Michael A. Mora

January 12, 2024 | Daily Business Review

"If it's not in the license agreement, you do not have rights of exhaustion after the license agreement is terminated," said Kirk Villalon, a partner at Quintana Portal Villalon.

By Michael A. Mora

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January 11, 2024 | Daily Business Review

"All these improper appeals to emotion and inflamed passions are a bad faith trial tactic, designed to prejudice the trier of fact in the case in the act of despicable gamesmanship," Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Betsy Alvarez-Zane wrote in a 75-page referee report.

By Michael A. Mora

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January 05, 2024 | Daily Business Review

"Lawyers should care about whether the government is allowed to change their own contract to their own benefit," said Edward Zebersky, a partner at Zebersky Payne.

By Michael A. Mora

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January 04, 2024 | Daily Business Review

Ahead of her departure Monday, the judge shared a trend her colleagues on the state court bench "have conversations about all of the time."

By Michael A. Mora

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January 03, 2024 | Daily Business Review

"Every bit of the 19 pages was supporting an insurance company's ability to rely upon the presumption of prejudice that has historically existed," said Kimberly Fernandes, a partner at Kelley Kronenberg.

By Michael A. Mora

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January 02, 2024 | Daily Business Review

"Attorneys must comply with the disclosure rule advising a prospective client that an arbitration provision in a lawyer-client engagement contract is an important consideration," said John "Sean" Johnson, a partner at Johnson Newlon & Decort.

By Michael A. Mora

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December 29, 2023 | Daily Business Review

"When you have complex cases like this, you should try to identify dispositive issues early and try to be concise and make them as understandable as possible," said Michael Hanzman, senior counsel at Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod.

By Michael A. Mora

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December 28, 2023 | Daily Business Review

"You've created a conundrum that the Florida Bar will have to figure out how to solve," said the outgoing Miami-Dade administrative and complex litigation circuit judge.

By Michael A. Mora

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December 27, 2023 | Daily Business Review

Two trends were on display in judicial disciplinary misconduct in 2023.

By Michael A. Mora

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December 26, 2023 | Daily Business Review

"If anything, the judicial circuits need to be expanded and not contracted, as we did with the district courts of appeal," said Craig J. Trocino, the director of the University of Miami School of Law Innocence Clinic.

By Michael A. Mora

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