Following Professor H. Scott Fingerhut’s recent reappointment as Vice-Chair of The Florida Bar’s Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, Bar President-Elect Ramon A. Abadin has also reappointed him to a three-year term to the Student Education and Admissions to The Bar Committee. The primary scope and function of the Committee is to determine whether law schools are adequately preparing students for the practice of law.
Among its responsibilities, the Committee monitors proposed legislation that affect legal education, makes specific recommendations to The Bar’s Board of Governors and law school deans and tracks and maximizes the success of minority scholarship programs.
“The opportunity to serve our profession, and the faith and confidence President-Elect Abadin has in me, are humbling,” Fingerhut shared. “But the real payoff, is experiencing the magic of the classroom and getting to play a small part in sending our sterling FIU Law graduates out to practice – to fend for client and cause; to provide for themselves, their families and their communities; to look out for one another; to bring about positive, substantial change in the world, capable and confident by day’s end to do more good than harm.”
Professor Fingerhut serves as Assistant Director of FIU Law’s Trial Advocacy Program and teaches Trial Advocacy, Pretrial Practice and Criminal Procedure. He also serves as a Faculty Fellow and Director of Prelaw Programs in the Honors College at FIU.
Faculty website: http://lawdev.wordpress.fiu.edu/faculty/directory/h-scott-fingerhut/