The Florida Bar's Standing Committee on Professionalism 2021-2022 - H e nry Latim
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The Florida Bar’s
Standing Committee
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Dear Committee Member:
We would like to extend a warm welcome to you as a member of The Florida Bar
Standing Committee on Professionalism (SCOP). We believe that your tenure as
a member of the Committee will prove to be both interesting and rewarding. We
are elated for this opportunity to work with you to enhance the profession by
promoting professionalism.
As a member of SCOP, you will have the opportunity to join with other attorneys
and members of the judiciary around the state to accomplish the mission of the
committee: “To promote the fundamental ideals and values of professionalism
within the legal system and to instill those ideals of character, competence,
commitment, and civility in all those persons serving and seeking to serve therein.”
To accomplish this mission, you have been assigned to a working group as detailed
in the attached e-booklet. You will be requested to (1) participate in meetings,
(2) participate on conference calls, (3) vote for candidates for professionalism
awards, and (4) fulfill assignments presented to your working group.
We prepared this packet of information to familiarize you with roles of SCOP, the
Commission on Professionalism and the Center for Professionalism. We are looking
forward to a busy year and we appreciate your commitment and service. If you
have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Center.
Regards,
Rebecca J. Bandy
Director of the Center for Professionalism
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Henry Latimer Center for Professionalism
Director
REBECCA BANDY
rbandy@floridabar.org
Assistant Director Program Coordinator
CATHERINE (“KATIE”) YOUNG BETH KIRKLAND
cyoung@floridabar.org akirkland@floridabar.org
Website: https://www.floridabar.org/prof/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/FLBarProfessionalism/posts/?ref=page_internal
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flbarcfp/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FLBarCFP
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2021-2022 Meeting Schedule
FALL MEETING
October 13-15, 2021
VIRTUAL
WINTER MEETING
January 26-29, 2022
Rosen Shingle Creek
Orlando, Florida
ANNUAL CONVENTION
June 22-25, 2022
Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek
Orlando, Florida
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2020-2021 Standing Committee On
Professionalism (SCOP)
Chair
ELIZABETH HUNTER
Vice-Chair Vice-Chair BOG Liaison
JASON DAVID BERGER MAGDALENA OZAROWSKI MICHAEL FOX ORR
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STUART ALTMAN HONORABLE PATRICE BEHNSTEDT
JOHN BADALAMENTI
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ELIZABETH BLACKBURN ALEXCIA L. COX RACHEL CURTIS
LAUREN DANILCHENKO HONORABLE MAUREEN DAUGHTON
MIESHA DARROUGH
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NATASHA DEPRIMO HETAL DESAI GLORIA DEWLOW
MARIBEL DIAZ KARLA ELLIS MICHELE GAVAGNI
JANICE HAYWOOD CHARDEAN HILL JAMIE KARPMAN
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DORA KAUFMAN JORDAN M. KIRBY BROOKE LATTA
WILLIAM LEWIS ERIK R. MATHENEY CHARISE
MORGAN-JOSEPH
SHANNON NASH ITA NEYMOTIN MICHAEL RAJTAR
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JOHN SCHIFINO NEAL SONNETT ABBY SPEARS
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JAMES STEPAN JACK WEISS ALEXANDER MARGARET A.
WILLIAMS WILLIAMS
JAMES YOUNG LYDIA ZBRZEZNJ CYRUS ZOMORODIAN
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STANDING COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONALISM
Awards Working Group
• Investigate the process of creating a Mentoring award and, if approved by the Committee at the
Fall meeting, proceed with its full development and promotion.
• Promote nominations for the Hoeveler, Group, and Law Faculty/Administrator awards, which have
nomination deadlines of February 11, 2022.
• Review application materials for potential revisions by September 17, 2021.
• Devise/update the awards marketing plan by October 1, 2021.
• Draft marketing materials and articles for The Florida Bar News, The Professional, and the Center’s
website to promote awards by October 1, 2021.
