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Not Enough Sex? Blame Your Blackberry

Posted on March 27, 2008
Ok, all you overexcited, undersexed office-dwellers, wondering why you cannot have sex more often, thinking about sex, fantasizing about sex, purchasing sex aids and little blue pills, slobbering over photos of the lovely Cocaine Princess yet glossing over her thoughtful, lyrical prose -- you can blame your Blackberry:This month, Solutions Research Group, an organization that provides data to high-tech companies and also conducts surveys of our technology habits, published a report called ?Age of Disconnect Anxiety...

Podhurst Orseck Files Brazilian Air Crash Suits

Posted on March 27, 2008
In a major coup over highly coveted clients, Podhurst Orseck has filed suit on behalf of 59 victims and their families over Brazil's worst air disaster:Relatives of victims of Brazil's worst air disaster have filed suit in Miami seeking damages in 59 wrongful death complaints, attorneys said in a statement Wednesday...

Hector Chichoni Joins Epstein Becker

Posted on March 26, 2008
Anyone else see that Hector Chichoni has followed Joe Klock over to Mike Casey's shop:Nationally known immigration attorney Hector Chichoni has joined the Miami office of law firm Epstein Becker & Green, the Firm announced today. "Chichoni?s extensive experience will bring additional depth to the Firm?s Immigration Law Group in South Florida, while adding to our existing substantial national resources in this growing area of the law," said Michael W...

Brian LaBovick Helps Grow Indian Legal Economy

Posted on March 25, 2008
We all know that major coding and document review jobs are frequently outsourced, but what about legal work? Brian LaBovick is sending his grunt research jobs to lawyers in India:By outsourcing some of his research tasks to India, Jupiter attorney Brian LaBovick saves as much as half on what it would cost to have the work done by legal professionals in the United States...

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News of the World

Posted on March 24, 2008
Boy it's nice to open up the paper and read some good news for a change: For a peek inside an economic slowdown, step into downtown Miami's Burrito Express and look for sandwich bags and tinfoil.''They're bringing their own lunch,'' cook John Sierra said as he stood by an idle grill...

Ahh, Fighting Over Origination Credit

Posted on March 21, 2008
Do lawyers still do that anymore?Of course they do. A trial about to start in DC will shed some light into what can be a dirty little business and a major source of big firm frustrations:It's been two and a half years since Douglas Rosenthal filed an $8...

Can Excusable Neglect Defeat Dr. Doom? Only the 3DCA Can Tell

Posted on March 20, 2008
Once again continuing in its fine tradition of ruling however it wants, using whatever rationale is convenient and seems to apply at the time, the 3d DCA extends the concept of "excusable neglect" so far that even Mr. Fantastic is impressed.You can read the head-scratching opinion here...

Scott Dimond Has a Good Case; Alvin Davis Wants to Defend It

Posted on March 19, 2008
I kid I kid. Scott has lots of good cases, but this one seems exceptionally strong: Miami's Astar Air Cargo claims it was defrauded by Merrill Lynch and is demanding the return of $9 million the carrier said is frozen in an investment account with the brokerage...

Jose Quinon on Ben Kuehne Indictment

Posted on March 18, 2008
I guess he's trying to be helpful:If Kuehne is guilty of anything, it's of being na�ve, said Jose Quinon, a solo Miami criminal defense attorney. Quinon represented Ochoa before Black, but withdrew from the case after failing to satisfy himself that the legal fees were entirely clean...

They Write Scary Books

Posted on March 18, 2008
Along with fears about terrorists, fears about subprime mortgages, fears about lead paint in toys, high cholesterol, nervous legs, toxic cough medicine, 4-day erections, and falling cranes, Charlie Lipcon says you can add fears about cruise ships:"More than 12 million people a year take cruises...

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Posted on March 17, 2008
Lift your glass with me to perhaps the finest version of Danny Boy ever:

Peter Sotolongo Update

Posted on March 17, 2008
We've previously written about Peter here and here. Finally, some good news: he just beat Curtis Mase in his first admiralty trial.Anyone know the details?

Something Educational, For a Change?

Posted on March 17, 2008
Here is a link I was forwarded with 1-2 minutes snippets of mostly federal judges, including Supreme Court judges, commenting or advising on brief writing, oral argument, etc. No South Florida judges are interviewed, but it is still worth looking at a few of them.

Paul Singerman: Self-Proclaimed Workaholic

Posted on March 17, 2008
Is Paul Singerman the hardest working man in bankruptcy?''We'd rather work a little bit harder for a little bit longer and not have people worried about their jobs,'' Singerman says.Singerman starts his day at about 5:30 a.m. and works from home until about 7 a...

Bring Me the Head of John Rivera

Posted on March 14, 2008
Reports flowing in of the wonderful investiture elevating Miami-Dade County Judge George A. Sarduy to the circuit bench. Another quality appointment (thank you Governor Crist and Paul Huck, Jr.!).Among many highlights, one had to be Florida and Dade County PBA President John Rivera, who unleashed an hilarious and heartfelt corker of a speech -- managing to entertainingly fit in one speech judicial corruption, greedy lawyers, obsure legal mumbo jumbo, how Judge Sarduy succeeded after being a high school dropout -- heck, he even stopped the speech to ask a "pretty lady" in the crowd out for a date...

Time for A Long Vacation

Posted on March 14, 2008
There are many attorneys in public life who I enjoy reading and writing about. In terms of sheer hilarity, I would have to put former North Miami City Attorney Barry Kutun near the top of my list.It's not just the shocking lack of judgment, but the details were just so much fun...

