Public Policy & Regulation

WSH Member Susan L. Trevarthen will be speaking at the American Planning Association’s 2012 National Planning Conference.  In “Bridging the Attorney-Planner Gap,” Susan [...]

On March 22, Founding Member Richard Jay Weiss will be speaking at the Good Government Initiative as part of a four member panel discussing “The Tension over Pensions: Good Public Policy or [...]

In 2011, the city of Baltimore and the New Britain Firefighters’ Benefit Fund sued more than a dozen major U.S. banks, alleging that the banks engaged in antitrust violations that [...]

WSH Litigator Timothy M. Ravich has been appointed to the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates as the representative for the Dade County Bar Association.  The appointment is [...]

Each year, the South Florida Business Journal lists the area’s most reputable firms and noteworthy attorneys in its Book of Law. We are thrilled to announce that the South Florida Business [...]

Today U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro ruled that Governor Rick Scott’s Executive Order 11-58 providing for pre-employment drug testing and random drug testing of state employees violates the [...]

The recent spate of ruptured water lines and sewer breaks in Broward County underscores the challenge of replacing, upgrading and ultimately financing our aging sewer infrastructure in the midst [...]

Associate Estrellita S. Sibila will be speaking at the Smart Planning for a Green Future 2012 Virtual Conference & Expo taking place on April 4 – 6, 2012. On April 5, 2012, Estrellita will [...]

As sign technology evolves, so do the challenges faced by local governments in creating regulations that preserve the health, safety and welfare of their communities. Local regulation of [...]

On the third and final day of oral arguments before the Supreme Court, the central issue was whether the individual mandate portion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the “Act”) [...]