By Eric Geringswald | CSC Florida Laws Governing Business Entities Annotated Florida’s General Assembly added or amended more than 40 sections of the state’s business entity laws, including new and revised provisions for securities issuances and...
By Eric Geringswald | CSC Florida Corporate Income Tax Florida’s General Assembly added or amended more than 40 sections of the state’s business entity laws, including new revised procedures for service of process and changes to the corporate income...
By: Jeffrey A. Kern and Brian Goossen , Akerman. An estate plan can be described as a process to protect and maximize a person’s wealth during their lifetime, arrange for financial management and health care decision-making in the event of disability, and...
Florida’s General Assembly amended several sections of the Florida Business Corporation Act (FBCA) to address concerns raised by corporations and the legal community in the wake of the 2019 overhaul of the FBCA. The new legislation: Clarifies the definition...
In just a matter of weeks, COVID-19 changed the way much of the world works. But for Florida law firm Boyd & Jenerette , the shift to remote work options started well before the first trace of COVID showed up in the news. For this civil litigation defense...
Larry Silvestri was fortunate to find satisfaction in his role as in-house counsel for a real estate developer. “It was kind of a dream career,” he says. “I really enjoyed it.” But after a long, successful business run, his employer began...
Cuomo Likely to Face Impeachment : In the wake of a damning report from the state attorney general’s office, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is almost surely going to face an impeachment vote over allegations he sexually harassed at least 11 women and retaliated...
CT Eyes Older Workers to Fill Manufacturing Jobs: With up to 6,000 manufacturing jobs open in Connecticut, officials, educators, and others in the state are looking to workers 50 and older interested in making a career change to fill those positions. The state’s...
While many law school students envision their names on the door of a big law firm someday, Larry Pino saw law school as the key to opening a lot of other kinds of doors. “Once you pass the bar, you can hang up a shingle, you can go into a law firm and practice...
“I’m a people person,” Attorney Jessylin Polo Wiederhold says. “I always try to be a light in the lives of those whom I encounter—especially my clients. So, it’s no surprise that upon graduating law school, Polo Wiederhold...
Just-Signed Insurance Reform Bill Already Working in FL: A bill ( SB 76 ) reforming property insurance and roofing contractor practices in Florida was just signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on June 11 and won’t officially take effect until July 1...
Cyber Insurers Toughening Policy Requirements : Cyber policies are relatively new to the insurance business. But over the past decade the cyber insurance sector has taken off, with premiums more than doubling between 2015 and 2019 , from $1.4 billion to $3.1...
Will Cyber Insurers Stop Reimbursing for Ransomware Payouts?: For a while now the prevailing wisdom in the cyber insurance industry has been that victims should just pay off the hackers and seek reimbursement from their insurer because it’s just less costly...
PLANET FITNESS IS HEADED TO THE JUDGMENT ZONE. The fast-growing gym franchise tried to send a proposed class action over its robo-texting practices to arbitration, but a federal judge has determined that the arbitration clause in its membership agreement does...