Below are just a few of the settlements and verdicts we’ve obtained for our clients. To maintain confidentiality of our current and prior clients we can’t release details of the cases on our website. As you can see, we handle a wide variety of cases.
A Few of Our Case Results:
State of Florida v. J.H (Duval County)
Practice Area: DUI (Duval County)
Outcome: The Firm was successful in filing and having granted a Motion for Post-Conviction Relief. The DUI conviction was vacated and set aside.
Description: Client pled guilty to DUI at First Appearance, the morning after his arrest, without an attorney to represent him.
State of Florida v. J.F. (Clay County)
Practice Area: DUI (Clay County)
Outcome: Because the firm proved there were irregularities with the roadside investigation and that there was a violation of the client’s miranda rights, the Court excluded much of the state’s evidence. The DUI was reduced to a lesser charge and the case was resolved to the clients satisfaction.
Description: During law enforcement’s investigation of our client at roadside for DUI, the client refused to perform the field sobriety exercises. He was subsequently arrested for DUI and prosecuted. The state wanted to use the client’s refusal to show a “consciousness of guilt”.
State of Florida v. J.P. (Nassau County)
Practice Area: DUI (Nassau County)
Outcome: The Firm proved in Court that the proper breath testing procedures were not followed by law enforcement. The Court ruled that the state could not use the breath test results at trial. The DUI charge was reduced and the case resolved successfully.
Description: Client was arresed by the NCSO for DUI. While at the station, the client submitted to a breath test. The results were over the legal limit.
B.T. v. K.T. (Nassau County)
Practice Area: Domestic (Nassau County)
Outcome: Almost a year after the appeal was filed, the First District Court of Appeal overturned the trial judge’s decision and vacated the injunction.
Description: Chris Wilson defended the client when an injunction (restraining order) was filed against her. The Court sided with the Plaintiff and granted the injunction. The Firm appealed.
Florida Department of Revenue, Child Support Enforcement v. R.T.
Practice Area: Family Law (Duval County)
Outcome: After a comprehensive review of the Court file, the firm proved that the client was never properly served at the outset of the case years prior. The Court decided that the case was “void ab initio”, meaning from the beginning, and all of the client’s arrearages were forgiven. Plus, his driver’s license, which had been suspended for several years, was reinstated.
Description: Client with a long standing child support issue hired the Firm to resolve his contempt charges and child support arrearage.
Terrell v. Thompson, 935 So.2d 592 (Fla. 1st DCA 2006)
Practice Area: Domestic Violence
Outcome: Successful Appeal
Description: Upon appeal to the First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee, the appellate court reversed the Nassau County trial court that entered a repeat violence injunction against Mrs. Terrell. The appellate court found there was insufficient evidence adduced by the Petitioner and that the Injunction should have never been entered against the Respondent.
State v. Luke, 14 Fla. L. Weekly Supp 882a (Nassau County)
Practice Area: DUI & DWI
Outcome: Charges dismissed
Description: The Court granted a motion to suppress, which resulted in a dismissal of the DUI charge, based upon proving that law enforcement conducted the sobriety roadblock in an unconstitutional manner.
Hess v. Luhrs Corp.
Practice Area: Workers Compensation
Outcome: Settled total controvert for $1,000,000.00.
Description: Complex brain injury case occuring in Dubai, United Arab Emerites, multiple insurance companies totally denying claim.
Bend v. Shamrock Services
Practice Area: Workers Compensation
Outcome: Settled case at mediation for $1,100,000.00
Description: Major case involving employer fraud, denied at the lower level and overturned on appeal.
Llamp v. State of Florida
Practice Area: Workers Compensation
Outcome: Settled for $1,000,000.00
Description: Incomplete quadrapeligia injury to client, involved reversing an Order by a Judge limiting future recovery because the carrier had the client sign away his future rights while still in the hospital and under heavy sedation.
State of Florida v. P.M. (Duval County)
Practice Area: DUI (Duval County)
Outcome: Motion to suppress evidence that was litigated on behalf on behalf of the client was granted resulting in the court excluded all evidence that las enforcement had gathered against the client. The DUI charge was ultimately dismissed.
Description: The client was stopped for an irregular driving pattern after leaving the bars in Jacksonville Beach.
Stroud v. Volt Systems Group
Practice Area: Workers Compensation
Outcome: Settled for $1.4 million
Description: Complex Brain Injury
McCumber v. North American Risk Services
Practice Area: Workers Compensation
Outcome: Case settled for $3.9 million
Description: Electrocution
Earle Yerger & Robert Hallstein v. North Florida Shipyards
Practice Area: Government Contracts
Outcome: Settlement
Description: I brought a qui tam action on behalf of relators Yerger and Hallstein against North Florida Shipyards. The action was based on the Shipyards fraudulently soliciting repair bids from the United States Military for repair of Coast Guard and Navy ships. The bids were solicited under a shell corporation named Ind-mar Services. Ind-Mar did not actually exist , but was utilized by the Shipyards to get contracts that were set aside for business’s owned and operated by disabled veterans. We successfully brought this action through the Department of Justice and not only stopped the fraudulent practice, but, recovered monies from the shipyard.