Miami
Miami Now a Hot Spot for International Arbitration
April 6, 2014
When the news broke that the $1 billion dispute over construction overruns of the Panama Canal would be arbitrated in Miami, a reporter writing a story about this “placing Miami on the arbitration map” called me for a quote. I agreed she was on the trail of a good story, but not because the case made Miami an arbitration player. The story starts with the fact that several years ago, the ultra-sophisticated parties contracting for work on one of the world’s most important construction projects...
April 6, 2014
When the news broke that the $1 billion dispute over construction overruns of the Panama Canal would be arbitrated in Miami, a reporter writing a story about this “placing Miami on the arbitration map” called me for a quote. I agreed she was on the trail of a good story, but not because the case made Miami an arbitration player. The story starts with the fact that several years ago, the ultra-sophisticated parties contracting for work on one of the world’s most important construction projects...
Miami Shines as International Arbitration Hot Spot
March 4, 2014
It sounds like international arbitrators are taking a page out of Will Smith’s book (or at least one of his songs), because Miami has become the hot spot for alternative dispute resolution, according to Joseph Mamounas and Jose Ferrer in Bilzin Sumberg’s New Miami blog. Miami is home to the Latin American headquarters for many multinational companies and is the worldwide base of at least five of the Fortune 500 corporations, according to Mamounas and Ferrer, making it a prime corporate...
March 4, 2014
It sounds like international arbitrators are taking a page out of Will Smith’s book (or at least one of his songs), because Miami has become the hot spot for alternative dispute resolution, according to Joseph Mamounas and Jose Ferrer in Bilzin Sumberg’s New Miami blog. Miami is home to the Latin American headquarters for many multinational companies and is the worldwide base of at least five of the Fortune 500 corporations, according to Mamounas and Ferrer, making it a prime corporate...
Greenberg Ups First-Year Pay in 2 Offices to $145K from $125K; Will Competitors Follow Suit?
August 17, 2013
Working as a first-year associate in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., offices of Greenberg Traurig just got more rewarding. The firm has increased starting salaries for new attorneys there to $145,000 annually from $125,000, theDaily Business Review reports. Such announcements of pay raises for fledgling legal eagles at BigLaw firms were once commonplace around the time that a new crop of law school graduates arrived to start work each fall. But since the Great Recession, layoffs and even...
August 17, 2013
Working as a first-year associate in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., offices of Greenberg Traurig just got more rewarding. The firm has increased starting salaries for new attorneys there to $145,000 annually from $125,000, theDaily Business Review reports. Such announcements of pay raises for fledgling legal eagles at BigLaw firms were once commonplace around the time that a new crop of law school graduates arrived to start work each fall. But since the Great Recession, layoffs and even...
