Prior Articles

Risk Management – Be Careful What You Say

As real estate professionals, opinions coming out of our mouths may be heard as facts going into our customers’ ears. When people lose money or their expectations are not met, they may blame the people who “told” them they would succeed. 

There is a great recent case that demonstrates this issue (okay, [...]

Power of Attorney

I’m sure most of you know about the changes to Florida’s power of attorney laws that went into effect on October 1, 2011. Please read CS/SB 670 for all of the changes and exceptions (e.g. powers granted by corporations).

While you are reading that bill, I want to point out a few changes [...]

Update on Florida Bar Committee meetings

As a now past member of the Florida Bar’s Professional Ethics Committee and now current member of the Bar’s Unauthorized Practice of Law (UPL) Committee, I want to pass on some information from both committee meetings held on June 24th in Orlando.

You may have been waiting to hear what the [...]

Privacy breach via your copier

You protect your clients’ and customers’ personal nonpublic information. You train your staff to keep all information confidential. You shred, delete, and use sophisticated computer systems to prevent identity theft. Yet you still may be letting information out of your office.

If you have not seen the CBS report about copy machines containing [...]