Brett Barfield ’99 St.Thomas Law alum, Brett Barfield, will be recognized this month by The Florida Bar for his extensive pro bono work. Mr. Barfield, a Miami partner with Holland & Knight, led his firm to handle more than 80 cases under The Hague Convention on International Parental Child Abduction. The Hague Convention is a multilateral […]
Gabriel “Gabe” Caballero ’06 St. Thomas Law proudly announces that alum, Gabriel Cabarello ’06 has been named partner at Holland & Knight’s Miami office and a member of the firm’s Financial Services practice group. Mr. Caballero concentrates his practice on the representation of domestic and multinational organizations (including banks, broker dealers, money services businesses and other […]
St. Thomas Law continues to provide unique, transformational experiences for its students outside of the classroom. During the week of December 12, 2016, after final exams were over and before graduation, a team of fifteen first, second and third-year St. Thomas Law students, under the guidance of Professor Lauren Gilbert, spent a week volunteering at […]
St. Thomas Law proudly announces the appointment of alumna, Victoria del Pino to the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court. The appointment was announced by Governor Rick Scott on Thursday, December 15. “I am honored and humbled by the news that Governor Rick Scott elevated me to Circuit Court,” stated Judge del Pino. Judge del Pino, of […]
Professor Richard Raleigh (second from the left) talking to former students. When STU professor Richard Raleigh started teaching at St. Thomas University in 1966, assignments were done on typewriters not computers, research was done at the library not on the internet, music was heard on the radio not Spotify, and St. Thomas University, known as […]
Delano Donk 10, of Hibiscus Elementary celebrates during last year’s fifth annual Science and Engineering Fair awards ceremony at the Betty T. Ferguson Center. Photo Credit: Patrick Farrell, Miami Herald With science projects in tow, more than 150 elementary school students from 19 schools across Miami Gardens will converge on St. Thomas University during the […]
On Tuesday, Dec. 6, St. Thomas University’s SIM (simulator) family welcomed a new addition-Thomas “Tommy” Villanueva. Tommy is now part of STU’s growing SIM family and friends– mom Rita, dad Augustine “Gus,” older brother Anthony, grandmother Clare, and pal Charlie. He weighed in at 7 lbs. 2 oz. and measured 21 inches long. Tommy is […]
Universidad de Santo Tomas de Villanueva in Havana, Cuba St. Thomas University alumni and guests celebrated the university’s 70th anniversary on Saturday, Dec. 10. STU, originally founded in 1946 as the Universidad de Santo Tomas de Villanueva in Havana, Cuba, by American Augustinian priests from Philadelphia, was ordered to close its doors in 1961 by […]
Cassandra Jeffries St.Thomas Law is proud to announce that 2004 graduate Cassandra Jeffries has been named the newest partner at the South Florida office of Kelley Kronenberg Attorneys at Law. Ms. Jeffries has years of experience representing insurance companies in First Party and Third Party matters. Prior to joining Kelley Kronenberg, she was a litigation […]
Administrative offices at St. Thomas University will be closed Wednesday–Friday, Nov. 23–25, in recognition of the Thanksgiving holiday. In addition, several university facilities may be closed or operating on reduced schedules this week due to the holiday. Classes and regular office hours will resume Monday, Nov. 28. University facilities with reduced or altered hours […]