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Ayala is proud to announce that it has obtained a final judgment enforcing a $130,000 settlement it obtained earlier this year with a Texas attorney involved in a 2-million-dollar Personal Protective Equipment scam. The judgment also awarded Ayala’s client $1,750.00 in attorney’s fees. The case stemmed from a scheme whereby the defendants including conspired to induce Plaintiffs to invest two million dollars in a PPE…

Normally, in all cases, the court where the case is being adjudicated needs to have jurisdiction over the dispute. Jurisdiction is a fancy term for the Court’s power to decide the case it has in front of it. That power usually comes via some statute or the state’s constitution. For example, in Florida, state circuit courts only have power over disputes involving more than $30,000.…

The Attorney-Client privilege is the name given to an old doctrine in the US legal system—which has counterparts world wide—in which communications between attorneys and clients in the context of providing legal representation are confidential and protected from disclosure. What happens though, when the attorney is also an employee of the corporation; what’s usually named as “in-house counsel.” Are communications between employees of the corporation…

Service of process (“Service”) is the process by which a party to a lawsuit gives the appropriate notice of initial legal action to another party. Within the United States, Service is usually personal, meaning that the “process server” has to physically deliver the lawsuit to the defendant’s hand. With some exceptions, that is the general rule. When it comes to international cases, Federal Rules of Civil…

  Abogado del Estudio Ayala, Eduardo A. Maura, presentará sobre visas basadas en peticiones familiares a los egresados de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. La presentación será el día Sabado 16 de Julio a las 11:00 AM hora Peruana. La presentación tratará sobre los diferentes tipos de peticiones familiares existentes (de familiares directo o indirecto), las condiciones para la aprobación de una visa basada…

Ayala is proud to announce that Ayala’s attorney Eduardo A. Maura has been appointed to the board of directors of Catholic Legal Services (CLS). As stated in CLS’s website, CLS “is a nationally recognized agency with an experienced team of attorneys and immigration professionals and whose mission is to provide professional legal services, both application assistance and attorney representation before the Citizenship and Immigration Services,…