Adolfo Pesquera, based in San Antonio, covering Texas courts. Contact at [email protected]. On Twitter: @Adolfo_PEZ
May 16, 2013 | Daily Business Review
Boca Raton Horse Rider Awarded Nearly $2 Million After Fall Blamed On Faulty BridleRoderick Coleman and Cory Carano won a judgment for a woman who says she was forced to bail off a horse after the cheek piece of a defective bridle worked loose.
By Adolfo Pesquera
4 minute read
May 23, 2013 | Daily Business Review
Florida Bar Investigates JAABlog Entries Of Broward AttorneyWilliam Gelin, best known as the main author of JAABlog, is under investigation based on complaints that apparently stem from his comments about judges in Broward and Palm Beach counties.
By Adolfo Pesquera
5 minute read
May 06, 2011 | Daily Business Review
Judge hears conferences sorting through Stern casesDozens of attorneys and homeowners appeared before Palm Beach Circuit Judge Meenu Sasser to sort out a small part of the confusion and uncertainties created by the closure of the foreclosure practice of the Law Offices of David J. Stern.
By Adolfo Pesquera
5 minute read
April 04, 2013 | Daily Business Review
Attorneys help children of deceased smoker get $3.48 millionAlex Alvarez, Philip Freidin and Randy Rosenblum represented the three children of a man who died at 47 of a smoking-related cancer.
By Adolfo Pesquera
4 minute read
October 27, 2011 | Daily Business Review
Tripp Scott duo helps company recover $26 million in copyright caseFort Lauderdale attorneys Peter Herman and Alex D. Brown used old email to prove Member Services was the victim of a scheme to steal its web technology and steal Lowe's as a client.
By Adolfo Pesquera
4 minute read
August 29, 2013 | Daily Business Review
4th DCA Robo-Witnesses Ruling A Win For Former Condo OwnersA case testing the use of so-called robo-witnesses led to a reversal for former condominium owners challenging their foreclosures in the Fourth District Court of Appeal.
By Adolfo Pesquera
4 minute read
October 09, 2012 | Daily Business Review
Attorney Joe Altschul takes Trump on in suit on behalf of condo investorsCondominium buyers who lost almost $8 million in the Fort Lauderdale Trump tower fiasco hope to prove the developers committed fraud.
By Adolfo Pesquera
6 minute read
January 05, 2011 | Daily Business Review
18 new bench assignments in Miami-DadeMonths before they started their terms, Miami-Dade's newly elected judges met with their future chief judge and took turns picking tiny numbered papers to determine who was likely to get their preferred assignments. The assignments - and many subsequent shifts of judges to different divisions - became official Tuesday.
By Jose Pagliery and Adolfo Pesquera
4 minute read
February 29, 2012 | Law.com
Gibraltar, investors settle suit for $10 millionA group of Scott Rothstein's money-losing investors and Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust settled their dispute for $10 million cash plus a share in a bad faith insurance claim, investor attorney William Scherer said.
By Julie Kay and Adolfo Pesquera
3 minute read
June 25, 2013 | Law.com
Woman Claiming Assault in Mexico May Have Case Heard in FloridaA California resident sexually assaulted at a Mexican resort controlled by a Miami-based company may have her case heard in Florida, the state Supreme Court has ruled. Palace Resorts was sued for vicarious liability, negligent employee hiring and negligent vacation packaging.
By Adolfo Pesquera
4 minute read