November 2023
THIRD DCA REVERSES 2 JUDGES FOR RULINGS WITH AN ABSURD RESULT
Read the article on: Daily Business Review Summary: In a case related to the development of property near the Miami Heat arena, the Third District Court of Appeal in Florida reversed two judges' rulings, deeming them to lead to an "absurd result." The dispute involved fees awarded in two [...]
August 2023
COULD FLORIDA CLOSE 14 COURT CIRCUITS? AND WHAT MIGHT THIS MEAN TO LAWYERS?
Read the full article on: Daily Business Review Summary: The Florida Supreme Court has appointed a 14-member Judicial Circuit Assessment Committee to consider whether consolidation of the state's 20 circuits is necessary. The committee will announce its decision in December, and there are speculations that up to 14 circuits [...]
July 2023
SMALL FIRM’S PERSISTENCE PAYS OFF: 17-YEAR LEGAL BATTLE ENDS IN TRIUMPH
Read the full article on: Daily Business Review Summary: The boutique Miami law firm, Mark Migdal & Hayden, secured victory in a protracted 17-year legal dispute against the larger Cole, Scott, and Kissane law firm. The case involved Blue Grouper Ventures LLC, a condo owner, suing the Blue Condominium [...]
FROM DELAYS TO LIENS: LEGAL Q&A FOR SUCCESSFUL FLORIDA CONDO PROJECTS
Read the original article on: The Construction Broadsheet Jordan Nadel is a commercial litigator who focuses his practice on the area of construction law. A partner and Board-Certified Construction attorney with Florida boutique litigation firm Mark Migdal & Hayden, Jordan represents clients in all aspects of the construction industry, [...]
June 2023
DON HAYDEN DISCUSSES CHALLENGING CASE – BLOOMBERG LAW
Read the full article on: BloombergLaw Excerpt from the article: Advocates Confident The ACLU’s Nowlin-Sohl is confident the early victories will stand, but she and others representing the families and doctors recognize that the cases are in their early stages and still have a long way to go. The Florida [...]
TRES DE CADA DIEZ COLOMBIANOS QUE INVIERTEN EN ESTADOS UNIDOS SON ESTAFADOS
TRES DE CADA DIEZ COLOMBIANOS QUE INVIERTEN EN ESTADOS UNIDOS SON ESTAFADOS Featuring José Ferrer and Maia Aron. MAY 2023 | Published in: Noticias y Respuestas Radio Santa Fe Red De Expertos El País [...]
April 2023
BOLSTERED REGULATION EXPECTED AFTER BANK COLLAPSE
Lawyer compares sheer size of the implosion to the Enron scandal By Tony Cantu - MPA Magazine | 30 Mar 2023 Bank failure fallout continued with the recent filings of a class action lawsuit alleging securities violations by Signature Bank – among the initial steps one seasoned attorney predicts will [...]
March 2023
11TH CIRCUIT WON’T REVIVE VENEZUELA OIL COMPANY’S BRIBERY SUIT
By Gina Kim · Listen to article Law360 (March 13, 2023, 7:44 PM EDT) -- The Eleventh Circuit declined Monday to revive a Venezuelan state-owned oil company's bribery suit against an energy trading firm and remand it to see if the U.S. would recognize the legitimacy of its board of directors, appointed [...]
February 2023
NO LONGER YOUR PARENT’S FLORIDA SUPREME COURT: FLORIDA SUPREME COURT NOW ONE OF THE MOST CONSERVATIVE IN COUNTRY
Photo credit: Florida Supreme Court Justice Jorge Labarga by J. Albert Diaz BY DON HAYDEN | Feb 25, 2023 For some of us, that can remember the days of Gore v. Harris, 772 So. 2d 1243 (Fla. 2000), the Florida Supreme Court was seen as an evenly divided court [...]
FTX CUSTOMERS WANT FRAUD SUITS GROUPED IN FLORIDA
https://vimeo.com/801047436 FTX Customers Want Fraud Suits Grouped In Florida By Lauren Berg · Listen to / read original article Law360 (February 13, 2023, 11:51 PM EST) A group of plaintiffs who claim they were defrauded by the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency platform FTX urged the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict [...]
January 2023
SETTLING GLOBAL DISPUTES
WHY MIAMI IS NOW A TOP HUB FOR ARBITRATION IN THE AMERICAS BY DOREEN HEMLOCK | GLOBAL MIAMI MAGAZINE It was a glorious autumn Sunday in Miami – sunny and breezy, a perfect day to be outdoors – when nearly 200 people gathered indoors for a conference on international arbitration. [...]
FLORIDA EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION: CARRIED INTEREST AND TERMINATED EMPLOYEES
Florida Executive Compensation: Carried Interest and Terminated Employees Those who have been—or will be—denied their due have strong claims to recover what they have been promised and what they earned. Employees can now breathe that sigh of relief. December 21, 2022 | Commentary by Josh Migdal and Michelle Genet Bernstein, [...]
December 2022
AFTER IAN: SOUTH FLORIDA’S CONSTRUCTION COSTS, INSURANCE TO RISE
After Ian: South Florida’s construction costs, insurance to rise Costs could rise again just as developers got a slight reprieve on supply-chain and labor bottlenecks October 19, 2022 | By Lidia Dinkova and Katherine Kallergis Amid South Florida’s development boom, shell construction contractor L & R Structural has had plenty [...]
HINDSIGHT IN 2022
Hindsight in 2022 Commercial Construction & Renovation | Jordan Nadel October 27, 2022 Since the pandemic, supply chain issues and material price increases have been constant topics of discussion in the construction industry. On the one hand, the stakeholders on projects that commenced pre-pandemic find themselves contending with these [...]
MIAMI ATTORNEYS SCORE NEARLY $9M IN ATTORNEY FEES ADVANCE NOVEL LEGAL THEORY
Miami Attorneys Score Nearly $9M in Attorney Fees, Advance 'Novel Legal Theory' DAILY BUSINESS REVIEW October 31, 2022 at 03:48 PM Yaniv Adar, attorney at Mark Migdal & Hayden Miami Attorneys Score Nearly $9M in Attorney Fees, Advance 'Novel Legal Theory' “The settlement that was made here was [...]
October 2022
THE ONION AMICUS BRIEF
ANTHONY NOVAK, petitioner (Excerpt from the Brief) ARGUMENT I. Parody Functions By Tricking People Into Thinking That It Is Real II. Because Parody Mimics “The Real Thing,” It Has The Unique Capacity To Critique The Real Thing III. A Reasonable Reader Does Not Need A Disclaimer To Know That Parody [...]