Emeritus Faculty in the Shepard Broad College of Law

Professor Emeritus of Law
(954) 262-6165
brownron@nova.edu

Professor Brown has been teaching full-time at the College of Law since 1976 and has been a tenured full professor since 1981. He regularly teaches Property, Real Estate Transactions Law, Contracts, and Legislation (focusing on statutory interpretation).  He has also taught Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Land Use Planning, and the Uniform Commercial Code courses (Sales, Secured Transactions, and Negotiable Instruments).  His activities have included founding the College of Law’s chapter of Toastmasters (for which he is still the advisor) and its Moot Court organization (for which he served as advisor until 2016).  He is on the editorial board of the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) and for years he was a regular contributor to Keeping Current-Property in PROBATE & PROPERTY magazine which is published by the ABA Section on Real Property, Probate and Trust Law.  On occasion, he has served as an arbitrator, legal consultant, expert witness, and special master.

Professor Emeritus of Law
burrisj@nova.edu

Professor Emerita of Law
canem@nova.edu

Professor Cane has taught at NSU for over thirty years. She has taught courses in corporations, business entities, corporate finance, advanced corporate law, corporate law workshop, banking, securities regulation, secured transactions and business law ethics. She serves as a director of the Business Practice Clinic. She is the author of a treatise on securities arbitration. Her scholarship has appeared in law journals at Harvard, Stanford, Virginia and Vanderbilt, among others. She has been Chair of the Corporations, Securities and Financial Institutions Committee, and currently serves as Academic Chair of the Antitrust, Franchise and Trade Regulation Committee, of The Florida Bar Business Law Section. She is a member of The American Law Institute and a Fellow of The American Bar Foundation. She was a Parsons’ Fellow at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Law. She also taught law in Cambridge, England, Tula, Russian Federation and in Rome, Italy.

Prior to joining the faculty, she was a practicing lawyer for nine years, including a stint with a Wall Street law firm and as Counsel-Corporate Components to the General Electric Company at its worldwide headquarters. She is a member of the bars of New York (inactive status), Connecticut and Florida.

She graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University and cum laude from Boston College Law School where she was a member of the Boston College Law Review. She is a member of the Order of the Coif.

Professor Emerita of Law
(954) 262-6193
cerminar@nova.edu

Professor Kathy Cerminara bridges the medical and legal professions with her work on patients’ rights in the end-of-life decision-making arena.  She co-authors the nationally known treatise, The Right to Die: The Law of End-of-Life Decisionmaking, and is a reviewer for several medical and medical-legal journals.  Her scholarship most recently has focused on the intersection between end-of-life care, palliative care, and health care coverage policy. At the Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law, she is a full professor. She is also an affiliate faculty member at NSU’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine.

Professor Cerminara teaches Health Policy & Bioethics, Bioethics and Law and Medicine seminars, Mental Health Law, and other health-law-related courses, in addition to Torts, Civil Procedure, and Administrative Law. She also created and was the initial director of the online Master of Science in Health Law program for non-lawyers.

Professor Cerminara has enjoyed national and international recognition for her scholarship and service. Most recently, she was awarded the 2023 Distinguished Health Law Service Award from the Association of American Law Schools’ Law, Medicine & Health Care Section. In 2017, she received a Scholars Award for innovative interprofessional work with the Broward County Mental Health Court.  In 2013, she earned an American Health Lawyers Association 2012 Pro Bono Champion award for co-organizational work on Wounds of War: Meeting the Needs of Active-Duty Military & Veterans With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a symposium taking place at NSU law school on February 1, 2013.

Additionally, since 2012, she frequently has been a member of the International Scientific Committee for the International Academy of Law & Mental Health, based in Montreal, Canada.  In that position, she has co-organized the stream of therapeutic jurisprudence presentations for four of the Academy’s bi-annual Congresses:  one in Amsterdam in 2013, one in Vienna in 2015, one in Prague in 2017, and one in Rome in 2019. In recognition of that work, in 2017, the International Society of Therapeutic Jurisprudence awarded her and her co-organizer the first-ever Wexler/Winick Distinguished Service Award in Prague.

