Like Us on FacebookFollow Us on Twitter

This site is best viewed with Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 3 or Safari 4. Please upgrade your browser in order to view the site properly.
Click Here to download the latest version of Internet Explorer.

Search Google:
Search this site:
CUBAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION’S STATEMENT ON THE DEATH OF 31-YEAR OLD CUBAN DISSIDENT WILMAN VILLAR MENDOZA Read more     National Bar's Cuba trips concern CABA Read more     ¿Que Pasa CABA? November/December 2011 Read more     ¿Que Pasa CABA? September/October 2011 Read more     CUBAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION RELEASES ITS ANNUAL REPORT ON THE STATUS OF THE RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA Read more     

Mission Statement

CABA is a non-profit voluntary bar association in the State of Florida. Founded in 1974, CABA's members include judges, lawyers and law students of Cuban, Cuban-American descent, as well as those who are not of Cuban descent, but are interested in issues affecting the Cuban community. CABA's mission is to promote equality of our members; serve the public interest by increasing awareness to the study of jurisprudence; foster respect for the law; preserve high standards of integrity, honor, and professional courtesy among our peers; provide equal access to and adequate representation of minorities before the courts; facilitate the administration of justice; build close relationships among our members; support the Cuban-American indigent community; and increase diversity in the judiciary and legal community.

2012 Installation Gala

Gala Invite

Gala RSVP

Please CLICK HERE to view Sposorship opportunities

Attorneys to Watch in 2012

Cuevas

Caba Briefs

Click here to view the CABA Briefs Archives

Note: To download/print CABA Briefs, you must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your system. If you do not have it, you can download it by clicking HERE.

Member Spotlight
Maria de Jesus Santovenia

EDUCATION

  • University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., May, 1988
  • University of Miami, A.B., May, 1983 

BOARD CERTIFICATION

  • Board certified in City, County and Local Government Law since 2005

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • More than 22 years of courtroom and trial experience
    • Complex commercial and environmental litigation
    • Appeals
  • 12 years of public service as assistant city attorney for 2 municipalities

LEGAL ACTIVITIES

  • American Bar Association: Ethics Committee, Member 
  • Cuban American Bar Association, Member 
  • Florida Association of Women Lawyers, Member 
  • Dade County Bar Association...
    ...Read More

View more Member Spotlights

Judicial Spotlight
Judge Robert N. Scola, Jr.

Robert N. Scola, Jr. serves on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Judge Scola earned a bachelor's degree in 1977 from Brown University and a law degree in 1980 from Boston College School of Law.

From 1980 until 1986, Scola worked in the Miami-Dade Office of the State Attorney. From 1986 until 1995, he worked in private legal practice, both as a sole legal practitioner and also as a criminal defense attorney. In 1995, Scola became a judge on Florida's Eleventh Judicial Circuit presiding over criminal, civil and family law matters.

On May 4, 2011, President Obama nominated Judge Scola to serve as a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Judge Scola would fill the seat vaca...
...Read More

View more Judicial Spotlights

Syndicate content