Archive of Previous Meeting Agendas/Minutes Winter Meeting 2024 Business Litigation Meeting Agenda – Winter (January 2024) 9-2 minutes litigation committee AT&T Mobility v. Rigney — Opinion — Third District Court of Appeal Money Talks Financial Seminar Calendar Listing Atty Flyer – Military Financial Wellness Summit Military Financial Wellness Summit Brochure Retreat 2023 Business Litigation Meeting...Read More

Who We Are The Business Litigation Committee consists of attorneys whose practices focus on the litigation of disputes arising from commercial and business relationships. The membership of the committee engages in diverse areas of practice within business litigation law and includes attorneys from large and small firms as well as solo practitioners. The committee has...Read More

By: Deedee Bitran, Esq. Shutts and Bowen LLP Last month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) sued a Florida-based McDonald’s franchisee (Houcorp, Inc.) for allegedly failing to accommodate a deaf job applicant under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). The Complaint alleges that a job applicant who is hard of hearing requested and was denied...Read More

By Avery S. Chapman, Chair of the Electronic Discovery & Digital Evidence Committee This program will be available soon on demand. Check back for the link.  We now have held our annual 4-hour CLE on June 23, 2023 (CLE Course # 5859), with CLE credits of: 4.0 General, 4.0 Tech, 2.0 Ethics.  We had over...Read More

By:      The Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Group at Trenam Law Nicole Carnero, Summer Associate at Trenam Law When the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (“SBRA”) was signed into law on February 19, 2020, it represented a significant milestone for small businesses in desperate need of bankruptcy relief. Through the SBRA, Congress created Subchapter V,...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

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Member benefits include notification of and attendance at numerous year-round CLEs, including lunchtime CLE presentations (which can be attended in person or by telephone), participation at committee meetings (including participation in legislative initiatives), networking events, a copy of the Section’s Annual Journal (updating Florida case law relevant to business law); and participation in special committee...Read More

Archive of Past Meeting Agendas/Minutes Retreat 2023 IP Committee Agenda 9-2-23 (Labor Day Retreat) IP Committee 6-20-23 Meeting Minutes Winter Meeting 2023 IP Committee Agenda 1-26-23 IP Committee Minutes 9-3-22 Retreat 2022 Meeting agenda June meeting minutes Annual Meeting 2022 Meeting agenda January meeting minutes Winter Meeting 2022 Meeting agenda Emergency meeting IP Committee 12-14-21 Minutes Final Retreat meeting...Read More