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MC Law FedSoc Interest Meeting: Censorship in the Marketplace of Ideas
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Sep 12 2024
Thursday 5:30 p.m. CDT    

MC Law FedSoc Interest Meeting: Censorship in the Marketplace of Ideas

Co-Sponsored by the Mississippi College Student Chapter & Mississippi Lawyers Chapter

The Iron Horse Grill
320 West Pearl Street
Jackson, MS 39203
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John Anderson
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A Moderated Conversation with Florida Supreme Court Justice Jamie R. Grosshans
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Jun 14 2024
Friday 11:45 a.m. CDT    

A Moderated Conversation with Florida Supreme Court Justice Jamie R. Grosshans

Mississippi Lawyers Chapter

River Hills Club
3600 Ridgewood Road
Jackson, MS 39211
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Jamie Rutland Grosshans
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Rogue Progressive Prosecutors: What is the Proper Role of a Prosecutor?
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Apr 25 2024
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Rogue Progressive Prosecutors: What is the Proper Role of a Prosecutor?

Mississippi Lawyers Chapter

River Hills Club
3600 Ridgewood Road
Jackson, MS 39211
Speakers:
Zack Smith
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Jamie Rutland Grosshans

Jamie Rutland Grosshans

Justice, Florida Supreme Court

Biography

Justice Jamie R. Grosshans was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court on September 14, 2020 by Governor Ron DeSantis. Previously she was appointed to the Fifth District Court of Appeal in 2018 by Governor Rick Scott. Prior to her appointment to the appellate court, she served as an Orange County Court Judge in the Ninth Judicial Circuit of Florida where she presided over criminal and civil matters.  

Justice Grosshans was raised in Brookhaven, Mississippi and graduated cum laude from the University of Mississippi School of Law. During law school, she clerked for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Mississippi. Following admittance to the Florida Bar, she served as an Assistant State Attorney for the Ninth Circuit of Florida in both the misdemeanor and felony divisions where she tried numerous criminal jury trials.

Justice Grosshans later entered private practice and founded her own law firm where she focused on family law and criminal defense matters for nearly ten years.  During this time she also served as an Adjunct Professor at Valencia College where she taught Hospitality Law for the Hospitality and Tourism Management Program. She also frequently volunteered as a guardian ad litem with the Orange County Legal Aid Society. Justice Grosshans has served on state court system advisory committees and has been involved in numerous activities with the Florida Bar and other legal organizations. 

Justice Grosshans regularly speaks to lawyers and law students on topics such as challenges in the practice of law, the role of judges, professionalism and respect in the legal profession, criminal law, and family law.

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Zack Smith

Zack Smith

Legal Fellow and Manager, Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Program, The Heritage Foundation

Biography

Zack is a Legal Fellow and Manager of the Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Program in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation.

He previously served for several years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Florida. Prior to that, he spent two years as an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, which he joined after clerking for the Hon. Emmett R. Cox on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. 

Smith received his undergraduate, master’s, and law degrees from the University of Florida. During law school, Smith served as the Editor in Chief of the Florida Law Review and served on the executive boards of several student organizations, including the UF Chapter of the Federalist Society.

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