Admitted
1974, Illinois, Florida and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida; 1975, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 1981, U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Tax Court; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth, Sixth and Eleventh Circuits; 1983, U.S. District C
Law School
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., 1974
Law School Graduation Year
1974
College
University of Miami
Memberships
South Miami-Kendall, Dade County (Chairman, Criminal Courts Committee, 1985-1986; Co-Chairman, 1984-1985; Member, Police Standards Committee, 1985; Member, 1975—), Illinois State (Member, Criminal Law Section), Federal (Member, Criminal Law Section) and American (Member: Criminal Law Section; Defense Function Committee, 1987—; White Collar Crime Committee and Post Conviction Committee, 1999) Bar Associations; The Florida Bar (Member: Criminal Law Section; Liaison with the Judiciary Committee, 1985-1986; Federal Practice Commission, 1987-1988); California Attorneys for Criminal Justice; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Member, Criminal Law Section); Florida Criminal Defense Attorneys Association (President, 1981-1982; Member, Board of Directors, 1977-1979); Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; American Board of Criminal Lawyers (Fellow; Member, Board of Governors, 1985-1987); Illinois Attorneys for Criminal Justice; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Life Member; President, 1991-1992; Vice-Chair, Nominating Committee, 1998; Co-Chair, Nominating Committee, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002; Post Conviction Committee, 1999; Member, Executive Committee, 1985-1992; Member, Board of Directors, 1979-1984; Chairman, Local and State Bar Liaison Committee, 1982-1983; Co-Chairman, Lawyers Assistance Committee, 1980-1982; Chairman, Publications Committee, 1984-1985; Chairman, 1985-1986, Lawyers Assistance Strike Force Committee; Chairman, Judicial Liaison Committee, 1988-1991 and 1996; Chairman, United States Department of Justice Liaison Committee, 1992-1994; Chair, Judicial Relations Committee, 1995-1996); International Association of Penal Law
Biographical
Phi Alpha Delta. Member: Iron Arrow; Bar and Gavel. President, Student Bar Association, 1973. Managing Editor, The Kent Commentator, Chicago, Illinois, 1973. Recipient: Moot Court Award, 1973; Florida Bar Award for Media Excellence, 1988; NACDL Robert C. Heeney Memorial Award, 1985; Exceptional Participation Pro Bono Project for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit and Dade County Bar Association, October, 1994. Editor, Criminal Law News Letter, The Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, 1979-1983. Editorial Board, Drug Research Report, published by Harvard Medical School, 1985-1990; Board of Advisors, Inside Drug Law, 1986-1991. Author: Entrapment, Inside Drug Law, 1985; Taking the Lid Off The Government's Silent Partner, The Champion, Jan., 1990; Counseling Counsel: Contempts, Conflicts and Disciplinary Action, The Champion, July, 1990. Co-author: Prosecutorial Misconduct: Alive and Well, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, 1990. Former Member, Board of Advisors, BNA Criminal Practice Manual. Professor of Law, Southeast Florida Institute of Criminal Justice, 1976-1984. Faculty and Board of Regents, National Criminal Defense College, 1985—. Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, Faculty: Advanced Criminal Practitioner Seminar, Hawaii, 1984-1986; Association of Trial Lawyers of America National College of Advocacy, Advanced Criminal Litigation Course, 1985; Advanced Criminal Law Seminar, Aspen, Colorado, 1986. Special Assistant Public Defender, Dade County, 1974-1990. Hearing Examiner, Metropolitan Dade County, Florida, 1982-1987. Member: President's Council, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1983—. Lawyer-Delegate to U.S. Eleventh Circuit Judicial Conference, 1988 and 1989. Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School Center for Addiction Studies, 1990-1992. Witness, United States Federal Courts Study Committee, 1989. Listed in: National Directory of Criminal Lawyers; National Registry of Preeminent Lawyers; Florida Leading American Attorneys and Law: Consumer Guidebook; Who's Who in American Law. Member, Dade County G