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Dwight Laing Rogers Jr.

Miami, Florida

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Rogers, Dwight Laing, Jr., senior partner in Broward County's oldest law firm, Rogers, Morris, and Ziegler LLP, died at home Wednesday, October 3, 2007. Born in Ocilla, Georgia in 1917, Rogers moved to Fort Lauderdale in 1925 when his father, Dwight L. Rogers, Sr. founded the law firm with John...

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October 12,2007

Dwight epitomized the honest, genteel, gentlemanly practice of law with integrity, knowledge and compassion. He sat at the apex of those of us who believe that the practice of law is a privilege and a service and not just a source of income. We who were his contemporaries in the practice, those of us who served with him in matters outside of the practice of law, friends and colleagues in the many facets of his life, appreciated and were influenced by his quiet,...

All of us with Phi Delta Theta are saddened to learn of Brother Rogers' entrance into the Chapter Grand. He was a great man and a great Phi Delt.

Dwight Rogers helped form Fort Lauderdale and Broward County along with a few others from his era. With the passing of this valuable and hard-working generation, we should stop and thank them and remember them in our prayers. We've come a long way...and, as a native, I've witnessed some of it...but could not have done so without the early pioneers. His family has always represented him well and I am proud to know them. May God Bless them.