Martin B. Sipple, a shareholder with the Ausley & McMullen firm in Tallahassee, will co-teach Civil Discovery & Depositions with his colleague Robert Clarke. Sipple earned his J.D at Washington University School of Law, where he graduated Order of the Coif in 1991. He is board certified by The Florida Bar in the area of Business Litigation, and regularly represents clients in both state and federal cases involving civil litigation and intellectual property matters.
Mark R. Schlakman serves as senior program director for the Florida State University Center for the Advancement of Human Rights (CAHR) and will teach Immigration Law this semester. He received his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center. He has held several senior positions in state and federal government, including serving as a senior advisor to a number of Florida governors. While living in Washington, D.C., he held the position of foreign affairs officer for the U.S. Department of State, where he was awarded the Superior Honor Award.
Maria A. Santoro will teach Trial Strategy: Complaints, Answers, & Motions this semester. Her practice areas are employment, medical malpractice, commercial litigation, personal injury litigation, automobile litigation, construction and administrative law. She is AV® rated in legal ability and ethical standards by Martindale-Hubbell. Santoro is in the Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers and she is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. She is certified as a circuit mediator by the Supreme Court of Florida.
The Honorable Stephanie Ray, of the Florida First District Court of Appeal, will be teaching Judicial Externship Perspectives Seminar this semester. Judge Ray earned her J.D. with honors from Florida State University College of Law in 1995. She served as an editor for the Florida State University Law Review, the Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law and the Journal of Transactional Law & Policy.
The Honorable Ricky Polston, of the Florida Supreme Court, will teach Insurance Law this semester. Justice Polston, an alumnus of Florida State Law, is a certified public accountant and was previously a certified circuit court mediator and judge on the First District Court of Appeal. Prior to becoming a judge, he practiced public accounting for seven years as an audit manager with Deloitte Haskins & Sells, C.P.A.s, and law for 14 years (commercial litigation in federal and state courts throughout Florida).
Peter Papagianakis, a 1997 graduate of the FSU College of Law, will teach Doing Deals: Mergers and Acquisitionsthis semester. Before law school, he was an assistant economist and a bank examiner for the Federal Reserve. After law school, he was an associate at widely-known law firms in Tampa and NYC, and was senior counsel in charge of M&A, SEC, and capital markets for a NYSE-listed company. After that, he started his own law firm.
Seth Miller is executive director of the Innocence Project of Florida and will teach Postconviction Remedies this semester. He earned his J.D. with honors from Florida State University in 2004 and was the executive editor for the Florida State University Law Review.
For more information e-mail smiller@floridainnocence.org.
Andrew Manko will co-teach Appellate Advocacy this semester with Courtney Brewer. He joined The Mills Firm in June 2011. Manko has taken primary responsibility on a variety of appellate matters, including tort, wrongful death, medical malpractice and general commercial disputes. He obtained his J.D. from Emory University.
Jason Lichtstein will teach Practicing Environmental Law in Florida this semester. He is a partner at Akerman LLP in Tallahassee, where he practices environmental law, specializing in the cleanup and redevelopment of Brownfields and contaminated sites. He is a co-chair of Akerman’s National Brownfield Team and a past president of the Florida Brownfields Association. He has been involved in the drafting, lobbying and passage of Brownfields legislation in Florida, expanding incentives for site cleanup and redevelopment.
The Honorable Terry P. Lewis, who sits on the Circuit Court for Leon County, will teach Evidence this semester. Judge Lewis earned his J.D. with honors from the Florida State University College of Law in 1976. He has been recognized with such awards as Judge of the Year by the Florida Law Related Education Association and Trial Judge of the Year by the Tallahassee Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates.
