Adolfo Pesquera

November 09, 2010 | Daily Business Review

After four hours of deliberation, jurors set damages for Manos Milien at $33.1 million. He was found 5 percent liable for not wearing a seat belt.

By Adolfo Pesquera

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September 02, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Gov. Rick Scott appointed business litigator and insurance defense attorney Rosemarie Scher to the Palm Beach circuit bench, filling a vacancy left by the resignation of Circuit Judge Elizabeth T. Maass.

By Adolfo Pesquera

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August 11, 2011 | Daily Business Review

A Broward County jury awarded $11.5 million and found the state 15 percent at fault in the death of North Miami Beach officer Orestes Lorenzo. But the 4th DCA said Broward Circuit Judge Peter M. Weinstein should have dismissed the 2008 verdict against the state on grounds of sovereign immunity.

By Adolfo Pesquera

2 minute read

December 02, 2010 | Daily Business Review

Citing violations of federal employment law, former employees of DJSP Enterprises filed a class action lawsuit against the embattled mortgage foreclosure processing firm and its founder, Plantation attorney David J. Stern.

By Adolfo Pesquera

1 minute read

March 30, 2011 | Daily Business Review

The widow of catering maven Michael Pecora had no right to get involved in a receiver's sale of the Signature Grand catering facility in Davie after her husband killed his business partner and then himself at work, the 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled.

By Adolfo Pesquera

2 minute read

April 22, 2011 | Law.com

Henry "Hank" Adorno, co-founder of the collapsed law firm Adorno & Yoss, was given a three-year suspension Thursday by the Florida Supreme Court, which rejected a referee's recommendation of a public reprimand for his role in a controversial settlement of a class action lawsuit with the city of Miami.

By Adolfo Pesquera

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June 13, 2011 | Law.com

Banco Industrial de Venezuela dodged $7 million in claims when the Florida Supreme Court reversed an award to a former bank officer convicted of money structuring. The former head of the bank's Miami office claimed the bank breached her employment contract and violated an indemnification law by not paying her back wages and legal fees.

By Adolfo Pesquera

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April 25, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Gwynne A. Young, a shareholder in the Tampa office of Carlton Fields, was chosen president-elect of The Florida Bar. Young beat Walter G. "Skip" Campbell of the Krupnick Campbell Malone firm in Fort Lauderdale in a runoff.

By Adolfo Pesquera

3 minute read

October 07, 2011 | Daily Business Review

A minority partner in Smoking Everywhere won a $241,296 judgment against a defunct Weston company and its co-founder for failure to pay back his investment.

By Adolfo Pesquera

2 minute read

April 13, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Eight former Yoss attorneys have joined Hinshaw & Culbertson. The most senior addition is Neil S. Rollnick, former Yoss real estate chair and partner-in-charge of the Coral Gables office.

By Adolfo Pesquera

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