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Happy Father's Day

Posted on June 21, 2009
Raise a glass to The Old Man, no matter.

Drunk Blogging, Financial Fraud, and Mayer Brown

Posted on June 20, 2009
You have to think that once SFL takes a break from various important legal stuff and checks his blog on the blackberry, the title to this post will cause him to pucker. That's pretty funny, and I'll drink to me, since I'm the only one to date who gets to give The Big Man grief, posting on his blog...

Pressure

Posted on June 19, 2009
Did anyone ever tell Sinatra to "clean up his act?" I have to be free to be me. How am I going to carry the torch, if I have to "clean up my act?" Have you read the comments on this blog lately? Ok well, short notice, so give the people what they want...

SFL Friday -- Welcome, Guest Blogger!

Posted on June 19, 2009
Well kids, my day job has decided to intrude upon the part of my practice I like best -- foolin' around with you knuckleheads.So as I prepare for and hopefully execute flawlessly various Important Legal Stuff over the next few days, I will leave you in the steady hands of Guest Blogger, probably until around sometime Monday, when I can get back to focusing on what really matters...

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GrayRobinson And You Guessed It.

Posted on June 18, 2009
As I've said before, I stand ready and willing to write up a great GrayRobinson story if one of you Brickell shmarties will send me some material.In the meantime I see Billy Shields writes up the School Board selection yesterday of GrayRobinson partner Walter Harvey to serve as General Counsel:Miami-Dade School Board member Renier Diaz de la Portilla quit his job at GrayRobinson, clearing the way for him to cast the decisive vote today in appointing his former partner Walter Harvey as the school system?s general counsel...

Barry Mukamal Update!

Posted on June 18, 2009
Face it, you guys can't go more than a few hours without thinking about Barry Mukamal.I know I can't.Sometimes it's almost like a weird kismet, I can be walking down the street or having lunch at the Bankers Club, not planning at all to think about Barry, when suddenly -- BOOM -- there he is!True story -- one time I even thought of Barry while I was windsurfing...

3d DCA Watch -- My Buns Have No Seeds Edition

Posted on June 17, 2009
Hi kids, so I officially received my seventeen-thousandth email about the "sexting" controversy over at the Miami office of White & Case.From Carvalho to the former Mayor of Detroit, how many times before canoodlers learn that your hand-held device is going to get you in trouble?BTW, if you are still using that dinosaur blackberry and have not yet switched to the Palm Pre, you canoodlers need to upgrade your dating game hardware pronto...

DBR Takes A Look At Caperton Disqualification Issues

Posted on June 17, 2009
This is an interesting look by Jordana Mishory on the impact of the recent Supreme Court ruling on judicial disqualification and how it may play out in Florida judicial elections:Campaign watchers say the state?s $500 cap on judicial campaign contributions means it?s next to impossible to buy the type of influence alleged in the U...

MDL Panel Creates Giant Sucking Sound.

Posted on June 16, 2009
Yes kids, those civil litigators all in quiet mourning today are lamenting the huge loss of business due to the MDL Panel's surprise decision to export dozens of Chinese Drywall cases pending in the SD FL to -- of all places -- Louisiana:Coral Gables attorney Ervin Gonzalez, who has filed about 20 drywall cases, said the consolidated litigation will allow plaintiff attorneys to share information and avoid costly duplicative court costs...

Glenn Garvin, Fake US Attorney

Posted on June 16, 2009
Our friend Glenn continues to pretend he's a lawyer, except now he's a top-notch US Attorney taking pot shots at the prosecutorial record of Patrick Fitzgerald, one of the more celebrated US attorneys in the country.There's so much straw men hackery to unpack in Glenn's op-ed that it could take literally days and valuable billable hours, but let's just examine the main claim -- that Peter Lance wrote a good book that exposes Patrick Fitzgerald as a bumbling, inept and dishonest AUSA...

"Sorry, No Person Found."

