Bonhams and the September 2026 auction season Market results and exhibition schedules as of September 29, 2026 For someone beginning to collect Chinese art, Asia Week New York offers an unusually useful place to learn. Within a concentrated period, collectors can study works across auction houses and galleries, encounter different […]
Lessons from a proposed New York art exchange and the evolving markets in China and the United States In 2015, a group of Wall Street financiers, private business owners and a lawyer from China’s Dacheng law firm invited me to participate in an ambitious proposed venture: the New York Art […]
Florida House Bill 797 (2026) creates a comprehensive statutory framework governing derivative actions under newly created Sections 617.0741 through 617.0747 of the Florida Nonprofit Corporations Act. Because most Florida condominium, cooperative, and homeowners’ associations are organized as nonprofit corporations under Chapter 617, these provisions will have direct consequences for community...
Both Chapter 718 and Chapter 720, Florida Statutes, encourage, recommend and in some situations even require pre-suit mediation. But what is mediation? Legally speaking, mediation is a type of Alternative Dispute Resolution (a/k/a ADR). Practically speaking, mediation is a supervised and confidential settlement negotiation. Pre-suit mediation is a process by […]
Most people who live in Florida live in some form of a residential development that is typically managed by a community association that governs, maintains, and administers the development. In Florida, community associations are regulated by Florida Statutes, which have increasingly emphasized transparency in recent years, particularly with regard to […]
