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Stu Grossman Has Floor Seats to All Heat Games (And You Don't)

Posted on May 05, 2008
Big Stu, in a letter to the Herald today:For the past 11 years I've had the privilege of watching Pat Riley coach the Miami Heat from a seat 20 feet from him.Ok ok, we get it -- you're rich and successful, and we're not (as much).

"It's a Racket"

Posted on May 02, 2008
That's Miami attorney Matt Weinstein, describing the ADA practice of Sam Aurilio:"He's a maverick," says attorney Samuel Aurilio, who has been Fox's all-important sidekick in his crusade to get businesses to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act...

Time To Rain On City's Parade

Posted on May 02, 2008
Note to City:When planning a major parade through the primary transit streets of downtown Miami, try not to schedule it on a Friday at the HEIGHT OF FRICKIN' RUSH HOUR!At about 9:30 this morning, the City threw rush hour traffic into total and absolute chaos, closing important routes such as Flagler and Miami Avenue for approximately 40 minutes so that a parade could travel down the main streets of Miami...

3d DCA Watch -- Fetid Odor Edition

Posted on May 01, 2008
So let's see what happened yesterday in the new batch of opinions released by the 3d DCA, available to all appellate junkies here.As usual, lots of "State v. Somebody" and "Somebody v. State" opinions. I'll leave the outrage/boredom to Rumpy and other criminal attorneys to sort out...

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So How About That Florida Legislature?

Posted on April 30, 2008
What a bunch of kooks! In a time of deep economic anxiety, record-high gas prices, and a broadening recession, does anyone even care what the hail they are doing up there in Tallahassee? Let's take a peek:Of the myriad losers in a state budget that cuts a record $4 billion in spending, public education will lose the most -- with Miami-Dade and Broward schools getting hit hardest of all...

Help, Or Hype?

Posted on April 29, 2008
Recently I have been barraged with numerous requests to join "new" legal communities of various kinds, all of which have gotten very favorable treatment in the press. For example, this NYT article about a new site where you can upload and download briefs etc...

Hello??

Posted on April 29, 2008
What am I, chopped liver?I sit at my desk, waiting to pounce into action on behalf of a client, yet I keep getting passed over. First, TO passes over me to hire Allan Lerner to write a cease-and-desist letter over some "porn happens" incident on South Beach...

Bye Bye Blank Rome?

Posted on April 25, 2008
Mass defections at Blank Rome's Boca office:At least half of Blank Rome's Boca Raton office is leaving for Greenberg Traurig, and sources say the rest are in negotiations to go. That could leave Philadelphia-based Blank Rome without a Florida office for the first time in 30 years...

Oh, To Be Allan Lerner!

Posted on April 25, 2008
One of the perks of being a litigator is you just never know what your day will bring. Can you imagine, sitting in your office, starting the day, and who should call but Terrell Owens! And he inadvertently stumbled onto some porn being filmed on South Beach...

Metrorail Chaos on Morning Commute

Posted on April 24, 2008
Anyone remember that old Neil Rogers bit about the bridge tender? Where Neil goes off on an dim-witted caller about how five thousand cars have to wait for one schmuck on a boat?Well, many staffers and lawyers were paralyzed on the morning commute this morning when a teenager suddenly jumped into the path of an oncoming Metrorail car:The incident happened as the northbound train approached the Douglas station at 7:23 a...

For Chris Carver Diehards Only

Posted on April 24, 2008
You know who you are, and you must be fed:In court documents, Milstein listed his rate at $475 an hour for his work at the hearing and a brief appeal. He also charged for time spent planning Smith?s funeral, overseeing the trust set up in Dannielynn?s name and responding to paternity issues...

Alan Shore Goes to the Supreme Court

Posted on April 24, 2008
Ok, I couldn't resist.

More Mold in the Old Federal Courthouse

Posted on April 23, 2008
The drips, drabs, and bad headlines that I predicted would flow from the government not aggressively moving to resolve former Magistrate Judge Ted Klein's imminent wrongful death case are here, in a fresh installment: A lawyer for the family of late U...

Some Days You Eat the Bear, Some Days the Bear Eats You

Posted on April 23, 2008
What do you all make of this Texas Lawyer article about how we all live in fear every day in our practices: "Our firm is ruled by fear," said Steve. "Hell, the whole profession is about fear. Fear of not billing hours, fear of not bringing in business, fear of losing business...

"Mistakes Were Made."

Posted on April 22, 2008
Oops! You gotta love the old "clerical error":Allstate's 1,100 insurance agents in Florida are still in business, thanks to a mistake by a Florida appeals court.Less than an hour after issuing an order denying Allstate's appeal of a state-ordered suspension, the 1st District Court of Appeal withdrew it late Monday afternoon...

Time Is Passing Us By

Posted on April 21, 2008
So, how was your Passover dinner?There's nothing like having your family and friends together, celebrating the horrific tale of murder and death that is Pesach.Oh yeah -- it does have a happy ending (for some).But isn't this year flying by? Things are moving so fast sometimes it is hard to catch up with it all...

Windsurfing Time

Posted on April 16, 2008
I am informed by my windsurfing pals that the next few days look pretty good for those who only lawyer only as an excuse to windsurf (you know who you are, and there are more of us than you think).So unless the weather changes I'm cancelling some depos, moving a court date, and ignoring a request to schedule a mediation for the next couple of days so I can hang on the Key, get loaded, and windsurf my arse off...