Prior to joining the College of Law faculty, Professor Cerminara taught at the University of Miami School of Law and St. Thomas University School of Law, clerked in the Western District of Pennsylvania and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and practiced law with Reed Smith Shaw & McClay in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Professor Cerminara received her J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh and her LL.M. and J.S.D. from Columbia University.  She is an affiliate member of the Health Law and Tort Trial and Insurance sections of The Florida Bar, a retired member of the Pennsylvania Bar, and a member of organizations such as the American Bar Association and the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics.

Professor Emerita of Law
colemanp@nova.edu
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A triple Gator (B.S., M.Ed., and J.D.), Professor Coleman was the first woman editor of UF’s student newspaper, The Florida Alligator.  After college, she worked as a reporter and then editor at the Gwinnett County Daily News in metropolitan Atlanta. She returned to Gainesville for law school.  Following graduation, she was a litigation associate at Broad & Cassel in Miami, Florida.  She joined the College of Law faculty in 1979 and was awarded tenure in 1984.

Besides teaching, her passions are animal advocacy and sports.  A founding member of the Animal Law Section of the Florida Bar, she tries to help improve the lives of non-human animals through her teaching and writing.

When she is not working, Professor Coleman enjoys (watching) football, basketball, and baseball.  She also swims every morning.

Professor Emerita of Law
(954) 262-6147
cooneyl@nova.edu
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Leslie Larkin Cooney is a Professor Emerita of Law and previously served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; the Director for ALSV Transactional Program; and, the Director for the Dual Degree Program with Charles University in Prague.  She currently teaches Business Entities; NonProfit Organizations; Agency; Negotiating Workshop; and, Business Organizations in Health Law.

Her scholarly interests include examining the intersection between therapeutic jurisprudence and experiential learning as well as a focus on gender issues and the practice of law.  Her recent publications include: Walking the Legal Tightrope: Solutions for Achieving a Balanced Life in Law; Giving Millennials a Leg-Up: How to Avoid the “If I Knew Then What I Know Now Syndrome;” and Heart and Soul: A New Rhythm for Clinical Externships.

Professor Cooney currently serves on the Diversity Committee of the ABA Business Law Section, the Client Security Fund Committee for the Florida Bar, and the CALI Editorial Board.  She was an active securities arbitrator for FINRA, as well as a lemon law arbitrator for the Florida New Motor Vehicle Arbitration Board.

Before joining the faculty at Shepard Broad College of Law, she practiced law extensively in Pennsylvania having served as a law clerk to a Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in-house counsel for a major corporation, and a litigator for an insurance defense firm.  Professor Cooney received her J.D. and B.S. from Duquesne University and she has been admitted to both the Pennsylvania and Florida bars.

Professor Emeritus of Law
(954) 262-6159
dalem@nova.edu

Michael J. Dale has been a member of the faculty at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law in Fort Lauderdale, Florida since 1985, teaching courses in family law, juvenile law and in the family and juvenile clinic.  He also teaches litigation courses including civil procedure, conflicts of laws, evidence, trial advocacy and international litigation.  Before joining the Nova faculty Dale spent time in private law practice in Phoenix and was Executive Director of the Youth Law Center in San Francisco after serving as Attorney in Charge of the Special Litigation Unit of the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid Society of the City of New York.  He has been a practicing lawyer specializing in civil rights litigation for 40 years.  He is admitted to practice in the states of Arizona, Florida, New Mexico and New York as well as before the United States Supreme Court and numerous federal appellate and district courts.

Professor Dale teaches in National Institute for Trial Advocacy programs in both public and in-house settings.  He also focuses on NITA programs concerning children including trainings held in Denver, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Boston, Utah, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania, New York at Hofstra University and Houston at the University of Houston.  For the past 24 years he has been program director for the NITA Florida Deposition Program.  In 2009 Professor Dale received the Robert Oliphant Award from NITA for his service to the organization. An active litigator himself, he has been a consultant to federal and state agencies on civil rights issues and to law firms on litigation matters.

Professor Dale is the author of over seventy-five articles focusing primarily on juvenile and children's law topics. He is also the author of the two volume text, representing the Child Client, published by Matthew Bender Co.  He speaks regularly to professional groups on children’s law and litigation topics.

