The Firm was successful in affirming a summary judgment in favor of a law firm which had allegedly failed to appreciate a one-year statute of limitations which was applicable to a potential claim of quadriplegia arising out of an incident in Puerto Rico.  Partners Rob Klein, Alex Diaz, and associate Andrew Feldman argued that Puerto...Read More

Partner Rob Klein was successful in securing a $1 million arbitration award arising out of a failed agreement to procure investment grade diamonds from Sierra Leone.  The Firm’s client had invested significantly in a limited partnership which was designed to take advantage of ongoing relations with high ranking members of the diamond mining community in...Read More

March, 2017: Firm partners Alex Diaz and Joseph Lowe prevailed in a one-week jury trial in Miami-Dade Circuit Court. The Firm represented a point-of-sale software company that was alleged to have breached its contract with a national retailer of women’s swimwear. Plaintiff sought in excess of $1 million in damages. The jury rendered a defense...Read More

Rob Klein, Andrew Feldman, and Mark Sullivan were successful before the Fourth District Court of Appeal in affirming the trial Court’s February 2014 order striking the plaintiff’s defamation and malicious prosecution claims against their lawyer clients as a sham. http://www.4dca.org/opinions/Nov.%202015/11-4-15/4D14-957.pdf http://www.law360.com/articles/723335/appeals-court-agrees-former-judge-s-slander-suit-was-shamRead More

Following the June 2014 striking of the same claims as a sham, Rob Klein and Mark Sullivan secured a $101,000 fee sanction judgment on behalf of their attorney clients, against a Miami Beach Hotel that had sued the firm for malpractice in the representation of the hotel in a fire safety dispute with the City...Read More

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 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