OJCC Announces Annual CLE at District Court

The OJCC will present its annual educational program in February 2023!

Sharpening and Adding To The Tools in Your Trial Toolbox
Friday, February 24, 2023, Tallahassee
8:30 am - 5:00 pm

The Florida First District Court of Appeal Multipurpose Meeting Room, First Floor, 2000 Drayton Drive, Tallahassee, Florida

8:30 – 8:50 am Registration, Check-in

8:50 – 8:55 am Welcome to the First DCA

  • Honorable Lori S. Rowe, Chief Judge, First District Court of Appeal


8:55 – 9:00 am Welcome from DOAH/OJCC

  • Honorable Brian Newman, Acting Director and Chief Judge, DOAH


9:00 – 10:00 am Pre-petition Case Handling, Responses to Petitions, Discovery and Motions

  • Moderator: Honorable John Moneyham, JCC, Panama City 
  • Panelists:
    • Honorable Neal Pitts, JCC, Orlando
    • Olivia Devonmille, Esquire, Law Office of Olivia Devonmille, P.A.
    • Susan Marks, Esquire, McConnaughhay, Coonrod, Pope, Weaver & Stern, P.A.


10:00 – 11:00 am Tools for Reaching Mediation Agreements that Will Weather the Hurricane of Motions to Enforce

  • Moderator: Honorable Robert Arthur, JCC, Tampa
  • Panelists:
    • Honorable Jack Weiss, JCC, Fort Myers
    • Bethany Valliere, State Mediator, West Palm Beach District
    • Stuart F. Suskin, Private Mediator, (Retired) State Mediator


11:00 – 11:10 am Break 11:10 – 12:10 pm Tools for Trial-Uniform Statewide Pretrial Stipulations and Trial Memorandums

  • Moderator: Honorable Margaret Kerr, JCC, Miami
  • Panelists:
    • Honorable Brian Anthony, JCC, Tampa
    • Laralee Garvin, Esquire, Rissman, Barrett, Hurt, Donahue, McLain & Mangan, P.A.
    • Randall Porcher, Esquire, Morgan & Morgan


12:10 – 12:40 pm Lunch, provided

12:40 – 1:40 pm Final Hearings in the Modern Era: Conducting, and Participating in, the Workers’ Compensation Trial

  • Moderator: Honorable Jonathan Walker, JCC, Pensacola
  • Panelists:
    • Honorable Ray Holley, JCC, Jacksonville
    • Honorable Iliana Forte, JCC, Fort Lauderdale


1:40 – 2:40 pm Practitioner and Judicial Perspective on Appellate Matters

  • Moderator: Honorable Thomas Hedler, JCC, West Palm Beach Panelists:
    • Honorable M. Kemmerly Thomas, Judge, First District Court of Appeal
    • Amie DeGuzman, Esquire, The Law Office of John J. Rahaim
    • William Rogner, Esquire, HR Law


2:40 – 2:50 pm Break 2:50 – 3:50 pm Professionalism in Workers’ Compensation

  • Moderator: Rebecca J. Bandy, Director of Henry Latimer Center for Professionalism
  • Panelists:
    • Matthew Bennett, Esquire, HR Law
    • Kimberly Syfrett, Esquire, Syfrett, Dykes & Furr
    • Honorable Jacquelyn Newman, JCC, Tallahassee
    • Honorable Timothy D. Osterhaus, Judge, First District Court of Appeal


4:00 – 5:00 pm Reception, all attendees invited 

 


 

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