THE GENERAL COUNSEL’S OFFICE
Training
Provides training to union leaders and attorneys on law enforcement representation.
Legal Updates
Furnishes regular Legal Updates to I.U.P.A. attorneys and union leaders.
Publications
Publishes articles and pamphlets educating law enforcement officers and union leaders on law enforcement representation.
Assistance
Renders assistance to local unions on lawsuits of interest to the law enforcement profession.
Representation
Represents parties, and files amicus briefs, in cases of interest to the law enforcement profession in the U.S. Supreme Court and other appellate courts.
Briefs & Pleadings
Maintains a collection of briefs and pleadings for use by I.U.P.A. leaders and attorneys in litigation.
OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSELS
Van Horsten has also provided assistance with various internal union matters, including but not limited to, trainings for union business agents and stewards, review of union literature for strategic campaigns against employers, and international union conventions. Van Horsten is admitted to practice before the Federal District Court for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida as well as the Eleventh Circuit Federal Court of Appeals. She is a graduate, with honors, from the Seattle University School of Law, where she was Associate Editor of the Law Review. Van Horsten also holds a Bachelors in Philosophy from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
E-Mail Holly E. Van Horsten at: hvanhorsten@iupa.org
Lippman comes from a strong union family as his grandparents were with unions, and his father was a teachers’ union president in Upstate New York. After moving to Florida in 1996, Gary provided legal representation to firefighters’ IAFF union locals in state and federal courts throughout South Florida. Gary was hired by the Palm Beach County PBA in 2001, where he became its General Counsel. During this time, Gary negotiated the first-ever and successive collective bargaining agreements with the Palm Beach and Martin County Sheriff’s Offices, and helped to grow that organization from approximately 1,000 members to 5,000.
His LEO representation includes on-scene at more than 100 “critical incidents” and in more than 1,000 investigations. He has prepared officers for state as well as federal grand juries and he has accompanied an officer into a grand jury investigating a fatal officer-involved shooting resulting in “No True Bill.” Lippman was instrumental in authoring several amendments to FSS 112.532, notably, amendments to sections of the “Bill of Rights” protecting officers from coercive administrative/disciplinary interrogations and expanding their due process rights under sections 112.532(1)(c), 112.532(1)(d), 112.532(4)(b), 112.532(6), and 112.533(1), Florida Statutes.
Some of Gary’s arbitration victories on behalf of wrongfully discharged law enforcement officers in Florida have been featured in national Labor Relations Information System (LRIS) publications and seminars, and he has been recognized for negotiating some of the first collective bargaining provisions in the United States addressing law enforcement agencies’ introductions of new technologies into their officers’ workplaces (e.g., GPS and patrol vehicles’ in-car recording devices). After the officer-involved shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, Gary was invited to be the guest of Will Aitcheson for a LRIS podcast interview regarding “Body Cameras and Collective Bargaining” (October 28, 2014).
Gary was invited to join and remains a staff member of the Police Policy Studies Council, Inc., and was published in The Florida Bar Journal (November/December 2016), “Will Police Body Cameras be a Mandatory Subject of Bargaining in Florida?” and (July/August 2017), “Will Body Cameras Improve Policing in Florida?”
Prior to coming to the I.U.P.A., Gary served as Managing Attorney for the successful implementation of a new state-wide Civil Injunction for Protection Project funded by the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) through the U.S. Department of Justice, and administered by the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
E-Mail Gary E. Lippman at: glippman@iupa.org
Mr. Burton is a former Police Officer with the Sarasota Police Department in Sarasota, Florida. He was a second generation Law Enforcement Officer with an extensive family history in the Law Enforcement and Public Service fields. Mr. Burton attended the University of Central Florida for his undergraduate studies and graduated with a degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology and a certificate in Criminal Profiling. During his undergraduate studies, Mr. Burton held internships with the Orange County Public Schools Security Operations and the United States Postal Service’s Law Enforcement Division. Mr. Burton left the Sarasota Police Department to attend law school at Stetson University’s College of Law in Gulfport, Florida. While at Stetson, Mr. Burton worked as a judicial intern for Florida’s 12th Judicial Circuit, working on both civil and criminal cases. During that time, Mr. Burton developed a passion for Labor and Employment Law, gearing his curriculum towards that field of study.
Mr. Burton continues to use his practical knowledge and experience to secure Employee Benefits for I.U.P.A. Members and to fight to improve the working conditions for Law Enforcement Officers nationwide.
E-Mail Ryan Burton at: rburton@iupa.org
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