Commitment to ProfessionalismFox & Loquasto is committed to ensuring the integrity of the legal system and the professionalism of The Florida Bar. Wendy Loquasto is active in The Florida Bar’s Appellate Practice Section, which is an organization devoted to promoting excellence among Florida’s appellate practitioners and in Florida’s state and federal appellate courts. She has served on the Section’s Executive Council for several terms and its Publications and CLE Committees. For many years, Wendy organized the Section’s Tallahassee Outreach CLE programs. She contributed to the Section’s The Pro-Se Self-Represented Appellate Handbook, and has writtten for the Section’s publication, The Record: Journal of the Appellate Practice Section of The Florida Bar. Wendy chaired The Florida Bar’s Appellate Court Rules Committee in 2014-2015, which is responsible for promulgating and amending the appellate rules. She continues to serve as an ad hoc member of the ACRC’s Workers’ Compensation Rules Subcommittee, which focuses primarily on Rule 9.180. Wendy is currently Vice Chair of The Florida Bar’s Workers’ Compensation Rules Advisory Committee, which is responsible for recommending amendments to the Rules of Procedure for Workers’ Compensation Adjudications. She was President of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers (2006-2007), and in that capacity was a liaison to The Florida Bar Board of Governors, which is the organization charged with regulating Florida’s attorneys. Wendy served on the Board of Governors’ Disciplinary Procedures Committee, which promulgates and amends the rules applicable in disciplinary proceedings against lawyers. She is a past president of Tallahassee Women Lawyers (1996-1997) and continues to serve on its board as Liaison to Legal Services of North Florida, Inc. Wendy is also committed to ensuring justice for all and has served on the board of Legal Services of North Florida, Inc., since 2004. She was Board President in 2009-2011. She also served as Board President of the North Florida Center for Equal Justice in 2009-2011. |