The Code and Rules of Evidence Committee carries out the mandate of the Florida Rules of General Practice and Judicial Administration concerning the proposal of new rules of evidentiary procedure and changes to existing evidence rules.
The Bar’s Professional Ethics Committee is charged with the duty of answering ethics inquiries, reviewing informal advisory opinions issued by Bar ethics department attorneys, and publishing formal advisory opinions to guide Bar members in interpreting and applying ethics rules.
“I am grateful to President Lesser for entrusting me with the privilege to serve,” said Professor Fingerhut, who has also served as chair of the Criminal Law Section of the Bar as well as the Bar’s Criminal Procedure Rules Committee. “It is important that our magnificent law students at FIU see up close the many ways in which lawyers may give back to their profession as passionate principled advocates, and help bring on better justice for all our tomorrows.”
Professor Fingerhut is Assistant Director of the Trial Advocacy Program at FIU Law. He teaches Trial Advocacy, Pretrial Practice, and Criminal Procedure. He is dually appointed as a Fellow in The Honors College at FIU, where serves as pre-law faculty advisor and teaches the upper-division seminar Observing Ourselves. Rated AV Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell’s highest peer rating, Professor Fingerhut practices criminal defense and represents applicants before the Board of Bar Examiners and lawyers facing Florida Bar discipline. He is consistently ranked among Florida’s leading criminal defense attorneys, including Best Lawyers in America, and is a three-time FIU Law Professor of the Year.
Reach him at 305-348-8095 and fingerhut@fiu.edu.
To find out more about Trial Advocacy at FIU Law, visit law.fiu.edu/trialad.