Mr. Katz was admitted to the bar in 1968, Florida, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida and U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit; 1971, U.S. Supreme Court; 1980, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit; 1996, U.S Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit.

Lecturer, "Records and the Abducted Child," Children's Records Law in Florida, 1999, 2000, 2001.

Lecturer, Twelfth Annual Nuts and Bolts of Divorce, DCBA Family Courts Committee (2005), "Economic Injunctions/Freeze Orders Domestic and Foreign."

Lecturer, "Abduction Factors and Fla. Stat. 61.45 as it Concerns International Visitation and Child Custody," First Family American Inn of Court (2006).

Lecturer, Family Law Update 19th Judicial Circuit in St. Lucie County, Florida (2007), "Int'l Child Abduction: Returning Kids Home & Making the Abductor Pay Through Hague or UCCJEA."

Lecturer, "Cross -Border Family Mediation with an Emphasis on the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction" sponsored by the University of Miami School of Law and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), 2008.

Author, "When the ? Involves an International Move," ABA Section of Family Law, Family Advocate , Spring 2006.

Member and Mentor, ABA International Child Abduction Attorney Network (ICAAN). Participant, ICARA 15 Symposium. Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Mediator.

Attended the Fifth Meeting of the Special Commission to Review the Operation of the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction held at The Hague, Netherlands 2006.

Member of Study Group of the Secretary of State Advisory Committee of Private International Law considering the 1996 Hague Protection of Children Convention, 2007.

Military: 2nd Lt., USAR (M.P.), 1965-1968