By Ali S.Iftikhar, Barakat + Bossa, PLLC In December 2024, the Florida Supreme Court adopted Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.202 (“Rule 1.202”), which requires parties to confer in good faith before filing non-dispositive motions.[1] The rule’s stated purpose is to improve case management, promote judicial efficiency, reduce unnecessary litigation costs, and ease the burden...Read More

By William Slicker In 1995, Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat began archiving web pages and named their site the Internet Archive. In 2001, they rebranded as the Wayback Machine. The name Wayback Machine is a take off from the Wayback Machine used by Mister Peabody and Sherman to travel back in time in The Adventures...Read More

By Deedee Bitran Think Small Businesses Are Immune from Discrimination Laws? Think Again. A recent case involving Jewish therapists facing workplace discrimination has sent a clear message to small employers: being under the 15-employee threshold of Title VII does not give employers a free pass to discriminate. The therapists, who were employed at a practice...Read More

By Jocelyne A. Macelloni On April 29, 2021, the Florida Supreme Court adopted a revised summary judgment standard, aligning it closely with the federal standard. On May 23, 2024, further amendments to Rule 1.510 were announced, followed by additional updates on December 5, 2024. This overview highlights 10 key points that every practitioner and judge...Read More

By Deedee Bitran Religious accommodation in the workplace isn’t just a legal requirement—it’s a growing area of litigation risk. A recent Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit against Marriott underscores the stakes for employers nationwide.[1] Last month, the EEOC sued Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation and Marriott Ownership Resorts, Inc. in the Middle District of Florida...Read More

From the Florida Bar Journal A Legal Roller Coaster: The Corporate Transparency Act By Peter J. Guala and Morrie I. Levine When originally enacted, millions of U.S. businesses and foreign entities registered to do business within the U.S. were impacted by the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), which resulted in multiple federal lawsuits. Injunctions were issued...Read More

By Jennifer D. Newton In the traditional legal services model, value is calculated by the hour. The assumption is that legal insight is tied directly to the time spent on research, drafting, or advising. While this approach may have worked well for industries grounded in relatively static regulatory frameworks, it begins to fall apart in...Read More

Let the Good Times Roll: How the New 2025 “Glitch Bill” Refines and Improves the Prior Comprehensive Service of Process Legislation Sponsored by the Business Law Section By: Zane W. Katz and James B. Murphy, Jr. 1 During the 2022 session, stemming from an initiative of a task force of the Business Law Section of...Read More

By Itai Fiegenbaum, St. Thomas University, Benjamin L. Crump College of Law Can members of an ice cream manufacturer’s board of directors be personally liable for damage attributable to a listeria outbreak at the company’s production facility? What about for failing to ensure corporate compliance with such far-ranging issues as environmental laws, fair election reporting,...Read More

By Michael Kolcun Resolving a conflict among the DCAs, Florida’s Supreme Court broadens the protections of Florida’s anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) statute by allowing interlocutory review of nonfinal orders that deny motions brought under the anti-SLAPP statute. The path to Florida’s Supreme Court for Vericker v. Powell, — So.3d —, 2025 WL 922413...Read More