This installment of the Daily Business Review’s coverage of the August primary elections features Q&As with incumbent Judge Robert W. Lee and civil rights lawyer Stephen Leslie Lustig in their bid for Broward County Court judge, Group 25. Here’s what they had to say about what qualifies them for the bench. Responses have been edited for style and content.


 Judge Robert W. Lee

Lee received his law degree with honors from the University of Florida, where he served as a senior editor on the Law Review and was awarded a teaching fellowship. Lee began practicing commercial litigation in 1985, and since being appointed to the bench in 1997 has served in all divisions of the Broward County Court. He was chair of the Broward County Canvassing Board and presided over the historic 2000 presidential recount in Broward County. In 2011, Lee was honored with the Stephen R. Booher Memorial Award by the Broward County Bar Association.