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By appointment
of the president of The Florida Bar, Mr. Crabtree serves on Florida's Appellate Court Rules Committee,
where he currently chairs the Special Subcommittee on Electronic Filing — a committee drafting the rules
for electronic filing in Florida's appellate courts. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida
appointed him to serve on the Committee on District Court of Appeal Workload and Jurisdiction - one of
only four private practitioners appointed to the seventeen-person Committee. He also recently served on
the six-person steering committee for Florida's First Annual Appellate Justice Conference: The Role of
the District Court of Appeal Decision. His cases have been featured in the national media, including The
Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and The National Law Journal, and he has
received Martindale Hubbell's highest rating.
Mr. Crabtree has chaired The Florida Bar's 1400-member Appellate Practice Section,
chaired the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers' Appellate Section,
and served two years as the Editor of the Bar's Florida Appellate Practice Guide. He is the author of "The Record on Appeal —
Civil Appeals," a chapter in the Bar's treatise, Florida Appellate Practice. In addition, he has lectured and written on multiple
appellate and class action issues for The Florida Bar and the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers throughout the last decade.
Mr. Crabtree has served as a consultant and expert witness in the area of appellate practice, and is often retained by trial
counsel to give his legal opinion on a variety of issues.
Thomas M. Pflaum (of counsel) has been an appellate practitioner since he graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1976. With his experience and reputation, Tom is frequently asked to act as appellate counsel for firms throughout the state, and has handled appeals in all of Florida’s state and federal appellate courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Pflaum has received Martindale Hubbell's highest rating.
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