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August 28, 2013 |

Miami Attorneys Help Puerto Rican Family Win $1.9 Million In Arbitration

Attorneys W. Barry Blum and Melanie S. Cherdack successfully argued that Santander Securities improperly supervised a broker who was related to the Kury family by marriage.
3 minute read
June 15, 2012 |

New TD Bank emails show early exchanges on Scott Rothstein

Investor attorney David Mandel disclosed an email exchange produced by TD Bank showing its knowledge of lock letters written on bank stationery and intended to reassure prospective Scott Rothstein investors.
5 minute read
March 11, 2005 |

Florida Supreme Court Eases Shareholders' Road to Suits

The Florida Supreme Court has made it easier for disgruntled investors to sidestep mandatory arbitration and take securities disputes to court. However, those who seek to litigate rather than arbitrate will continue to face the hurdle of demonstrating that a brokerage took actions that waived its contractual right to arbitrate. Federal appellate courts are split on whether to require a showing that one party suffered prejudice to its case before waiving a contractual arbitration requirement.
6 minute read
March 10, 2011 |

Hedge fund attorneys want Rothstein trustee's $421 million clawback suit dismissed

Three related New York hedge funds are lashing out at the bankruptcy trustee handling the remains of fraudster Scott Rothstein's Fort Lauderdale law firm.
5 minute read
May 25, 2012 |

Lawyer returns from Costa Rica to clear name in fund fraud case

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Raymond Ray released George Kastanes, an attorney accused of helping to perpetuate a real estate scam that took millions from a Michigan civil service retirement fund.
4 minute read
July 31, 2009 |

Attorney Embarks on Multistate Hunt for Boom-Time Investor's Assets

Abbey Kaplan, who represented Downtown Associates in a suit against investor Eli Weinstein and his related companies, is about to hit the road in search of more than $16 million awarded his client over lost profits in a failed land deal. Getting paid is the next step in a five-year-old journey likely to take Kaplan from Florida to the Northeast. As investors, sellers and lenders head to court since the implosion of the commercial real estate market, more lawyers could be joining the hunt for money over soured deals.
5 minute read
February 05, 2004 |

Suit Accuses Florida Banks in Check-Kiting Scheme

The trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of a local forest products company has sued four Florida banks, accusing them of participating in a check-kiting scheme that cost the company's creditors $22 million. Lewis B. Freeman, the liquidating trustee in the bankruptcy of Miami-based Pacific Forest Products, claims the banks failed in their duty to recognize the check kiting and did not stop it despite mounting evidence.
6 minute read
June 21, 2007 |

Judge Goes Easy on Lawyer Who Made 'French Fries' Comment About Her

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laurel Myerson Isicoff opted for leniency in the case of a prominent Chicago lawyer who told her she was "a few french fries short of a Happy Meal." She decided not to bar McDermott Will & Emery partner William P. Smith from practicing in South Florida bankruptcy court. Instead, Isicoff ordered him Wednesday to take an online course in professionalism administered by the Florida Bar, even though he's not a Bar member in Florida and was practicing as a visiting lawyer.
3 minute read
October 03, 2012 |

Gibraltar's $15 million Rothstein settlement approved

A bankruptcy judge has approved a settlement with Coral Gables-based Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust for its role in Scott Rothstein's Ponzi scheme.
3 minute read

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