Professor Emertia of Law
epsteinl@nova.edu

Professor Emeritus of Law
(954) 262-6173
michflyn@nova.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Professor Flynn, a native of Seattle Washington, teaches courses in personal injury law, including Torts, Medical Malpractice and Product Liability as well as courses in Consumer Protection Law and The Uniform Commercial Code.  In addition, Professor Flynn helped develop and has taught the Pre-Trial Practice class and teaches classes in Civil Procedure and lawyering skills including Trial Advocacy and Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation.  Professor Flynn also created and teaches courses in the Master of Science in Health Law and Master of Science in Education Law online programs offered at the law school. Professor Flynn is a graduate of the Gonzaga University School of Law and is the Chair of the Consumer Protection Board for Broward County and a member of the Broward County Justice Association, The American Justice Association, The Trial Lawyers Section of the Florida Bar and is licensed to practice in both the state and federal courts in Washington State and Florida. Professor Flynn is a Faculty Member and Program Director for NITA, The National Institute for Trial Advocacy, and a frequent presenter at professional conferences and symposiums.  Professor Flynn has authored more than forty publications and is co-author of two editions of the book, The Legal Aspects of  Public Purchasing.  

Areas of Interest

• Consumer Protection
• Personal Injury
• Lawyering Skills

Professor Emerita of Law
(954) 262-6179
goldmanp@nova.edu
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Pearl Goldman joined the Shepard Broad College of Law faculty in 1987. She taught in and directed the Legal Research and Writing Program and the first-year Lawyering Skills and Values Program until 2002. Her teaching interests include the areas of criminal law, comparative law, and interviewing, counseling, and negotiating. Professor Goldman's scholarship has focused on criminal law, technology, and legal education. She is admitted to the Bar in Florida. Professor Goldman served as Chair of the Florida Bar Journal's 2014-2015 Editorial Board and currently serves on the Board's Executive Committee. 

Areas of Interest

• Criminal Law
• Comparative Law

Professor Emeritus of Law
(954) 262-6167
grohman@nova.edu
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Joe Grohman joined the College of Law's full time faculty in August 1983. His primary teaching responsibilities involve Property, Real Property Closing Workshop and Real Estate Transactions and Finance. For the Center for Computer Legal Instruction (CALI), he was a member of the Board of Directors and continues as a member of the Editorial Board. As noted in the publications section of his curriculum vitae, he has authored and co-authored various articles, treatise chapters, and CALI interactive lessons for law students. For Nova Southeastern University he serves as the Executive Dean for Faculty Development and is active in the university's academic program review process, chairing NSU's Academic Review Committee.

Areas of Interest

• Real Estate

Professor Emeritus of Law & Dean Emeritus
(954) 262-6398
harbaugh@nova.edu

Joseph Harbaugh is Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus and was the Dean of NSU Law from 1995 to 2008. He also served as the Dean at the University of Richmond Law School and a member of the faculty at several other law schools in his four decade academic career (Connecticut, Duke, Temple, Georgetown and American Universities). Professor Harbaugh has served in a wide range of legal education leadership positions, including the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), the Council of the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, as a member and former Chair of the Board of Directors of Access Group, Inc., and as the AALS Representative in the ABA House of Delegates for 19 years. A leader in the clinical education movement and a recognized expert in legal negotiation, Harbaugh is the co-author of a standard clinical text, Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiating: Skills for Effective Representation, and a best-selling instructional CD, The Fundamentals of Negotiation. On behalf of the Practising Law Institute  Professor Harbaugh conducts negotiation workshops for lawyers, business people and government officials. He numbers among his clients half of the AmLaw' Top 100 firms and dozens of Fortune 200 corporations. Professor Harbaugh also “coaches” and leads negotiation teams for law firms and businesses. Following a national peer review process, Professor Harbaugh was designated a Fulbright Fellow Specialist in Negotiation and Mediation, the first member of the NSU faculty to be designated a Fulbright Specialist.

Professor Emerita of Law
karpjud@nova.edu
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Judith Karp is a Professor of Law and has been a faculty member since 1997. Her teaching responsibilities include professional responsibility, agency, and various transactional and litigation skills courses. Professor Karp currently serves as the Director of the Shepard Broad College of Law Civil Field Placement Clinic. She previously served as the Director of the Lawyering Skills and Values (LSV) program and as the Director of the Master of Science in Employment Law program. Her scholarship and presentations have focused on lawyering skills, critical reading and online learning.

