• Florida Bar President Frank Angones is the guest speaker at this month’s Jacksonville Bar Association meeting. It’s at noon Oct. 25 at the Omni.
• Attorney Eric Block of Wilner Block recently secured a $3.5 million court-awarded verdict for client Wendy Sugalski, who was hit by a truck operated by an employee from Reads Moving and Storage while in her car. Attorney Randall Rutledge of Farah & Farah assisted Block with the case.
• State House Dist. 19 candidate Mike Weinstein raised over $43,000 in the previous fundraising quarter and now has over $173,000 in the coffers. Dist. 19 State Rep Dick Kravitz is term-limited and cannot seek re-election. Weinstein is the president of Take Stock in Children.
• Attorneys Chris Bachara, Brian Crevasse and Brent Zimmerman have formed the law firm of Bachara Construction Law Group. The firm’s offices are in Independent Square.
• The Mayor’s Hispanic Advisory Board will hold its 8th Annual Scholarship Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Friday at the Hyatt. Florida Speaker of the House Marco Rubio is the guest speaker. The luncheon is sponsored by Pajcic & Pajcic, Aetna and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida.
• Circuit Court Judge Mark Mahon’s investiture is set for Oct. 25.
• Construction continues on the Barnett Building owned by the Kuhn Companies, but according to a construction worker on the site, the project may be changing to apartments from condos.
• City Council will honor attorney Howard Coker with a resolution. Coker was named the Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Florida Board of Trial Advocates and the Jacksonville Lawyer of the Year by the Financial News and Daily Record.
• Attorney Warren Anderson is the 2007 recipient of the Bob and Carol Grimes Environmental Activist Award. He has been an advocate for the environment throughout his career and is the founder and president of the Public Trust Environmental Law Institute of Florida. The awards ceremony sponsored by the Civic Roundtable and Duval Audubon, will be held Dec. 14 at the Wyndham Hotel.
“Balancing a job and a family is not the hardest thing to achieve. It’s second. (Right after world peace.)”
– Barbara Dale, U.S. cartoonist.