Posted on June 15, 2009
I decided to do a little Pacer-surfing with some of the muckety-mucks who make up the 2009 SuperLawyers of Florida.I didn't get very far, however.First I looked at the cases being handled in the SD FL by Weil Gotshal's Ed Soto.Here's what the trusty CM/ECF spit out:(tumbleweed slowly blows across computer screen...

Comment Contest!

Posted on June 15, 2009
Has anyone else noticed that the DBR is now publishing online comments to their articles in the dead-tree edition?For example, in today's paper under the "Comments From Web" section there is a stock photo of Judge Zloch next to some fairly lame comments from "Catholic Lawyer" who notes that "Sure, Judge Zloch may be a pain, but to go after him for being a Catholic?"He also includes this bon mot: "Oh ya...

Are You A SuperLawyer?

Posted on June 15, 2009
Hi kids, what a glorious weekend, huh?This morning I decided to bike into work and took the Venetian Causeway across the pond -- a great ride.Along the way I saw this really helpful yet totally abandoned Transit Service Center, which according to the posted sign has hours from 7:30 am to 4:00 pm...

SFL Friday -- "You Got To Shake It Baby, You Got To Shake It Baby, You Got To Shake It"

Posted on June 12, 2009
Ok, let's get the law stuff out of the way real quick.My friend Guest Blogger and now even the indomitable Billy Shields points out there are some cha-cha-cha-changes in the family division, with Judge Sandy Karlan now Chief Administrative Judge, and Judge Scott Bernstein the new Associate Administrative Judge...

Immune System of Bankruptcy Lawyer Further Imperiled by 11th Circuit Affirmance.

Posted on June 12, 2009
It's not easy being "extremely Floridian."I like the lawyers at GrayRobinson, and I think they have a smart business model.So I'm ready to write something positive, if one of you shmarties over on Brickell would send me some good news.Instead, I have to report on this 11th Circuit opinion issued yesterday, which affirms a Middle District affirmance of a bankruptcy court sanctions order against attorney Peter Ginsberg of Peter R...

Relive The Good Old Days At FAWL Judicial Reception

Posted on June 11, 2009
Remember the good old days of the Bush/Gore recount, when ill-informed, disingenuous hacks loudly denounced our own little Florida Supreme Court as a hotbed of liberal judicial activism?Oh, what fun times we had back then, mispronouncing the names of Justices, confusing live judges with dead ones, all on a huge national stage where only the nation's future was at stake!Well I for one plan to relive those happier times tonight at the FAWL cocktail reception honoring Chief Justice Quince...

Let's Talk Tom Lauria!

Posted on June 11, 2009
The WSJ gives the love to Miami White & Case bankruptcy attorney Tom Lauria, who fought in vain to derail the Chrysler-Fiat sale:Judge D. Michael Lynn of the Northern District of Texas, who presided over the Mirant case, says Mr. Lauria "is, if anything, overly tenacious...

Don't Let It Bring You Down.

Posted on June 11, 2009
Well, that was some spectacular event at the Epic in honor of Chief Justice Quince tonight. I know I saw many of you there, including my friend Randy Kroner, because it was packed. And what a great speech she gave about helping those at-risk kids who emerge from foster homes and need caring, loving mentors to help shepard them into young adulthood...

3d DCA Watch -- Apodictic All Over Again!

Posted on June 10, 2009
Hi kids! The sun is shining, I have been windsurfing all morning, and the forecast looks good for a return to the waves later this afternoon.Hey, it's summer, right?So let's jump right in and see what the mostly wise white men think, you know, the resplendently robed swillers of coffee-on-high, who dispense mighty mighty justice in carefully controlled, episodic bursts from a purpose-built, retractable, heavily fortified concrete bunker, yes it's a completely apodictic edition of 3d DCA Watch:Jetbroadband v...

"I am not a demonstrative exhibit! I am a human being! I am a court reporter!"

Posted on June 09, 2009
Did anyone else catch the spirited defense of the essential human nature of court reporters in the letters page of the Herald recently:I am appalled that the prosecutor in the Adam Kaufman murder case used a seated court reporter to demonstrate how Kaufman allegedly strangled his wife...

