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Power Outage Hits Downtown!

Posted on February 26, 2008
Wow, that was weird. I have never seen so many lawyers and staff out on the streets all at once, downtown, walking around aimlessly as traffic lights were down, metromover at a standstill, elevators stopped, major buildings without power, and courts and restaurants closed...

Tom Julin Refuses to Comment

Posted on February 26, 2008
He's like that, sometimes:Miami lawyer Thomas Julin, who represents Bardach for The New York Times, declined to comment and specifically refused to discuss whether Bardach had turned over her subpoenaed decade-old tapes of the Posada interview.Julin told The Miami Herald that the tape matter was ''still unresolved,'' without elaborating...

Stop Making Sense

Posted on February 25, 2008
Here's attorney Harley Tropin, representing Norman Braman, at the County Commission meeting that recently approved handing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to a private business for a for-profit baseball enterprise, using funds dedicating to easing poverty, blight, and to providing affordable housing:Miami attorney Harley Tropin, representing car dealer Norman Braman, challenged the lack of public participation in the process and called for a referendum...

The Cost of Freedom? $200 Billion

Posted on February 22, 2008
And that's just Miami attorney Nick Gutierrez's exit fee:He is handling nearly 400 claims against Cuba's government, mostly on behalf of exiles who left their homeland in a hurry and had their property seized after Castro's guerrillas entered Havana and took power nearly half a century ago...

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Breaking -- Bobby Gilbert Wins Another Round in Citrus Canker Fight

Posted on February 21, 2008
Bobby gets a jury trial in Broward: In another major legal victory for thousands of South Florida residents, a Broward circuit judge ruled Thursday that a jury -- not the state -- will determine how much the government will have to pay for citrus trees ripped from their back yards during the failed canker eradication program...

A Miami Story

Posted on February 21, 2008
LA has Raymond Chandler, New York has Jimmy Breslin, and Miami has....attorney Jay Thornton?In an "only in Miami" story, Jay spins a fanciful tale that has opposing counsel Luis Delgado shaking his head, perhaps in admiration: For the first time since he was shot and nearly killed last May, Latin songwriter Estefano on Wednesday faced in court the man he accuses of hatching a murder plot against him...

More Gross Legal Incompetence and/or Corruption At City Hall

Posted on February 20, 2008
The saga of disgraced Miami City Attorney Jorge Fernandez continues. This time -- wait for it -- it involves a "poorly drafted" employment agreement that may give Fernandez as much as $250k in severance, irrespective of the reasons for his termination:In a statement in Spanish and English, he formally admitted that he was reimbursed by the city for expenses unrelated to his job...

Judge Ungaro Sanctions Richard Burton

Posted on February 19, 2008
Judge U lowers the boom on attorney Richard Burton, in a well-reasoned and logical opinion in the General Del Pino case. I don't know Richard Burton the attorney, or any of the facts of that case, so I have no idea whether Judge Ungaro's order is fair or not...

Roberto Martinez Is Highly Evolved

Posted on February 18, 2008
There is an important vote before the Florida Board of Education over whether or not to update Florida's education protocol so that evolution is not just mentioned in passing, but is instead a mandatory teaching topic in Florida's public schools:Nearly 150 years after Charles Darwin revolutionized biology, evolution will become required study in Florida classrooms if the state Board of Education approves new science standards Tuesday that explicitly names the ''E'' word for the first time...

For the Good Times

Posted on February 14, 2008
Notoriously inept, incompetent, and...well, let me stop there.Miami City Attorney Jorge Fernandez has "resigned": Television station CBS4 reported that Fernandez brokered a plea arrangement with the Miami-Dade County State Attorney's Office. Fernandez will reportedly plead guilty to two counts of making false official statements, avoiding felony charges...

Paul Huck Jr. Coming Back to Miami

Posted on February 14, 2008
He's joining plaintiffs' firm Colson Hicks, after serving Governor Crist for only a year.Is Tallahassee that bad?Let's see, his Dad is a federal judge, his wife is a 3d DCA judge, and he's joining one of the most connected, preeminent plaintiffs' firms in the state...

Seth Miles Settles a Big One

Posted on February 13, 2008
Young gunner Seth Miles recently settled one of the wrongful death claims arising from Palm Beach multimillionaire Fred Keller's shooting spree:Millionaire murderer Fred Keller was known as a tough, tight-fisted businessman, and now in death his estate has prevailed in court cases for the second time in the past week...

More Fun and Games With Jim Ferraro

Posted on February 11, 2008
Fresh from jilting his bride at the altar (they subsequently did indeed marry), this time ole Jim is seeking to enforce a "verbal agreement" with his deceased law partner in Ohio:For nine years, Michael Kelley and James Ferraro ran one of the most profitable plaintiffs' law firms in Cleveland ? so profitable that they were able to buy three jets, million-dollar mansions and an arena football team...

Michael Diaz Likes Fine Wine, Jazz, Large Multinational Corporations

Posted on February 11, 2008
Litigator Michael Diaz Jr. seduces large multinational corporations with the coo-coo buttercups of love:Hailing from more than 50 countries, some 1,400 South Florida multinational companies -- a number expected to grow exponentially over the next decade -- produce more than $200 billion in annual revenue, according to a recent Beacon Council and WorldCity study...

Ben is On Everyone's Mind

Posted on February 08, 2008
Well, Ben's appearance before Judge Brown yesterday could not have been more well-timed, given that there were at least two Bar events later that day for lawyers to congregate and discuss this shocking news. Between the Dade County Bar luncheon and the Federal Bar reception later that evening, many of us had an opportunity to join in common cause in denouncing this misguided prosecution...

