[CROSS BORDER DISPUTE] MM&H successfully represented two Florida entities who own valuable real estate property in Miami. Plaintiffs are Argentinean lawyers who provided certain limited services to the manager of the Defendants. Plaintiffs initiated an ex parte secret legal action in Argentina against Defendants and others supposedly premised upon their entitlement to purported professional fees [...]
The Plaintiff brought claims against Humberto Visconte, his wife and their wholly owned entity, Markethings, LLC. arising out of allegations that Mr. Visconte, while acting as CEO of the Brazilian subsidiary, usurped a corporate opportunity for his own benefit, took kickbacks and performed other wrongdoing related to the Brazilian entity’s purchase of a large tract [...]
[BUSINESS TORT] After a multi-year contentious battle in what was billed as a bet the company misappropriation of trade secret, breach of restrictive covenants of key employees and tortious interference claim by a competitor, MM&H obtained a dismissal with prejudice on the even of an evidentiary hearing where it was anticipated that the Plaintiff's pleadings [...]
Read the full article on: BloombergLaw Excerpt from the article: Advocates Confident The ACLU’s Nowlin-Sohl is confident the early victories will stand, but she and others representing the families and doctors recognize that the cases are in their early stages and still have a long way to go. The Florida decision, for example, likely will [...]
Lawyer compares sheer size of the implosion to the Enron scandal By Tony Cantu - MPA Magazine | 30 Mar 2023 Bank failure fallout continued with the recent filings of a class action lawsuit alleging securities violations by Signature Bank – among the initial steps one seasoned attorney predicts will ultimately lead to bolstered regulatory [...]
By Gina Kim · Listen to article Law360 (March 13, 2023, 7:44 PM EDT) -- The Eleventh Circuit declined Monday to revive a Venezuelan state-owned oil company's bribery suit against an energy trading firm and remand it to see if the U.S. would recognize the legitimacy of its board of directors, appointed by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, [...]
Photo credit: Florida Supreme Court Justice Jorge Labarga by J. Albert Diaz BY DON HAYDEN | Feb 25, 2023 For some of us, that can remember the days of Gore v. Harris, 772 So. 2d 1243 (Fla. 2000), the Florida Supreme Court was seen as an evenly divided court maybe veering slightly toward the [...]
WHY MIAMI IS NOW A TOP HUB FOR ARBITRATION IN THE AMERICAS BY DOREEN HEMLOCK | GLOBAL MIAMI MAGAZINE It was a glorious autumn Sunday in Miami – sunny and breezy, a perfect day to be outdoors – when nearly 200 people gathered indoors for a conference on international arbitration. Some came from South America, [...]
Florida Bar's Rejection of Non-Attorney Ownership Thwarts Innovation By Etan Mark, Don Hayden and Josh Migdal, Mark Migdal & Hayden | Bloomberg Law, January 12, 2022 Co-founders of Miami law firm Mark Migdal & Hayden call out the Florida Bar for rejecting changes that would have allowed non-attorneys to own portions of law firms. They [...]
BREAKING NEWS (LAW360): The Supreme Court Set To Resolve Foreign Discovery Question The U.S. Supreme Court is set to resolve a 3-2 circuit split over whether district courts can order discovery for private commercial arbitration abroad, on Friday taking up the question of 1782 for a second time after another case raising [...]