A Boies Schiller lawyer has won the seventh annual Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. James Grippando won the award for his book Gone Again, the 12th in the Jack Swyteck series, about the adventures of a Miami criminal defense attorney. The novel opens with Swyteck being approached to help stop the execution of a […]

Commercial Division Flags Novel Issue of Reasonable Reliance In LLC Member Battle

July 6, 2017 admin

In PMC Aviation 2012-1 LLC et al. v. Jet Midwest Group, LLC et al. , No. 654047/2015, BL221447 , Commercial Division Justice Shirley Kornreich denied a motion to dismiss a fraudulent inducement claim by an LLC member against its business partner. Foreclosure News

In novel ‘Al-Tounsi,’ author looks at US Supreme Court through a human lens (podcast)

April 5, 2017

In his debut novel Al-Tounsi, critically acclaimed Canadian-American author and playwright Anton Piatigorsky tells the behind-the-scenes story of U.S. Supreme Court justices as they consider a landmark case involving the rights of detainees held in a Guantanamo Bay-like overseas military base. It explores how the personal lives, career rivalries, and political sympathies of these legal […]

Paul Goldstein skewers law school politics in new satirical novel ‘Legal Asylum’ (podcast)

February 1, 2017

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To recoup losses from the housing collapse, Miami pursues a novel suit

November 7, 2016 admin

Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez stands near a demolished vacant property in the Allapattah neighborhood of Miami. The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing Miami's case to sue banks that the city accuses of predatory lending. Foreclosure News