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About the Awards: Southeastern Legal Awards Q&A With Regional Managing Editor Michael Marciano

Deadline is looming for nominations in the 2024 Southeastern Legal Awards.
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The American Lawyer

Faegre Drinker Rebounds From 2022 With Double-Digit PEP Growth

"We saw these huge gains in litigation, including product liability, intellectual property, class actions, appellate work," said Chair Gina Kastel, who is close to completing her first year in the role.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

DeSantis Takeover of Disney's Home District Inflated Its Legal Budget by More Than 60%, Mostly Going to District's New Counsel

The biggest beneficiary is Winter Park-based boutique Fishback Dominick, which earned nearly $700,000 in the second half of 2023 from the Central Florida Oversight Tourism District. The firm hadn't previously billed the entity in recent years.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

'I Don't See How [Your Evidence] Proves That': Judges Press Parties on Timeline and Drug Use in Negligent-Hiring Appeal

"Changing this law is going to change not just staffing companies, but how physicians are able to practice if they have issues in their personal life, how pilots practice despite having issues in their personal lives," said defendant-appellee counsel Sarah Kazemian of Hall Booth Smith.
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Daily Business Review

New Precedent: Lawyers Took Too Long, So Litigants Struck a Doomed Deal

As the case returns to the lower court without the punitive damages claim, the ruling is a cautionary tale for businesses and individuals alike about the legal foundations of their negotiations and the evidentiary standards required for punitive damages in Florida's courts.
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Daily Business Review

Miami Heat's Haywood Highsmith Faces Lawsuit Over Car Crash

"It's particularly heartbreaking that a good deed has resulted in a life-altering tragedy," said Manuel Dobrinsky, a partner at Dolan Dobrinsky Rosenblum Bluestein.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

East Georgia Judge Wade Padgett Appointed to Court of Appeals Vacancy

Padgett was chosen to fill the vacancy created by the Supreme Court's removal of Court of Appeals Judge Christian Coomer for judicial misconduct on Aug. 16, 2023.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Governor Appoints 4 to Miami-Dade Circuit, County Court

The Miami state and county court appointees each have a background in government.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

GC of FTD Takes Legal Reins of Newly Independent Weather Co.

The new owner of The Weather Co., which operates The Weather Channel app and website, has tapped David Strauss to lead the legal team. This is the third private-equity-owned firm where he's been general counsel.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

FTX Investors Claim Sullivan & Cromwell 'Aided' and Encouraged Fraud

S&C has generated $180 million "or 10% of the total revenue the 900-lawyer firm publicly stated it collected in all of 2022," according to a new lawsuit by FTX investors.
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