A federal judge has ruled that Katherine Evans, a former student at Pembroke Pines Charter School in Florida, may proceed with her lawsuit. Evans sued her former vice principal after she was suspended for 3 days for creating a Facebook page criticizing a teacher. The school claims Evans engaged in cyber bullying her teacher, Sarah [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Last week 8 lawyers at Ruden McCloskey, including some prominent partners, left the firm for Adams and Reese. The firm is down to 123 lawyers from 175 at the beginning of 2009 and has fallen out of the National Law Journal’s annual ranking of the nation’s 250 law firms. The firm laid off 35 staffers [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Adams & Reese, a regional law firm based out of New Orleans, is opening its third Florida office in Tampa. In December, the firm broadened its south eastern base by taking over offices in Sarasota and St. Petersburg. The Tampa office will open with eight attorneys and a certified land planner. For [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Disbarred attorney Scott Rothstein will plead guilty to running a $1.2 billion Ponzi scam in a Fort Lauderdale , Florida federal court today. Rothstein was charged in December with five counts of racketeering, fraud and money laundering. He faces up to 100 years in prison. He may only receive a 30 year sentence because he [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 26, 2010
The Florida Bar sent an email to its 88,000 members on Thursday, asking them to make a donation to the victims of the Haiti earthquake. The email provided a web link to the American Red Cross. Bar President Jesse Diner and Francisco Corrales, head of the Bar’s international section said in the email, “The people [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 4, 2009
New Orleans firm Adams & Reeseadded their 11th and 12th offices this week by taking over Ruden McClosky’s offices in Sarasota and St. Petersburg, Florida. The two offices have a combined total of 23 attorneys and a little over 30 staff. Adams & Reese is a multidisciplinary, regional law firm with offices in Baton [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 31, 2009
Online social networking doesn’t quite make the cut as one of the four f’s of human behaviour, but it’s close. For new lawyers, however, it pays to keep a lid on the seemingly instinctual drive to network. It’s no surprise that big law will peruse your Facebook pages looking for anything that might [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 24, 2009
Boca Raton, Florida’s Sachs Sax Caplan has added two attorneys to its community association practice group. Samuel H. Golden joins as senior counsel from New York’s Godsberg, Zankel & Golden. He practices in the area of foreclosures and community association law. His JD is from the Fordham University School of Law. Viravuth Un joins as an associate [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 13, 2009
The University of Miami School of Law is offering incentives to its incoming Fall 2009 students, to defer starting at the school until Fall 2010. The school says a higher than usual number of accepted offers has created a “larger than optimal” first year class. Those who accept the deferral will get a $5,000 scholarship upon completing [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 13, 2009
Miami, Florida-based litigation firm Genovese Joblove & Battista has brought on two associates. Frank Massabki will focus on complex civil and criminal litigation in both federal and state court. He received his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. Michael Schuster joins from the dissolved Kluger, Perez, Kaplan & Berlin, where he represented clients in [...]
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