In a thought leadership article for the Miami Herald which published on November 8, 2021, Vice President Regan Marock with AKAM property management, discusses the trend where condominium communities are transitioning from self-management to third-party professional management. Contributing to this trend is the increasing amount of time required by volunteer Boards, changing resident demographics skewing younger and still working full-time, and the level of education and experience needed to effectively operate the property. After the recent building tragedy in Surfside, more Boards of self-managed communities are making the change, handing over Association responsibilities to a professional management company. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article255568911.html

“When someone makes you try a case, litigate a case, they are telling you you can have this money when you pry it from my cold dead hands. That is what happened here,” said Founding Attorney Scott Dimond of Dimond Kaplan & Rothstein. According to Dimond, it is a rare thing in the world of high-end business court or high-end commercial disputes for you to go from start to finish and get a successful jury outcome. On November 2, 2021, the Daily Business Review reported on the outcome which resulted in a $25.6 million verdict for a Miami company that alleged its non-owner manager liquidated millions of dollars of residential real estate assets while its owner was in jail. https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2021/11/02/wheres-the-money-how-a-miami-real-estate-company-landed-a-25-million-verdict-over-alleged-civil-theft/

Lian de la Riva, an estate planning, probate, and guardianship attorney and a partner with the Florida law firm of Markowitz Ringel Trusty + Hartog, P.A. (MRTH), with offices in Pinecrest and Fort Lauderdale, has been elected Chair of the Young Lawyer’s Division of the Hispanic National Bar Association for a one-year term. Community Newspapers covered the news in the Pinecrest Tribune on October 11, 2021. https://communitynewspapers.com/pinecrest-tribune/mrth-partner-lian-de-la-riva-elected-chair-of-hispanic-national-bar-association-young-lawyers-division/