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April 2014 Firm Newsletter: What Inspires Motivation?

April 30, 2014 Newsletters

Featured in the April 2014 Issue Partner’s Perspective: What Inspires Motivation? J&C Partners Included in Jacksonville Magazine Best Lawyers Board Certified List J&C Case Featured in the News March Madness Party Featured in This Month’s Resident News New Law Blogs Curiosities, Ruminations and Various Eccentricities of Firm Biz Click to […]

Difficulty Calculating Delay Damages: Total Cost Method & Liquidated Damages

April 24, 2014 Construction Industry Legal Blog

You have successfully proven that a delay occurred and effectively addressed the common and most applicable defenses. Now comes the part of the process for determining the amount of damages that resulted from the delay. Calculating the amount of damages is rarely a simple task. A common theme of this series so far is that there are numerous factors and methods used when dealing with delay damages. Calculating the amount of damages is no exception. This Blog post delves into two methods that are used when ascertaining the amount of damages is extremely difficult: a liquidated damages clause and the Total Cost Method.

Terminating Condominiums According to the Florida Condominium Act: Part IV

April 23, 2014 Community Association Industry Legal Blog

This is Part IV in a series of Blog posts dedicated to explaining the process for the termination of condominiums according to the Florida Condominium Act. Previous posts in this series discussed the process of termination due to economic waste, the impossibility to continue as a condominium, and the purchase of condominium property by a developer. Part III explained the required provisions within a plan of termination. This post explains the steps that must be taken to properly execute the plan of termination and what must be done after the plan is executed and in effect.

Official Records of Condominium Associations Part 3 of 3

April 21, 2014 Community Association Industry Legal Blog

Section 718.111(12) of the Florida Condominium Act and Rules 61B-22.002, 61B-22.003(3), 61B-23.002(7) and 61B-23.0021(13) of the Florida Administrative Code provide guidelines for the maintenance and inspection of the association’s official records. Part 1 of this 3 part blog identified what records constitute official condominium association documents. Part 2 of this blog identified what records are specifically exempt from inspection by unit owners. This posting will identify specific official records retention requirements and logistical considers associated with unit owner inspections of official records.

Obtaining Attorney’s Fees as Costs on Dismissed Actions

April 18, 2014 Professional Services Industry Legal Blog

In litigation, under the right set of facts and law, the losing party is responsible for the attorney’s fees of the prevailing party. But, this determination is not always so simple. This post explores a recent decision where the litigants were entitled to fees under the contract, but fees were not plead in the answer and the case was voluntarily dismissed. Specifically, Lopez v. Bank of America, N.A., 2D12-1270, 2014 WL 1245609 (Fla. 2d DCA 2014) clarifies recovery of attorney’s fees when they are awardable but not plead by a defendant in a dismissed lawsuit.

Terminating Condominiums According to the Florida Condominium Act: Part III

April 17, 2014 Community Association Industry Legal Blog

This is Part III in a series of Blog posts discussing the process for the termination of condominiums according to Section 718.117 of the Florida Condominium Act. Part I of this series focused on the process for termination due to economic waste or impossibility to continue. Part II discussed the optional termination process, which was added to the statutes in 2007. This Blog post provides an overview of the plan of termination and the required provisions to be included in the plan according to the Florida Statutes.

How to Determine Whether a Florida LLC Member Breached Fiduciary Duty in Making Distributions

April 16, 2014 Professional Services Industry Legal Blog

There are many claims available to oppressed members of Florida Limited Liability Companies (“LLC’s”) whose business partners misappropriate assets through unlawful distributions. This Blog post focuses on determining whether actions in making improper distributions by majority members or managers of Florida LLC’s constitute breaches of common law fiduciary duties owed to minority interest holders.

Are Non-Compete Provisions Enforceable if the Employer Hasn’t Paid the Employee due Compensation? It Depends on the Terms on the Contract

April 14, 2014 Professional Services Industry Legal Blog

When an employer seeks to enforce its non-competition agreement against its former employee, one of the most common defenses raised by the employee is that the employer failed to compensate the employee under the terms of the contract. The defense of non-payment is often enough to hamper the employer’s efforts to enforce its rights with a temporary injunction, which requires the employer to demonstrate its likelihood of success on the merits. So how can an employer get its temporary injunction now and fight the “non-payment” battle later? It all starts with contract drafting: if the non-compete provision is expressly independent of the remaining terms and conditions, non-payment of employee compensation is no defense to its enforcement. This Blog post analyzes a recent non-compete case is the latest Florida ruling to address the importance of drafting independent restrictive covenants.

Terminating Condominiums According to the Florida Condominium Act: Part II

April 11, 2014 Community Association Industry Legal Blog

As discussed in Part I of this Blog series, two scenarios lead to most of the termination of condominiums: 1) the condominium is in a nearly uninhabitable condition and the cost of construction or repairs exceeds the projected fair market value of the condominium property (often due to natural disasters); or 2) the condominium is located on prime real estate and a developer has made an offer to purchase the property for alternative development. Part I focused on the former reason and discussed condominium terminations due to economic waste or impossibility of continuing. This Blog post concerns the “optional termination process” established by the Florida legislature in the 2007 revision of the Florida Condominium Act’s termination provisions. See Fla. Stat. §718.117(3).

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