Committees of The Florida Bar.

AuthorGewirtz, Jerry M.
PositionAnnual Reports

The following reports were inadvertently omitted from last month's annual reports issue.

Federal Court Practice

During the 2002-03 year, the Federal Court Practice Committee concentrated its efforts on two major projects: updating and expanding the Florida Federal Court Practice Manual and planning an ambitious Federal Judicial Roundtable Program scheduled to be held at The Florida Bar annual meeting in June.

The Florida Federal Court Practice Manual, an ongoing project of the committee since about 1995, has grown steadily in size and scope and now contains completed judicial surveys from more than 75 federal judges serving the state of Florida, including U.S. district judges and U.S. magistrate judges, in the Middle, Southern and Northern districts of Florida as well as judges serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. The judicial surveys contain a wealth of information including the practices and procedures of the individual federal judges, suggestions by the judiciary to enhance the skills and performance level of practitioners in federal court, biographies of some of the judges, and model case management and scheduling orders. A couple of the circuit judges, in responding to the surveys, have also furnished articles they have written on the subject of appellate practice.

The Florida Federal Court Practice Manual is published once a year in book form and is also maintained electronically on the committee's Web site, accessible through The Florida Bar's online home page, www.flabar.org, by linking to "Organization" then "Standing Committees."

The Florida Federal Court Practice Manual would not be possible without the cooperation of the federal judges serving the state of Florida and the committee acknowledges and thanks the federal judges for their contributions to this significant project.

The committee is also extremely grateful to the federal judges for their participation in the upcoming Federal Judicial Roundtable Program. In that regard, 16 federal judges--including circuit judges, district judges, and magistrate judges--have already committed themselves to serve as panelists in the program, scheduled to be held on June 26, 2003, from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., at the Orlando World Center Marriott. The federal judges who will be participating in the roundtable discussions include Judges Gerald Bard Tjoflat and Charles R. Wilson from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit; Chief Judge Patricia C. Fawsett and Judges Harvey E. Schlesinger, Henry Lee Adams, Jr., James S. Moody, Jr., John Antoon II, Gregory A. Presnell, Timothy J. Corrigan, William J. Castagna, William Terrell Hodges, Elizabeth A. Jenkins and Mary S. Scriven from the Middle District of Florida; Judge Paul C. Huck from...

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