Top Stories: 

• On Dec. 16, Stetson graduate Jonathan Canalizo was featured in an article on Fortune titled “Brokers and Advisers Fight For Millennials’ Money.”
• The Dec. 13 Tampa Tribune reported that Law Professor Joseph Morrissey is suing the federal government for denying him a tax benefit for medical deductions for using a surrogate to conceive his twin babies. National media including Forbes and the American Society for University Medicine picked up the news.
• News of Law Professor Royal Gardner speaking at the U.N. meeting in New York about water and wetlands appeared in several media outlets including the Legal Monitor Worldwide.
• The Dec. 10 Huffington Post quotes Law Professor Peter Lake in the story, “How Rolling Stone’s UVA Story Sparked A Controversial Frat Lobbying Effort.”
• According to the Dec. 9 SFGate and other national news wire sources, Professor Luz Nagle is “Stetson Law Professor Among Invited International Experts at U.N. Human Trafficking Conference.”
• TIAA-CREF announced on Dec. 16 that Stetson University continues to remain as the sole recordkeeper of its 403(b) and 457(b) retirement plans since 1946, as reported by Yahoo! Finance, Education Dive, SPi World News, and over 25 other news outlets.
• On Dec. 15, @StetsonU tweeted a YouTube video featuring Stetson graduate William T. Newsome talking about the power of liberal arts.
• Stetson Law is mentioned in a news article that appears in the Tampa Tribune and Bloomberg about BigSea marketing clients.
• William Kaplin, onetime distinguished professorial lecturer with the Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy at Stetson, is quoted in the Inside Higher Education article, “Job Ad at University of Louisville raises questions about considering race in faculty hires.”

Alumni in the News:

• The State Capitol News Feed and SaintPetersBlog quote Law adjunct and alumnus and overseer Richard Harrison in the story, “Darden Rice sets right PSTA Sunshine Law violation.”
• According to the Dec. 10 Ocala Star-Banner article “Colleagues recognize retiring judge Hale Stancil for integrity, fairness over 33 years on bench,” Law alumnus Judge Hale Stancil is retiring.
• According to a Dec. 15 news release, Stetson Law alumnus Peter J. Krotec, a partner with the Sarasota law firm of Syprett Meshad, has been recognized by the American Institute of Legal Counsel as a 2015 “10 Best” attorney in Florida, in the practice area of family law.