In 1986, Professor Karp obtained her law degree from University of Miami, where she served as the Research Editor of the Inter-American Law Review. Before joining the faculty at Shepard Broad Law Center, she worked as a judicial central staff attorney at the Fourth District Court of Appeal of Florida and practiced as a civil litigation, commercial and appellate attorney in Florida. She has previously served as a member of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Grievance Committee and the Florida Bar’s Standing Committee on Professionalism.

Areas of Interest

• Legal Ethics and Professionalism
• Lawyering Skills
• Critical Reading

Professor Emeritus of Law
(954) 262-6151
masinter@nova.edu
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Professor Masinter joined the Shepard Broad College of Law faculty in 1978 and retired as professor emeritus in 2020; he taught Employment Discrimination Law, Civil Rights Litigation, Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure and Negotiable Instruments. He also taught Federal Courts, Evidence, Sales, and Antitrust. He is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the Trial Bar for the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida. Professor Masinter was principal author of the original edition of Federal Practice for Legal Services Attorneys. He writes regularly on the rights of students with disabilities in higher education. For 20 years, he chaired the Legal Panel of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, Inc. and throughout his more than 45 years as a member of the Florida Bar has specialized in civil rights and civil liberties litigation both before trial courts and the courts of appeals. He lectures regularly for the Florida Bar, the ACLU, the Association on Higher Education and Disability, and served on the Editorial Advisory Board for Section 504 Compliance Handbook when it was published by Thompson Publishing. Before joining the College of Law faculty, Professor Masinter was Director of Litigation for Florida Rural Legal Services, Inc.

Summary of Recent Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 11th Circuit Decisions

Areas of Interest

• Civil Rights
• Disability Rights
• Employment Discrimination
• First Amendment Law
• Freedom of Speech

Professor Emeritus of Law
hm17@nova.edu

Professor Emeritus of Law and C. Wiliam Trout Senior Fellow in Public Interest Law
(954) 262-6160
mintzj@nova.edu
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Joel A. Mintz has been a faculty member at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law since 1982. He teaches courses in Environmental Law, Torts, and Environmental Enforcement, and he has taught courses and seminars in Land Use Planning, State and Local Government Law, and Comparative Environmental Law.

Professor Mintz's scholarship focuses primarily on environmental law and policy, environmental enforcement, sustainable development, regulation of hazardous wastes, and state and local taxation and finance. Mintz is the author of a well-received monograph, Enforcement at the EPA: High Stakes and Hard Choices (University of Texas Press, 1995) (revised edition, 2012), and a treatise on the federal environmental liabilities of state and local governments; and he has co-authored two casebooks, a "law-in-a-nutshell" work, and a handbook for attorneys on municipal finance. His law review articles have appeared in numerous journals and his articles and book contributions have been widely cited, quoted, and excerpted in texts, scholarly books, and articles. He has also published op-ed articles, perspective pieces, book reviews, and other works.

Prior to joining the College of Law faculty, Professor Mintz was an attorney and chief attorney with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Chicago and Washington, D.C. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a member scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform and the President of the Board of Directors of the Everglades Law Center, a not-for-profit environmental public interest law firm.

Mintz received his B.A. from Columbia University, his J.D. from N.Y.U. School of Law, and his LL.M. and J.S.D. from Columbia Law School. He serves as the newsletter editor of the Association of American Law School's Section on State and Local Government Law, and he is an elected member of both the Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the International Council of Environmental Law. He is also a member of the bar of the State of New York and of several federal courts.

Professor Mintz's outside interests include spending time with his family, canoeing, bicycling, reading, and attending concerts, films, and sporting events.

Areas of Interest

• Environmental Enforcement
• Environmental Law
• Global Climate Change
• Land Use – Growth Management
• Local Government Law
• State and Local Finance

Professor Emerita of Law
richmond@nova.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Gail Richmond joined the College of Law faculty in January 1979. She became a professor emerita in 2014. Her primary teaching and research focus is federal taxation; her secondary focus is family wealth transfers, especially through wills or intestacy.

She is the co-author of Federal Tax Research: A Guide to Materials and Techniques (Foundation Press, 10th ed. 2018), co-author of Mastering Corporate Tax (Carolina Academic Press, 2d ed. 2017), co-author of Mastering Income Tax (Carolina Academic Press, 2014), co-author of Mastering Trusts and Estates (Carolina Academic Press, 2016), and co-author of Florida Wills, Trusts, and Estates: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press, 3d ed. 2016).

