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What you need to know about Florida today
› Lessons from Hurricane Matthew helping in more than $1 billion utility recovery costs expected in Irma
With restoration costs for 2016's Hurricane Matthew now resolved, Florida's Office of Public Counsel is turning its attention to last year's Hurricane Irma and its utility recovery cost estimates that are expected to top $1 billion, the head of that office said.
› In South Florida, $2.1 million no longer makes you ‘wealthy.’ Here’s the new benchmark
Being a millionaire doesn’t mean what it used to — at least in South Florida. In its latest Modern Wealth Index study, brokerage giant Charles Schwab found that area residents now say it takes $3.1 million to be considered “wealthy.”
› A Shift In Florida Law Firms' IP Services
A paradigm shift is apparently underway at a number of Florida’s general practice firms. Due to a changing legal industry, advances in technology and unprofitable intellectual property groups, Florida’s general practice firms are reconsidering how to best serve their clients’ intellectual property needs. In the past, general practice firms often used small, local IP boutiques to provide clients spec
› Faster, better climate resilience. Columbia U helps refine South Florida projects.
This week, experts huddled at Miami-Dade College and brainstormed ways to make five South Florida resilience projects better and get them finished faster. Experts from Columbia University’s Center for Resilient Cities and Landscape’s Resiliency Accelerator and leaders of various local involved groups spent three days developing new ideas to make these projects resilient — fast.
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