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October 01, 2002 | Law.com

Ferrell Schultz Plots Latin America Expansion

Ferrell Schultz Carter Zumpano & Fertel recently opened offices in Buenos Aires and Beirut, cities that have been wracked by political and economic turmoil. What's next, some quipped -- Kabul? Not likely. In September, the Miami-based law firm opened an outpost in the peaceful and prosperous metropolis of Santiago, Chile. And the firm doesn't plan to stop its international push there.
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October 04, 2001 | Law.com

Judge Tosses Out ADA Suit Against Miami Stadium

A federal judge in Miami has knocked out of the park a lawsuit by a Miami Beach quadriplegic and his nonprofit group, Access Now. The suit claimed that Miami's Pro Player Stadium, where the Miami Dolphins and the Florida Marlins play, discriminates against the disabled. The judge wrote "Plaintiffs seek [seating] modifications that defendants have no obligation to make, and which have no basis in law."
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January 06, 2006 | Law.com

AlphaMed Pharmaceuticals Awarded Additional $30 Million in Trade Secrets Case

Two weeks after handing down a $48 million compensatory damage judgment, a federal jury in Miami has awarded an additional $30 million in punitive damages to AlphaMed Pharmaceuticals. AlphaMed had accused Arriva Pharmaceuticals of stealing trade secrets, namely the patent to a "miracle drug," then steering investors away from AlphaMed. The verdict capped a trial punctuated by allegations that a private investigator hired by Arriva rifled through AlphaMed's trash and pushed the FBI to investigate AlphaMed.
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June 26, 2008 | New York Law Journal

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December 27, 2004 | Law.com

Mediation Group's Calendar Raises Eyebrows, and Some Ire

Why did the Miami-based Florida Mediation Group, made up of 25 attorney-mediators, pay to have its name emblazoned across the bottom of a 2005 swimsuit calendar, a practice more commonly associated with hardware firms, trucking companies and auto parts suppliers? The group's president, Allene Nicholson, said the swimsuit calendar was just one of several themed calendars her staff chose to distribute this year. (And, for the record, that the bikini-clad ladies are not licensed mediators.)
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March 13, 2000 | Law.com

Faltering Net Firms Will Find Bankruptcy Lawyers Reluctant

Sooner or later, the bottom will fall out for many of the Internet companies struggling to make a buck in the already cluttered World Wide Web. But dot-coms hoping to survive a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization will find legal help hard to come by. Some bankruptcy practitioners indicate that law firms will be reluctant to take on cases of failing Internet companies without significant material assets, brand name recognition and the full backing of investors.
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June 23, 2003 | Law.com

Diversity Adversity

In The National Law Journal's 2002 survey of law firm diversity, California firms took eight of the top 20 and 19 of the top 100 places, down slightly from 2001. Why the drop? Morrison & Foerster's Cedric Chao said his firm's appearance in fifth place nationally reflects the change in survey methods, not in staffing. But at least one California law firm's effort to diversify its ranks has been hampered by the economic downturn.
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February 17, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Marketplace

Filene's Basement has leased 22,700 square feet at 2234 Broadway, almost doubling its space on the Upper West Side. Also, former New York Mets slugger Mo Vaughn's affordable housing development company, Omni NY, purchased its first borough property for $5.5 million, and a generous portion of the ground floor at 1114 Avenue of the Americas has been leased to the One Group for a new STK steakhouse.
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August 28, 2002 | Law.com

Forced Publicity

Adoption attorneys in Florida are attacking a state law requiring a mother who puts a child up for adoption to publish personal information about her sexual past and partners. Private-adoption lawyers say the law -- designed to ensure that a father doesn't unknowingly give up parental rights -- resulted from politics in the state Bar's Family Law Section, which helped draft the legislation and lobbied for its passage.
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September 18, 2001 | Law.com

The Age Factor

For Robert and Loreen Zink, landing jobs at a dive shop chain in Key Largo, Fla. was a dream come true for them, after years of working in the colder climate of the Midwest. Their dream ended, however, when they were both fired from the company. Alleging age discrimination, the Zinks filed suit, and Robert Zink won a jury award of more than $250,000, not including future earnings or attorneys' fees.
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