She served as the supervising editor of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation NewsQuarterly, as chair of its Individual Income Taxation Committee, as chair of its Individual AMT Task Force, and as a member of its Nominating Committee. She is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel and served several terms as the secretary/corporate compliance officer of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools. She was a member of the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar's Data Policy and Collection Committee from 2009 through 2015. She was a visiting faculty member at Stetson University College of Law in fall 2015, fall 2016, and spring 2018.

Professor Emeritus of Law
(954) 262-6156
richmonm@nova.edu
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Professor Michael L. Richmond received his A.B. degree in English Literature from Hamilton College, his J.D. degree from Duke University, and his M.S.L.S. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He practiced law in Cleveland, Ohio, and has taught law at Capital University, North Carolina Central University, and NSU. He has also taught Business Law at Duke University and served as reference librarian at the University of Texas at Austin. At NSU since 1978, he has taught a wide variety of courses but for the last several years has concentrated on Torts and advanced courses in the tort area. He also teaches Legal Drafting and Law and Literature. His scholarly writings have naturally gravitated to various areas of tort law, but he also writes extensively examining the interface of law and literature as well as that of law and popular culture. His primary emphasis, however, is classroom teaching and working with our students outside the classroom.

Areas of Interest

• Defamation
• Entertainment Law
• Law and Literature
• Law and Popular Culture
• Media Intrusion into Private Lives
• Torts

Founding Professor of Law
brogow@rogowlaw.com
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Bruce Rogow is the Founding Professor of Law at Nova Southeastern University Law Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at which he taught from 1974 through 2014. In 1978-79, he was co-dean of the Law Center, and in 1984, Acting Dean. Before joining Nova in 1974, he was on the faculty at the University of Miami. Mr. Rogow has taught Civil Procedure, Federal Jurisdiction, Constitutional Law, Appellate Practice, Criminal Law and Legal Ethics. He began his career in 1964-1966 with the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee, representing civil rights workers in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.

Mr. Rogow has litigated extensively over the past 55 years. He has argued over 450 civil and criminal cases in federal and state appellate courts, including eleven cases in the Supreme Court of the United States. He was Supreme Court counsel in Beach v. Ocwen Federal Bank, Seminole Tribe v. State of Florida, Florida Bar v. Went For it Inc., Campbell v. Acuff-Rose, Argersinger v. Hamlin, Gerstein v. Pugh, Ingraham v. Wright, Mathews v. Diaz, Davis v. Scherer, co-counsel in Fuentes v. Shevin, and was appointed by the Supreme Court to represent the petitioner in Francis v. Henderson. In three cases, Waldron v. United States, Arthur v. Hillsborough County, and in Scrushy v. United States, the Supreme Court granted certiorari, vacated, and remanded the decisions below without argument. In the 2000 Presidential election litigation, he was counsel in the Supreme Court for the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board in Bush v. Palm Beach Co. Canvassing Bd. He was co-counsel in United Haulers v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority, decided favorably in April 2007. In December 2007 he was retained by the Kentucky Retirement System to prepare its lawyer for a January 2008 Supreme Court argument in Kentucky Retirement System v. EEOC. The case was decided in favor of the Kentucky Retirement System.

He has been counsel in scores of cases in the Florida Supreme Court. In 2013, Mr. Rogow won two major “high profile” cases in the Florida Supreme Court: Pino v. Bank of New York Mellon and Del Monico v. Traynor. From 2004 through 2014, Mr. Rogow was a lecturer for “Practicing Before the Supreme Court of Florida,” a program held at the Court.

Mr. Rogow has been listed in every edition of The Best Lawyers In America for the past thirty two years. In the 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014 editions he is named in multiple categories including: Appellate Law, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, White Collar Criminal Defense, First Amendment Law, and Municipal Litigation. In the 2015 and 2012 editions he was named “Miami Appellate Practice Lawyer of the Year,” and in the 2014 edition was named “Miami Litigation-Municipal Lawyer of the Year.” In the 2010 edition he was named the South Florida “Lawyer of the Year in ‘Bet-the-Company Litigation’.” He has been listed in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Florida Trend’s Legal Elite, Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition and Who’s Who Legal Business, Crime Defense 2015. Law Dragon has twice named him as one of the 500 leading lawyers in the United States. He is one of three lawyers in Florida to have been Board Certified in both civil and criminal appellate law. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and is also a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has been rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell for 35 years.

