News & Updates

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Edward G. Guedes, Susan L. Trevarthen and Jamie A. Cole teamed together to prepare and file an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the Florida League of Cities at the Florida Supreme Court. The [...]

Last week, the Third District Court of Appeal held that a contractor may not be entitled to summary judgment in an amount equal to the claimed contract balance less the owner’s claimed [...]

The most recent issue of Florida Trend Magazine presents a favorable portrait of Coral Gables with an emphasis on why businesses enjoy basing their operation there. Michael S. Popok, the Partner [...]

We are thrilled to report that several WSHPC&B attorneys were selected as Best Lawyers in America for 2012 in their area of practice. Mitchell A. Bierman – Government Relations.  [...]

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 [...]