The law is good, if a man use it lawfully.
Timothy 1:8
Florida Board of Bar Examiners Vacancy
TALLAHASSEE, June 29, 2004 -- Lawyer applicants are being sought to fill one vacancy on the Florida Board of Bar Examiners. The Board of Governors will be selecting three nominees for one lawyer vacancy at its August 13, 2004 meeting. The nominations will then be forwarded to the Florida Supreme Court to fill the remainder of a five-year term commencing immediately and expiring on October 31, 2008.
Attorney members must have been a member of The Florida Bar for at least five years. They must be practicing lawyers with scholarly attainments and have an affirmative interest in legal education and requirements for admission to the Bar. Appointment or election to the bench at any level of the court system will disqualify any applicant. Law professors or trustees are ineligible.
Board members of the Bar Examiners must be able to attend approximately ten meetings a year in various Florida locations. Members volunteer 300 or more hours per year on Board business depending on committee assignments. Actual travel expenses connected with the meetings and examinations are reimbursed.
Persons interested in applying for this vacancy may download the application for special appointment from the Bar's Web site, or should contact The Florida Bar at 850/561-5600, ext. 5757, to obtain the proper application form. Applications may also be obtained by writing the Executive Director, The Florida Bar, 651 East Jefferson Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2300. Completed applications must be received no later than the close of business Friday, July 16, 2004. Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of the required application. The Board of Governors will review all applications and may request telephone or personal interviews.
CONTACT: Lani K. Whigham, The Florida Bar
DATE: June 29, 2004
TELEPHONE: 850/561-5757
UF Law News Release
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A longtime contributor to the University of Florida and its Levin College of Law recently pledged an additional gift of $100,000 to the law school's Annual Fund to help provide opportunities for students to gain practical experience and to support academic programs and services.
Lewis M. Schott, founder and president of LMS Securities investment company in Palm Beach, donated the funds in honor of his late wife, Marcia Whitney Schott. The two earned law degrees from UF in 1946.
They were major donors to the law school's Bruton-Geer Hall building campaign in the early 1980s, resulting in the naming of the Marcia Whitney Schott Courtyard, and late that same decade contributed $50,000 to help endow the Clarence TeSelle Professorships.
"I'm very pleased with the progress of the College of Law, and happy to be able to support its continued national advancement," Schott said. "It helped prepare me for my career, and is the place that brought Marcia and me together."
The Schotts' largest contribution to the University was a gift of more than $2 million establishing the Marcia Whitney Schott Super Chair in Rheumatoid Arthritis Research, a disease from which Mrs. Schott died in 1989.
Schott, named a UF Distinguished Alumnus in 1997, initially practiced law in his hometown, Daytona Beach, and then at 26 was named to head the Alcohol Beverage Department and serve on Gov. Fuller Warren's cabinet. Subsequently the couple moved to New York where he undertook a varied and successful business career, and Mrs. Schott graduated from the New York School of Design. She was retained to create a number of Wall Street offices, and decorated the executive suites in Yankee Stadium for team owner George Steinbrenner.
"Lew Schott's investment supports the College's legacy in a vital way," said Dean Robert Jerry. "We value the generosity of Mr. Schott and all of our loyal alumni in light of our ongoing need for private funds, and to help ensure facilitation of faculty and student achievement as we move toward
becoming one of the county's Top 10 public law schools."
