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Confidential Family Law Appeal (Fla. 3d DCA 2021)

/ / Decisions, Family Law

The firm was able to obtain a complete win for its client in a consolidated appellate proceeding in which the appellant challenged eleven orders entered by the trial court. The appellant sought relief through both non-final appeals and original proceedings, such as petitions for writs of certiorari, prohibition, and mandamus. This victory, in an appeal spanning the waterfront from equitable distribution issues to children’s issues, allowed the firms’ client to finalize the dissolution of marriage proceeding on remand and end the long-running family-law litigation.

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Court of Appeal reverses $40 Million judgement in former Oil CEO’s divorce

/ / Press Release

Key Biscayne, FL: In one of the more complex and high-profile divorce appeals pending in the country—functionally, a commercial dispute in the guise of a family law case— Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal recently reversed a near-$40 million judgment that attorney Ashley Kozel obtained against her ex-husband, Todd Kozel, the founder and former CEO of London-based Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd.

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Kozel v. Kozel, 302 So. 3d 939, 941 (Fla. 2d DCA 2019)

/ / Commercial Litigation, Decisions, Trial Support

The firm convinced the appellate court to reverse a $38 million judgment that the trial court had entered against the firm’s client—the former CEO of an international oil company—in post-judgment family-law proceedings. In an appeal that turned on interpreting the parties’ extensive property settlement agreement, the appellate court agreed with the firm that the multimillion dollar judgment had not enforced the terms of the parties’ agreement and, instead, amounted to a stand-alone money judgment that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to enter in post-judgment family-law litigation.

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Conrad FLB Managment, LLC v. Diamond Blue Int’l, Inc., 300 So. 3d 716 (Fla. 3d DCA 2019)

/ / Commercial Litigation, Decisions

In an appeal arising from a complex real-estate development transaction, the firm obtained a reversal of a breach-of-promissory note judgment that had been entered against two of the firm’s clients. In achieving this victory, the firm was able to defeat the plaintiffs’ novel argument that monetary liability could be imposed on a non-signatory to a contract simply because the non-signatory benefitted from the loan proceeds that were the subject of the contract and happened to be related to the signing entity.

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9th Circ. Judge Rips Indirect Buyers’ $577M CRT Settlement

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A Ninth Circuit judge on Tuesday criticized lead counsel for indirect buyers of cathode ray tubes who secured a $576.8 million bundle of antitrust settlements with tech giants like Philips and Panasonic, saying it’s a “problem” that they secured the nationwide deals without looking out for people in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Missouri.

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