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Frank S. Palen

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Practice Areas
Special Districts, Land Use, Zoning Law, Land Development, Governmental Law, Real Estate and Historic Preservation.

Bar Admissions
• Washington State, 1974 (inactive)
• New York, 1976 (inactive)
• Florida, 1989 Education
• Allegheny College (B.A., cum laude, 1969). Pi Gamma Mu.
• State University of New York at Buffalo (J.D., cum laude, 1974). Student Editor, Law and Society Review.
• Edwin F. Jaeckle Fellow and Lecturer in Law, SUNY at Buffalo Law School, 1981-1982.

Published Works
• Media Ombudsmen: A Critical Review, 13 L. and Soc’y Rev. 799 (1979).
• The Crusading Judge, 54 So. Cal. L. Rev. 699 (1979).

Professional Associations and Memberships
• The Florida Bar (Environmental and Land Use Law Section and City, County and Local Government Law Section)
• American Planning Association
• American Institute of Certified Planners
• Attorneys’ Title Insurance Fund, Inc.
• Old Republic National Title Insurance Co.

Past Employment Positions
• Staff, United States National Neighborhood Commission, 1979
• Director of zoning, Palm Beach County, Florida, 1986-1988
• General counsel, Corepoint Corporation, Wellington, 1989-1992
• Regulatory counsel, The Ecclestone Organization, West Palm Beach, 1992-1999
• Adjunct instructor, Florida Atlantic University School of Urban and Regional Planning, 2001-2004
• Florida Association of Special Districts

 

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