Federal District Judge Applicant List -- Some Familiar Names

Posted on June 09, 2009
DOM breaks the list of district judge applicants:Jerald BagleyGerald CopeMary Barzee FloresDarrin GaylesRandee GolderJudith KorchinRobert LeeRobert LevensonPeter LopezPatricia LowryAna Maria MartinezCaroline Heck MillerMaria OrtizEmmanuel PerezRobin RosenbaumRobert Scola Jr...

SFL Monday -- Wash, Rinse, Repeat.

Posted on June 08, 2009
Let's see, the roads are wet, it rained all weekend, and it's Monday again.Haven't we been here before?Well I hope you all had some quality time this weekend, before having some quality time this week, if this remarkable story about BigLaw from yesterday's NYT sounds at all familiar:Type-A partners, once glued to their BlackBerrys, suddenly have time fortheir spouses and their children; ladder-climbing junior lawyers linger overlunch...

Fun With Pseudonymous Blogging!

Posted on June 08, 2009
Some of you lawyer wonk types of all stripes (like my friend swlip) are probably already aware of the contretemps involving former clerk to Justice Scalia and NRO legal expert Ed Whelan, who on Saturday "outted" a legal blogger posting under the name "publius" over at Obsidian Wings...

SFL Friday -- Tim and I, Down The Telegraph Road.

Posted on June 05, 2009
Well Tim and I have been slightly delayed by inclement weather, but be assured that magnificent GT Gevalia machine will soon be in our grubby little hands. If we're a little late and a little wet at the Hyatt tonight now you know why.....Note to idiot outside au bon pain at lunchtime -- no one wants to hear you rail into your Bluetooth about whether or not some category of documents is responsive to a discovery request...

Summer's Here, Plebes!

Posted on June 05, 2009
Friday morning -- what a great time for roadwork. Thank you Dade County!I woke up this morning with a lot of energy. So much so that reading Richard Cohen's dumb op-ed in today's Herald didn't even bother me that much.Dear Miami Herald: we know you syndicate the WP writer's group -- easily the worst collection of columnists on the planet (sorry Glenn!) -- but Richard's muddled musings were released to the intertubes on Tuesday (for free)...

Carver!

Posted on June 04, 2009
A CSC junkie spotted the big man hunting down food near SE 1st Street yesterday near that weird little Spanish-language bookstore.Get off the dope, people!

Pacer Surfing Thursday!

Posted on June 04, 2009
So did anybody file anything interesting lately?Let's take a look....Remember that Banco Santander/Madoff case that was filed with much fanfare back in January?Well from what I can tell the litigation hasn't progressed too far, even though it's in front of Judge Paul "Rocket Man" Huck...

3d DCA Watch -- Dreams Unwind, Love's A State of Mind Edition

Posted on June 03, 2009
Hey, who knew Judge Sotomayor is such a fan of the Jews?I'm kvelling!Well I'm excited. Yes, today is the day the resplendent ones dispense their coffee-swilled signed, sealed, and entered goodies, where PCAs ring out from the hermetically sealed concrete bunker to the south like a bell through the night, like a bird in flight, like a cat in the dark, like a fine skylark...

MFR + JLO - BDOS = BDOI TKO?

Posted on June 03, 2009
Billy Shields has a nice piece on the never-ending saga involving BDO Seidman and the new trial that commenced this week against BDO International, but he missed the money quote:''Confusion creeps in because of the similarity in names,'' Mark Raymond, a lawyer for Belgium-based BDO International, told jurors...

"Extremely Floridian" GrayRobinson Facing New Conflict Allegations

Posted on June 02, 2009
Hey, does your firm still pay for that courthouse news roundup of new filings?Mine stopped, plus we fired 4 attorneys and 32 staffers, but let me tell you -- the Gevalia coffee is still delicious!Anyway, I just came across this one from the Tampa area, forwarded by a dedicated reader:Professional negligence and breach of fiduciary duty action claiming the defendants failed to settle an auto negligence claim against the plaintiff within the amount of available insurance coverage, resulting in a lawsuit with a verdict of $26 million...

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