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Healers Barred from Healing: Physician Noncompete Agreements

Featured Article
In Anton Chekhov’s story, “The Grasshopper,” Olga Ivanovna marries a physician, Osip Stepanitch Dymov, whom she sees as a “simple,...

The Seemingly “Magical Aura” of Exhibits When Attached to a Pleading Under the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure

Featured Article
No doubt that Florida litigators, from time to time, find themselves moving for summary judgment pursuant to Fla. R. Civ....

Florida’s Noncompete Statute: “Reasonable” or “Truly Obnoxious?”

Featured Article
Florida’s noncompete statute, F.S. §542.335, governs the enforceability of noncompete agreements. The statute uses the word “reasonable,” or a derivation...

Educating Our Way to the Florida Constitution

President's Page
As I write this column, the Constitution Revision Commission (CRC) is travelling across the state conducting town hall meetings to...

Unpreserved Errors Are All the Same, Right? Not Exactly

Appellate Practice
In both state and federal court, to preserve an error for review and correction on appeal, a party must make...

Post-Mortem Considerations with Foreign Grantor Trusts After H.R. 1, Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts

Tax
For years, U.S. tax practitioners who focus in the area of international taxation have helped multi-jurisdictional families establish foreign grantor...

Creating Vertical Subdivisions for Fun and Profit

Real Property, Probate and Trust Law
Vertical subdivisions are an urban concept allowing multiple separate parcels containing separate uses to be stacked in airspace under a...