Vernita C. Williams, Esq.
Local Attorney, Co-Host Of South Florida’s Monthly Pastors Forum & Administrator of Youth Scholarship Foundation
mation to our community and offer scholarships to black youth who desire higher education. This ongoing community service is offered through the firms’ Pastors Forum & Scholarship Foundation. South Florida Pastors Forum & Scholarship Foundation. matters experienced by church members. In addition to luncheon presentations, attorneys are available for free seminars at churches whose pastor attend the South Florida Pastors Forum luncheons.
As a practicing attorney and associate pastor, Vernita Williams understands the raised eyebrows when her occupations come up in conversation. She has been asked countless times, “How can an attorney, who is often viewed by the public as someone prone to distort or manipulate the truth, be a minister?” Her reply is always the same. “To those who doubt that a preacher should practice law ‘we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully.’1 Timothy 1:8.”
Realizing that pastors are life coaches for many and expected to solve problems, our team of attorneys willingly provide guidance and referrals for For Williams, the legal and spiritual pastors who need to help their congreworlds collide more than people ex- gants with common as well as compect. She is well acquainted with pas- plex legal issues. tors’ needs for legal advice, for themselves and their congregation. The Law Firms Two law firms serve as co-hosts of the South Florida Pastors Forum, Vernita C. Williams, Esq., P.A. and Freidin, Dobrinsky, Brown & Rosenblum, P.A. The firm, Freidin, Dobrinsky, Brown & Rosenblum, P.A., is a team of trial attorneys specializing in personal injury, medical malpractice, family law, wrongful death, employment discrimination, nursing home abuse, consumer safety and products liability. The firm has obtained numerous million dollar verdicts and settlements on behalf of their clients, having tried more than 150 personal injury and wrongful death cases. The partners in the firm have attained the highest level of recognition by the Florida Bar and have been profiled in ‘The Best Lawyers in America’, included in MartindaleHubbell’s Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers and are consistently recognized in the annual Florida Super Lawyers Magazine, Florida Trend’s
It is because of this need that the law firms of Vernita C. Williams, Esq., P.A. and Freidin, Dobrinsky, Brown & Rosenblum, P.A. embarked upon a joint venture to serve pastors, the Attorney Williams is a member of the local community and churches on a New Birth Baptist Church, where she consistent bases. To this end, the firms was licensed and ordained by Bishop engage in monthly Pastors Forum Victor T. Curry, and serves as Asso- Luncheons, and have implemented a ciate Pastor of Stewardship, teach- scholarship foundation to award deing biblical economic principles on serving youths. a regular basis. Born to a minister, she grew up in church and is keenly Every month, pastors are able to conaware that spirituality alone does not nect with a group of attorneys to adsolve legal problems. Likewise, legal dress general legal matters as well as intervention cannot solve a spiritual the legal needs of their church and problem. congregation. The luncheon was initiated to create a rapport between local In order to bridge the gap between pastors, as well as give pastors direct the legal and the spiritual, Vernita access to attorneys. A wide variety C. Williams, Esq., P.A. and the law of topics are addressed at each fofirm of Freidin, Dobrinsky, Brown & rum including, pastoral contracts and Rosenblum, P.A. are teaming up with compensation, church growth and delocal pastors to provide legal infor- velopment and how to address legal