For litigators, representing clients during the COVID-19 pandemic has meant developing the skill to effectively conduct a remote deposition. With few courts willing to wait for the day.
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As courts across the country begin resuming jury trials, litigators returning to in-person proceedings must be prepared for the myriad logistical considerations brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic from mask-wearing and physical distancing to the placement of witnesses and use of exhibits. In this program, Carlton Fields appellate attorneys Matt Conigliaro and James Parker-Flynn discuss their experience participating in live jury trials during COVID-19 and offer insights and lessons learned for effective trial advocacy post-COVID.
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State Rep. Fentrice Driskell first debated in the Florida House chamber when she was 17 and a student at Lake Gibson High School in Lakeland.
Driskell went to Tallahassee the summer before her senior year to participate in Florida Girls State, an educational program for selected rising seniors that simulates the functions of state government. During the weeklong session, Driskell met Florida’s governor, the late Lawton Chiles, a Lakeland native.
In an indication of what lay ahead, fellow participants elected Driskell governor of the student delegation.
“It completely changed my life,” Driskell said last week. “Before that, I thought I wanted to be an engineer. But after that experience, I fell in love with government. I decided to study it in college, which I did. I decided I would go to law school so that I could learn the language of government.”
Florida lawyers are required to take at least 33 hours of continuing education credits every three years. Because of a diversity requirement on the panels that teach these courses, the Florida Supreme Court opined that the American Bar Association will no longer be able to offer these courses to Florida lawyers starting June 29. As usual, the court, now composed largely of ideologues rather than sober jurists, has some holes in its argument.