Both claims — that the rooms where lawyers work are holy ground, and that the weapons we fight with there must be spiritual rather than fleshly — are easy to admire from a distance and hard to live by 9:00 on a Tuesday morning. Michael Kelley on how to walk it out.
Before the bench, Sam Salario led a national firm’s securities litigation practice. His 2014 take on Halliburton II — “Fraud on the Market Theory Basically Survives” — and a Law360 Q&A from the same era still say a good deal about how he thinks.
When New York City sued five oil companies over climate change in 2018, it filed in federal court while California cities fought to stay in state court. Hilary Schein asked why — and offered three answers that still hold up.
For Constitution Day: Matthew Casbarro on why the United States has no national referendum, what Article V actually requires, and why the Framers left federal questions to representatives rather than plebiscites.
Twenty years ago the Florida Supreme Court decided Boca Burger v. Forum — the right to amend once, preemption on a motion to dismiss, sanctions for defending a patently erroneous order — and Jessica Slatten wrote the note explaining it. She later spent a decade inside the Court.
A 1960s experiment on how arbitrators decide sat unexamined for half a century. Kristina Klykova’s article in the Journal of International Arbitration brought it back — and its questions about bias are more pressing now than when she wrote it.
Alongside a commercial trial and appellate practice, Anthony Sirven has spent a decade writing — in the Florida Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and elsewhere — about what the law makes of an embryo.
Insights is where the attorneys of Lawson Huck Gonzalez publish their writing — and where we point readers to the writing and speaking they have done elsewhere. Here is what to expect.
Retired Justice Alan Lawson joins Dr. Case Thorp of The Collaborative for a conversation about faith and the bench, the pressures judges carry, the tension between mercy and mandatory sentences, and his family’s work in Honduras.
Every lawyer knows the feeling of stepping into someone else’s chaos. Michael Kelley on why the rooms where lawyers work — the mediation table, the deposition, the boardroom — can be holy ground, and what that asks of the Christian lawyer.
Jason Gonzalez urged the Florida Supreme Court to adopt the federal summary judgment standard and then wrote one of the first practitioner explainers of the new Rule 1.510. Five years later, the piece remains a clean primer on the reform.
Three commentaries by Ed Patricoff for POWER, the power-generation trade magazine: a field guide to cross-border due diligence, and a hard look at reliability in the energy transition.
If legal conflict is holy ground, how then should a Christian lawyer practice? Michael Kelley on the two errors to reject — passivity and domination — and on the difference between a lawful tool and a fleshly weapon.
Writing as a descendant of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Angela de Céspedes argues that Florida should build the commercial, legal, and human infrastructure for a free Cuba before the day arrives — and lays out three concrete steps.
Before law school, Buddy Bardenwerper spent five years as a Coast Guard officer in the Caribbean. That experience became Mona Passage, a novel published by Syracuse University Press, and a body of writing on the maritime border.
The Florida Bar’s Henry Latimer Center for Professionalism recorded a conversation with Justice Alan Lawson on how a lawyer stays whole. The recording is still available — and still approved for two hours of CLE credit.
State courts are split three ways on whether they can decide school-funding challenges. In a Comment for the University of Miami Law Review, Corinne Milnamow argues the Nevada Supreme Court should not have walked away from the question.