Daily Business Review | Raychel Lean February 24, 2020 The #MeToo movement has attempted change the fabric of society in a radical way, according to legal ethics expert Jan Jacobowitz, who said it's resulted in a "sort of drastic time period" where the pendulum has swung very far in one direction. The criminal case against [...]
The city has issued a notice of default to Clark Construction Group and claims the city is entitled to damages. By Lidia Dinkova | January 30, 2020 The construction manager for the massive Miami Beach Convention Center redevelopment claims the city owes over $70 million for extra work resulting from the city’s many designs changes. [...]
Law360 | By Carolina Bolado January 30, 2020 The construction company behind the Miami Beach Convention Center expansion claims in a new lawsuit that the city of Miami Beach is refusing to pay more than $70 million incurred because of the city’s design changes and other issues. In a complaint filed Wednesday in state court [...]
Clark Construction alleges the city has not paid the firm and more than 30 subcontractors for some of the work it performed TRD MIAMI | By Keith Larsen January 29, 2020 During Art Basel Miami Beach, attendees enjoyed new exhibition space at the Miami Beach Convention Center, thanks to the completion of a half billion-dollar [...]
January 22, 2020 | Dees Stribling, Bisnow National In November, the price of a U.S. permanent residency visa through the EB-5 program jumped by 80%, and the federal government tightened the rules on what qualifies as a legitimate EB-5 investment. In response, demand for the visas has slowed significantly, experts tell Bisnow, because EB-5 is [...]
If you’ve had experience with our court system, I’d bet you a cafecito that a major sticking point to achieving a utopian vision of a true business haven is our literally and figuratively crumbling judicial infrastructure. By Etan Mark for The Daily Business Review | January 15, 2020 With our beautiful weather, international access and [...]
By Etan Mark for South Florida Business and Wealth | December 2019 Our local legislators are running themselves ragged, trying to attract new business to South Florida while ignoring the needs of our judicial system and the impacts on surrounding businesses. Etan Mark, founding partner at Mark Migdal & Hayden. A few months [...]
By ALM Staff, The Daily Business Review | December 13, 2019 Brad Johnson has joined Gunster in West Palm Beach as a shareholder. Johnson’s practice focuses on business litigation and labor and employment law. Joseph A. Suarez has joined Chartwell Law in Miami as a partner. Suarez’s practice focuses on bad faith litigation, professional negligence, commercial litigation [...]
By Tanya Sterling, GlobeSt.com | December 10, 2019 Miami, FL—Recently, the EB-5 Investor Visa Program was updated to reflect new rules that raise the minimum investment from $1 million to $1.8 million, and from $500,000 to $900,000 for a targeted employment area (TEA). The minimum investment amounts automatically adjusts every five years. The program, initially [...]
By Vin Gurrieri, Law360 | Nov 22, 2019 Although General Motors' suit accusing rival Fiat Chrysler of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act by bribing UAW officials isn't the first time RICO has popped up in civil disputes between competitors, GM still faces an uphill battle to keep the case in court, attorneys [...]