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The Florida Family Law Inns Of Court held its first meeting of the 2007-08 year last month at The River Club. County Court Judge Judge Gary Flower presided over the dinner meeting which was attended by both the family law bench and bar.
Barry Zisser and Steven Combs organized the evening’s presentation which emphasized recent family law case updates, along with the wit and wisdom of four legends from the family law bench and bar.
These icons included Circuit Court Judge Bernard Nachman, and attorneys Albert A. Datz, Samuel Jacobson and Lacy Mahon.
Nachman talked about his career as an attorney in handling family law matters and concluded his remarks relating to young lawyers coming before him as a sitting family law judge, that “he had been there and done that.”
Datz, who has been practicing family law for more than 59 years, recounted stories of past judges who are legendary in Jacksonville legal lore including Roger Waybright, Frank Elmore, Charles Luckie and Ed Jones.
The speakers practiced at a time when there was no specialty of family law and all lawyers who practiced family law practiced every other kind of law from first degree murder to admiralty and zoning.
The next dinner meeting of the Florida Family Law Inns of Court is set for Thursday at The River Club at 5:30 p.m.