Dozens of lawyers and judges volunteered to judge and be jurors for each trial round of the 2019  Florida Law Related Education Mock Trial Competition on February 8 , 2019, held in the Broward County central courthouse. Eleven schools competed this year and the winners were:

1st Place: American Heritage, 2nd Place: Fort Lauderdale High School, 3rd Place: Stoneman Douglas High School

The Seventeenth Circuit congratulates its first three successful participants in Community Court who are now placed in housing and successfully completed their case plan!

Several judges took part in a Judicial Roundtable Discussion on Friday, February 1, for first-year students in Nova Southeastern’s Shepard Broad College of Law program. The topic was The Importance of Professionalism in Adversarial Legal Writing and the students heard presentations from the judges and then took part in break-out groups for deeper discussion.

Thanks to Judge Towbin Singer, Judge Williams, Judge Levenson and Judge Diaz for their participation!

Last Friday, Judge Michael Davis hosted pre-law students from Florida International University who visited the South Satellite Courthouse in Hollywood to observe court.

Court Administration hosted Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day on Friday, with an itinerary that included a mock trial with Teen Court, BSO SWAT, Bomb Squad and DUI demonstrations, a mock crime scene by BSO Crime Lab, and of course, court observation. Several judges hosted students in their courtrooms as well.

It was a good day had by all!