NSU Law Alumni Newsletter - March 2020
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NSU Law response to COVID-19
NSU continues to monitor the health and well-being of all its students, faculty and staff. The COVID-19 situation is monitored closely and the NSU community is receiving updates from the NSU Office of the President.
All NSU college classes across all programs have been suspended effective 11:59 pm March 12, 2020 through March 22, 2020. Beginning March 23, all NSU Law classes will be held online.
The NSU Shepard Broad College of Law has the utmost concern for the health and safety of our students, faculty and staff, while remaining committed to academic success. We appreciate all members of the community working together with us in meeting these dual goals.
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FBA Civil Rights & Human Trafficking
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The NSU Law Chapter of the Federal Bar Association along with the NSU Human Rights Organization, the Florida association of Woman Lawyers at NSU and the National Security and Law Society held their Civil Rights and Human Trafficking panel this month. Students, alumni, and community members attended the event hosted at NSU Law. The panel focused on the growing epidemic of human trafficking and the necessary steps used through federal practice to prevent its expansion. There was also a segment focusing on a survivor’s personal experience of human trafficking and the necessary legislation needed to combat this crime.
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Thank you to our panelists (L-R)
Francis Viamontes, Assistant US Attorney's office - Violent Crimes and Narcotics Chief
Jumorrow Johnson, Human Trafficking Coordinator, Office of the State Attorney for the 17th Judicial Circuit
Cali Simek, Volunteer Survivor Leader BHTC
Barbara A. Martinez, Chief of the Special Prosecutions Unit, U.S. Attorney's Office
The Honorable Stacy Ross (JD '97), Juvenile Delinquency Division, 17th Judicial Circuit (Moderator)
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NSU Law Dean Search Launched
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NSU has launched the search for the next dean of the NSU Shepard Broad College of Law. Members of the search committee include:
Michelle Clark, Professor and Dean, NSU College of Pharmacy (Chair)
Catherine Arcabascio, Professor, Shepard Broad College of Law
Gordon James, III, NSU Law Board of Governors
Michael Richmond, Professor, Shepard Broad College of Law
Andy Rosman, Dean H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship
Florence Shu-Acquaye, Professor, Shepard Broad College of Law
Charles Tatelbaum, Trip Scott, P.A., NSU Law Board of Governors
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Florida Pro Bono Challenge
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NSU Law is currently ranked #2 in the state. We Need More Alumni!
Alumni are encouraged to connect with students to cover all pro bono cases and mentoring opportunities and make a difference in the community!
February 3 - April 3, 2020
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At this time NSU Law has canceled and postponed all its March 2020 events. University policy is prohibiting events with attendance of more than 50 people, so we are working to convert some April events to remote access. Please monitor email for further information.
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Environmental Law Symposium
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Friday, April 3, 2020 | 9:30 am - 4:45 pm
Can We Afford Our Future?
Explore the legal and policy implications of the costs facing south Floridians as they work to protect their homes and environmental support system from global warming, sea level rise, pollution, degradation, and congestion.
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Professor Heather Baxter
Published
Using Hamilton’s “Farmer Refuted” to Teach Oral Argument, 27 PERSPS. 66 (2019),
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Was a panelist,
Alumni Mentoring 2020 Careers in Academia, discussing the unique challenges and benefits of an academic career path, February 25, 2020.
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Professor Kathy Cerminara
The Graham Media Group, Local 4 and ClickOnDetroit.com picked up Professor Cerminara’s interview on crowdfunding social media and direct fundraising campaigns to help offset out-of-pocket medical expenses by Local 10 in February 2020.
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Hosted and moderated the
Health Care Policy Discussion by Professor James Hodge, Jr. in March 2020 at NSU Law.
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Professor Mark Dobson
Named Professor of the Year for 2019-2020 by the NSU Law student body.
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Professor Jessica Garcia-Brown
Was a panelist,
Alumni Mentoring 2020 Careers in Academia, discussing the unique challenges and benefits of an academic career path, February 25, 2020.
Was co-presenter along with Dean Shahabadeen Khan and Judge DePrimo, on
Managing Mental Health, Stress, and Addition in the Legal Profession, discussing how judges, lawyers, and students can work towards maintaining a healthy lifestyle in a stressful profession for members of the Stephen R. Booher-American Inns of Court, February 12, 2020.
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Professor Jon M. Garon
Was a panelist,
Crowdfunding and Securities Regulation for Startups, Sharon and Mitchell W. Berger Entrepreneur Law Clinic Outreach in February 2020.
Presented,
Dysregulating the Media: How the Digital Shift via Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Other Platforms Has Outpaced Regulatory Authority – and Creates Significant Privacy and Data Security Concerns, 2020 Midwest Legal Conference on Privacy & Data Security in February 2020.
