Emerging technologies are creating massive changes in the way organizations function and people work. Technology, and most recently Artificial Intelligence, have revolutionized many work environments. With no signs of technological innovations slowing down, there is a need for the private and public sectors to examine more carefully the legal ramifications they may face as they implement these technologies. 

Our firm provides strategic legal counsel to help clients adapt to these innovations while ensuring compliance with state, federal, and international laws. We advise on data privacy and security, intellectual property protection, AI compliance, technology transactions, litigation, and government affairs. Whether assisting with regulatory compliance, protecting proprietary technology, drafting technology contracts, or resolving disputes, our team helps businesses and government entities mitigate risks and maximize opportunities in the digital age.

Our firm’s experience and relationships in tech, business transactions and local government uniquely position us to provide legal services across a range of emerging fields, including:

• AI in Education – Advising on personalized learning tools and school district resource allocation optimization.
• Complex AI/Technology Contract Negotiations – Assisting clients with negotiating and drafting technology-related contracts, including software licensing agreements, in compliance with developing regulations.
• Smart Cities & IoT – Advising on data security, privacy concerns, and regulatory frameworks for interconnected technologies.
• Government Contracts & New Technology Procurement – Providing government clients with the keys to successful deployment of new technology, from decision-maker buy-in to winning, implementing and upgrading over the course of the contract.
• AI & Smart Technology – Ensuring responsible AI development, including engagement with ethical considerations and compliance with evolving regulations.
• AI & Emerging Technology Compliance – Assisting clients with implementation and training on AI laws and ensuring clients understand how these regulations affect their work, services, and products implemented for daily use and operations.
• Cybersecurity & Data Protection – Helping clients implement robust security measures and comply with data protection laws.
• Land Use & Development for Technology Infrastructure Projects – Assisting with zoning, permitting, and regulatory approvals for technology infrastructure projects, including data centers.
• Energy Solutions for AI/Cryptocurrency – Leveraging our experience with public/private partnership transactions to develop energy solutions for the AI and cryptocurrency industries.
• Cryptocurrency & Digital Assets – Navigating regulatory compliance, financial transactions, and risk management in blockchain and digital finance.
• Advanced Air Mobility – Providing legal guidance on licensing, operational compliance, and liability in the growing field of urban air mobility.
• Litigation and Dispute Resolution – Representing clients in litigation related to AI and technology, including patent disputes and data breach cases.

As innovation accelerates, organizations must be prepared to address legal risks while leveraging new technologies for growth. Our team is committed to helping clients navigate this dynamic landscape with confidence and foresight.

We represent and advise talent, organizations, and facilities in professional and collegiate sports, entertainment, and the fine arts. We have been involved in some of the most significant projects and events in Florida since their inception, and we have the legal, business, and government affairs experience to produce the win for our clients.

Talent

Many of our lawyers are athletes and artists themselves, and they understand that individuals with rare talents and abilities need expert help to monetize and maximize their abilities and protect their interests. Whether we’re representing you in an endorsement contract or defending you from allegations that might impact your career, we represent you with passion, enthusiasm, and relentless zeal. We counsel athletes, artists, musicians, designers, writers, entertainers, chefs, and agents. Most recently, we negotiated multi-year endorsement contracts with Speedo, TYR, Omega, Coca-Cola, Comcast, NOBULL, Hershey’s, and Toyota, as well as sponsorship agreements with Beats and GrubHub, for our athlete clients, including Caeleb Dressel and Bobby Finke. We also work with student-athletes early in their careers to navigate them through changing name, image, and likeness laws that vary from state to state. We have also consulted with eight first-round draft picks for the NFL and are featured on the NFL League Security Video, which is shown to every player to advise them on potential pitfalls for celebrity professional athletes.

Our lawyers negotiate, litigate for, and advise clients with respect to a range of legal issues concerning artists’ rights, works of art, and the art market. Our clients include internationally recognized individual artists, museums, and other nationally recognized institutions. Most recently, we successfully represented a celebrated artist in recovering fees and protecting his intellectual rights and assisted a world-renowned fashion designer with lease negotiations in connection with an opening in South Florida.

Lawyers across a broad spectrum of specializations lend whatever support is needed to provide the most comprehensive representation possible for our sports, arts, and entertainment clients.

Organizations

We represent some of the most significant sports, entertainment and arts organizations in the country. The group’s extensive knowledge of the ownership structures used by professional sports franchises, combined with our experience in establishing public/private coalitions to support sports-related projects, enables our attorneys to represent owners and investors in the purchase and sale of sports teams and ownership interests in such teams. We also represent major arts, exposition and entertainment presenters whose events draw worldwide audiences. For example, we assisted Art Basel Miami Beach in organizing and establishing its first event outside of Switzerland in Miami Beach in 2002. Since its first show, ABMB has become the international standard in worldwide exhibitions. We also represent Informa, the world’s largest trade show producer, and owner of the Miami International Yacht Show and Art Miami. The public-private relationship is an essential element in the success of any major sports, arts or entertainment exhibition. Whether we are representing a governmental, not-for-profit, or for-profit entity, our knowledge of law, business, government, arts and sports provides our clients with the right ingredients for success.

Organizations/Presenters

We represent some of the most significant sports, entertainment, and arts organizations and presenters in the country including Live Nation, The MoCA board, and FIU Athletics. We have played key roles in various stages of event planning, promotion, and final production of Super Bowls, NBA championships, Miss Universe, Formula 1 races, Art Basel Miami Beach, NASCAR, Miami Caribbean Carnival, international tennis tournaments, and the Miami International Boat Show, to name a few. 

