Zoom Across the Atlantic
The Barney Masterson American Inn of Court is hosting another Zoom Across the Atlantic event. February 24, 2022 12:30pm.
The event is a transatlantic discussion via the Zoom video conferencing app between American and British legal experts about the similarities and differences in American and United Kingdom legal systems. This webinar is offered for free. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Attendees can register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GEaNGq3MSK28bCLN0aDcCw. A short video about this event can be found at https://youtu.be/TiNQrC_xt60. Our list of panelists is quite impressive (see below).
This was a successful event last year. The chat stays open so that attendees can ask questions during the 1 hour program. Most, if not all, of the attendee questions last time were answered. This event has been approved for 1 hour of general CLE credit.
If you have questions, please contact Klarika Caplano [email protected]
The 2022 panelists are:
Hon. Royale Colbert. Judge Colbert presides over criminal cases in the 15th Judicial District of Louisiana. Fe is a former Army brigade JAG Officer, former Assistant Public Defender, Assistant District Attorney and Assistant Attorney General. He was formerly a civil attorney in private practice.
Roger Futerman. Atty. Futerman has been a criminal trial lawyer for over 22 years. He is a former state prosecutor. He is a Nationally Board Certified Criminal Attorney. He is also board certified by The Florida Bar. He is a member of the American Collage of Board Certified Attorneys and is a member of the Florida Bar’s Criminal Law and Trial Board Certification Committee.
HHJ Anthony Hammond. Judge Hammond read law at St. Catherine’s, Oxford, 1954-57. He was called to the bar in 1959 but was on National Service and had to wait 2 years. His entire career has been spent in Manchester. He sat as Deputy Judge in 1970, and as Deputy Circuit Judge from 1975. He became a Recorder in 1980. He was appointed Circuit Judge in 1986, retired in 2009, and sat as a Deputy for 2 more years. He was a Tutor in Crime at the Judicial Studies Board (now the Judicial Collage) for 8 years. He was a member of the Parole Board for 6 years.
David Hughes. David is a barrister in full-time practice at the Welsh-Anglo Bar with emphasis on actions against the police, civil and commercial litigation, constitutional and administrative law, defamation, and mental health/health capacity law.
HHJ Nigel Lithman, QC. Nigel was brought up in Essex, attending college and the Bar School. He was called to the Bar in 1976. Junior and Chairman of the Essex Bar Mess. Appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1997. Sat as a Recorder at The Old Bailey from 2000. Governing Bencher, Inner Temple, 2009. Chairman of the Criminal Bar Association in 2014, when he led the strike against the government. Chairman, Highgate Synagogue. After 20 years in Silk, he was appointed to the Crown Bench in 2017. He retired from the bench in August 2021. Judge Lithman has served on the Judges Panel of the Florida Bar Trial Lawyer Section’s Advanced Trial Advocacy Course in Gainesville, Florida. He is the author of “Nothing Like the Truth – The Trials and Tribulations of a Criminal Judge,” published in November 2021.
HHJ James Patrick. Judge Patrick is a Circuit Judge, Bristol Crown Court, where he presides over criminal cases. He was appointed to circuit judgeship on September 22, 2010. He read for an LLB at the City of Birmingham Polytechnic and then undertook the Bar Course at the Inns of Court Law School in London. He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple. He did a common law pupilage at Guildhall Chambers in Bristol in 1989, becoming a tenant in 1990. He practised in family, civil, and crime before specialising in crime from about 2000. He sat as a part-time Crown Court Judge (a Recorder) from 2005 until appointed to the circuit bench. He has been a Bencher of Inner Temple from 2015. He has been a Tutor for the Judicial College.
Bob Persante. Atty. Persante has been a trial lawyer for 39 years. He is listed in Best Lawyers of America. He is a partner in Persante Zuroweste, P.A., focusing on state and federal litigation, appeals, securities litigation, guardianship, probate and trust litigation, business litigation, mediation, and arbitration. Bob Persante is also a National Chess Master.
Hon. Mary Scriven. Judge Scriven has been a U.S. District Court Judge in the Middle District of Florida since 2008. She previously served as a federal Magistrate Judge for over 10 years. Prior to that, she practiced law in corporate litigation and trade regulation. Judge Scriven has also served as a guest faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy in the Masters Program for Trial Advocacy, Law Institute, Nottingham, England. She frequently lectures in the areas of trial advocacy, pretrial procedure, and commercial and criminal law.
The moderator will be the Hon. William H. Burgess, III.