Mr. Rogow has represented governmental entities, public officials, trial and appellate judges, law firms, lawyers (including F. Lee Bailey and Alan Dershowitz), and corporations in major trial and appellate work. His clients in the last decade plus have included Morgan Stanley, Prudential Insurance, Progress Energy Corp. (for whom he reversed a $130 million judgment in 2012), Duke Energy, National Beverage Corp., Merrill Lynch, Bank of New York Mellon, Donald Trump (for whom he won appeals in the 4^th DCA in July and October 2012 and April 2016), Roger Stone (whose criminal trial he lost in 2019, whose sentence was commuted by President Trump in 2020), Don King, David Koch (Koch Industries), Sophia and Olivier Martelly (First Lady and Son of President of Haiti), Leonard Lauder, Kentucky Derby winning jockey Jose Santos (whose defamation case against the Miami Herald he settled in 2008 for a large confidential sum), Churchill Downs Corporation (Calder Race Track), Richard Scrushy, the former CEO of HealthSouth Corp., Daniel Loeb and Third Point LLC, a Florida State Senator (whose convictions he reversed in December 2007), a mayor and five municipalities and all the pari-mutuels in Dade and Broward counties. In 2009 he reversed a $5 million judgment against a developer with directions to enter judgment for the developer, and, as a Special Assistant State Attorney, successfully moved the Florida Supreme Court to set aside a capital conviction and death sentence because of inappropriate undisclosed conversations between the trial judge and prosecutor. In 2009, he was selected as Lead Counsel in the Multi-District Litigation (MDL) Bank Overdraft cases consolidated in the Southern District of Florida. In 2011, Bank of America agreed to settle the overdraft case against it for $410 million. In 2012, J.P. Morgan Chase settled for $110 million. Bank settlements with Citizens Bank, PNC, Compass Bank, Comerica, U.S. Bank and others through 2020 have led to total settlements of $1.275 billion dollars, and other cases remain pending, including cases against Wells Fargo/Wachovia.

In 2007, representing Morgan Stanley against investor Ronald Perelman’s CPH Holdings, he reversed the $1.6 billion judgment entered against Morgan Stanley in West Palm Beach, with directions to enter a judgment in favor of Morgan Stanley. In 2009, he preserved that judgment, obtaining an appellate affirmance of the trial court’s denial of CPH’s attempt to vacate the judgment in favor of Morgan Stanley. In 1995 he secured the reversal of a $52 million judgment against Florida’s largest sugar companies, and the reversal of a $1.7 million contempt judgment against an attorney. In 1993 and 1994 he won Florida Supreme Court victories for a mayor denied municipal pension benefits, and for a special taxing district denied self-governing authority. In 1997 he reversed a million dollar federal judgment against Palm Beach County. In 1998 he obtained reversal of an order quashing charging liens, allowing Florida lawyers to obtain their claims to 25% of Florida’s $11 billion tobacco settlement.

In 1996 his Florida Supreme Court victory for a brain damaged child led to a $9 million settlement and in 1998 he was appellate counsel in a civil rights case against the State which was settled for $17.75 million. In 1999, he obtained a federal appellate affirmance establishing Indian Tribes’ immunity from suits by the State under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. In February and 2006 he reversed a potential billion dollar class action against Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and tried and obtained a jury defense verdict in a $25 million suit against Jet Aviation International, Inc. and Hirschmann Industrial Holdings, Ltd., major Swiss companies. In 2006 he reversed a multimillion dollar award against a physician and won an appellate decision for the Mayor of Miami - Dade County allowing a strong Mayor change of government to be presented to voters. In 2006, he reversed an obscenity conviction and obtained the release of a Russian entrepreneur who had been incarcerated on the charge. In 2010, Mr. Rogow affirmed and collected a $42 million judgment for a cancer victim against various tobacco companies.

