The Miami Herald's move includes relocating the company's newspaper operations, construction of a production facility, the $3.1 million acquisition of the land for the facility, "accelerated depreciation" and moving expenses.
Big City Tavern, one of the places Fort Lauderdale movers and shakers frequent for lunch, is designed to resemble the great urban taverns of Chicago, New York and Boston.

Crane Johnstone, Charles Patrick and Sheldon J. Schlesinger of the Law Offices of Sheldon J. Schlesinger in Fort Lauderdale helped a woman whose daughter lost limbs after the onset pneumococcal disease win a $7.56 million award.

A joint venture between Stiles and Prudential obtained a nearly $41 million mortgage for a mixed-use building in Plantation.

Hogan Lovells' partners Carol Licko and Mark Sterling put together a master agreement that comprises 20 deals in total, involving everything from funding to collaborative research and the licensing of any intellectual property that is developed.
While women lawyers are making great strides at the associate level, nearly at parity with men at firms, they are still far from matching men at the partnership level.
For these standout lawyers it was all about the client. The Daily Business Review's seventh annual Most Effective Lawyers special report recognizes the work of attorneys in 14 categories including those who reached a $410 million settlement with Bank of America on overdraft charges, retried a notorious child-murder case 21 years after the crime, dealt with a complex international real estate insolvency and challenged the denial of housing vouchers to elderly and disabled people.
It's good to be king. That, in a nutshell, describes the last year in South Florida's commercial real estate market as high-profile and desirable properties went for prices that were reminiscent of the boom days of a few years back.
As managing partners are watchful of budgets, costs and billing, many law firms report they are doing well again. Yet cost cutting is still the mantra of many.
Even as South Florida community banks push to work out bad debt, nearly half the borrowers fall behind on their restructured loans. Community banks based in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties have restructured more loans, many of them secured by residential and commercial real estate, but almost half of these second-chance loans were past due at midyear, according to our annual survey.
South Florida law firms know what new firms to the region are finding out - business is returning, the local economy is improving and the legal market is well on its way to digging out of one of its worst runs ever.
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Top Dealmakers
The DBR will recognize the people who made the biggest and most complicated deals in South Florida. Brokers, real estate sales people, attorneys, including in-house counsel and accountants are eligible. Click here to take survey
Miami Herald gives employees second round of big news
As their employer announced they'll be moving to a new home in Doral, Miami Herald employees got some bad news about their jobs: Unpaid time off.
FIU law school hosts appellate heavyweights
As if there's not enough pressure just being a finalist in the moot court competition at FIU's College of Law, now those law students must compete in front of U.S. Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito and two federal appellate judges.
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