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and Professional Women’s Club, the Inverness Rotary Club, the
Lake Sumter Community College Advisory Board, the Sumter
County Sheriff’s sexual assault response team, The Refuge at
Jumper Creek, and the Sumter County Adoption Support
Focus Group, among other organizations. She also participated
in Leadership Sumter County and was on the board of the
Thomas E. Langley Medical Center.
Her biggest initiative has been the Eldercaring Coordination
project. As a judge, she saw many cases where an elderly person
was losing the capacity to care or make decisions for himself or
herself, and the person’s family began fighting about what to
do. They would take their disputes to court, forcing judges to
micromanage delicate situations best left to families.
In 2013, she and co-chair Linda Fieldstone brought together a
task force of 20 statewide agencies (including Stetson’s Center
for Excellence in Elder Law) to create the Eldercaring
Coordination project. The goal was to train eldercaring
coordinators as an alternative dispute resolution option to help
families care for their loved ones without the need for
micromanagement from the courts. Since 2015, eldercaring
coordination has successfully assisted 70 families.
Morley has also taken an active role in mentoring Stetson Law
students through on-campus presentations and other teaching
opportunities, including serving as a guest faculty member in
the Constitutional Law and Civil Rights History travel course.
THOMAS “TOMMY” D. ROEBIG JR.
Tommy Roebig is a 1986 graduate of Stetson University
College of Law, where he was a member of the
National Moot Court Team and a Dana Scholar. He
now is partner in the civil litigation law firm Florin Roebig
with fellow Stetson alumnus Wil Florin, J.D. ’80. In 2007, the
Stetson Lawyers Association awarded Tommy and Wil its
outstanding Alumni Award (Paul May Meritorious Service
Award).
Roebig is Board Certified in Civil Trial Law by The Florida Bar
and The National Board of Trial Advocacy, as well as Board
Certified as a Civil Pretrial Practice Advocate by the National
Board of Legal Specialty Certifications. He is a member of the
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation and numerous
other associations that promote civil justice.
During his more than 30 years in practice, Roebig has received
many accolades, including those from Florida Trend™
Magazine, U.S. News and World Report Best Lawyers in
America, Super Lawyers Magazine, and Martindale-Hubbell.
In 2007, he was listed as one of “America’s Leading Plaintiff’s
Lawyers” by the national legal organization Lawdragon. Every
year since 2009, Roebig was selected by the National Trial
Lawyers Association as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in the
state of Florida.
Roebig has obtained jury awards of a million dollars or more in
both federal and state court trials, including recoveries in the
areas of medical malpractice, discrimination and civil rights,
liquor liability, product liability, class action, and motor-vehicle
negligence. In 2016, Roebig obtained a $42 million jury
verdict against Applebee’s and others in a personal injury case
that was the largest contested jury verdict in Hernando County
history. His successes have led to induction into the “Million
Dollar Advocates Forum,” a national organization that
recognizes Trial Lawyers who have received jury awards in
excess of a million dollars, and he has been named to the
“Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum” for numerous jury
verdicts of multiple millions.
Roebig is a frequently requested lecturer at Stetson University
College of Law on the topics of negligence and wrongful death
damages. He has often been a requested speaker on trial tactics to
numerous legal associations and trial lawyer seminars, including
the Florida Justice Association. He has served as an adjunct
professor at St. Petersburg College teaching civil law courses.
You can watch the individual inductee videos on the Hall of
Fame page on our website.
Tommy Roebig, J.D. ’86, with his wife, Paula.
Susan Demers, B.A. ’71, and Dean Michèle Alexandre share a laugh with Josh
Magidson, J.D. ’ 80, during the Hall of Fame awards dinner.