In the past two decades Mr. Rogow has argued over seventy appeals in the various Florida District Courts of Appeal, the Florida Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. In 2008 he reversed a trial court and prevailed in the Fourth District Court of Appeal for the City of Hollywood, Florida in a major eminent domain case, and upheld a $5 million fraud judgment against a corporation and its principal. He was a featured speaker for the Florida County Judges Conference in 2006 and the Florida District Court of Appeal Judicial Conference in 2007. In 2006 he was a panelist for the State Bar of Georgia’s “11th Circuit Appellate Practice Institute” in Atlanta. The subject was “Characteristics of Effective Oral Argument.” He has been the Law Day speaker for the Broward County Bar Association and the Palm Beach County Bar Associations, and was the Keynote Speaker for the Palm Beach County Bar Conference in 2012 and 2015, and the Speaker for the Palm Beach Federal Bar on several occasions.

In Nov. - Dec. 2000 he represented Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore and the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board in numerous cases in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the Supreme Court of the United States and the Supreme Court of Florida. In 2000, he obtained a federal injunction against enforcement of the Miami-Dade County “Cuba Affidavit,” which required applicants for cultural grants to swear they had no ties to any Cuban nationals. He successfully defended Palm Beach County on appeal in a Title VII employment discrimination case in 2000; and in 1999, he won a defense decision for the City of Boca Raton in United States district court in the first trial under the Florida Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1998; a decision affirmed by the United States Court of Appeals in 2005. Earlier, he successfully defended the Chief of the Seminole Tribe of Florida against federal and state Endangered Species Act criminal charges for killing a Florida panther on the Reservation, and 2 Live Crew in their federal and state obscenity trials and appeals. He obtained the acquittal at trial of a South Florida mayor charged with theft in office. He successfully represented the Cuban Museum against the City of Miami’s attempt to evict the Museum for its artists’ political views, obtaining a federal injunction against the City. He also obtained the first federal court appellate decision declaring that a musical work was not obscene. His Supreme Court success in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music established copyright protections for commercial parodies.

Among Mr. Rogow’s successful criminal appeals are Siplin v. State (Fla. 5^th DCA 2007) (reversing convictions with order to acquit); Pizzo v. State (Fla. 2d DCA 2005 and Fla. Sup. Ct. 2006) (reversing fraud convictions); Billie v. State (Fla. 3d DCA 2003) (reversing second degree murder conviction and life sentence); Hebel v. State (Fla. 2d DCA 2000) (reversing conviction and 12-year sentence for sexual battery) (in 2001, he tried the case in Arcadia, Florida, and obtained an acquittal); United States v. Arnold, 117 F.3d 1308 (11^th Cir. 1997) (reversed money laundering and Travel Act and conspiracy, for Brady violation); United States v. Kramer, 73 F.3d 1067 (11^th Cir. 1996) (reversed money laundering conviction and 20 year sentence, reversed $9 million forfeiture); DeFreitas v. State, 701 So. 2d 593 (Fla. 4^th DCA 1997) (reversed agg. assault w/ firearm for prosecutorial misconduct; fundamental error). Over the years Mr. Rogow has handled criminal trials (including United States v. Farkas, in the Northern District of Virginia in 2011, the largest fraud case brought after the mortgage crisis), and appeals as well as federal habeas corpus proceedings and appeals, and has been repeatedly appointed by the Florida Supreme Court to represent indigent prisoners. In 2007, in Spera v. State, he reversed an 11-0 4^th DCA en banc decision with a 7-0 Florida Supreme Court victory and in July 2008 he established the right in Florida to seek post-conviction relief for defendants whose lawyers advise them to reject a favorable plea offer (Morgan v. State). In 2017 he successfully obtained a new appeal and resentencing in Godinez v. State, 192 So. 3d 1289 (Fla. 3d DCA 2016).

Mr. Rogow has also won numerous awards over the years for his public service, litigation, and teaching, including the Reginald Heber Smith Award from the National Legal Aid and Defender Association and the Playboy Foundation First Amendment Award. He was the first Broward Legal Aid Advocacy Award recipient in 1999. In 2000, he was awarded the James C. Adkins Award, given to Florida’s outstanding appellate jurists or practitioners. He was the first practicing lawyer to receive the award. In 2006 he was a finalist for Most Effective Appellate Lawyer in South Florida and in 2007 he was named the Most Effective Appellate Lawyer in South Florida. In 2011, he was named Most Effective Class Action Lawyer for his MDL Bank Overdraft Litigation, and in 2012 Public Justice named him a “Trial Lawyer of the Year Finalist.”

