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We're just going to leave this here without much comment.
After all, there's not really anything more we can add to what Florida Bar member
@btannebaum
has already (so eloquently) written.
Congrats to this young man. Truly.
#StoriesWeLove
❤️
Florida lawyer details
#coronavirus
fight: “I wake myself up moaning in pain all night long. This is not the flu. ... You do not want your worst enemy to go through this."
56 years ago today, the United States Supreme Court announced that people accused of crimes have a right to an attorney even if they cannot afford one.
That case, which came from Florida, revolutionized criminal law throughout the United States.
#Gideon
Lawyers have their own day because they're sharp, they're tough, and when they walk into court on your behalf, they're only there for one thing: To WIN.
Happy
#LoveYourLawyerDay
, y'all.
This is, hands down, 1 of the GREATEST legal stories The FLBar social media team has shared in our short existence.
Here's your
#WednesdayMotivation
. Right here 👇
"Single mother of 5 proudly poses with kids in law school graduation photos: 'We did it'"
Hey, everyone ... remember the
@UFLaw
student - Kristin Babik - who was injured in the deadly Las Vegas shooting?
Well, we have an update: She's not only fully recovered -- she GRADUATED over the weekend and walked across the stage with her classmates.
No words ... just 👊.
A survivor of the deadly Las Vegas shooting did not let her injuries stop her from accomplishing her dream. Kristin Babik walked across the stage to receive her degree from
@uflaw
over the weekend.
@NorahODonnell
spoke to her just days after the attack:
Dear,
#LawTwitter
:
Every
#BarExam
cycle, we seem to find a tweet w/ an INCREDIBLE story behind it.
Meet Ali.
He opened Twitter yesterday, and his 1st tweet was to announce he passed the Bar - then 20 mins later, his wife gave birth to their 1st kid. 😮💪👏👏
#MakeThisGoViral
Sure, finding out you passed the
@TheFlaBar
your first go around is exciting. Then again the birth of your first child 20 minutes later wins easy. Alice 1, the Florida bar 0.
#newdad
#newlawyer
Gooooood morning,
#BarExam
takers! It's Day 2 of one of the hardest tests on Earth - but don't stress, you're halfway home!
Time to finish strong, leave it all behind you and then hit the parking lot like ... 💃🕺🙌
We are honored to welcome our new
@FLBarPresident
Michelle Suskauer, the first former public defender to serve as President.
We look forward to an exciting year ahead!
The Law School Comparison pass rates for the Feb. 2020 FL
#BarExam
have been released by the FL Board of Bar Examiners & can be found on
@flcourts
website:
Congrats to the Feb. 2020 Top 3:
1.
@UFLaw
- 83.3%
2.
@fiulaw
- 81.8%
3.
@FSUCollegeofLaw
- 70%
1/
ICYMI: South Florida attorney Andrew J. Weinstein, a civil litigator and managing attorney of the
@WeinsteinLaw
Firm, has been appointed by President Joe Biden to serve as a public delegate to the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Let the record show that it was on this day - Monday, November 18, 2019 - that we found one of the best legal posts of the entire year with only 43 days left on the calendar ...
👏 ❤ 👏 ❤ 👏 ❤ 👏
#JudgesAreTheCoolest
Good morning and BEST of luck to ALL law students out there taking the
#BarExam
today!
Just remember, if you come to a portion of the test that gives you trouble, don't sweat it -- just take a deep breath, smile and be all like ...
UPDATE: The young man's name is Raymon Burns & he came into our FB thread of the same post yesterday to thank everyone for the kind words. We told him
#lawtwitter
had gotten wind as well & that some had asked if he had an "@."
Well, Raymon replied - and now he does:
@BurnsRaymon
Live look-in at The Florida Bar social media team's meeting this morning as we discussed how to cover the
#ABAMidYear
meeting in
#Vancouver
... that we weren't invited to ...
In the 6 years since The Florida Bar social media team was assembled, this is one of the most incredible posts we've ever seen.
No other words.
Just ... 👊.
#ThankYouForYourServiceJudgeDugan
We promised you something cool was coming today at 8 a.m. ... and here we are!
Introducing ... *drum roll please 🥁🥁🥁*
"The Florida Bar's 12 Days Of Wellness Card!"
We know these are stressful times during the holidays, and you need to be looking out for
#1
- yourself!
1/
Well, friends ... The Florida Bar's HQs avoided major damage in
#HurricaneMichael
.
We only had 1 massive tree - out of many we have on the grounds - fall. And as you can see, fell in the right direction. 👀
But for those who need help, we have resources:
"You must retweet any tweet that contains photos of lawyers' dogs, a lawyer and his/her a dog, and any dog whose owner is a lawyer -- or any combination of the above."
-- Page 47, Paragraph 3, Line 12 of The Florida Bar social media policy 😎🐶
Dear, fellow Bars:
If you think you can top our giant 25-foot tall
#Christmas
🌳 in our lobby, post a pic of yours and hashtag it
#BarTrees
.
The
#BarTree
gauntlet has officially been thrown down.
Yours truly,
- The Florida Bar 🎅
The January FLBar Journal is now online ...
And it's one EVERY lawyer in America should read.
This month's edition delves into an issue that is near and dear to ours and our members' hearts: The mental health & wellness of the *entire* legal profession
Good morning, Florida law students!
Look, we could give you LOTS of advice on Day 1 of the
#barexam
, but this is all you really need to know. 😎
Good luck, everyone.👊
#OwnTheBar
What's that?
Your Bar's Communications Director doesn't have a beautiful hand-crafted wooden set of the only four female Justices in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Can't relate ... 👩⚖️👩⚖️👩⚖️👩⚖️
#Sandra
#Sonia
#Ruth
#Elena
.
@ABAJournal
: "Bar exams should use multiple choice questions sparingly, if at all, replace essay questions with performance tests, and require supervised clinical work for licensure, per a study focused on minimum competency to practice law by
@TheAALS
."
Pretty sure "Juris Dogtorate" is officially our new favorite word in the world. 😅
*leaves tweet here, watches it melt
#LawTwitter
and
#DogTwitter
all at once*
Which of these four photos brings back some preeeeeettttty sweet flashbacks about the
#BarExam
?
And just to clarify: By "sweet flashbacks" we mean "absolute nightmares." 😎
Not sure if you heard, but The Florida Bar's Twitter account was just named one of the "Top 25 Legal Twitter Accounts To Follow" in America by the ABA Journal.
So ... yeah ... 😎
#Web100
Remember the Florida law grad who passed the
#BarExam
and then posted a picture of herself being sworn-in IN the maternity ward of Tampa General Hospital as she awaited to give birth to twins????
Well ... we have an update for ya.
And it's GREAT one.
Congrats to
@fiulaw
with the top passage rate of 81.2% on the July 2022 Florida Bar Exam, followed by
@UFLaw
in 2nd at 78.7% and
@FSUCollegeofLaw
in 3rd at 74.9%.
@MiamiLawSchool
came in 4th with a passage rate of 72% and
@AveMariaLaw
rounded out the Top 5 at 71.4%.
Congrats!