Dear Florida Trial Lawyer
Welcome to the website for the Florida Bar Trial Lawyers Section. This site is continually updated, and the pages that follow contain information about the Trial Lawyers Section, the Section’s leaders and our current programs. Several of the Section’s publications, including the Handbook on Discovery Practice, and the Guidelines for Professional Conduct, can be accessed on the buttons to your left of the screen.
I hope you will also visit the website to keep informed of upcoming seminars and other programs put on by the Section. The Trial Lawyers Section sponsors many excellent CLE programs, including the Board Certification Review Course, the Annual Program on Evidence, and Advanced Trial Advocacy Seminar held at the University of Florida, College of Law each spring.
Under the By-laws of the Trial Lawyers Section, the purpose of the Section is to “provide a forum for discussion and exchange of ideas leading to the improvement of individual trial ability”. The Section also advocates for access to the courts and follows legislative activity which might affect our jury trial system. I hope you will get involved with the Trial Lawyers Section and use the resources we offer to strengthen and improve your law practice. If I can be of assistance or answer any questions you might have about the Section, please feel free to call me directly. I am privileged to serve as Chair of the Section and look forward to serving all Florida Trial Lawyers in the coming year.
Sincerely,
Craig Gibbs, Chair
News Release
Tuesday, 11 October 2011 10:56
The Trial Lawyers Section of The Florida Bar recently hosted a reception in Tallahassee to honor those legislators who successfully fought to preserve judicial independence when faced with bills that proposed to divide the Supreme Court into separate divisions and to remove members of The Florida Bar from participating in the judicial nominating process.
Recognized as “Champions of Judicial Independence” were:
Membership Information
The Trial Lawyers Section of The Florida Bar was established in 1967. The Section has over 7,000 members with membership open to any attorney in good standing with The Florida Bar who shares a common interest in trial advocacy before the courts. Affiliate memberships are also available.
The essential purposes of the Trial Lawyers Section are threefold: (1) to assist the courts in improving the administration of justice; (2) to promote the art of advocacy; and (3) to preserve and protect the jury system. The governing body of the Trial Lawyers Section is its Executive Council, which is made up of 21 elected members of the Section, plus the Chair, Chair-elect, Secretary, and Immediate Past Chair. The Executive Council is essentially equally divided between plaintiff and defense lawyers and is geographically diverse throughout the state.
