Practice Divisions

New rules for mediation take effect on January 1, 2012 that impact the way insurance companies participate in mediation. These rules, implemented by the Supreme Court of Florida, make two [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

For the first time since the enactment of the Harris Act in 1995, the Act can apply to temporary impacts to the development of property. See Section 70.001, Florida Statutes, known as the Bert J. [...]

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 [...]