SECTION NEWS

We started the year in excellent fashion with a well-attended and very informative seminar at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on September 12. Marguerite Longoria and Dan “the Piano Man” Levine did a great job in putting this seminar together, with timely topics and some excellent speakers. We are just days away from our next seminar, the 34th Annual Public Employment Labor Relations seminar at the Peabody Hotel in Orlando on October 16th & 17th. Mike Grogan and Steve Meck have put together an excellent program, and the new Chair of PERC, Stephanie Williams will be joining us in Orlando. Even if you are not registered for the seminar, feel free to stop by the Peabody for the reception on Thursday evening. We’ll have a special guest speaker from the U.S. Department of Justice that evening as well.

There was a nice story about the Section in the 9/15/08 Florida Bar News. You can access this story at:
https://www.floridabar.org/__85256AA9005B9F25.nsf/0/5B8C4E01B2A21DA1852574BE0046EEF8?

The Section’s Executive Council approved amendments to the Section’s by-laws at our annual meeting in June. They are currently pending before the Bar’s Board of Governors. If, as expected, they are approved, they will go into effect with the commencement of the 2009-10 Bar year.

Section Chair Alan Orantes Forst, along with CLE Chair Greg Hearing and David Block are in the process of putting together a webinar program for this year. We expect to advertise the offerings within the next six weeks in this space. We are also in the process of putting together our first CLE seminar in Tallahassee, directed at State government attorneys. In the meantime, Susan Dolin and David Block are working with Greg on our annual certification review course, which will be held at the J.W. Marriott in Orlando on February 26 & 27. This two day course covers L&E law in an all-encompassing fashion. In fact, last year, only 3 of the 55 attendees planned to take the certification exam; the rest were there for all of the information. Our final seminar is the Advanced Labor Topics seminar in Washington D.C. on May 1-2, 2009. Cynthia Sass and Bob Turk are working on that, and we plan to have special tours, entertainment and guest speakers making this an excellent program for our members and their families. We have a pretty good hotel rate at a hotel in the center of DC, at a great time of year to visit D.C.

We are still organizing our subcommittees. Please, if you have not already done so, send an email to our Program Administrator Angela Froelich, letting us know on which subcommittee(s) you would like to serve.

All in all, the Section is already on track for another outstanding year and we look forward to the involvement of all our membership in our programs and activities.

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