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Professor Richard Grosso
Judged several rounds of a mock oral argument along with NSU Law 2L Kamaria Binns at Nova High School’s Constitutional Law Honors Class oral argument competition in March 2020.
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Director of the Sharon and Mitchell W. Berger Entrepreneur Law Clinic and Professor of Law Steven Kass
Was a panelist,
Crowdfunding and Securities Regulation for Startups, Sharon and Mitchell W. Berger Entrepreneur Law Clinic Outreach in February 2020.
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Associate Dean of International Programs and Professor of Law Shahabadeen Khan
Was co-presenter along with Professor Jessica Garcia-Brown and Judge DePrimo, on
Managing Mental Health, Stress, and Addition in the Legal Profession, discussing how judges, lawyers, and students can work towards maintaining a healthy lifestyle in a stressful profession for members of the Stephen R. Booher-American Inns of Court, February 12, 2020.
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Professor James Wilets
Professor Wilets is working on creating a documentation of center for human rights abuses that occurred in the everyday lives of Broward County, FL residents under Jim Crow/apartheid. The history will be a part of the Broward County’s Destination Sistrunk Welcome center, a black historical destination.
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Associate Dean of Graduate and Online Programs & Professor of Law Susan Stephan
Was a panelist,
Crowdfunding and Securities Regulation for Startups, Sharon and Mitchell W. Berger Entrepreneur Law Clinic Outreach in February 2020.
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Interim Dean Debra Vollweiler
Moderated
Alumni Mentoring 2020 Careers in Academia, discussing the unique challenges and benefits of an academic career path, February 25, 2020.
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On March 10, the Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AIDD) Law Clinic attended parent night at Seagull Alternative High School. AIDD interns, Casey Curtis (JD '20) and Dalilian Gutierrez (JD '20), conducted a presentation on legal guardianship options for persons with disabilities and provided information regarding the clinic’s pro bono legal services.
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Nova Law Review Blog is active and producing some very interesting topics of discussion. Including E-Scooter Regulation, Amendment IV, School Choice and highlights of editors among the team.
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5th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Letter Writing Competition Winners
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Abigail Chapman, 1st and Deandra Hilaire, 2nd were the winners of the NSU Law annual Write a Letter, Change the World competition. The entries addressed several important topics including reproductive rights, Islamophobia, structural racism and prison reform
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Literature and the Law - Poetry
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Professor Richmond's Law & Literature Seminar presented a poetry reading in February 2020. Students read from works of noted poets and David Brownell, on drums, W. Gray Tesh (JD 2001) on guitar and Dave Spitz (JD 1999), on bass backed up the readers.
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Undergraduate Paralegal Studies Legal Research and Writing class
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The Honorable Michael Davis, County Court Judge, Civil/Criminal Division, 17th Judicial Circuit of Florida met with the NSU Paralegal Studies Legal Research & Writing class in March 2020. The class was on hand to observe a court motion calendar. Judge Davis graciously provided an analysis of how application of law and civil procedure impacted his decisions at that morning's hearings.
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1981
Douglas McIntosh has joined
Segal McCambridge after combining the two firms, Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney and McIntosh Sawran & Cartaya. He is a shareholder in the firm’s Fort Lauderdale office. McIntosh’s practice focuses on insurance defense. Mr. McIntosh is the current Chair of the Board of Governors of NSU Shepard Broad College of Law.
1982
James C. Sawran has joined
Segal McCambridge after combining the two firms, Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney and McIntosh Sawran & Cartaya. He is the managing shareholder in the firm’s Fort Lauderdale office. Sawran defends professionals and healthcare clients in a range of high-stakes litigation matters. Over the course of his career he has represented hospitals, nursing homes, physicians, surgeons, podiatrists and other healthcare providers in medical malpractice and related claims. He has served as lead trial counsel to one of the largest hospital corporations doing business throughout Florida and has represented clients in class actions and complex product liability matters.
1992
Hollis Salzman, partner and co-chair of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation practice at
Robins Kaplan, has been elected Chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section. The election was confirmed on January 30, 2020. PLEASE NOTE: This is a correction from the February 2020 newsletter as to the date the election was confirmed.
1994
Beth-Ann Herschaft wishes to share with the NSU Law community previous work on cruise ship liability that is timely in light of today’s world events. In 1992, she published an article regarding cruise ship liability for medical malpractice in the Nova Law Review and she was quoted in an article about the same subject in the SunSentinel on July 17, 2006. Ms. Herschaft retired in 2009 from the Broward County Attorney’s office. The link to the article, Cruise Ship Medical Malpractice Cases: Must Admiralty Courts Steer by the Star of Stare Decisis, begins on page 571
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2273&context=nlr
2003
Manu Davidson was promoted to partner at
Braverman Greenspun in New York. Davidson focuses her practice on representing the interests of condominium and cooperatives in litigation involving a wide array of challenging issues, ranging from breach of contract disputes to claims of discrimination in housing and accessibility issues, such as those under the FHA, Title III of the ADA, the New York State Human Rights Law and the New York City Civil Rights Law. She also represents attorneys and real estate professionals in professional malpractice claims.
