Adolfo Pesquera

May 09, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Solo practitioner Christopher O'Toole helped a client win two $1.5 million verdicts in a Boca Raton Police Department false arrest and a witness false identification case.

By Adolfo Pesquera

4 minute read

August 31, 2012 | Daily Business Review

The Florida Supreme Court agreed with state Judicial Qualifications Commission findings that Broward Circuit Judge Dale Cohen violated the Code of Judicial Conduct.

By Adolfo Pesquera

5 minute read

June 27, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Hundreds of phone calls and text messages between former Broward Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner and Howard Scheinberg, a former homicide prosecutor under investigation by The Florida Bar, were at all times personal and not case-related, according to Scheinberg.

By Adolfo Pesquera

5 minute read

May 17, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Two attorneys helped win a $6.7 million award in a breach of contract suit for damages to a Vero Beach resort held by Gloria and Emilio Estefan that sustained damages in Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne.

By Adolfo Pesquera

4 minute read

September 05, 2013 | Law.com

A former lieutenant in the brutal regime of Chilean General Augusto Pinochet faces a lawsuit in Florida federal court in the abduction, torture and killing of renowned folk singer and political activist Victor Jara.

By Adolfo Pesquera

4 minute read

September 17, 2013 | Law.com

American Federated Title Corp., the loser in a lawsuit against Greenberg Traurig over a real estate deal that went bad, is fighting an uphill battle in asking the Third District Court of Appeal to reinstate the case.

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5 minute read

June 13, 2012 | Daily Business Review

After months of delay caused by a bidder protest, the Broward County Commission awarded a $179 million construction project for a new courthouse in downtown Fort Lauderdale to James A. Cummings Inc.

By Adolfo Pesquera

4 minute read

January 12, 2011 | Daily Business Review

It took some arm-twisting from Broward County officials, but Public Defender Howard Finkelstein finally made his appointment to the inspector general selection committee more than two months after voters approved creating the office. He picked Anthony V. Alfieri, founder and director of the Center for Ethics and Public Service at the UM School of Law.

By Adolfo Pesquera

5 minute read

June 28, 2013 | Daily Business Review

A Croatian painter living in Wellington claims she can prove UPS systematically diverts high-value packages and profits from their sale through a third-party auction broker.

By Adolfo Pesquera

8 minute read

January 26, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Crane Johnstone, Charles Patrick and Sheldon J. Schlesinger of the Law Offices of Sheldon J. Schlesinger in Fort Lauderdale helped a woman whose daughter lost limbs after the onset pneumococcal disease win a $7.56 million award.

By Adolfo Pesquera

4 minute read