Summer 2014 By Shannon McLin Carlyle In 2012, Judge Wendy Berger became the third female to serve on the Fifth District Court of Appeal. Judge Berger grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, where she attended high school at Stanton...
Read MoreSummer 2014 By Siobhan Helene Shea Judge Mark W. Klingensmith grew up in Melbourne, Florida, as the oldest of three children. After his family moved to the West Palm Beach area, Judge Klingensmith attended John I. Leonard...
Read MoreSummer 2014 by Carrie Ann Wozniak, Esq., Partner, Akerman LLP with Pamela Masters, Esq., Clerk of Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal Most appellate practitioners know that the Clerk’s Office is the gateway to the Court....
Read MoreSummer 2014 By Paul A. Avron In a first impression issue, a panel of the Eleventh Circuit declined to limit the Pearlman doctrine1—under which an intervenor can file an interlocutory appeal from an order denying a motion to...
Read MoreSummer 2014 By Gray R. Proctor I. General Considerations Practitioners should be aware that federal habeas review exists to correct only errors of federal law.1 Violations of state law are still relevant when they prove a...
Read MoreSummer 2014 By Jared Michael Krukar, Esq. Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.400(b) establishes the procedure for seeking attorney fees on appeal. Many practitioners have long assumed that the rule similarly applies to...
Read MoreSummer 2014 By David A. Karp Edwin Scales, solo practitioner, was driving to his law office in Key West on a Friday morning last October when his cell phone rang. “Hey, Ed, this is Rick Scott,” the voice said over the phone....
Read MoreSummer 2014 By Siobhan Helene Shea Alan Orantes Forst was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on December 13, 1958. Judge Forst was (and remains!) the eldest of two sons, growing up in a traditional “reformative” Jewish family,...
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