MARY E. ADKINS Post Office Box 511 Melrose, Florida (352)

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1 MARY E. ADKINS Post Office Box 511 Melrose, Florida (352) Director of Legal Writing & Appellate Advocacy. May present; Master Legal Skills Professor, August present; University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville. Supervise eight legal skills professors and one staff secretary. Teach Legal Writing, Appellate Advocacy, and Florida Civil Procedure; supervise eight or more teaching assistants per semester; coordinate teaching with law librarians, who teach legal research. Senior Legal Skills Professor, August August 2012; Legal Skills Professor, February August 2009; Adjunct Legal Skills Professor, January February Taught Legal Research and Writing, Appellate Advocacy, and Florida Civil Procedure; supervised eight or more teaching assistants per semester; supervised externships. Publications: Author, Rev. of Reubin O D. Askew and the Golden Age of Florida Politics, by Martin A. Dyckman, 85 The Florida Bar J. 60 (2011). Author, Persuasive Analytical Legal Writing, Bahçeşehir Űniversitesi Hűkűk Fakultesi (Bahçeşehir University Law Faculty) Kazanci 125 (Turk.) Author, The Unblinking Eye Turns to Appellate Law: Cameras in Trial Courtrooms and Their Effect on Appellate Law, 15 Journal of Technology Law & Policy 65 (2010). Author, Seven Qualities for Beginning Appellate Attorneys in Vol. XVI, No. 6 of The Record, the Journal of the Appellate Practice Section of The Florida Bar, Spring Presenting Speaker and Author, National Business Institutes seminar, Current Issues Impacting Insurance Defense Practice in Florida, June 28, 2005, Jacksonville, Florida. Awards: 2014 USF Libraries Riordan Memorial Fellowship in Florida Studies Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) Scholarship University of Florida Student Affairs Committee Award. 1

2 Presentations and Other Professional Activities: October 8, 2015: Panelist, The Florida Constitution at 50 Years: Looking Ahead to the Revision Commission, co-sponsored by the UF Law Center for Governmental Resopnsibility and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, Gainesville, Florida. August 1, 2015: Panelist, Workshop on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research: Grading and Assessment, at Southeastern Association of Law Schools 2015 Conference, Boca Raton, Florida. September 12, 2014: Presented Pigs, Pot, and Policy: The Creation of Florida s Modern Constitution, as part of the Institute for Learning in Retirement, Oak Hammock, Gainesville, Florida. July 31, 2014: Presented Pigs, Pot, and Policy: The Creation of Florida s Modern Constitution, as Patrick Riordan Memorial Fellow at USF Libraries, Tampa, Florida. June 30, 2014: Presenter, Legal Writing Institute Annual Meeting, Computer to Professor: Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better?, a report on a brief study and experiment I conducted on the applicability of automated essay grading software to law exams and legal writing assignments. April 25, 2014: Facilitator, ALWD Innovative Teaching Workshop, Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, Florida. December 2013: Deputy Editor, International Law Year in Review, ABA Section of International Law. August 2013, August 2012, August 2011 (and earlier): Presented case briefing section of Introduction to Law School and the Profession. December 7, 2012: Presented Teaching Mediation with Legal Writing at Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop, Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. October 2012: Presented Legal Analysis, an academic support program, to first-year law students at the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law. December 2, 2011: Panel Member, Effective Use of Teaching Assistants, at the Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop, University of Miami College of Law, Coral Gables, Florida. 2

3 June 6-9, 2011: Presented Persuasive Analytical Legal Writing at the Twenty-First Century Global Legal Skills Conference at Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey. May - June, 2011: Assistant Editor, Mark Yates, The Carnegie Effect: Elevating Practical Training over Liberal Education in Curricular Reform, Volume 17, Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute (2011). Fall Spring 2012: Assistant Editor, Legal Writing Journal. Spring Spring 2012: Externship faculty advisor for student externs & 2010: Brief Judge, National Child Welfare & Adoption Law Moot Court Competition. Fall 2012, Fall Spring 2011, Fall Spring 2009: Mentor, University of Florida Women s Leadership Committee Women s Mentoring Program. Spring present: Assist with preparing Environmental Moot Court students for competitions. December 2007: Briefed and argued Price v. State, SC , before Supreme Court of Florida. January 2007, February 2013: University of Warsaw, Center for American Law Studies, Warsaw, Poland. Developed and taught Legal Writing course to 103 law students. Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012: Participated in commencement ceremonies. Fall 2006: Assisted with preparing Justice Campbell Thornal Moot Court students for competition. Service: Fall 2014 present: UF Levin College of Law Judicial Clerkship Committee. Summer 2014 present: Legal Writing Institute Global Legal Skills Committee. Fall 2013 present: ALWD Survey Committee; ALWD Innovative Teaching Committee. 3

