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June 2012: Belinda Martinez

Jeannie Sapp Johnston | Jun 05, 2012 | Comments 0

Belinda Martinez received her Paralegal Certificate from Florida International University in 1991 and earned the designation CLA/CP in 2005, passing a two day examination administered by the National Association of Legal Assistants.  In 2008, Ms. Martinez further earned the Advanced Paralegal Certification in Trial Practice administered by the National Association of Legal Assistants. Ms. Martinez has been a Florida Registered Paralegal member of The Florida Bar since 2008.
In 2010, Ms. Martinez was appointed the Paralegal Liaison to the South Broward Bar Association, In 2011, Ms. Martinez was awarded the South Broward Bar Association’s President’s Award by Anita Paoli who stated:
“It was very hard to single out just one person this year.  There is a tremendous amount of time spent behind the scenes of which the rest of the membership may not be aware.  The SBBA has no full-time staff and relies on voluntary contributions of time from its members who are already overloaded with work in their chosen profession.  The President’s Award is being given tonight to someone who worked on every event and program and helped the SBBA and my job as President this past year.  She initiated a campaign to welcome paralegals to our organization.  She’s a valued paralegal at Becker & Poliakoff.”
In addition to Ms. Martinez’ contributions to the South Broward Bar Association, she is the Inaugural Chair of the Broward County Bar Association’s Paralegal Section, Florida’s second largest voluntary bar organization, and serves as a Non-Lawyer Member on The Florida Bar’s Unlicensed Practice of Law Committee.
Aside from her commitment to the legal community, Ms. Martinez enjoys riding her Harley-Davidson motorcycle and attending charity rides, benefiting children.  You can contact Ms. Martinez at browardbarparalegal@gmail.com.
Memberships:
2010-Present:           Broward County Bar Association
2010–Present:          Association of E-Discovery Specialists
2009-Present:           South Broward Bar Association.
2008-Present:           The Florida Bar Registered Paralegal Section
2007-present:            Miami-Dade Association of Legal Support Specialists


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Join Broward County Bar Association's Paralegal Section

Paralegal Section



Belinda Martinez,
Paralegal Section Chair



Paralegals/Legal Assistants who join the Broward County Bar Association not only strengthen their connections and network possibilities, but also raise their firm’s professional profile.

Paralegals/Legal Assistants further benefit by serving on a committee. The Broward County Bar Association has a variety of committees and sections that would appeal to a Paralegal/Legal Assistant:  Alternate Dispute Resolution, Appellate Practice, Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law, Construction Law, Corporate Counsel, Criminal Law, Education Law, Elder Law, Employment and Labor Law, Family Law, Government Law, Immigration Law, Intellectual Property Law, Probate & Trust Law, Real Property, Solo & Small Firm, Tax Law, Trial Lawyers, West Area Section, Workers Compensation, and more.
The Broward County Bar Association also offers a wide variety of continuing education opportunities as well as offers networking opportunities.


http://www.browardbar.org/paralegal.htm

Is the Internet Running Out of Room?

The problem is that the current Internet addressing system, IPv4, only has room for about 4 billion addresses -- not nearly enough for the world's people, let alone the devices that are online today and those that will be in the future: computers, phones, TVs, watches, fridges, cars, and so on. More than 4 billion devices already share addresses. As IPv4 runs out of free addresses, everyone will need to share. How are we making space to grow?

Clearly the internet needs more IP addresses. How many more, exactly? Well, how about 340 trillion trillion trillion (or, 340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)? That's how many addresses the internet's new "piping," IPv6, can handle. That's a number big enough to give everyone on Earth their own list of billions of IP addresses. Big enough, in other words, to offer the Internet virtually infinite room to grow, from now into the foreseeable future.

When is the transition happening?

Google believes IPv6 is essential to the continued health and growth of the Internet and that by allowing all devices to talk to each other directly, IPv6 enables new innovative services. Replacing the Internet's plumbing will take some time, but the transition has begun. World IPv6 Launch on June 6, 2012, marks the start of a coordinated rollout by major websites and Internet service and equipment providers.

