A Miami law firm can’t continue to represent its client in a complex $100 million dispute because of a third party’s inadvertent production of privileged documents.
Allegedly too intoxicated to walk a straight line, a prominent South Florida lawyer charged with drunken driving early this morning after an accident in Fort Lauderdale still reportedly retained his…
As U.S. soldiers are fighting in Iraq, one of the biggest risks they face is the so-called IEDs—improvised explosive devices—that serve as bombs there.
Tallie Gainer III didn’t have any criminal record. A college graduate, a youth pastor and a happily married father of four children, he wasn’t a likely suspect in a bad-check…
The Florida Bar is recommending a suspension for the “obstreperous behavior” of a lawyer accused of failing to listen to the judge presiding over his traffic case. The lawyer, William…
Almost a decade ago, a 22-year-old client of Florida attorney Jay Hebert told him she had helped bury the body of a missing real estate agent. Her own boyfriend had…
A 31-year-old prohibition against adoptions of children by same-sex couples in Florida has been held unconstitutional by a trial judge in Monroe County.
Ruling today that the Miami-Dade Public Defender’s Office is too understaffed to handle most of the felony cases it is getting, a Florida judge said 60 percent must be handled…
A labor lawyer from one of two Orlando law firms threatened with sanctions for missing scheduling orders sparred with a federal judge in a hearing this month.
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