Please welcome Carly Hopkins, our new Section administrator.Read More

Applications are being accepted for the Second Annual BLS Pro Bono Award. Learn more and nominate your hero hereRead More

The Business Law Section Diversity Fellowship Program is designed to assist a diverse and inclusive group of lawyers in becoming better leaders within our profession and the Business Law Section, while enhancing their leadership skills, as an encouragement and commitment to attract young and diverse lawyers to join, participate and ultimately serve in leadership positions...Read More

We love our sponsors! Meet Berkowitz Pollack Brant, a Sapphire Sponsor. 1) What services does your firm provide? We are a full-service accounting and advisory services firm with a seasoned team of forensic accountants, certified fraud examiners, certified valuation specialists and other professionals who work with clients and legal counsel on a broad range of...Read More

The Winter Meetings will be held in Orlando on January 17-18, 2024.  Get all the details, including hotel block, the full schedule and registration for the luncheon and Judicial Liaison Dinner here.Read More

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

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