Please join us in congratulating UMLR Alumni Elizabeth Montano, JD’18 on becoming one of the two winners of the Yale Law Journal’s Student Essay Competition. Elizabeth served as the Editor-in-Chief of the University of Miami Law Review and has continued to inspire and motivate her entire UMLR family. We are so proud of you! More […]
BEN KENNEDY — Affordable housing in the United States has been a hot-button issue as rents and home prices have been rising steadily in recent years. Median rent growth has dramatically outpaced wage growth making finding affordable housing difficult for many Americans. This issue has been particularly troublesome in large coastal cities such as San […]
BECKY ESQUENAZI—U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issues thousands of detainers per year. An immigration detainer, also referred to as an ICE hold, is a written notice from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that informs local law enforcement agencies that DHS intends to assume custody of an alien after their release. By issuing an […]
CAMERON CHUBACK—For the last two decades, the United States has faced a devastating opioid crisis. More than 130 people die every day of opioid overdoses, and approximately 400,000 deaths in total have occurred since the crisis’s inception, 47,000 of which came in 2017 alone. Moreover, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that […]
Please join us in congratulating UMLR Alumni Eva M. Spahn, JD’11 and Scott E. Byers, JD’09, for becoming shareholders of their respective firms, Greenberg Traurig and Carlton Fields. Ms. Spahn, is a member of Greenberg Traurig’s Litigation Practice. She handles complex commercial and class action matters in various forums, including state and federal courts in multiple U.S. jurisdictions, as well […]
