WSH Website Is An “Outstanding Achievement”
The Interactive Media Association (“IMA”) has awarded Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole & Boniske, P.L.’s website with an Outstanding Achievement Award, acknowledging its design as one of [...]
Snapshots From The Community Planning Act, Part 4: Permit Extensions Redux
As in the film “Groundhog Day,” local governments woke up at the end of the 2011 Legislative Session to find that yet another set of permit extensions were provided directly by the state, [...]
Timothy M. Ravich Selected As One Of 40 Under 40 Outstanding Lawyers In Miami-Dade
Timothy M. Ravich will be honored this November as one of the 40 Under 40 Outstanding Lawyers of Miami-Dade County at an awards gala hosted by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The selection [...]
Pop-Up Stores Provide Relief to Commercial Real Estate Owners
The recent economic doldrums have fueled at least one cultural and business phenomena: the pop-up store. With retail occupancy rates lagging, pop-ups (or temporary-store space), is a win-win for [...]
Snapshots From The Community Planning Act, Part 3: Adversely Impact Important State Resources and Facilities?
The Act limits the scope of the state land planning agency’s (now the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) but, as of October, to become the Department of Economic Opportunity) ability to object [...]
WSH Litigation Team Wins Big For Aventura: Third DCA Holds Red-Light Camera Program Not Preempted By State Law
Today, in a much anticipated decision for local governments, the Third District Court of Appeal ruled that the City of Aventura’s red light camera program, operated pursuant to its police and [...]
Snapshots From The Community Planning Act, Part 7: Discouraging Urban Sprawl
The Act continues to require local governments to discourage the proliferation of urban sprawl. For the first time, urban sprawl has been defined in the Community Planning Act, as: “a development [...]
Timothy M. Ravich to Speak at ABA’s Aviation and Space Law Litigation National Conference in Washington, DC
WSHPC&B attorney Timothy M. Ravich has been invited to join the faculty of the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section’s Aviation and Space Law [...]
Fifth District Holds Corporate Registered Agent Is Not Conduit for Witness Subpoenas
On September 16, 2011, Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal handed down a decision with substantial significance for out-of-state corporations doing business or looking to do [...]
Snapshots From The Community Planning Act, Part 1: When Do Local Governments Have To Comply?
This is the first in a series of blog entries focusing on particular aspects of the 2011 Community Planning Act. (See House Bill 7207, enacted by the 2011 Florida Legislature to reform the 1985 [...]
