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  Environmental law and growth management are hot topics.  Builders who are looking to develop must keep these issues in mind.  In Broward County, the Environmental Protection and [...]

  PAR .  Not just a goal for professional golfers but for governments looking to protect the land from the encroachment of a rising water level.  PAR stands for Protect, [...]

Member Susan Trevarthen, FAICP, and Kathy Mehaffey represented the City of Coral Gables as Special Land Use Counsel in its review and approval of one of the largest projects ever approved in the [...]

Nine lawyers from Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole & Boniske have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2015® (Copyright 2014 by Woodward/White, Inc., [...]

The State of Florida has a uniform building code entitled the “Florida Building Code” that governs construction of buildings across the State.  Local governments are preempted from adopting their [...]

On July 8th, Member Susan Trevarthen spoke at the Florida Educational Facilities Planners’ Association Summer 2015 Conference at the Naples Grande Beach Resort in Naples, Florida.  [...]

  In an effort to begin breaking ground on Miami World Center, MDM Development Group has submitted the plans for the first phase of development and is awaiting approval. The plan maps [...]

On December 2, the Town of Medley appointed WSH as its Town Attorney. For the past four months, WSH has served as the Interim Town Attorney due to an unexpected vacancy. Founding Member Stephen [...]

Susan Trevarthen,Esq, FAICP has been tapped to provide insight on “Ethics Scenarios in Florida” at the Leaders of Excellence program for the Good Government Initiative, 2014 Class. The Good [...]

Section 50.061, Florida Statutes regulates the amount a publisher of a newspaper can charge local governments for the publishing of any and all official public notices or legal advertisements. [...]