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Founding Member Richard Jay Weiss has been named the 2012 Miami Government Relations Practice Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers, the leading survey of lawyers worldwide. Each year, the honor is [...]

On June 17, 2011, Governor Scott signed Senate Bill 88 (the “Bill”) into law, which amends Section 215.425, Florida Statutes, in two material ways. As summarized below, the Bill contains [...]

The Florida League of Cities has established Florida City Government Week as part of an effort to increase civic participation in Florida through education about municipal government and [...]

The Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenaed Miami-Dade County and the City of Miami seeking information on any investigation and analysis they did prior to issuing millions of dollars in [...]

On Wednesday, WSH litigators achieved a big win for the Village of Indian Creek in an emergency injunction trial before the Miami-Dade County Circuit Court. The owner of an unoccupied [...]

This week, Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole & Boniske, P.L. announced the addition of attorney Robert Meyers to our Municipal Government, Governmental Litigation and Special Counsel to [...]

On September 7, the First District Court of Appeal heard arguments in an appeal challenging slot machines at Hialeah Park. In 2010, the Florida Legislature passed a law permitting slot machines [...]

On November 1, Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole & Boniske, P.L. will host a breakfast briefing open to all elected and appointed officials in Broward County to discuss the County’s newly [...]

My personal “top ten” list of things that have NOT changed in local government comprehensive planning with the enactment of the 2011 Community Planning Act: 1)  Local governments still must [...]

As we discussed in our prior blog post, various local governments in South Florida are embracing Property Assessment Clean Energy (“PACE”) programs to make green-friendly improvements to [...]