Ben Kuehne Arrested!

Posted on February 07, 2008
Come on, what the hell is going on in America: Ben Kuehne, a widely respected Miami lawyer whose clients have included former Vice President Al Gore and other major politicians, surrendered Thursday on federal criminal charges for his behind-the-scenes role in a complex international drug-trafficking case...

"There Can Be Only One"

Posted on February 06, 2008
A battle of Highlander proportions is shaping up inside historic Courtroom 6-2 before Judge Freeman. It's an insider trading case pitting dapper Brit Mark Solomon from the San Diego office of Coughlin Stoia against truck-for-food holiday card giver Gene Stearns...

Jay Kim Has An Associate!

Posted on February 06, 2008
I kid, I kid.Apparently, he's even nice to this unnamed, alleged young lawyer:Jay Kim, of the Fort Lauderdale law firm WardKim, recently allowed an associate to work a few weeks from another country and others to have flexibility to do volunteer work during office hours...

The Alvarez Memo

Posted on February 05, 2008
I've been asked a few times to comment on this Cesar Alvarez memo to all Greenberg Traurig lawyers, recounted in this DBR story:Greenberg Traurig fell $10 million short on year-end collections and will leave salaries ?at present levels until we get a better financial picture for 2008,? chief executive officer Cesar Alvarez wrote in a memo to the firm?s lawyers...

So, How Was Your Super Bowl?

Posted on February 05, 2008
Reports coming in on lawyer-hosted Super Bowl parties....I heard there was a great rock band at Gary Levinson's house, and that a few lawyers got sick at a certain mansion off of Old Cutler.Me, six shots of tequila in and I started to think the Giants could win it...

Moldy Federal Courthouse Update

Posted on February 01, 2008
Intrepid reporter Julie Kay continues to break news on the allegedly moldy old federal courthouse:A federal judge issued an emergency ex-parte restraining order barring the federal government from cleaning up mold from the David W. Dyer Federal Courthouse in Miami and allowing an inspection of the building to take place immediately...

Is This Thing On?

Posted on February 01, 2008
Ok, sorry for the lack of content, I had to go make some money.Now that I got that pesky lawyering out of the way, let's have some fun. This story about "abysmal associate attire" had me thinking. Which firm has the best-dressed associates? The worst? I can remember some atrocious outfits, but nothing quite as bad as yoga pants and Ugg boots:The generational divide is playing out in law firm fashion wars, with younger lawyers favoring business casual and even yoga pants and older lawyers tending to wear more traditional business attire...

Pickin' A Jury

Posted on January 28, 2008
I'm picking a jury tomorrow in a reasonably small civil matter. Should be interesting. Chance of settlement nearing 40%. If it settles I will let you know, otherwise won't be back before maybe Thursday or Friday.Be good people! Feel free to thread away...

Jeff Herman Likes Red Meat!!

Posted on January 28, 2008
Successful pedophile prosecutor and public carnivore Jeffrey Herman explains:Herman has a weakness on business trips: red meat. He's got a favorite steakhouse in every city (including Miami, where he heads up to The Palm in Bal Harbour). His order: New York strip, medium rare, side salad...

Bye Bye Jay Wingate. Hello Peter Sotolongo?

Posted on January 25, 2008
Sorry for the lack of posts, folks, I had some lawyering to do. Ok, actually I went skiing in Colorado for a couple days. By the way, the powder was very nice.Anyway, news here that Jay Wingate has agreed to drop out of the law business in the wake of allegations involving inside Royal Caribbean settlement info:Embattled lawyer Jay Wingate agreed Thursday to drop out of 77 shipboard injury cases after Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines claimed his firm paid a cruise employee for inside information...

Where for Art Thou, Ted Babbitt?

Posted on January 23, 2008
You got to love it when a judge resorts to the classics to get Palm Beach trial lawyer Ted Babbitt to pipe down:A throng of attorneys negotiated at length over the holiday weekend, trying to reach a "global settlement" of their claims against Keller's estate...

Another Pleasant Valley Monday

Posted on January 22, 2008
Here in status symbol land....Opened up the paper, learned that 60s singer-songwriter John ("Daydream Believer") Stewart is dead.Driving in to work, traffic was particularly bad. Usual collection of freaks and geeks in the parking lot. Painful elevator ride...

Jared Beck in the News

Posted on January 18, 2008
Fellow blogger and condo cancellation expert Jared Beck has a few quotes and a dashing photo in yesterday's DBR.Dear commentators, I know I know -- Mike Schlesinger.(I've said this before, but Mike, dude, get to work on that website!)

The Taste Police, They Come to Me in My Bed

Posted on January 17, 2008
It's bad enough to file a legally unmeritorious lawsuit, but it's even worse to violate Miguel A. De Grandy's impeccable sense of good taste. That's just over the line: Martha Flores, a popular Spanish-language radio host, will not have to respond to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Miami late last year charging she violated the rights of a former Cuban general exiled in Miami...

When It Rains, It Pours

Posted on January 16, 2008
Jay Wingate manages to stay active.If you're not busy defeating allegations that you ripped off Bill Huggett's widow, you're facing a motion like this:Two investigators with a Miami law firm paid a Royal Caribbean Cruises employee to obtain inside information on the amount of money the company would be willing to pay to settle workplace injury claims, the employee alleges in a sworn court affidavit...

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