In a dramatic departure from South Florida plaintiffs firm Lytal Reiter Clark Fountain & Williams, six partners, headed by 25-year firm veteran Mark Clark, exited with only…
In the latest example of how the legal system is apparently too overwhelmed to properly handle a deluge of mortgage foreclosures, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel is reporting that…
Adding to the uncertainty created by a major mortgage servicer’s decision to call a temporary halt to foreclosures and related activity in 23 states, a…
Husband-and-wife Florida personal-injury lawyers Kathryn Fenderson Scott and Charles Scott practice law together and blog together. It’s the latter activity that spurred a lawsuit against them, filed by a marketing…
A former law student who sued Florida Coastal School of Law for failing to accommodate her depression and other disabilities has lost her federal appeal.
Although he played professional football for more than a decade and earned a championship ring when the St. Louis Rams went to the Super Bowl in 2001, Chidi Ahanotu says…
A Houston lawyer who tapped a deponent’s foot under the table thought he was in contact with a pillar, not a person, according to an insurance company fighting a disqualification…
A federal judge has ruled that Tampa, Fla., lawyer Ken Dandar can’t withdraw from a case he filed against the Church of Scientology because no other lawyer wants to take…
A Hollywood, Fla., lawyer was sentenced to three years and 10 months in federal prison for embezzling $1.6 million in loan proceeds, including $1 million in a refinancing of his…
Finding that a trial judge had abused his discretion by failing to do so, a Florida appeals court has granted a new trial on most issues in a personal injury…
The economic crimes division of the Florida attorney general’s office is investigating whether possible wrongdoing by three law firms may have played a role in obtaining thousands of mortgage foreclosure…
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