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Webinar: Creating Diversity and Learning Opportunities through the Judicial Intern Academy
Register today to learn about the Judicial Intern Academy (JIA), its effort to increase diversity, and learning opportunities for law students. The JIA provides summer internships to rising 2L students who, for personal or financial considerations, are unable to devote their summer to a full-time, 40-hour per week judicial internship. The JIA requires a commitment of 20 hours per week for 8 weeks in June and July. Students are given a weekly schedule that includes remote programming and in-person observations in federal and state court. The FBA has provided internships to more than 40 law students thus far through the JIA. In summer 2023, nine local FBA Chapters and seven judicial districts participated, and in 2024, Judiciary Division leaders will work with FBA Chapter leaders and local judges to bring the JIA to even more districts and FBA Chapters.
Presented by the Judiciary Division & Law Student Division
Registration is Closed
About the Presenters
Judge Beth Bloom, Chair, FBA Judiciary Division
Judge Beth Bloom has been a United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida since 2014. She previously served as a state trial judge in Miami-Dade County, Florida for over 19 years. She is the current Chair of the FBA’s Judiciary Division and a Board Member of the Federal Judges Association. In 2021, she created the Judicial Intern Academy in order to provide learning opportunities to law students who were unable, for personal or financial reasons, to devote their summer to a full-time federal judicial internship. In November 2022, the Federal Bar Association adopted the Judicial Intern Academy as a national program, and efforts are underway to expand the JIA to districts, FBA chapters, and law students across the country.
Jennifer Denker, Partner, Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow
Jennifer Denker is a partner at Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow, where she handles a variety of different types of catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases including product liability, wrongful death, sexual assaults, medical malpractice, and motor vehicle collisions, including a special focus on cases involving Uber or Lyft. Prior to joining Meehan & Boyle, Jennifer completed a two-year federal clerkship in the United States District Court of Connecticut. Jennifer served as a law clerk advisor for the District of Massachusetts’s JIA in 2023,and is also the current Secretary of the Massachusetts Federal Bar Association.
Dante Groppo
Dante Groppo is currently a second-year law student (2L) at the University of Miami School of Law, where he is a Junior Staff Editor of the Business Law Review. He completed the Judicial Internship Academy (JIA) program this past summer. Last fall, he worked in the Investor Rights Clinic, where he earned the CALI Excellence for the Future Award. Presently, he is a legal extern at the United States Attorney’s Office, specifically working within the Economic Crimes Division in the SDFL.”
Yaniv Adar, National Chair of the Judicial Intern Academy and Partner at Mark Migdal & Hayden (Moderator)
Yaniv Adar is a partner at the law firm of Mark Migdal & Hayden with a diverse practice that includes representing clients in shareholder and partner disputes, consumer class actions, enforcement of restrictive covenants, trade secret disputes, and other complex commercial litigation matters. Yaniv previously clerked for the Florida Supreme Court and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Yaniv is a previous President of the South Florida Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and currently serves as Co-Chair of the South Florida Chapter’s Judicial Intern Academy and National Chair of the Judicial Intern Academy.
Registration
Registration is Closed
Registration for this event will close Wednesday, February 28 at 12:00 PM EDT.
Registration Fees
- Complimentary for FBA Members & Non-Members
Live Captioning: Closed captioning is available for all virtual webcasts.
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CLE
Please note CLE will not be offered for this event.
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Q: Who do I contact for more information?
A: Please contact sections@fedbar.org for any other questions.
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