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2025 Florida Young Lawyers Summit

July 11 — 12, 2025

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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