Case Study- Negligent Security

by | Jun 20, 2016 | Articles

A college student was returning from his home in Miami to his school in Orlando.  He stopped around midnight at an all-night franchise restaurant off I-95. While in the drive-thru lane, he was accosted by two young men, who tried to rob him, but shot and killed him...

Don’t Always Trust a Database Report

by | Jun 20, 2016 | Articles

Have you ever declined a substantial injury case because you felt the adverse party did not have sufficient coverage? Perhaps you’re a busy trial lawyer who has delegated to your paralegal the task of running a proprietary database report (Accurint or Lexis/Nexis).  A...

Case study: Don’t Throw Away a $100,000 Case

by | Jun 20, 2016 | Articles

The attorney represented a client who was seriously injured in a vehicle accident as the result of the defendant’s negligence. The coverage was limited.   However, knowing that the driver’s home address was in a northeast resort town, the attorney suspected the...

Do the “Due” (Diligence)

by | Jun 20, 2016 | Articles

In these challenging financial times, we’ve received a lot of requests to “find the money.” Investments were made in promising enterprises that failed. Now the lawyers are called in to survey the damages and recover what they can. Often, there is nothing to find....