Uniform Commercial Code (“UCC”) Article 9 provides for robust and uniform legal regulation of secured transactions, and as the readers of this Article know, it provides the rights and protections you all rely on each day.Read More

Lis pendens — useful or useless? Though intended to protect the interests of parties involved in a legal dispute, the presence of a lis pendens can create a minefield for those seeking to obtain title insurance even after a lis pendens has been terminated or dissolved.Read More

Barakat + Bossa would like to inform you that a new law, known as the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”), will come into effect on January 1, 2024.Read More

If a debtor files bankruptcy, it does not necessarily mean a creditor will be left holding the bag. Jocelyne A. Macelloni and Pavla Vitkova of Barakat + Bossa PLLC provide an in-depth guide of how creditors may be able to preclude a debtor’s debt from being discharged in bankruptcy.Read More

With Florida the latest state to enact commercial finance disclosure legislation, Jocelyne A. Macelloni and Natalie Chaiken of Barakat + Bossa PLLC provide a detailed look at the requirements and definitions of the new law, as well as how it compares to previously enacted statutes.Read More

Initially, the authors planned this article to be an illustrative analysis of Eleventh Circuit precedent on using the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) as a basis for federal question jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1331 (the Federal Question Statute). As of the date of this article, however, neither the...Read More

Sometimes a typo can be more than a benign mistake. Jocelyne A. Macelloni and Matthew Akiba of Barakat + Bossa PLLC explain how misspelling a company’s name can have serious consequences when filing a UCC financing statement in Florida and other jurisdictions.Read More

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that people lost $54 million to phishing schemes in 2020. Phishing attacks usually originate from a malicious email that victims receive effectively convincing them to visit a fraudulent website where they are asked to enter sensitive information.Read More

"Bankruptcy itself is a form of alternative dispute resolution.” One would think that alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”), more specifically, mediation, would be regularly employed by all Bankruptcy courts given the cost and time constraints imposed on debtors who have resorted to Bankruptcy in the first place. Indeed, the main goal of a Chapter 7 proceeding...Read More

Florida has one of the largest communities of real estate brokers and sales agents in the nation, which is unsurprising given the popularity of Florida’s real estate market.Read More