By Eric S. Adams, Melodie Khosrovani Shutts & Bowen Introduction Indemnification is a risk-allocation tool that shifts responsibility for a loss from one party to another. In Florida, indemnification may arise either through an express contractual provision or under the doctrine of common law indemnity. Understanding the distinction is critical because different legal principles and...Read More

By Louis T. M. Conti and Gary I. Teblum This Part III article is the third of a three-part series designed to give readers the “what, how, and why” of Florida’s new protected series LLC legislation (§§605.2101-605.2802 of the Florida Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, F.S. Ch. 605).[1] This article provides more in-depth guidance on continuing and new filings with the...Read More

When Caryl E. Delano became a federal bankruptcy judge in Tampa in June 2008, she had less than four months to settle into the job before the stock market crashed and bankruptcy filings surged. More than 18 years later, as Delano prepares to retire, the businesses arriving in her courtroom look different. But one persistent...Read More