center on Children and Families will host a workshop for child law centers from around the nation. For more details, check http://www.class.ufl.edu/askew/calendar.htm.
Stetson University College of Law
• Rebecca S. Trammell has joined Stetson University College of Law as its new law library director. She replaces Dr. Madison Mosley who passed away last year. Trammell joins Stetson from the University of Kentucky College of Law where she served as law library director and assistant professor of law. She also served as associate dean for information services and associate professor of law at Barry University School of Law. Prior to Barry, Trammell was associate law library director at the University of Nebraska Lincoln and a member of the law library faculty at Northern Illinois University. Trammell received her masters in library science from Dominican University in 1979 and her J.D. from the University of Denver in 1983. She chairs the American Association of Law Libraries Standing Committee on Law Library Service to Institutionalized Persons and is active in the Southeastern Association of American Law Libraries. She researches in the areas of Internet legal research, classroom technology and prison and jail law libraries.
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