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Florida Jury Slams Hit-and-Run Defendants with Over $100M Verdict

After a one-day trial and less than an hour of deliberations, the jury returned the over $100 million award to the plaintiffs, Jose Cruz, his wife and their children.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida's Second Hundred Firms Beat National Averages on Revenue, But Lagged on Headcount

Extraordinary performance at Greenspoon Marder skewed the average of Florida's five Second Hundred firms upward, but all but one of these firms grew revenues in the previous year.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Morgan & Morgan Launches $2 Million Summer Associates Program

For the first time, the firm selected 60 students for its summer associates program, which allows all participants to get exposure to the various levels of plaintiffs work from intake to trial, with a "large percentage" of them likely to land a job offer.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ex-PI Lawyer Testifies at His Murder Trial in DeKalb Superior Court

As he began his testimony, Richard Merritt painted an idyllic picture of his former life. However, as his crimes against his clients came to light, it began to crumble.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida's 3rd DCA Rules Attorney Who Appeared Late on Case on Hook for Past Sanctions

"When the court gets to talking about how in the present case, Shapiro came into the case after the sanctions motion was filed, they don't have a case to cite as precedent. This is going to become the case," said Robert Jarvis, an ethics expert.
4 minute read

Law.com

Justice Cleo Elaine Powell, First and Only African American Woman on Virginia High Court, to Receive Diversity Achievement Award

Cleo Elaine Powell, a Virginia Supreme Court justice who in 2011 became the first and only African American woman to serve on the state's high court in its 244-year history, has been named the 2023 recipient of the state bar's Clarence M. Dunnaville Jr. Achievement Award.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Ft. Lauderdale Boutique Opens Miami Office Helmed By Local Trial Veteran

Deborah Gander, now at Freedland Harwin Valori, has secured over $100 million in verdicts over the course of her career. The specialist in birth injury cases was previously at Coral Gables-based litigation shop Colson Hicks Eidson.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ga. Trial Courts Weigh Separation of Church and State as Methodist Conference Ordered to Proceed With Church Disaffiliations

"Our belief is that separation of church and state, specifically the free exercise clause and the establishment clause, are foundational tenets of our country and of our faith," the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church wrote in a statement regarding the pending litigation earlier this month.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Am Law 200 Law Firm Opens in Atlanta, Luring Veteran Lawyers From Georgia Firms

Bradley Arant is launching an office with 20 lawyers, including lawyers who were already leaders at their prior firms, said managing partner Jon Skeeters.
6 minute read

Law.com

State Appellate Court Reinstates Med-Mal Case After Expert Witness Standard-of-Care Discrepancies

Trial court did not allow plaintiff chance to address additional grounds: "A party cannot raise new issues in a motion to alter or amend."
5 minute read

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