JW Marriott Tampa Water Street
510 Water Street
Tampa, FL 33602
510 Water Street
Tampa, FL 33602
2025 Florida Young Lawyers Summit
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
Please join the Florida Young Lawyers for their fifth annual statewide Summit!
Friday, July 11 - Saturday, July 12, 2025
JW Marriot Tampa Water Street
510 Water St, Tampa, FL 33602
CLE CONFERENCE PRICING
Young Member (Graduated between 2015 - 2025): $125
Current Student: $75
Member (Graduated prior to 2015): $200
Non-Member: $300
CLE
5.5 Hours of General CLE in Florida avialable.
SPONSORSHIPS
If you are interested in sponsoring the Federalist Society's activity in Florida, please reach out to Abbie Kepto at [email protected].
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
Rooms can be reserved at the JW Marriott with the FedSoc room block rate of $299 per night.
Click the link below to reserve a room online.
https://book.passkey.com/go/2025FLORIDALAWYERSSUMMIT
The hotel cutoff date is Wednesday, June 18. Rooms are available on a first come, first serve basis and will likely sell out.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE AND REFUNDS
Registration will close at 5:00 p.m. on Monday, July 7, 2025. This is also the deadline to receive a refund for a cancellation. No refunds will be given after the deadline has passed.
Schedule subjet to change.
This event is closed to press.
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7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Welcome Reception
2025 Florida Young Lawyers Summit
Jackson's Bistro, Bar & Sushi
601 S Harbour Island Blvd Ste 100
Tampa, FL 33602
601 S Harbour Island Blvd Ste 100
Tampa, FL 33602
9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Breakfast & Registration
2025 Florida Young Lawyers Summit
JW Marriott Tampa Water Street
510 Water Street
Tampa, FL 33602
510 Water Street
Tampa, FL 33602
9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Opening Remarks
2025 Florida Young Lawyers Summit
JW Marriott Tampa Water Street
510 Water Street
Tampa, FL 33602
510 Water Street
Tampa, FL 33602
Description
Featuring:
- Chad Mizelle, Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Justice
Speakers
10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Panel 1: Breaking Bad Precedent: Strategies for Litigating to Overturn Flawed Rulings
JW Marriott Tampa Water Street
510 Water Street
Tampa, FL 33602
510 Water Street
Tampa, FL 33602
Description
Over the last few years, the Supreme Court has been revisiting and overturning long-standing precedents in cases like Students for Fair Admissions, Loper Bright, and Dobbs. But those cases only came to the Court due to the work of litigators developing cases specifically designed to challenge these doctrines. Attorneys seeking to overturn precedents need to account for the practicalities of litigating against the odds—like developing novel theories, creating circuit splits, and preparing their clients for lower court defeats. And for young attorneys seeking to do this type of work there may be opportunities to learn what strategies work by cutting their teeth in state courts.
Featuring:
- Jeff DeSousa, Acting Solicitor General of Florida
- Denise Harle, Partner, Shutts & Bowen LLP
- Stephen Petrany, Solicitor General of Georgia
- Daniel Tilley, Legal Director, ACLU of Florida
- Andrew Ward, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice
- Moderator: Hon. Anne-Leigh Gaylord Moe, Judge, Florida Second District Court of Appeal
Speakers
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Panel 2: U.S. Supreme Court Review
2025 Florida Young Lawyers Summit
JW Marriott Tampa Water Street
510 Water Street
Tampa, FL 33602
510 Water Street
Tampa, FL 33602
Description
The 2024-2025 Term of the Court continues a trend of considering roughly 60 cases a term, down from the historic numbers the Court used to hear. But that decrease has not impacted the Court’s impact. Some of the pivotal issues the Court considered this term involved racial gerrymandering, the regulatory power of the EPA, the constitutionality of a TikTok ban law, the separation of church and state, and the regulation of “ghost guns,” as well as several cases involving the Trump Administration. And it seems these unique legal challenges are on the rise. Of high interest in the coming term are Chiles v. Salazar, a regulation of free speech case, and Wilcox v. Trump, a case that brings into question the Court’s decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States.
Featuring:
- David Costello, Counsel, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
- Mark Pinkert, Partner, Holtzman Vogel
- Eli Nachmany, Associate, Covington & Burling LLP
- Moderator: Hon. Meredith Sasso, Associate Justice, Florida Supreme Court
Speakers
12:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Luncheon & Keynote
2025 Florida Young Lawyers Summit
JW Marriott Tampa Water Street
510 Water Street
Tampa, FL 33602
510 Water Street
Tampa, FL 33602
Description
Featruing:
- Hon. Carlos G. Muñiz, Chief Justice, Florida Supreme Court
- Moderator: Charbel Barakat, Vice President and Counsel for Public Policy, D.R. Horton, Inc
Speakers
2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Panel 3: Tallahassee in Review
2025 Florida Young Lawyers Summit
JW Marriott Tampa Water Street
510 Water Street
Tampa, FL 33602
510 Water Street
Tampa, FL 33602
Description
Much has happened in state government during the past year—immigration special sessions, a new attorney general, quo warranto proceedings, and election-reform legislation, to name a few. The panel discusses the recent actions of the Florida Legislature, the Executive Office of the Governor, and the Florida Supreme Court.
Featuring:
- Carmen Manrara Cartaya, Partner, Continental PLLC
- David Axelman, Senior Deputy General Counsel, Executive Office of the Governor
- Daniel Nordby, Partner, Shutts & Bowen
- Moderator: Hon. Joseph Tompkins, Judge, Florida Thirteenth Judicial Circuit
Speakers
3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Closing Reception
2025 Florida Young Lawyers Summit
JW Marriott Tampa Water Street
510 Water Street
Tampa, FL 33602
510 Water Street
Tampa, FL 33602