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Aggravated Assault with Deadly Weapon Tops Lawyer-Discipline Roundup

The victim told police the attorney had his passenger window down and said "he was going to ... kill him."
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

'Own Your Bad Facts': Miami Jurors Return $8M Verdict

"You let the jury know about them and you bring them up first so when they hear it from the defense in the case, there aren't any surprises," said John Lukacs Jr., a partner at Raposo & Lukacs.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Smith, Gambrell & Russell Grows Real Estate, International Practices in New York

The Atlanta-based firm added a pair of real estate attorneys and combined with a small firm focused on representing German businesses in the U.S.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Former Watergate Defense Attorney Leaves Squire Patton Boggs for Boutique, Citing Conflicts

Alvin Davis, who represented one of the Watergate plotters and served as Miami managing partner for two firms, is joining boutique firm Heise Suarez Melville after years of dealing with conflict issues at his former firm.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Increased IRS Enforcement Helped Chamberlain Hrdlicka Grow Revenues, Profits in 2023

The Southeast being "kind of the epicenter of IRS enforcement" involving conservation easement disputes in 2023 was the main driver of increased profits, the managing shareholder said.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

A 'Gotcha Tactic'?: Court of Appeals to Hear 'Bad Faith' Settlement Claim Dispute at Oral Argument

According to the defendant-appellants, the plaintiff's demand was emblematic of a "set-up" offer by which an "attorney could … try to avoid a policy-limits settlement by sending a needlessly complicated demand with a myriad of confusing and seemingly trivial terms designed to elicit a rejection."
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Appellate Court Vacates $8.5M in Punitive Damages Over Witness Error

"We cannot, therefore, conclude that there is no reasonable possibility that the conspiracy to fraudulently conceal claim contributed to the verdict on punitive damages," the state appellate court judges ruled.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

DeSantis Could Appoint One of These Finalists to Florida Appellate Court

The governor's appointee will fill the vacancy created by the death of Judge Eric Wm. Hendon.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Holtzman Vogel Once Again Tops List of DeSantis Administration's Favorite Outside Counsel

During Gov. Ron DeSantis' second gubernatorial term, a handful of politically connected law firms are getting top dollar for their work with the executive branch. Those same firms are edging out other firms that have either shed key talent or are not as politically connected to the administration.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Judge Questions Import of Lost Evidence in Severe Spoliations Sanctions Appeal

"I was a little more concerned about the pictures because to me if you'd had any of the pictures that the city of Atlanta employees went out and took … showing the water meter lid, you could have had some demonstration of what it looked like irrespective of whether there's a possibility somebody some work or changed it on a day that we can't prove. Yet that's all gone," said Presiding Judge Sarah Doyle.
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