Archive for 2019

When a contract isn’t prepared carefully, the parties to the contract may discover when things go wrong that what they agreed to is not what they thought they were getting. This is especially true with intellectual property, such as a trademark. David P. Hathaway, Chair of Dean Mead’s Litigation Department, cautions business owners entering into…

The Tap Room at Dubsdread hosted Feed the Need “Yacht Rock Party” on October 3 to benefit the programs of the Christian Service Center for Central Florida. Dean Mead was one of the event sponsors this year. Feed the Need was an evening full of food, music, dancing, and fun, all while making a significant…

Dean Mead is pleased to announce that Marc Dunbar has been reappointed by Jimmy Patronis, Florida’s Chief Financial Officer, to serve as a member of the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation Board of Governors. His term is effective immediately and will run through July 31, 2022. Dunbar focuses his practice on governmental relations and legislative advocacy,…

Bob Mead was quoted in the article titled, Celebrating The Power of Giving, featured in the September edition of COMmunique, published by the UCF College of Medicine. Mead was a guest speaker at the medical school’s Scholarship Reception held at the new UCF Lake Nona Cancer Center on September 12. The event honored current scholarship…

The Florida Legislature continues to grapple with the effects of the 2017 federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Florida corporate income taxpayers.  Over the past two years, the Legislature decoupled Florida’s tax code from two significant TCJA provisions (bonus depreciation and global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI)),[1] but largely left the effects of other domestic…