By Shirley Palumbo, Greenspoon Marder, LLP Recently, we conducted a virtual interview of the Honorable Lori V. Vaughan. She was dressed casually, without the usual robe of justice, and sat in chambers at the George C. Young United States Federal Building and Courthouse. As a newly appointed bankruptcy judge, she has already captured the attention...Read More

By Christopher R. Thompson, Burr & Furman On January 26, 2021, Judge Stephan P. Mickle, Sr. died at the age of 76, having lived an extraordinary and historically significant life, by any definition. I did not have the honor of meeting Judge Mickle, but Judge Karen Specie (Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Florida)...Read More

By Michele G. Moss, Johnson Moss Law Introduction This article discusses just a few of the many skilled African American scientists, mathematicians, inventors and engineers whose inventions and achievements still touch our everyday lives. Despite their prodigious achievements, their names remain hidden and largely unknown by most Americans. These African Americans, and countless more, should...Read More

By Chief Judge Laurel M. Isicoff, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida We have long recognized that people who appear in court feel more comfortable if the person sitting on the bench is someone who looks like them. While in recent years more awareness has developed about diversifying the bench, that process...Read More

A profile on the Honorable Mary S. Scriven, U.S. District Court Judge for the Middle District of Florida Author: Utibe Ikpe, Meland Budwick Judge Mary S. Scriven’s mother forecasted her success. On the weekend Judge Scriven graduated from law school in 1987, her mother wrote her a letter, which expressed pride in her daughter’s accomplishments...Read More

Ask first: Reshaping 362(a)(3) under Fulton By: Shirley Palumbo, Greenspoon Marder I still recall many years ago, pre- In re Kalter [i] , when I went to the bankruptcy court in Miami for the first time. It was a rainy day; thunderstorms all over the place. I had a small umbrella that served no purpose...Read More

By Zach Hyman, Millennial Law In January 2021, users of the popular internet forum, Reddit, banded together to purchase stock in GameStop, with the intent to deprive private equity funds of their investments in shorts with respect to the company, by inflating the value of its stock. These users could have purchased products from GameStop...Read More

By Garry Louima In a year of political upheaval, job loss, and infectious disease, the looming fear of mass evictions still remains. The monthly renewals of the state’s stay-on-evictions order by Governor DeSantis had been staving off the thousands of impeding evictions and foreclosure actions in Florida. However, Governor DeSantis allowed the state’s eviction and...Read More

By Chris Broussard It is said necessity is the mother of invention. In a time of pandemic, we have seen new technology rapidly change long-standing practices, meeting new and pressing needs for social distancing and remote operations.[1] In this time of rapid change, we find central bank consideration of digital currencies.[2] Could central bank digital currencies (“CBDC”) along...Read More

by Chioma Deere, Esq., CEDS, Williams, Leininger & Cosby, P.A. Attorneys may represent their clients in the limited circumstances of responding to a served subpoena.  In those cases, preservation subpoenas should be treated as though it is a standard discovery request, with an explanation to the client about the scope and parameters of their obligations...Read More