Loquacious Pat Gonya Now Speechless

Posted on April 16, 2008
Just a few days ago Pat Gonya was happily explaining to the press how, in these tough economic times, you have to be very careful when you fire someone so that they could have no possible legal recourse. Ok, he didn't say that exactly, but you get the idea...

BREAKING -- Mistrial (Again) in Liberty 6

Posted on April 16, 2008
Yet another mistrial for the prosecutors in the Liberty 6: After 12 difficult days of deliberations, a federal jury on Wednesday deadlocked in the second trial of a Miami group accused of plotting with al Qaeda to overthrow the United States -- an unprecedented outcome in the government's legal war on domestic terrorism since the Sept...

Young Scotty Dimond in Today's DBR

Posted on April 16, 2008
Before all you haters start in, let me preface this by saying Scott and his firm are great and I have a lot of respect for those guys.But Scotty, you're about to be photographed for a big story about your case involving auction-rate securities, which I previously noted here...

Picking A Jury

Posted on April 15, 2008
I guess all the bitter gun-lovin' anti-immigrant Bible-thumpers that Obama has been going on about showed up en masse in Bobby Gilbert's courtroom yesterday. Can someone explain to these kind folks that Bobby is actually trying to help homeowners get relief from an illegal government taking: There was no shortage of opinions on the first day of jury selection in the class action lawsuit brought by some 60,000 Broward homeowners against the state of Florida for destroying their citrus trees...

The World According to Pat Gonya

Posted on April 14, 2008
Dashing Pat Gonya in today's DBR, explaining in today's tough times that companies should be careful when they terminate employees:But defense employment attorneys say some companies can avoid layoffs if they are careful and judicious.?You really need to cross your T?s and dot your I?s before you start terminating employees,? said Patrick Gonya Jr...

Raoul Cantero, Welcome Back

Posted on April 14, 2008
Some of us have known about Florida Supreme Court Justice Raoul Cantero's possible decision to leave the bench and return to Miami, but now that it is public it is a loss for the Florida Bar and the public in general.A smart, careful jurist, Raoul's decision was undoubtedly difficult but understandable...

Kevin "Bo" Dennis Doesn't Like It When Tourists Get the Crap Beat Out of Them

Posted on April 11, 2008
Just what kind of pansy town does Dennis think we have here? I said the bill was $700. Written receipt? My arse. Now let's go the club's office so you nice college fellas can be assaulted -- allegedly -- by eight of the meanest bouncers this side of Roadhouse:The surveillance video shows what looks like and an argument between one of the University of Delaware students and staff at the Mansion night club...

Gabrielle D'Alemberte Joins Bob Parks

Posted on April 10, 2008
Finally, some good news coming out of that office, after criticism of Parks for his role in the Sharper Image litigation. Congrats Ms. D'Alemberte!Anyone know what happened to that proposed settlement? With the company in bankruptcy I have to think it's a loss-loss all around.

City of Miami To Employ "Belts and Suspenders" Legal Approach. HA HA HA HA HA HA

Posted on April 09, 2008
No it's not April's Fools, but new City of Miami attorney Julie O. Bru -- apparently with a straight face -- claims the City will adopt a "belts and suspenders" legal approach to fending off Harley Tropin's attack on the bullcrap, I mean, global rebuilding/Marlins Assistance Act boondoggle that they ramrodded through without public vote or even comment: In his lawsuit opposing the pact, auto magnate Norman Braman claims the city violated its own notice laws for the Dec...

Lawyers Don't Read Adhesion Contracts Either

Posted on April 08, 2008
The next time you big-firm wankers have to recycle boilerplate in a brief about how some poor schmuck should be bound by an absurd, ridiculous adhesion contract that no one read, let alone understood, try to remember that you too are a victim of bullcrap contracts filled with nonsensical and unenforceable clauses:What's scary, funny and boring at the same time? It could be a bad horror movie...

The Dick Corp.

Posted on April 07, 2008
What can I say, I didn't pick these guys as contractors.But is it just me or are we about to create another mold-filled federal courthouse:The building still has work to be done, however, and only a temporary certificate of occupancy has been issued. Still to be dealt with are a flooded basement tunnel for transporting prisoners to the Federal Detention Center next door, a broken air conditioning system in the marshal's firing range and an electrical system that has failed numerous inspections...

Rain, Storms, Hip Brickell Tweeners, and $540 an Hour

Posted on April 07, 2008
Hi folks! How's your wet, dreary drive in to work today? Or are you one of these hotshot hipsters who inhabit Brickell's newly chic haunts, according to this overheated Miami Herald article? Then I guess you just take a quick shower and saunter over to to Greenberg, after a late late night at Segafredo Cafe...

Hy Shapiro To the Rescue!

Posted on March 28, 2008
Would you buy decades-old Hungarian or possibly Chinese ammo from this young Miami Beach clubgoer? For $300 million?Apparently the Pentagon did:Oh, man. Not cool. Not only has the Army suspended any further contracts for AEY (the shady contractor run by 22 year-old Efraim Diveroli), but the U...

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