Involvement

The Bedell firm has provided three presidents to the state bar (George C. Bedell, John DeVault and Hank Coxe), and four presidents to the local bar (including current Directors Hank Coxe and Courtney Grimm). Our attorneys are actively involved in their areas of practice and interest in the local, state or national bar organizations.

We believe that our involvement in professional activities and pro bono work begins but does not complete our obligations to the community. To that end, members of the firm are active in a number of community organizations from Rotary to the local Little League. Our attorneys contribute their time and efforts to the following Bar and community organizations:

• Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers
• Advisory Committee on Rules, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
• American Arbitration Association
• American Bar Association, Criminal Law Section
• American Bar Association, House of Delegates
• American Board of Trial Advocacy
• American College of Trial Lawyers
• American Judicature Society
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America
• Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America
• The Chester Bedell Inn of Court
• Christian Legal Society
• Defense Research Institute
• Disciplinary Grievance Committee of the U.S. District Court, Jacksonville Division
• Executive Council, Criminal Law Section, The Florida Bar
• Federal Bar Association
• Federal Judicial Nominating Commission of Florida
• The Florida Bar Board of Bar Examiners
• The Florida Bar Civil Rules Committee
• Florida Supreme Court Historical Society
• International Society of Barristers
• Jacksonville Area Legal Aid
• The Jacksonville Bar Association
• Jacksonville Community Council, Inc.
• Judicial Nominating Commission for the First District Court of Appeal
• Leadership Jacksonville
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
• NOL Little League
• Ortega United Methodist Church
• Riverside Presbyterian Church
• Riverside Presbyterian Church Youth Basketball League
• Rotary Club of Jacksonville
• Spina Bifida Association
• Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions in Civil Cases
• Venetia Athletic Association
• Westside Chapel