Florida Bar President William J. Schifino has reappointed Professor H. Scott Fingerhut to the Student Education and Admissions to The Bar Committee for another one year term.
The committee, whose mission is to determine whether students are being adequately prepared for the practice of law, monitors legislation affecting legal education, maximizes the success of minority scholarship programs, and makes specific recommendations to the Bar’s Board of Governors and law school deans.
“I am deeply grateful to President Schifino for enabling me to serve beyond the classroom in this fashion,” said Fingerhut, who also serves as chair of the Bar’s Criminal Procedure Rules Committee. “As the equality gap in America ever widens, it is our students who will stand tall and at the ready to ensure genuine access to courts — and real justice — for generations to come. Indeed, if there is to be positive, substantial change in the world, my money is on them, by day’s end, to do more good than harm.”
Professor Fingerhut is Assistant Director of FIU Law’s Trial Advocacy Program and teaches Trial Advocacy, Pretrial Practice, and Criminal Procedure. He is also a Faculty Fellow and Director of Prelaw Programs in the Honors College at FIU.