Ricky Polston, a partner in the Tallahassee office of Shutts & Bowen LLP and Chair of the firm’s Constitutional Law Section, participated in a panel discussion for the Florida Bar’s Appellate Practice Section on February 20, 2024.

During the “Allstar Amicus Briefs” program, panelists discussed how you can provide the biggest impact as amicus curiae, which subjects are appropriate and which subjects you should avoid, and related strategies.

Ricky’s co-panelists included Judge Scott Makar, Kansas Gooden, and was moderated by Diane DeWolf.

 

About Ricky L. Polston

Ricky Polston is a partner in the Tallahassee office of Shutts & Bowen LLP, where he is the Chair of the Constitutional Law Section and a member of the Appellate, Government Law, Insurance, and Litigation practice groups. He was a Florida Supreme Court Justice from 2008-2023, serving as Chief Justice from 2012 to 2014, and was a judge at the First District Court of Appeal from 2001-2008.  His court experience includes various civil cases, statutory and constitutional validity issues, bond validations, orders of the Public Service Commission on utility rates and services, jurisdictional petitions, habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, and all writs petitions, various criminal cases (including those with the death penalty), various attorney disciplinary cases from The Florida Bar, attorney admission cases from The Florida Board of Bar Examiners, judicial discipline cases from the Judicial Qualification Commission, and rules petitions from various Florida Bar and Florida Supreme Court committees.