• Review nominations and make recipient recommendations to the full Committee by March 18, 2022.
• Work with the Center to plan when the awards will be given out to winners.
Honorable John Badalamenti, Chair Ita Neymotin
2110 First St 2101 McGregor Blvd Ste 101
Fort Myers, FL 33901-3000 Fort Myers, FL 33901-3411
(239) 461-2000 (239) 208-6925
Email: john_badalamenti@flmd.uscourts.gov Email: ineymotin@flrc2.org
Stuart Altman Michele Gavagni
3802 NE 207th St
Aventura, FL 33180-4704
(305) 789-9255
Email: stulawyer@aol.com
Maureen Daughton William Lewis
1400 Village Square Blvd Ste 3-231 222 Lakeview Ave Ste 850
Tallahassee, FL 32312-1250 West Palm Beach, FL 33401-6148
( 850) 345-8251 (561) 227-5858
Email: mdaughton@mmd-lawfirm.com Email: wlewis@forthepeople.com
10Education and Resource Working Group
• Create and recruit videos for the #ProTipTuesday professionalism campaign: https://www.floridabar.
org/prof/presources/.
• Aid in providing requested submissions and photos regarding professionalism for the Center’s
newsletter, The Professional.
• Collect photos of professionalism events to be used on the Center’s social media and in TFB
publications.
• Create a professionalism Speaker’s Bureau list that can be added to the Center’s website.
• Members should look for ways that SCOP and the Center can join with other organizations for
programs to promote professionalism.
• Aid the Center with resources and materials for curriculum with professionalism programs.
• Research law schools, bar associations, and other state bars to identify and implement successful
professionalism program focusing on diversity and inclusion.
• Review the current Professionalism Expectations and the Center’s website to ensure that diversity
and inclusion are properly emphasized and recommend any necessary revisions.
• Collect Circuit Professionalism Reports (as needed by the Center).
Abby Spears, Chair James Young
3001 PGA Blvd Ste 305 76 S Laura St Ste 1100
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410-2896 Jacksonville, FL 32202-5413
(561) 686-3307 (904) 398-2722
Email: aspears@nasonyeager.com Email: jyoung@forthepeople.com
Maribel Diaz Lydia Sturgis Zbrzeznj
1855 Griffin Rd 99 6th St SW
Dania, FL 33004-2200 Winter Haven, FL 33880-7900
(954) 733-7030 (863) 656-6672
Email: mdiaz@bgglaw.com Email: lydia@southernatlanticlaw.com
Honorable Jack Weiss Cyrus Zomorodian
4379 Colonial Blvd Ste 200 311 W Monroe St
Fort Myers, FL 33966-1145 Jacksonville, FL 32202-4242
(239) 938-1159 (904) 255-2875
Email: jack.weiss@doah.state.fl.us Email: cyrusz@coj.net
11Gender Bias Working Group
• Aid in the production and promotion of a podcast series led by Judge Hetal Desai called “Never
Contemplated,” which focuses on gender bias in the judicial system from female judges’ and
lawyers’ perspectives. https://www.floridabar.org/prof/professionalism-cle/#podcasts
• Aid in the development and production of a CLE on gender bias-related issues, such as implicit
bias, the business case for gender inclusion, gender neutral hiring and evaluation criteria, conflict
avoidance and resolution, and fixed v. growth mindset.
• Create a Gender Bias Toolkit which will be accessed on the Center’s website.
• Provide at least five (5) articles and/or podcasts on gender bias for the Center’s website, social
media, and The Professional.