4 Fall 2013 Spring 2015: Ad hoc committee for the UF Levin College of Law Cuban-American Lawyers Project 40 th Anniversary Celebration. Fall March 2014: UF Levin College of Law Dean Search Committee. January present: Faculty Advisor, UF Levin College of Law Florida Moot Court Team. Fall present: UF Levin College of Law Non-Tenure-Track Appointments & Promotions Committee. Fall 2011 Spring 2015: UF Levin College of Law Strategic Planning Committee. Fall 2010 Spring 2013: UF Levin College of Law Curriculum Committee. Fall 2010 Spring 2013: University of Florida Faculty Senate. Summer 2010 Spring 2012: Legal Writing Institute Professional Development Committee. Spring 2010: UF Levin College of Law Ad Hoc Research Teaching Committee. Fall Spring 2010: UF Levin College of Law Admissions Committee. Fall Spring 2011: UF Common Reading Program Committee. Fall Spring 2010: UF Preservation of Historic Buildings and Sites Committee. Fall Spring 2007: UF Levin College of Law Adjunct Teaching Committee. Education and Conferences Attended: January 2 4, 2015: Attended the American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. October 24-25, 2014: Attended the Legal Writing Institute s Moot Court Advisors Conference, Milwaukee, WI. June 29- July 3, 2014: Attended the Legal Writing Institute s Biennial Conference, Philadelphia, PA. January 2 6, 2014: Attended the American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, New York, New York. 4

5 January 4-6, 2013: Attended the American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. January 3-6, 2013: Attended the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. December 7, 2012: Attended and presented Teaching Mediation with Legal Writing at Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop, Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. May 28 - June 1, 2012: Attended the Legal Writing Institute biennial conference in Desert Springs, California. December 2, 2011: Panelist on Effective Use of Teaching Assistants at Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop, University of Miami Law School, Coral Gables, Florida. June 6-9, 2011: Attended and presented Persuasive Analytical Legal Writing at the Twenty-First Century Global Legal Skills Conference, Bahçeşehir Űniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey. June 27-30, 2010: Attended the Legal Writing Institute biennial conference in Marco Island, Florida. February 2010: Attended Basic Probate, Guardianship and Elder Law, Tampa, Florida, presented by The Florida Bar. July 2009: Attended Science, Health, Nanotechnology, & the Law, presented by F.R.E.E., Bozeman, Montana. July 2008: Attended the Legal Writing Institute biennial conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. June 2007: Attended AALS workshop for New Law Teachers, Washington, D.C. May 2006: Attended Appellate Practice before the First District Court of Appeal, Jacksonville, Florida, presented by The Florida Bar. Practice History: December December Ocala & Jacksonville, Florida. Cameron, Hodges, Coleman, LaPointe, & Wright, P.A. Very busy insurance defense civil practice; successfully managed and litigated large caseload, wrote 5

6 effective pleadings, motions, memoranda of law, and briefs; tried and mediated cases. In Jacksonville, in 2004, managed satellite office. January November Melrose, Florida. Sole practitioner. General civil law practice; represented both plaintiffs and defendants in personal injury, contract litigation, land use, real estate, insurance, and governmental cases. Wrote and argued motions and briefs; conducted discovery, trials and mediations Gainesville, Florida. Jones, Carter & Drylie, P.A. Civil practice with emphasis in diverse insurance defense litigation, small business representation, and land use law. Wrote and argued motions and briefs; conducted discovery, trials and mediations Jacksonville, Florida. Holland & Knight. Civil litigation practice with emphasis on real-estate-related litigation. Participated in firm committees; wrote and argued motions and briefs; conducted trials, discovery and mediations. Admissions: Florida Bar, 1992-present; U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, Education: Honors: J.D., University of Florida College of Law, 1991; B.S.J., University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, Current M.A. candidate, University of Florida History Department. Florida Law Review: Senior Executive Editor, 1991; Selection Committee Chair, Fall Professional Activities: First Appellate District American Inn of Court, Government Master member, September 2014 present; Eighth Judicial Circuit Grievance Committee B, February present; Florida Supreme Court Historical Society, 2012 present, trustee, 2013 present; chair, Oral History Committee, present; Florida League of Women Voters, 2012 present; American Historical Association, 2011 present; Eighth Judicial Circuit Bar Association: member, , , , ; board of directors, ; Jacksonville Bar Association, 2004, ; American Inns of Court, ; Leadership Gainesville, Community: Steering Committee, Melrose Community Farmers Market, present; Steering Committee, Melrose Senior Community Center, ; Historic 6

7 Melrose Inc., present, President, , Vice-President, and , executive board member, 2005; Melrose Bay Property Owners Association present, President, ; presentation on Wills and Basic Estate Planning, Melrose Public Library, September Previous , Director of Development, University of Miami School of Music. Experience: , District Director, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Fort Myers, Florida. Directed staff and volunteers for all programs in ten-county area , Communications Coordinator, Sailboard, Inc. Marketing and promotions. 7