How About That?

Posted on March 13, 2008
This is a true man-bites-dog story: an real live intelligent, well-reasoned, and persuasive opinion from the 3d DCA. Well, what do you know!Judge Salter is already having an impact. In an opinion released yesterday, he plainly and simply walks us through the basic law on actual agency relationships, and then, heaven forbid, applies the law directly to the evidence, using specific examples to illustrate the legal principles involved...

Thank You Kendall Coffey!

Posted on March 12, 2008
Some days it's hard to find material for the blog. My sources let me down, I'm busy, sometimes there's just not that much to write about.Other days, you find gold.For those living under a rock, there is a brewing scandal surrounding the prosecutor-that-could, former superstar NY AG Eliott Spitzer -- now Governor of New York -- and a slight hooker problem he has developed, courtesy of the feds...

Where in the World Is Roberto Martinez?

Posted on March 11, 2008
Between battling evil anti-evolution luddites (sorry for the misread earlier, Bobby!) and not appearing much at Tax and Budget Reform Committee meetings, it's a wonder Roberto has any time to practice law:According to commission attendance records, members who have had the most no-shows include Lee County Circuit Court Judge Bruce Kyle, who has attended 18 percent of the meetings; Miami lawyer Roberto ''Bobby'' Martinez, 29 percent; Mark Bostick, president of Comcar Industries in Winter Haven and Alan Levine, outgoing president of the North Broward Hospital District, 53 percent, and Miami attorney Carlos Lacasa, 59 percent...

Let Them Eat Cake

Posted on March 07, 2008
But only once, according to the Third DCA:The Third District Court of Appeal on Wednesday upheld a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge's ruling that barred buyers in the ill-fated 49-story 1390 Brickell Bay condominium project from seeking possible profits from the sale of their units had they been built...

Bad Moon Arising?

Posted on March 06, 2008
From the ominous signs department:A correspondent writes in: SFL, I was in Greenberg Traurig for a deposition this morning. When I went to the front desk to get my ticket validated, I was told that GT no longer does this. When I asked the attorney, I was told they stopped doing this as a cost-cutting measure...

Bobby Brochin Scores Big!

Posted on March 06, 2008
Of course, it may have helped that the opposing team refused to show up: A former Peruvian military officer must pay $37 million in damages to two survivors of a 1985 massacre he led in an Andean village.U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan in Miami on Wednesday ordered Telmo Hurtado, 46, to give the money to two women who were children at the time of the Accomarca Massacre...

Ahh, The Good Old Days!

Posted on March 05, 2008
Were they really that good?This piece about the release of former Miami-Dade County judge Harvey Shenberg got me thinking:Released from federal prison: Harvey Shenberg, former Miami-Dade County judge. Shenberg, 64, convicted in 1993 of racketeering conspiracy and extortion in the Operation Court Broom judicial corruption scandal, got out last week...

Just Pay. Pay Now. How Much? Just Pay It.

Posted on March 04, 2008
This has no South Florida angle, but is simply too much to pass up. Here is an account of the testimony of John Ritter's widow -- recalling on the stand his final minutes -- in her $67 million wrongful death suit against his doctor and radiologist:Sobbing into her hands, John Ritter's widow on Monday gave jurors in a wrongful-death trial a minute-by-minute account of events leading up to the actor's death in 2003...

uVu -- A New South Florida Website

Posted on March 04, 2008
This one is not strictly legal, but WPBT Channel 2 has launched what appears to be a more high-minded, local version of Youtube, called uVu: Imagine the ability to watch a program, performance or lecture and instantly share your view with the rest of the South Florida community...

Miami City Club Is Regrettably Orgy-Free

Posted on March 03, 2008
Hey, I've been to the City Club many times, and have never seen anything like this:The call girl, who spoke exclusively to CBS4, said that on numerous occasions, women from the prostitution agencies were called to attend late-night parties at The Denver Club, a plush squash and social club located on the top two floors of a downtown skyscraper...

Oh, The Horrors

Posted on March 03, 2008
Imagine the dark, depressing dystopia that would envelope our State if this proposed bill regulating arbitration provisions in consumer contracts were by some miracle to pass:Among some of the provisions of the bill, sponsored by Sen. Ted Deutch, a Boca Raton Democrat whose district includes a portion of Broward County, are:? Any arbitration notice must state the parties are entitled to representation...

Jorge Fernandez and Tomas Regalado -- Made for Each Other

Posted on February 29, 2008
One is a disgrace and totally incompetent, the other is a disgrace and...Oh I can't get them straight anymore. Let's just go to the videotape:The ex-official's generous benefits package included a provision for six months' severance upon separation from the city -- regardless of the circumstances...

Just Who Is Ira Buchbinder?

Posted on February 28, 2008
Have they finally just merged, bodies and soul, to create some kind of uber-lawyer? Yes, says DBR reporter Billy Shields:Attorney Ira Buchbinder of Buchbinder & Elegant in Miami who represents the city, declined to comment.It's about time. You take the pugnacious elements from one, and the humor and good grace from the other, and you just about have it all in one shiny, unbeatable package...

Stuart Grossman Dresses Better Than You Do

Posted on February 27, 2008
He'll be the first one to admit it:Coral Gables trial attorney Stuart Z. Grossman is declared ''Best Dressed Lawyer in Miami'' by Florida Trend. Grossman, 61, buys custom suits at Bertini on Miracle Mile in the Gables and Maus & Hoffman in Fort Lauderdale, and Duchamp ties at Barneys in New York...

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