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(Such An) Easy Question.

Posted on April 13, 2009
Hi folks, so you all have a nice weekend?Hey, what do you know -- Fort Lauderdale attorney James S. Haliczer, managing partner at an 11-attorney firm, thinks big firms are too expensive and don't deliver value compared to smaller firms:In the frothiest days of the bubble, mega-firms with rates approaching $1,000 an hour were common...

SFL Good Good Friday.

Posted on April 10, 2009
Hi kids, well that was some week, huh?I definitely plan on having some fun and blowing off some steam this weekend, how about you?Before we discuss weekend plans, let me ask you -- is there any utility at all to being "linked" on LinkedIn or Plaxo?Seriously, it's nice to receive dozens of emails from friends and colleagues asking me to link to them, but what exactly is the point? If I want to call or email Hilarie Bass or Marty Steinberg I pretty much know how to do it easily...

Judicial Spanking Week Continues!

Posted on April 09, 2009
Huge and well-deserved victory for our own David O. Markus as Judge Gold drops a bomb on Alex Acosta's office:The judge reprimanded the two trial prosecutors, saying that along with Drug Enforcement Administration agent Christopher Wells, they ?acted vexatiously and in bad faith? in prosecuting Dr...

Has Tom Tew Embraced His Inner Lou Costello?

Posted on April 09, 2009
I don't know, I'm starting to get sick of writing about the law all the time. Are you folks getting sick of reading about it?A friend passed along Judge Tjoflat's recent spankdown of Judge Cooke the other day. My reaction -- why be so personal? You don't agree with her ruling, fine, but no one needs to go overboard or embarrass anyone, particularly when you are in a position of power as an appellate court...

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3d DCA Watch -- So Let It Be Written, So Let It Be Done Edition

Posted on April 08, 2009
Hi folks, it's yet another joyous Pesach and SFL intends to cut out early and enjoy the bitter herbs, the honey, and the haroset smeared lovingly all over something truly wonderful.After that I may even go have a nice Seder!But alas, our resplendently robed judicial chosen ones have been busy, swilling their coffee and sharpening their pens, and today they have released their written messages to the world, in the form of "opinions," and so let us begin our journey through that topsy-turvy world that we call 3d DCA Watch:BDO Seidman v...

Harold Koh Is A Scary Transnationalist.

Posted on April 08, 2009
University of Miami Law Professor Michael Froomkin runs a fun and highly informative blog, and has been covering this weird attack by NRO's Ed Whelan and others on Obama's State Department nominee and Yale Law Dean Harold Koh.As I commented there, what's so squirmy about these attacks is they are one of degree, or emphasis, and therefore cannot be easily refuted...

Three-Quarters of All Americans Are Real Smart.

Posted on April 07, 2009
Hey, did you know that Justice O'Connor spoke to Florida legislators today? And she said something about civics being important and something that should be taught in public schools blah blah blah.Agreed -- but let's start with teachers and books!Anyhoo, she also said this about the insightful people that inhabit the Herald letters page:Far more Americans can name the judges on American Idol than can name the three branches of government, retired U...

Former SSD Lawyer Likes to Eat, Also Fight Foreclosures.

Posted on April 07, 2009
Consider the career trajectory of former SSD corporate associate Raquel James.Here she is in 2006, assisting Abbott Labs in a huge $3.7 billion acquisition:Global law firm Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. is serving as Florida counsel for Abbott Laboratories in its pending multibillion-dollar acquisition of Kos Pharmaceuticals...

Catch Me Now (I'm Falling)

Posted on April 07, 2009
Heading to court folks, be back in a bit.The Face is on.

Exclusive -- Bowman Brown Discusses Stanford Case and Lew Freeman References Titanic.

Posted on April 06, 2009
Hold the presses, people.In a surprise move, Bowman Brown has agreed to discuss the Stanford case in the media:?This thing has gotten so many hydra-like heads,? said Bowman Brown, an international banking attorney with Shutts & Bowen in Miami who represents Stanford clients...

Business Monday Takes Look At Local Law Firms -- It Ain't Pretty.

Posted on April 06, 2009
Ok ok, several of you have asked for my thoughts on this Business Monday look at local law firms and how they are faring during these tough economic times.Here's what I took away from the story:1. Emily Blunt is cute as a button and really shines in The Great Buck Howard; and2...

SFL Friday -- Living In The Past Edition

Posted on April 03, 2009
I see from an earlier comment thread that you folks are in a nostalgic sort of mood.Hey that's alright -- turns out it's ok to grow old after all:Turns out the older set may even have an advantage. Whereas early love activates brain regions thought to be responsible for those can't-stop-thinking-about-you love pangs, more mature passion lights up areas where the "bonding" or "cuddle" hormone oxytocin is active...

We're All Pinkos Now.

Posted on April 03, 2009
You know I am so sick of these liberal activist judges, imposing their "east coast" values, inspired by Hollyweird and Barbara Streisand, why don't they go back to their Ivory Towers and have lunch with Teddy Kennedy and Ward Churchill all day already...

Scott Dimond Likes to Get It Right The First Time.

Posted on April 02, 2009
Well it's a pretty damning statement about our toxic American politic when the Dean of frickin' Yale Law School can't get himself confirmed for a job in the Obama Administration. Right right I know he wants to apply Sharia law in American courts and all, and he looks all foreign and everything...

Herman Russomanno Is Delighted.

Posted on April 01, 2009
How many times can one guy be delighted in a single soundbite:Rivkind, Sotolongo and Wingate drew up the fee-splitting arrangement in February 2008, about a month after Wingate dropped his case portfolio, according to Stettin?s order.?I conclude that it is a secret, self-serving and illegal arrangement intended as a means of evading this court?s order concerning Wingate?s claim to fees and costs from files which he abandoned,? Stettin wrote in an order issued late Monday...

