Dear Business Law Section Members, Thank you to everyone who joined us for an amazing Labor Day Retreat! Your participation and enthusiasm made it a great success. A special congratulations to Amir Isaiah, winner of our inaugural Charity Poker Tournament! Amir Isaiah was playing for Dr. Phillips Little League, which will receive 60% of the...Read More

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

There was a great turnout for our Senior $mart$ presentation at the Orlando Public Library! With support from the Orange County Office on Aging.  Read More

Tom and Diane Wells organized and presented Senior$mart$ at the Coral Gables Adult Activity Center on August 21, 2026.Read More

Jacksonville had another Senior Smarts Presentation today at Fannie E. Taylor Homes with the City of Jacksonville. Seniors also arrived by their community bus to join, giving us a great turnover of about 40 seniors. Sarah Mannion was the speaker and answered various questions about scams after the presentation.Read More

2026 Chief Judge’s Pro Bono Bankruptcy Award The Chief Judge’s Pro Bono Bankruptcy Award is an annual award recognizing a bankruptcy lawyer or a law firm who materially improved access to justice in bankruptcy cases pending before this Court by representing indigent parties or by otherwise facilitating pro bono representation of those in need.  ...Read More

By Michael Kolcun and Amani Ambay Resolving a conflict among the DCAs, Florida’s Supreme Court settles the dispute over the standard for pleading punitive damages: the clear and convincing standard does not apply. Perlmutter v. Federal Ins. Co., __ So.3d __,  2026 WL 1689765 (Fla. June 11, 2026), arose from an alleged defamatory hate mail...Read More

 By Michael Bittner Your client sends over a messy set of deal documents or litigation materials and you do what increasingly feels normal: you paste them into a generative AI tool and ask it to find the problems. You just saved an hour. Depending on the tool and its terms, you may also have handed...Read More