Visit Us On TwitterVisit Us On FacebookVisit Us On LinkedinVisit Us On Instagram

JOIN

Tag

black history month
By Michele G. Moss, Esquire This article continues a piece Michele wrote in 2021. To read it click here.  Introduction This article discusses a few of the many skilled African-American scientists, inventors and engineers whose inventions and achievements advanced scientific knowledge and improved our lives. Despite their extraordinary contributions to this country and to the...
Read More
By Crystal Potts On April 8, 2022, the day following Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation as the next justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (“Supreme Court”) she said: And it is an honor — the honor of a lifetime — for me to have this chance to join the Court, to promote...
Read More
By Christopher R. Thompson, Burr & Furman On January 26, 2021, Judge Stephan P. Mickle, Sr. died at the age of 76, having lived an extraordinary and historically significant life, by any definition. I did not have the honor of meeting Judge Mickle, but Judge Karen Specie (Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Florida)...
Read More
By Michele G. Moss, Johnson Moss Law Introduction This article discusses just a few of the many skilled African American scientists, mathematicians, inventors and engineers whose inventions and achievements still touch our everyday lives. Despite their prodigious achievements, their names remain hidden and largely unknown by most Americans. These African Americans, and countless more, should...
Read More
Hon. Laurel Isicoff
By Chief Judge Laurel M. Isicoff, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida We have long recognized that people who appear in court feel more comfortable if the person sitting on the bench is someone who looks like them. While in recent years more awareness has developed about diversifying the bench, that process...
Read More
A profile on the Honorable Mary S. Scriven, U.S. District Court Judge for the Middle District of Florida Author: Utibe Ikpe, Meland Budwick Judge Mary S. Scriven’s mother forecasted her success. On the weekend Judge Scriven graduated from law school in 1987, her mother wrote her a letter, which expressed pride in her daughter’s accomplishments...
Read More