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Neutral-Driven Dispute Resolution — The Missing Piece of ADR

Alternative Dispute Resolution Section
The face of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) has been changing over the last few years with the addition of online...

Pay Transparency: A Remedy for the Gender Pay Gap?

Featured Article
My grandmother emphasized the importance of going to college and pursuing a profession in the law to achieve independence —...

Aligning Appellate Standards of Review To Match the Constitutional Liberty Interests Implicated in a Termination of Parental Rights Proceeding

Appellate Practice
There are cases that haunt us, and sometimes, like our clients, attorneys also do not get closure. In 2019, I...

Committing to Foundational Principles: An Update on Our Progress

President's Page
As I write this column, I am just past the midpoint of my term and want to provide an update...

What Every Business Lawyer Needs To Know About Captive Insurance and Why It Matters in Today’s Hardening Insurance Market

Business Law
Not entirely distinct from the well-publicized homeowners insurance crisis that Florida is currently experiencing, Florida businesses are experiencing their own...

Florida Irrevocable Grantor Homestead Trust: Having Your Cake and Eating It Too — First Course

Real Property, Probate and Trust Law
The popular idiom, “you can’t have your cake and eat it too,” is used to convey the concept that in...

Pre-Immigration Planning with the Foreign Trust: The Intersection of Income and Estate Tax

Tax
A foreign trust is generally treated as a non-resident/non-citizen (NRNC) for U.S. tax purposes. Foreign trusts are therefore subject to...

Time Law: A New Paradigm for Small Law Firm Efficiency and Growth

Solo and Small Firm
Now more than ever, dynamic changes and escalating competition within the legal sector demand that small law firms adapt and...

Qualifying Hunting and Fishing as the Preferred Means of Managing Wildlife: A Potentially Dangerous Ballot Initiative that Provides Little Protection to Hunters and Fishermen

Animal Law
This November, Florida voters will have the opportunity to enshrine hunting and fishing as a constitutional right in the state....