3d DCA Watch -- April Fools, Sausage-Making, and Judge Schwartz Edition

Posted on April 01, 2009
Hi kids, it's another Wednesday and that means we have hit judicial gold, the jackpot, for this is the day that written utterances are slowly released from the concrete bunker by the highway, yes that heart-stopping moment when your life suddenly has meaning -- real meaning -- and all things are immediately right with the world...

Four Kluger Peretz Partners Fly To.....Akerman?

Posted on March 31, 2009
It's old news now to read of departures at Kluger & [partner to be named later], but to hear of four high-level lawyers heading to Akerman -- which has had its own shakeups recently -- is a fresh twist:Akerman Senterfitt today announced the continued expansion of its Litigation and Bankruptcy practices, as Dee Dee Fischer, Andrew Gold, Jason Oletsky and Brett Marks have joined the firm as shareholders in the Fort Lauderdale office...

SFL Monday -- Michael Hanzman to Rule Ft. Lauderdale, Too.

Posted on March 30, 2009
Hi kids, well it's that day again.We've previously discussed how recent criticism regarding the composition of the Federal JNC may impact Michael Hanzman's long road to a federal judgeship, and here we see his name in the mix again in this excellent John Pacenti column:Even before a call for official applications, some prominent names are swirling in the Miami legal community to replace U...

SFL Friday -- Multitasking The Weekend Away.

Posted on March 27, 2009
Kids, close your other seven browsers, stop updating your online profile, mute the conference call you are barely listening to, and stop text-messaging your kids for a moment.It turns out that multitasking may not be a good thing:[A]ccording to David E...

An Accountability Moment.

Posted on March 27, 2009
In David's trial: Two federal prosecutors in Miami are being reassigned for their roles in the secret tape recording of a defense attorney and his investigator in a criminal case.Court documents show that prosecutor Karen Gilbert voluntarily stepped down as chief of the Miami U...

UM Names New Law Dean; Kluger Breaks Up With Peretz

Posted on March 26, 2009
DBR reports:Patricia White, a visiting taxation professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and former law school dean at Arizona State University, has been chosen as the new dean at the University of Miami School of Law.The position was offered after interviews with a search committee and UM president Donna Shalala...

Who Is Bowman Brown's Mystery Man?

Posted on March 26, 2009
Remember when Bowman Brown nearly had his own Teevee show, appearing all over the media and sharing that now-apocryphal "brush with Stanford" anecdote? I love the anecdote personally, but even I started to wonder when I turned on iCarly and dang it! -- there he was again...

3d DCA Watch -- PCAs And Crickets Edition.

Posted on March 25, 2009
Hi kids, oh yes the sun is shining, the wind is up, and our busy judicial scriveners to the south have been toiling in their hermetically sealed concrete bunker of justice, listening to the faint noises of both highway traffic and appellate advocacy as they work they way through their overloaded docket...

What's For Dessert?

Posted on March 25, 2009
So let's get the important stuff out of the way -- an Akerman birdie reported that none other than the big man himself was spotted heading into state court on Flagler yesterday shortly before lunchtime.Oh man, God help the poor sap he had for lunch.What else? Did anyone else find this story a little odd: Joel Jacobi, the Bal Harbour council member who tried to fight off allegations that he did not live in the village when he ran for reelection two years ago, resigned Monday...

Does Anyone Fact-Check Glenn Garvin?

Posted on March 24, 2009
I know they probably don't have many fact-checkers left over there, but still.I mean, it's one thing when the burning issue is whether it was Danielle Brisebois or Soleil Moon Frye who starred in the revival of Hair that played at the old Konover Hotel back when it was owned by Abe Hirshfeld...

SFL Monday Monday.

Posted on March 23, 2009
It's cold, rainy, dreary, and wet, everywhere I look there are toxic assets -- and I haven't even left my house yet.Welcome to Monday.Let's see, I like happy endings, don't you?Here's one for the Carlton Fields white collar trial team of Mike Pasano, Paul Calli, and Marissel Descalzo, who represented attorney Luisa Inclan Bird:A jury found Puerto Rico's former governor not guilty Friday on all nine counts including conspiracy, money laundering and lying to the FBI, concluding his monthlong corruption trial...

Are You Friends Yet With Miami-Dade's Ballpark?

Posted on March 22, 2009
Hi folks, hope you all are having a great weekend.I had to emerge from my weekend reveille to comment on how Miami-Dade's Ballpark has joined that annoying Facebook thingy where you have to list 25 random things about yourself:Each alpha user annoyingly asked 25 friends to write 25 random things, too, and each of these friends' friends annoyingly asked 25 more, and so on, until this week, when the viral loop catapulted into the bizarro realm: 25 Random Things About Me, by Miami-Dade's Ballpark...

Tod Aronovitz Is A Mensch.

Posted on March 20, 2009
So I thought the Federation reception was pretty good for this type of event.Lots of judges, some very touching speeches (Judge Gerstein introduced his family and longtime staff, to much applause), and Randy Kroner.What more can you ask for?Did you all catch this moving story about Tod Aronovitz' fight for justice for Leonard Krys:On Nov...

SFL Friday -- Sun and Fun Edition

Posted on March 20, 2009
Well kids, another week is ending -- hooray!And what did we learn?That well-meaning populist outrage can lead to crappy legislation.That some little pointless war is having its 6th birthday (they are so cute at that age!).That there is some very kinky stuff going on inside the CIA...

Judicial Receptions Are For Lovers.

Posted on March 19, 2009
So who else is going to the Federation Judicial Reception tonight:This year?s Judicial Reception will recognize three outstanding legal professionals in Miami, including the Honorable Joseph P. Farina, who will receive the Community Service Award; the Honorable Norman S...

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