Minority Mentoring Picnic draws hundreds of students.(Picnic With a Purpose)

What elevates a picnic to a happening with high purpose?

When a thousand picnickers are a veritable who's-who list of Florida's legal elite mingling with minority law students from all over the state hoping to snag a mentor.

Amelia Earhart Park in Hialeah on October 1 was the place to be for the Second Minority Mentoring Picnic, and its creator, Miami lawyer John Kozyak, deemed it a smashing success. He estimated at least 300 law students came from the University of Florida, Florida State University, Florida A&M University, Stetson University, Nova Southeastern, Florida International, St. Thomas, and the University of Miami. Ready to engage those students in conversation were at least 50 judges and about 450 lawyers (and their families), including law school deans, law firm hiring partners, and members of The Florida Bar leadership.

"I don't want to say it was like a Beatles concert or the World Series, but in terms of organized bar functions, I had people tell me it was one of the …