Mr. Rogow has served as a consultant to lawyers and legal aid organizations, and as an expert witness on attorneys’ fees; has lectured to judges and lawyers; writes, and has been President of the Legal Aid Society of Broward County, Florida, and Special Counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida, Special Counsel to The Florida Bar, Special Assistant Attorney General, and a Special Assistant State Attorney.

Professor Emeritus of Law
rohrm@nova.edu

Professor Marc Rohr has been on the faculty of the Shepard Broad College of Law since 1976. Prior to coming here, he was a staff attorney at Papago Legal Services in Arizona, a staff attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Philadelphia, and an associate at the firm of Steinhart, Goldberg, Feigenbaum & Ladar (in their litigation department) in San Francisco. He earned his law degree at Harvard (1971) and his B.A. at Columbia (1968).

Professor Rohr was a Visiting Professor at the University of San Diego during the 1982-83 academic year, and at Santa Clara University during the 1985-86 academic year.

Professor Rohr has taught Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, and Copyright & Trademark Law for most of his teaching career, and continues to do so. He has also taught Administrative Law, Remedies, Criminal Law, Professional Responsibility, and a seminar on Law & Religion.

Most of Professor Rohr’s law review articles have focused on various aspects of freedom of speech. He has written, to a lesser extent, in the field of Civil Procedure as well. In addition, he has compiled his own course materials for each of his courses, and updates them on a regular basis.

Professor Rohr has been an active member, for several years, of the Legal Panel of the Broward Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, and he occasionally dabbles in community theater.

Professor Emeritus of Law
rookeley@nova.edu

Professor Emeritus of Law

Professor Emeritus of Law
wisotsky@nova.edu

A tenured professor of law at Nova Southeastern University since 1980, Steven Wisotsky currently teaches courses in appellate practice, white collar crimes, criminal procedure and criminal law. He has also taught courses in civil pretrial practice and constitutional law. He has been nominated four times as the Student Bar Association Teacher of the Year. He has chaired every major faculty committee.

He is presently co-chair of the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section Appellate and Habeas Committee, as well as co-chair of its White Collar Crimes Subcommittee on Money Laundering. He is active in The Florida Bar and recently served on its Appellate Court Rules Committee and its Standing Committee on Professionalism. He has served on the Florida Chief Justice's Ad Hoc Commission on the Bar Examination and chaired its Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Subcommittee. He has lectured to professional groups such as the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers (now the Florida Justice Institute), the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and The Florida Bar.

He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits.  He was named to “Florida Super Lawyers” in appellate practice for 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. He is also a member of The Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a group of trial attorneys who have won million-dollar-plus verdicts and/or settlements for their clients.

From 2002-2008, he was Special Counsel for Appellate Matters to the Washington, D.C.-based litigation boutique Zuckerman Spaeder LLP.  At the Miami office, his criminal practice included federal appeals in money laundering, mail and wire fraud, securities fraud, RICO and federal habeas corpus cases.  His civil practice included commercial litigation, medical care regulation, land use litigation, legal malpractice defense, civil RICO, civil rights cases and class actions.

He is the author of Professional Judgment on Appeal: Bringing and Opposing Appeals (Carolina Academic Press 2002), which has been described by the American Bar Association Appellate Practice Journal as "authoritative, erudite and often sparkling."  The Record (the Journal of The Florida Bar Appellate Practice Section) described it as “the fine-tooth comb that sifts through the chaff for the golden nuggets.” A review in TRIAL magazine described it as a “well-researched, well-written” “fresh and practical analysis of modern appellate practice. The second edition, which was published in 2009, was described by one reviewer “as taking the analysis to a higher level than many writings in the field.”  He is presently under contract with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy for publication of a book entitled Public Speaking for Lawyers.

He has also written numerous articles including Sounds and Images of Persuasion: A Primer, 84 Fla. Bar J. 40 (Feb. 2010); Speak with Style and Authority, 37 No. 1 Litigation 16 (Fall 2010);How to Interpret Statutes—or Not: Plain Meaning and Other Phantoms, 10 J. App. Prac. & Process 321 (2009); Extraordinary Writs: “Appeal” by Other Means, 26 Am. J. Tr. Advoc. 577 (2003); Miscarriages of Justice: Their Causes and Cures, 9 St. Thomas L. Rev. 547 (1997); and Crackdown: The Emerging “Drug Exception” to the Bill of Rights, 38 Hastings L. J. 889 (1987).