Barakat + Bossa won a 1-day bench trial in Miami Dade County on February 27, 2024. Our team consisted of Jocelyne Macelloni, Esq., Pavla Vitkova, Esq., and Brian Barakat, Esq. We defended our client, a landlord who was sued for allegedly breaching a lease by not maintaining an apartment. The plaintiff was seeking $175,000 in...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

On April 29, 2021, the Florida Supreme Court adopted a new summary judgment standard. For those litigating in federal courts, the rule is nothing new; in fact, Rule 1.510 of the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure adopts most of its federal counterpart verbatim. The following overview provides 10 major changes that every busy practitioner should...Read More

Founders Brian Barakat and Giacomo Bossa are pleased to announce that Jocelyne Macelloni has been promoted to partner at Barakat + Bossa.Read More