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Morgan & Morgan saves itself $4.25M in legal malpractice case
LAKELAND, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – A major personal injury law firm has successfully reduced a $5 million legal malpractice verdict against it to $750,000.
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Financial arrangements between defense firms and experts to be examined by Fla. Supreme Court
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – A Florida appeals court has deemed the issue of payment to expert witnesses as one of great public importance.
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CNN asks federal judge to toss Dershowitz's defamation lawsuit
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – CNN has asked a federal judge to throw out the $300 million defamation lawsuit of attorney Alan Dershowitz, who says the channel misrepresented his statements during the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
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Lawyers get nothing in troubled class action vs. Navient; Never mentioned agreement with nonprofit
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – Plaintiffs lawyers won’t recover anything after a federal judge decided to throw their $500,000 in requested fees into a separate fund created by a criticized class action settlement that she otherwise approved.
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Mass tort lawyers invite plaintiff-finding company to conference during court dispute with 3M
PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) – A group that directs potential clients to mass tort lawyers – and is fighting to keep the information between them secret – will be on hand when those lawyers meet to discuss their strategies.
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3M's fight for info on how website referred ear plug plaintiffs could get moved to Florida
PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) – A website that refers readers to plaintiffs lawyers has asked for a transfer of 3M’s bid to learn more about it.
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Lawsuit: Eckert Seamans helped criminal scam investors
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) - A large regional law firm has been sued for allegedly facilitating a multimillion-dollar fraud by Par Funding, a company that extended high-interest loans to retail businesses but failed amid claims its principals squandered money and hid a founder’s criminal past.
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Class action firm hits back at lawsuit over fees from $22M settlement
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – Class action lawyers accused of shortchanging their key consultant in a $22 million case say his case should be dismissed.
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Big plaintiffs firms circle government clients to score PFAS litigation contracts
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – A memo from Miami-Dade County shows that the nation’s prominent plaintiffs firms are competing with and aligning to each other in the hopes of grabbing the most important clients – local governments.
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Consultant says class action lawyers double-crossed him on fees
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – A consultant whose work led to a $22 million class action settlement with Google is complaining that the lawyers who hired him also shortchanged him by several hundred thousand dollars.
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DeSantis' pick for Florida Supreme Court called unqualified in lawsuit
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is standing by his appointment of Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Renatha Francis to the state Supreme Court in the wake of a lawsuit filed by a state lawmaker that challenges Francis’ qualifications for the position.
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Court referee rejects Florida attorney's bid to overturn suspension order
A court referee has rebuffed efforts by Coral Gables attorney Scot Strems to dissolve a suspension order alleging he engaged in a “vast campaign of unprofessional, unethical and fraudulent conduct.”
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Suspended attorney's law firm receives PPP loan to support 151 jobs
Florida had 111 firms that received from $1 million to $10 million, including the Strems Law Firm in Coral Gables, whose managing partner is facing disciplinary action and suspension.
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Fla. court keeps plaintiffs lawyers from teaming up against Samsung
LAKELAND, Fla. (Legal Newsline) – Morgan & Morgan, the Florida-based law firm that recently took at least $12 million in taxpayer money, won’t be allowed to share what it learns in a lawsuit over vaping batteries with other personal injury lawyers.
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While they wait on opioid jackpot, plaintiffs firms take federal loans during pandemic
Law firms leading multidistrict litigation against the opioid industry have borrowed as much as $102 million under the federal Paycheck Protection Program designed to preserve jobs amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The law firms said the loans were needed to pay some 3,000 employees.
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Cozen O'Connor wins case alleging it violated mediation confidentiality law
MIAMI (Legal Newsline) – Plaintiffs attorneys won’t be able to move forward with a lawsuit against a law firm that defended an insurance company by disclosing what was alleged to be confidential information.
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High court suspends Coral Gables lawyer whose firm filed thousands of property claims
The Florida Supreme Court this week approved an emergency suspension order sought by the Florida Bar against Coral Gables attorney Scot Strems, whose firm has filed thousands of first-party property claims against insurers.
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Appointment of Francis, Couriel expands Florida high court's diversity
MIAMI – Gov. Ron DeSantis expanded cultural diversity on the Florida Supreme Court and highlighted the concept of judicial restraint Monday when he named Caribbean-American Renatha Francis and Cuban-American John Couriel to fill two judicial vacancies.
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Broward County chief judge hones procedures for online jury trials
With jury trials suspended until at least July 6 in Florida due to the coronavirus pandemic, Chief Circuit Judge Jack Tuter in Broward County has been spearheading a move to conduct such proceedings remotely.
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April business bankruptcy filings drop in April from a year ago despite COVID-19
While bankruptcies in March rose 18% from a year earlier, April filings have not seen a surge due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a Florida-based attorney who specializes in foreclosures and bankrupticies said it is currently a wait and see approach by businesses.