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Welcome to the City, County & Local Government Law Section of the Florida Bar.
As a member of the Section, you will join a group of lawyers who practice local government law in many and varied aspects, both in private practice and as in-house counsel to cities, counties, school boards, and special districts throughout the state. The Section serves its members by providing high quality CLE programs targeted to various areas of local government law practice. We also publish “The Agenda” (a quarterly newsletter), submit articles regularly to the Florida Bar Journal, and sponsor the annual Local Government Law Symposium issue of the Stetson Law Review.
The website and member listserv allow us to quickly provide our members with new information. The Section also serves future local government lawyers through our law school student grant program, summer internship program, and our newly formed Law School Liaison subcommittee.
But the most valuable resource of section membership is the members themselves. We gladly help each other with the vast myriad of issues a local government lawyer may encounter.
Please take a look around the website. I invite you to become involved with the Section through our committees or CLE programs. Feel free to contact me with any suggestions to improve the website or any other Section activities.
Vivien Monaco
Chair
Items of Interest:
NEW:
36th Annual Public Employment Labor Relations Forum
September 22-24, 2010
The two-day course on public employment labor relations will discuss the PERC update; federal eleventh circuit and Florida's public sector law update; collective bargaining strategies in troubling times; FCRA/FCHR update, GIMA and the Ledbetter act; implementing pension reform; public records/privileges and exemptions in public employment issues; first amendment and political patronage claims; e-mails, facebook and other electronic intercepts; ethics/professionalism/mediation-who's the client?; and a mock arbitration. Click here to download
brochure
NEW: SB 360 Final Summary Judgement
The City of Weston vs Governor Charlie Christ, Secretary of State Kurt Browning, Florida State Senate President Jeff Atwater and Speaker of the House Larry Cretul.
Click here to download
City, County and Local Government Law Certification Review Course 2010
This course is intended to provide a comprehensive review of public finance; conflicts of interest/financial disclosure; ethics; public sector employment liability, eminent domain, sunshine law and public records law; home rule and allocation of taxing powers; procurements; land use/zoning and practice & procedures before local government legislative and quasi-judicial bodies. Click here to order Audio CD/DVD
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Land Use Seminar, May 6, 2010
The Land Use seminar will discuss amendment 4: voting to amend the comprehensive plan in St. Pete Beach; beach renourishment in the wake of stop the beach renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection; substantial burdens, unreasonable limitations and unequal terms: local government regulation under RLUIPA; local government regulation of ethics, what's new in local government land use case law; and land use needs analysis in 21st century comprehensive planning. Click here to order Audio CD/DVD
33rd Annual Local Government Law in Florida, May 7-8, 2010
The 33rd Annual Local Government Law in Florida will discuss growth management legislation: perspective on where we've been and where we're heading; local governments looking for cash: constitutional limits on home rule revenue; participation of local government attorneys in land use mediation: doing it effectively and ethically; hometown democracy:lessons from St. Pete Beach as Florida considers amendment 4; RLUIPA - not the founders' first amendment: feasts, fasts, sweat lodges and reefer; avoiding the pitfalls and perils of furloughs, layoffs and reductions-in-force in the local government setting; "you're accused of what???" navigating the ethical minefield when a public official is accused of a criminal or ethical violation; tests, tweets and FB friends: public records and sunshine issues when local government meets social networking; U.S. supreme court law and local government issues; and 2010 legislative update. Click here to order Audio CD/DVD |
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