Implementation of New Overtime Rules Put on Hold

On November 22, 2016, a federal court in Texas issued an order granting a nationwide preliminary injunction prohibiting implementation of the Department of Labor’s (the “DOL”) new overtime rules, which were scheduled to take effect December 1, 2016 and would affect approximately 4.2 million workers nationwide. As addressed in our prior article, the DOL finalized…

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Florida’s Water Crises: Can We Afford The Solutions? (Part II)

With the renewed focus on water projects due to discharges from Lake Okeechobee and a recent surge in blue/green algae, there is also a renewed effort to involve private interests in the development of these projects. This series of articles addresses exceptions to the general rule that government payments received by private landowners as a…

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Stephen Looney Presents at 65th Tulane Tax Institute

Stephen R. Looney, gave a presentation at the 65th Tulane Tax Institute in New Orleans on November 9, 2016. His presentation titled, “S Corporation Merger & Acquisition Issues” focused on sales of assets, stock sales, and stock sales involving qualified stock purchase acquisitions by S corporations, including the application of Section 336(e), allocation of consideration,…

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CREW Orlando Recognizes 2 Dean Mead Attorneys

Vicki L. Berman and Anna H. Long, attorneys in Dean Mead’s Real Estate Department, were recipients of the Outstanding Networking Achievement of the Year Award during Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Orlando’s 13th Annual Celebration of Champions Awards Gala on November 4, 2016. Fellow CREW Orlando members who also received this award for the collaboration…

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