Week of August 31st, 2026

The latest edition of Florida Bar News Briefs, a weekly podcast dedicated to what’s happening in the legal profession, is now available with stories including:

• Defense attorneys flooding the courts with motions requesting 12-member juries, and some prosecutors are beginning to go along.
• Florida’s county court clerks saying standardizing document titles could make it easier for judges to identify filings and reduce filing errors across the state’s patchwork of county courts
• A Central Florida lawyer who is a big romance novel and rom-com fan taking a dive into publishing.

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