HCBA Lawyer Magazine Vol. 29, No. 2 | Page 3

THe HIllSBoRoUGH coUNTY BAR ASSocIATIoN LAWYER Nov - Dec 2018 | vol. 29, No. 2 divisions features & events 13 Congratulations to the 2018-19 Bar leadership institute Class 14 Congratulations to neW Bar adMittees 16 speCial feature: supporting one another in the legal CoMMunity 23 reClaiMing a sense of norMalCy ConstruCtion laW seCtion lunCheon 26 What Can the hCBa do for you? giVe the BenCh Bar ConferenCe a try thanks to all our foX 13 ask-a-laWyer Volunteers! 30 34 fall MeMBership lunCheon the ColleCtiVe 49 health Care laW seCtion lunCheon 53 senior Counsel lunCheon WelCoMes Judge BlaCk 8 3 Editor’s Message by Ed Comey 4 HCBA President’s Message by John A. Schifino 6 8 YLD President’s Message Jason Whittemore Barry Cohen’s lasting legaCy 14 22nd annual BenCh Bar ConferenCe, MeMBership lunCheon & JudiCial reCeption 16 Executive Director’s Message by John F. Kynes 10 seeking JustiCe through ConViCtion reVieW From the State Attorney by Andrew H. Warren 12 the Marriage of dependenCy Court & autoMation: a Meaningful pair 30 From the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Ronald Ficarrotta 53 about the Cover This issue features a photo commemorating Tampa’s own famous historical industry, the cigar industry. The photo shows an interior view of the Cuesta-Rey Cigar Company, taken in Ybor City in 1929. Note the lector reading from the raised platform at the right. Historically, lectors or readers in a cigar factory entertained workers by reading books or newspapers aloud. Ybor City was founded as an independent town in 1885 by a group of cigar manufacturers led by Vicente Martinez-Ybor and was annexed by Tampa in 1887. Ybor City continued to grow and prosper through the 1920s when this photo was taken, by which time its factories were producing almost half a billion hand-rolled cigars every year, giving Tampa the nickname of “Cigar City.” The photo is part of the Burgert Brothers historical photograph collection, which chronicled life in the Tampa Bay area from the late 1800s to the early 1960s. Photo used with permission from the State Archives of Florida online Florida Memory collection. NOV - DEC 2018 | HCBA LAWYER 1