Jacksonville Bar Association President Michelle Bedoya Barnett said she was looking for a keynote speaker who could bring a specific potential to the JBA’s annual Law Day meeting May 5 at the Omni Jacksonville Hotel.
“I wanted to find somebody who could speak on issues that are important today in America,” Barnett said.
Her choice was Ira Kurzban, a well-known civil rights and immigration attorney and a founding partner with Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli & Pratt in Miami.
A graduate of Berkeley Law at the University of California at Berkeley, Kurzban received an honorary degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and was the recipient in 2003-04 of the Wasserstein Fellowship at Harvard University Law School.