Kent B. Frazer opened
The Frazer Firm, P.A., in Jupiter, Florida. Frazier litigates business and commercial disputes, and provides counsel to businesses, executives, professionals, and individuals in contract negotiations, business transactions, and operations.
2005
Matthew Schwartz became a shareholder at
Kass Shuler in Tampa.
2006
Jennifer Diaz of
Diaz Trade Law was appointed to the South Florida District Export Council. Diaz focuses her practice on assisting companies in successfully complying with the vast U.S. federal laws and regulations for import and export transactions as well as supply chain security
2007
Annabella Barboza of
Barboza Law & Associates in Fort Lauderdale is the 2020 president of the
Broward Attorneys Real Estate Council. Barboza is Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Real Estate Law. Her practice includes the legal representation of real estate owners, investors and lenders in the acquisition, sale, and finance of real property as well as in foreclosure cases.
2008
Brooke Ehrlich was promoted to partner at
Weiss Serota Helfman Cole & Bierman in their Fort Lauderdale office. Ehrlich’s primary areas of practice include employment litigation, labor law, commercial litigation, and appellate law.
2009
Michael Kantor was promoted to partner at
Weiss Serota Helfman Cole & Bierman in their Fort Lauderdale office. Kantor’s primary areas of practice include employment litigation, labor law, and commercial litigation.
2011
Dane Leitner was named an equity partner at
Ward Damon in West Palm Beach. Leitner concentrates his practice in the areas of civil litigation, marital and family law, and real estate law which includes condominium and homeowner association law.
Marc A. Marra has been promoted to partner at
Kelley Kronenberg in Fort Lauderdale. Marra focuses his practice on assisting banks and other financial service providers with regulatory, enforcement, transactional, and litigation matters. He also handles representation of Condominium and Homeowner’s Associations throughout South Florida in areas including collections, foreclosures, estoppel, enforcement of covenants, vendor negotiations, and day-to-day management. Marra is the current president of the Broward Chapter of the NSU Law Alumni Association.
2012
George Taylor was promoted to partner at
Brinkley Morgan in Fort Lauderdale. He practices in the Estate and Trust Litigation and Business Litigation practice groups. His Estate and Trust Litigation practice focuses on resolving disputes, will and trust contests based on undue influence, removal of personal representatives and trustees for breach of fiduciary duty, litigation between trust protectors, trustees, and trust beneficiaries. Taylor’s Business Litigation practice focuses on solving legal problems resulting from commercial and business relationships, including the litigation of those matters in both state and federal courts.
Daniel A. Velasquez became a partner at
Latham Luna Eden & Beaudine in Orlando. He is in the firm’s bankruptcy reorganization department. Velasquez concentrates his practice on complex commercial reorganizations.
2013
Ilana Olman has joined
Segal McCambridge after combining the two firms, Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney and McIntosh Sawran & Cartaya. Olman is a shareholder in the firm’s Fort Lauderdale office. Her practice includes a broad range of insurance coverage and bad faith claims and lawsuits, where she has represented insurers in complex insurance coverage disputes relating to commercial general liability, property, errors and omissions, directors and officers, umbrella and excess policies, as well as other specialty insurance products.
Rebecca A. Rodriguez of counsel at
GrayRobinson in Fort Lauderdale and Miami has been appointed to the board of directors of
Legal Aid Service of Broward County. Rodriguez focuses her practice on state and federal litigation, appeals, and general compliance matters for corporate clients, financial institutions, and government entities.
2015
2016
Levi D. Thomas joined
Kubicki Draper in Fort Myers. Thomas focuses his practice on automobile and motorized vehicles, insurance coverage, and premises liability claims.
2019
Nicholas Fiorello joined
Kelley Kronenberg in Fort Lauderdale. He assists in handling matters related to Business Litigation and Complex International Corporate Transactions.
Natalie C. Fisher joined
Kelley Kronenberg in Fort Lauderdale as an attorney. She assists in handling matters related to Complex Commercial and General Business Litigation, and Construction Defect Litigation.
2020
December 2019 graduate
Meagan Kelleher had her article
Dealing with Federal Court Interpreters published by National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA). The link to the whitepaper is
https://www.nita.org/interpreters-whitepaper
In Memoriam
Alan Wayne Workman (JD 1991) passed away on November 14, 2019. He was 58 years old. We were made aware of his passing when it appeared in a publication from the Florida Bar. All were advised, "If you want a way to honor Alan's memory and celebrate his life, just raise a glass or remember him fondly when you get together for upcoming holidays with your loved ones."
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