Magdalena Ozarowski, Chair Honorable Hetal Desai
407 S Calhoun St Ste 520 1230 Apalachee Pkwy
Tallahassee, FL 32399-6555 Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001
(850) 245-1000 (850) 488-9675
Email: magdalena.ozarowski@fdacs.gov Email: hetal.desai@doah.state.fl.us
Elizabeth Blackburn Jamie Karpman
101 N Alabama Ave 400 W Bay St Ste 1015
Deland, FL 32724-4316 Jacksonville, FL 32202-4439
(386)736-5948 (904) 208-6070
Email: eblackburn@circuit7.org Email: jamie.w.karpman@hud.gov
Rachel Curtis Jordan Kirby
2850 Tigertail Ave Ste 400 261 N University Dr Ste 700
Miami, FL 33133-5345 Plantation, FL 33324-2009
(305) 374-5730 (954) 661-6000
Email: rachel@rflawgroup.com Email: jkirby@rubensteinlaw.com
Lauren Johnson Danilchenko Michael Rajtar
2837 Yale Ave 2004 Polk St
Jacksonville, FL 32210-4351 Hollywood, FL 33020-4511
(904) 716-9399 (954) 241-0154
Email: ldanilchenko@forthepeople.com Email: michael@rajtarandassociates.com
Alexcia Cox Peggy Williams
401 N Dixie Hwy PO Box 628600
West Palm Beach, FL 33401-4209 Orlando, FL 32862-8600
(561) 355-7100 (800) 432-9594
Email: acox@sa15.org Email: pwilliams@thefund.com
Honorable Miesha Darrough
73 W Flagler St Ste 1104
Miami, FL 33130-4763
(305) 349-7127
Email: mdarrough@jud11.flcourts.org
12Mental Health and Wellness Working Group
• Review a recently published article on lawyer wellbeing: Krause, Cheryl and Chong, Jane, Lawyer Wellbeing as a
Crisis of the Profession (July 1, 2019). South Carolina Law Review, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.
com/abstract=3464992or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3464992
• Using the article as a basis, aid in the development and production of a CLE on health and wellness-related issues,
such as fitness, mental health, suicide awareness, loneliness, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, nutrition, social
well-being, travel, parenting, aging, and coping with life-changing events.
• Provide research and/or a CLE that looks at how Covid-19 is impacting mental health and wellness in the legal
profession.
• Disseminate #mentalhealthandwellness #welllawyer social media information from The Florida Bar and Young
Lawyers Division (YLD) during May’s Mental Health and Wellness Week/Month.
• Share important facts and statistics at law schools, local bar associations, and places of employment.
TFB’s Mental Health and Wellness Center’s website can be found here: https://www.floridabar.org/member/
healthandwellnesscenter/.
• Provide articles, videos, podcasts, and other media to share on the Center’s website and on the Center’s social
media.
• Contribute one health and wellness-related article per working group member to be published in The Professional.
• Investigate and report on how mentoring can be integrated into the Bar’s Health and Wellness Initiative. This may
be done in conjunction with the Mentoring Initiatives working group.
Charise Morgan-Joseph, Chair Dora Fay Kaufman
1031 Ives Dairy Rd Ste 228 44 W Flagler St Fl 25
Miami, FL 33179-2538 Miami, FL 33130-1808
(954) 967-6471 (305) 379-0400
Email: charise.morganjoseph@zurichna.com Email: dfk@lgplaw.com
Natasha DePrimo Erik Matheney
100 N Pine Island Rd Ste 270 4301 W Boy Scout Blvd Ste 300
Plantation, FL 33324-7805 Tampa, FL 33607-5716
(954) 831-3381 (813) 227-8123
Email: ndeprimo@17th.flcourts.org Email: ematheney@shutts.com
Gloria Dewlow Shannon Nash
800 E Twiggs St Ste 603 425 S Commerce Ave
Tampa, FL 33602-3558 Sebring, FL 33870-3702
(813) 272-5602 (863) 385-1549
Email: gbdewlow@gmail.com Email: shannon@heartlandlaw.com
Karla Ellis Neal Sonnett
PO Box 771450 2 S Biscayne Blvd Ste 2600
Miami, FL 33177-0025 Miami, FL 33131-1819
(850) 815-1930 (305) 358-2000
Email: karlaellislaw@gmail.com Email: nrslaw@sonnett.com
Janice Haywood
3900 N Powerline Rd
Pompano Beach, FL 33073-3013
(954) 545-6023
Email: janice.c.haywood@ice.dhs.gov
13Mentoring Initiatives Working Group
• Using available data regarding mentoring initiatives from other state bars, review, revise, and
modernize the Center’s mentoring toolbox, even if this means starting from scratch: https://
www.floridabar.org/prof/pmentor/
• Explore ways in which mentoring can be used to improve diversity in the legal profession.
