The Business Law Section of The Florida Bar and the Florida Institute for Certified Public Accountants recently co-hosted a new (free) CLE/CPE event called “Money Talks” at Top Golf in Doral, Florida. The Financial Literacy Task Force created the Money Talks program to help professionals achieve success in their personal and professional lives. The BLS...Read More

By  Valerie C. David This article will discuss artificial intelligence, with a specific focus on ChatGPT and its role in the legal realm. AI is Everywhere! Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is paralleled with the same evolutionary path as the splitting of the atom.[1]  Perhaps that is why many are hesitant to embrace it.  Indeed, the “darker...Read More

By David W. Henry This article aims to identify and cure a species of mediation malpractice.  The putative error or species of mediator malpractice (so to speak) is in allowing the parties to create a document that purports to resolve the dispute but which in truth is an unenforceable agreement to agree.  “Agreements to agree”...Read More

We love our sponsors! Meet Florida Appeals, a Sapphire Sponsor. 1. What services does your firm provide? We are highly specialized in complex civil appeals in all six of the district courts of appeal, the Supreme Court of Florida, and the federal appellate courts. By focusing on appeals, we remain fluent in the ever-changing appellate...Read More

By Marisol Cruz Each year during the last week of October a National Celebration of pro bono is held (October 22 – 28, 2023). It’s a time to look upon our professional responsibility and ethical commitments as attorneys. As lawyers (and law firm owners) it’s our responsibility to represent the interests of our clients. As...Read More

From John Macdonald, recipient of BLS’s First Pro Bono Award Pro bono service has been a constant throughout my career, having been instilled in me as a professional obligation by leadership of my first firm in 1977.  As we know from our oath upon being sworn in, the practice of law is a privilege which...Read More

Do you have a Pro Bono Story to share? Send it to Kayla Heckman In one of its recent pro bono matters, the Agentis Firm successfully preserved its client’s homestead against multiple defendants who attempted to cheat the client out of her constitutionally protected homestead. The client, who we will call X, came to the...Read More

“I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed. . .”  When we took the Florida Bar Oath, we each pledged to do pro bono work. But that isn’t why I always did pro bono cases, and that isn’t why I encourage others to take pro bono...Read More

We love our sponsors! Meet RealAdvice, a new Diamond Sponsor. We spoke with Todd Jones, Principal and CEO. What services does your firm provide? We work with buyers and sellers of institutional grade commercial real estate to minimize state and local tax liabilities at the closing table. What is your name? Todd D. Jones What...Read More

Dear BLS Members: During the Executive Council meeting at the Labor Day Retreat, I asked everyone that was a Fellow of the Florida Bar Foundation to tell me, so that the BLS has an accurate list. Since several members of the BLS has asked me how to become a Fellow of the Foundation, here is what...Read More