Law Alumna is Candidate for Florida Bar President Elect
Lorna Brown-Burton, J.D.
Should Lorna Brown-Burton, J.D. ’87, be elected, she will become the first female graduate from Nova Southeastern University’s Shepard Broad College of Law to be President Elect and then President of The Florida Bar in its 70-plus year history.
Brown-Burton has 25-plus years of leadership experience as president, chair, and executive committee member at the local, regional, and state levels. She brings to the table her vast and diverse leadership experience at the Florida Bar, and 30-plus years with voluntary bars, as well as more than 20 years of experience on community, non-profit and civic Boards.
Brown-Burton says [she] “is the right person at the right time, and that time is NOW.”
She says that her vision is to ensure the independence of all Florida Lawyers and to ensure that ALL Florida Lawyers have the resources necessary to be the success they desire. Her campaign is about ALL Florida Lawyers and what the Florida Bar can do for Florida Lawyers.
Brown-Burton was admitted to The Florida Bar in 1987, after receiving her undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Florida and her law degree from the NSU Center for the Study of Law, where she also sits on the school’s Board of Governors. She is also admitted in the U.S. Southern District of Florida.
She primarily practices in workers’ compensation defense, but also represents clients in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy matters, labor and employment and real property. Since joining the Bar, she has worked for several private firms before forming her own in 2004 and then merging that into Brown-Burton & DeMicco in 2014. Brown-Burton is a partner at Lubell | Rosen, where she manages the Workers’ Compensation Defense Practice Group.
Since joining the Board of Governors in 2012, Brown-Burton has served on the Communications, Budget, Disciplinary Procedure, Disciplinary Review, Strategic Planning, and Program Evaluation committees and the Board Review Committee on Professional Ethics.
Posted 02/27/22