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.
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.
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.