You do not need to do anything to prepare, but if you're interested in learning more and supporting IPv6, check out http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/

Think E-Discovery is just about law. Think again. The internet is running out of space. Yes. Clearly the internet needs more IP addresses. How many more, exactly? Well, how about 340 trillion trillion trillion (or, 340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)?

Just as phones use a system of phone numbers in order to place calls, every Internet-connected device gets a unique number known as an "IP address" that connects it to the global online network.
The problem is that the current Internet addressing system, IPv4, only has room for about 4 billion addresses -- not nearly enough for the world's people, let alone the devices that are online today and those that will be in the future: computers, phones, TVs, watches, fridges, cars, and so on. More than 4 billion devices already share addresses. As IPv4 runs out of free addresses, everyone will need to share. - Google.  click on the link below to learn more.


Google IPv6

You missed out on the June 8, 2012 E-Discovery Event? You can still attend the June 6, 2012 Event

South Broward Bar Association June 7, 2012 Luncheon Speaker Sheriff Al Lamberti

Featured speaker for June luncheon

Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti

Sheriff Al Lamberti is a 34-year veteran of the Broward Sheriff's Office.

He began his career in the Department of Detention.  After transferring to road patrol, Sheriff Lamberti worked his way through the ranks, eventually serving as a captain in the Organized Crime Division.  He then assumed his position as District Chief in Deerfield Beach in January 1990.

After his promotion to Major, Sheriff Lamberti served as Interim Police Chief for the City of Hollywood and North Lauderdale.  Soon after, he served as Director of the Training and Organizational Development Division where he oversaw the Center for Advanced Criminal Justice Studies Executive Leadership Program, as well as all day-to-day training functions.

When Sheriff Lamberti returned to the Department of Law Enforcement, he assumed command of the South Patrol Region, which includes Port Everglades and Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport post-September 11th.

A graduate 167th Session of the of the F.B.I. National Academy, Sheriff Lamberti served as President of the Florida Chapter of the F.B.I National Academy Associates in 2004. He served as President of the Broward Sheriff's FOP Lodge #32 from 1984 - 1985.  Additionally, he was the Chairman of the Regional Coordinating Team of the Florida Violent Crime and Drug Control Council for the Southeast Region from 1999 to 2007.  In early 2009, Sheriff Lamberti was named chairman of the Region 7 Gang Reduction Task Force by the Attorney General.

Married to Holly for 18 years, he has one son, Nicholas, and two step-children, Jaime and David.

In September 2007, Sheriff Lamberti was appointed Broward Sheriff by Governor Charlie Crist.  In November 2008, he was elected by the citizens of Broward County to serve as Sheriff for an additional four years.

 

Topic:

Crime and crime trends in Broward County and the South Florida Region and what is being done to keep our communites safe.

SOLD OUT in 2 days - E-Discovery for Paralegals and Legal Assistants

Hopefully, we can convince our presenters to do an encore in the future. 

E-Discovry Conflict

Karen Chamberlain and Robert Friedman, owners of Litigation Services, Legal Learning Series, LCC will speak about the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) . The EDRM was created to develop guidelines and standards for E-Discovery consumers and providers, EDRM has helped E-Discovery consumers and providers reduce the cost, time and manual work associated with e-discovery.

Damon Goduto, JD , from Iris Data, a national E-Discovery company. will discuss Technology Assisted Review (TAR).  TAR is a marketing term used in the  E-Discovery community to describe the process of automatic classification of documents (predictive coding) in a legal review. Similar documents are classified based on  specific terms and or phrases. Typical classifications include  "confidential ",  "privileged ", or  "responsive ".   In a recent groundbreaking case, Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Groupe et al. , Judge  Andrew Peck, ordered the parties to adopt a protocol for  E-Discovery that includes the use of predictive coding.  Ruling in this landmark case propels the use of predictive coding towards the mainstream.