The Good News provides a monthly column with important content having to do with topics from the legal community. This month features a conversation with Ryan Horland, Esq.,an associate with Tripp Scott. Whether you’re a high-end developer or an everyday homeowner, Florida’s maze of land-use state and environmental statutes, local ordinances and master plans, stringent staff reviews and strict code enforcement can be maddening. It can make the process of doing what you want with your own property a costly, confusing and time-consuming hell-on-earth – or even a near-impossibility. Making the process all the more intense: the reality that with […]

The Good News provides a monthly column with important content having to do with topics from the legal community. This month features a conversation with Robert Meacham, a director at Tripp Scott Law Firm, who represents a wide variety of clients in the fields of construction, business and real estate law, including litigation and transactional representation. Courts can be scary places. Seemingly all-powerful robed judges hover behind a tall bench, gavel in hand. Court rules and language are often unfamiliar, no matter how many TV legal dramas we’ve watched. Typically, parties or loved ones are in court because something untoward […]

The Good News provides a monthly column with important content having to do with topics from the legal community. This month features a conversation with Paul Lopez, COO of Tripp Scott. The ChatGPT artificial intelligence app and its competitors can do very cool things.  More than 100 million consumer and business users have reportedly employed these AI tools to compose articles, letters, essays, scripts, academic papers, resumes and job applications, work assignments and homework; generate images; develop code and software; analyze customer data; and create business plans and strategies. People in our profession have even used AI apps to write […]

The Good News provides a monthly column with important content having to do with topics from the legal community. This month features a conversation with Matt Zifrony, director with Tripp Scott. Few tasks are more thankless than being a conscientious homeowners’ or condominium association board member today. On top of the usual responsibilities, from budgeting to maintenance to policymaking and enforcement, you’re facing increased litigiousness, exploding insurance and vendor costs and recently, sometimes crushing state inspection, repair and reserve mandates. And now, well-intentioned new changes to statutes governing associations have the potential to add not just considerable costs and burdens […]