• If the law and legal terms seem confusing, the Jacksonville Bar is conducting a series of lectures called “Law for the Layperson” at the Main Library as part of Law Week. Clay Meux of Cook & Meux will talk about Probate and Estate Planning Tuesday and Elder Law on March 28. Both are at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Tracy Richardson of Donahoo, Ball & McMenamy, P.A. will give a lecture on tax law and it starts at 6:30 p.m. For more information on the lecture series, contact John Carlisle of Liles, Gavin, Constantino & George at 634-1100.
• JTA Executive Director Michael Blaylock may be getting some angry phone calls from Downtown Trolley riders. The redirection of traffic for the NCAA games on Thursday caused some of the Sunflower Trolleys to go off their regular routes. After making several calls to JTA and waiting about half an hour to be picked up, one rider started encouraging others to complain. She repeated Blaylock’s name and a JTA phone number, asking everyone to write it down. “They could have told us this morning if we needed to go somewhere else,” she said.
• A Real Estate Strategy Center of Northeast Florida study shows the pace of downtown development slowing. Developers have bought $37.3 million in Northeast Florida land so far in 2006 compared to $79.3 million at the same point last year. Center President Ray Rodriguez said he used to field several calls from builders a week. He’s received two in the last three months.
• The Jacksonville Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) has announced the installation of the new officers as of April 1, 2006. The new officers are: president, Pam Bass; vice president, Carolyn Sutton; president-elect, Kathy Weintraub; secretary, Jean Pimental and treasurer, Elizabeth Locke. If you are interested in learning more about ALA, please contact Carolyn Sutton, Membership Chairperson, at (904) 798-3200.
• Correction. In a story Friday we said Steve Crosby is the president of CSX. Crosby is president of CSX Real Property, Inc., which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CSX Corporation. Apologies to Crosby and CSX President, Michael Ward.