• Produce a CLE which focuses on types of mentoring, gives examples of successful mentoring
programs, discusses the benefits of reverse mentoring, and explores ways in which mentoring can
be used to promote professionalism, civility, and diversity.
• Each member will submit at least one article on mentoring for the newsletter and will provide
articles, videos, podcasts, and other media pertaining to mentoring that can be placed on the
Center’s website and shared on social media.
Jason Berger, Chair John Schifino
850 NW Federal Hwy Ste 202 401 E Jackson St Ste 1500
Stuart, FL 34994-1019 Tampa, FL 33602-5204
(772) 403-5880 (813) 228-9080
Email: jason@jasonbergerlaw.com Email: jschifino@gunster.com
Patrice Behnstedt James Stepan
PO Box 9000 8570 Stirling Rd Ste 102-161
Bartow, FL 33831-9000 Hollywood, FL 33024-8203
(863) 534-4200 (305) 607-0678
Email: pbehnstedt@pd10.org Email: jstepan@stepanlaw.com
Chardean Hill Alexander Williams
PO Box 1244 PO Box 14106
Brandon, FL 33509-1244 Tallahassee, FL 32317-4106
(813) 967-9167 (850) 488-1581
Email: chill@cmhlawadr.com Email: awilliams@floridajqc.com
Brooke Latta
500 E Broward Blvd Ste 700
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33394-3016
(954) 660-5688
Email: brooke.latta@usdoj.gov
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ABOUT THE HENRY LATIMER CENTER FOR PROFESSIONALISM
The creation of The Florida Bar Center for Professionalism was approved by The Florida Bar
Board of Governors on May 17, 1996. This move was in response to a perceived national decline
in lawyers’ professionalism, and it was an effort to raise the aspirational goals of all lawyers
within Florida by defining a professionalism program and dedicating resources. Subsequently,
the Center for Professionalism and the Florida Supreme Court’s Commission on Professionalism
were created by Administrative Order AOSC1-50 on July 19, 1996 as a joint project of the
Supreme Court, The Florida Bar, and the Committee on Professionalism.
On September 24, 1998, The Rules Regulating The Florida Bar were amended to enact
Chapter 19, putting into effect the Center for Professionalism on October 1, 1998. This chapter
defines the Center’s purpose, responsibility, authority, staffing, operation, and relationship to the
Florida Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism.
In 2005, the Center was renamed, “The Henry Latimer Center for Professionalism,” in honor of
the late Honorable Henry Latimer. Judge Latimer - one of the first African-American judges in
Florida - enjoyed a 30-year career as a lawyer and jurist. He exemplified passion for equality,
excellence, respect, and dignity.
The Florida Bar’s Standing Committee on Professionalism worked with the Commission and the
Center to craft the guiding principles in the following joint mission and vision statements:
THE MISSION:
To promote the fundamental ideals and values of the justice system within the legal system,
and to instill those ideals of character, competence, commitment and civility in all those persons
serving therein.
THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONALISM’S
WORKING DEFINITION OF PROFESSIONALISM:
Professionalism is the pursuit and practice of the highest ideals and tenets of the legal
profession. It embraces far more than simply complying with the minimal standards of
professional conduct. The essential ingredients of professionalism are character, competence,
commitment, and civility.
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