Rob Klein and Andrew Feldman successfully defended the appeal of a partial summary judgment to Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal. The underlying judgment had been secured in a claim brought by an insurance carrier by way of assignment, claiming a nationally recognized defense firm failed to adequately represent the carrier’s insured. The law firm...Read More

Rob Klein and Alex Diaz were successful in a two week jury trial, based upon claims of legal malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, and conversion. The claim was based in part upon the Plaintiffs’ contention that the Defendant attorneys had recovered an excessive fee while serving as counsel for several objectors in class action litigation...Read More

Rob Klein and Mark Sullivan were successful in securing an $84,500 fee award (the full requested amount) after the trial court struck a defamation claim filed against a local south Florida law firm as a sham pleading. The fees were awarded against both the plaintiff and the plaintiff’s attorney, based upon the court’s determination that...Read More

Rob Klein and Mark Sullivan obtained a final judgment striking a Plaintiffs’ legal malpractice claim as a sham, on behalf of their attorney clients, who had been sued for alleged negligence while representing a Miami Beach hotel in a fire safety dispute with the City of Miami Beach. The malpractice suit was predicated on the...Read More

Partners Robert Klein and Mark Sullivan were successful in striking a defamation and malicious prosecution claim, brought against attorney defendants who had secured a large judgment against the plaintiff’s law firm, for unjustly depriving those defendants of the benefit of their co-counsel agreement with the plaintiff’s firm and others. The stricken claim for malicious prosecution...Read More

Rob Klein and Andrew Feldman were successful in securing a dismissal of a class action lawsuit against the Third Party Administrator of a municipal worker’s compensation program. The Plaintiff had contended that the Third Party Administrator and its municipal client had failed to comply with the mandates of Florida’s “Heart Lung” bill, which provides for...Read More

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit affirmed a summary judgment obtained by Michael Shelley and Richard Jones in the Southern District of Florida. In Rodriguez v. Akal Security, Inc., the plaintiff, a detainee at a federal detention center, was seriously injured after climbing to the top of a piece of gym equipment...Read More

Rob Klein and Mark Sullivan were successful in striking a legal malpractice/breach of fiduciary duty claim as a sham in an action against an attorney in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The plaintiff claimed his attorney had deliberately misinterpreted a fee agreement, and that the attorney had retained a litigation retainer which the plaintiff claimed he had...Read More

Michael Shelley, Mark Sullivan, and Andrew Feldman, were successful in affirming a directed verdict entered in favor of a Miami Beach hotel following trial. On May 29, 2013, the Third District Court of Appeal entered a per curiam decision affirming the directed verdict entered in “Elegant” Elliot Offen v. Intercontinental Hotels Corporation, et al .Read More

Rob Klein and Andrew Feldman successfully defended an appeal from a summary judgment secured by Mark Sullivan in Soberon v. Shelborne. The Plaintiff claimed she suffered severe hand injuries which required surgery, when she gratuitously attempted to repair a common area toilet at a hotel, which she claimed was not properly functioning. The Firm successfully...Read More