For the past year, Brian Pariser, a Miami community association and eviction attorney, fielded calls from residential landlords seeking to start eviction proceedings against a tenant.
"I kept telling them my hands are tied," Pariser said in an interview. "I can file the complaint but the sheriff isn't going to execute on the writ [of possession]."
Due to a combination of tenant laws and the pandemic, attorneys who advise landlords in residential evictions in Florida are still seeing a hit to their practice business a year after the COVID-19 crisis started. That has led some attorneys to focus more on commercial properties and evictions, where lawyers say there's been more practice activity in 2021, while landlord attorneys are also finding other means of helping clients amid the shifting rules.
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Dan Roe
I'm a reporter covering the business of law, focusing on Florida-based and national law firms for the Daily Business Review, The American Lawyer, Law.com and other ALM publications. Reach me at: [email protected] or on Twitter at @dan_roe_.