As an example of our work in this area, we assisted Art Basel Miami Beach in organizing and establishing its first event outside of Switzerland in Miami Beach in 2002. Since its first show, ABMB has become the international standard in worldwide exhibitions. We also represent Informa, the world’s largest trade show producer, and owner of the Miami International Yacht Show and Art Miami. The public-private relationship is an essential element in the success of any major sports, arts, or entertainment exhibition. Whether we are representing a governmental, not-for-profit, or for-profit entity, our knowledge of law, business, government, arts, and sports provides our clients with the right ingredients for success.

Additionally, the group’s extensive knowledge of the ownership structures used by professional sports franchises, combined with our experience in establishing public/private coalitions to support sports-related projects, enables our attorneys to represent owners and investors in the purchase and sale of sports teams and ownership interests in such teams.

Facilities

We were integrally involved with the financing and creation of the Homestead Motorsports Complex, the Homestead Baseball Stadium, the improvement of the Hard Rock Stadium, the improvements to the Miami Basketball Arena, the Perez Art Museum Miami, the Institute for Contemporary Art, the Florida Memorial University Lou Rawls Performing Arts Center, major renovations at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens.  We continue to represent most of these venues, as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Pinecrest Gardens Performing Arts and art exhibition space. We have been involved in all aspects of finance and development of arts facilities, including zoning and permitting, design and construction contracting, intellectual property, government relations, and labor and employment issues.

Community and Professional Engagement

We provide comprehensive business and legal solutions that are rooted in our lawyers’ own involvement in leading nonprofits and our strong ties to our communities. Our clients include notable nonprofit organizations such as the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Miami Children’s Museum, Temple Beth El of Boca Raton, the Children’s Services Council of Broward County, Perez Art Museum, youngARTS Foundation, Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, Armour Dance Theater, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA North Miami), among others. 

Our lawyers have served or currently serve on the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau, Greater Miami Sports Tourism Advisory Committee, Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council, Perez Art Museum Board, Miami Dade Art in Public Places Trust, the Arts and Business Council, and the Coral Gables History Preservations Society, among others. They have also held leadership positions in Florida Bar committees focused on these fields. These relationships allow our lawyers to keep a sensitive finger on the pulse of what’s happening and what’s about to happen.

Public/private partnerships (P3s) have become increasingly popular as an effective way to build major infrastructure projects, expand public services and generate revenue, but there is a complex relationship behind these deals. We have a long history of representing government and corporate clients, gaining trust from elected officials and business executives alike. This puts our lawyers in a better position than any other group in the state to provide counsel on both sides.

Our attorneys have been instrumental in arranging some of Florida’s most high-profile and complex P3 transactions, including representing a major international airline in connection with the construction of a $1.5 billion airport expansion in partnership with Miami-Dade County and representing an international surface transportation vendor in connection with its contract to design and oversee the overhaul of Miami-Dade County’s Metro-rail and Metro-mover system. We also represented Informa Markets, the organization that produces the Miami International Yacht Show, during their move from Miami Beach to downtown Miami. We successfully obtained all required permits and agreements from city, county, state, and federal government agencies, as well as from three private property owners, all within eight months of the event date.

Some of our most successful projects were born out of brainstorming sessions with our clients that were later presented to the public sector as unsolicited offers. The success of P3 transactions relies heavily on a delicate balance of mutually-rewarding results for private and public sector parties. Our local government track record gives us a high level of credibility with government officials and stakeholders who can often be essential in moving a new proposal forward and gaining the approvals required at each level of government. Our real estate, land use, environmental, construction and business lawyers can handle from there each step of the process from planning to completion and operation, and we can help keep the relationship with government strong throughout the life of the project.

We are one of the few firms in the state that have a practice group exclusively dedicated to eminent domain, along with a full team of attorneys that are skilled in closely related practice areas including real estate, land use, property rights litigation, inverse condemnation, and claims under the Bert J. Harris Private Property Rights Act. We represent parties from pre-acquisition strategy through litigation in both the public and private sector and in regulated industries.  Our diverse and expansive experience gives us a perspective to provide clients with a unique advantage that other firms in Florida cannot provide.

Our expertise also gives us the ability to mitigate costs, which is especially important as the process of acquiring property for major transportation and capital improvement projects continues to get more complex and more expensive. As thought leaders in this industry, our eminent domain lawyers also know that it is necessary to monitor the many evolving non-legal disciplines that affect eminent domain, such as engineering, property valuation, finance, accounting, land planning, and architecture.

Our background ranges from managing large multi-parcel acquisition projects, from inception through entry of final judgment, to acquiring a single parcel through negotiated conveyance. We assist governments and regulated industries in every aspect of the process, including project design and environmental diligence, value engineering, pre-acquisition consultation and strategy, and creation of incentive programs that promote early acquisition of property through negotiated conveyance. For those parcels that cannot be acquired through negotiation, our attorneys have a strong record of successfully litigating eminent domain lawsuits through jury verdict and appeal. In particular, we represent dozens of state, regional and local government entities including transportation authorities, school boards and cities on a broad range of projects:

• roadway and transportation facility construction
• right of way expansion
• creation of utility transmission corridors
• acquisition and assemblage of land for public-private partnership (P3) projects, schools, libraries, civic centers, jails, affordable housing, parks, infrastructure, and public works facilities
• community redevelopment
• environmental protection
• drainage and watershed
• recreation

We also regularly consult with elected and appointed officials, along with their staff and consultants, to counsel them about the scope and extent of their eminent domain authority, and to help avoid or limit inverse condemnation, Bert J. Harris, and other property rights claims against them.  We draft resolutions of condemnation, relocation policies, and acquisition manuals.