September 21, 2017

Days Of Writing In school, I was all passive voice and trite phrasing. I came of age at a time when the movement in legal writing was away from flowery jargon and Latin maxims. The elders that decided such things wanted muscular simplicity, active voice and simple heavy lifting. The Strunk & White of my […]

September 18, 2017

My contacts at Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities confirm that the “personal cell phone number” they were given to reach Governor Scott directly in advance of the Storm was never answered. One nursing director called the number fifty times as the Storm approached and never received a call back. Remember that the government has sovereign immunity limits […]

Hurricane Irma

The birds knew better. They left ahead the storm. Along with the strange Saturday afternoon cloud formations pushing downriver, this was our prelude to Irma: lifeless air, unadorned with the songs that usually come at the end of a long, hot day. The anti-Opener. Living near the Everglades, it is easy to imagine the natural world reclaiming […]

September 12, 2017

At Least 8 Die in South Florida Nursing Home. My experience includes litigation on behalf of the most vulnerable among us against the companies that run nursing homes and assisted living facilities. If you visit the Nursing Home Abuse page on our website here, you will learn more about our experience. You can also click on the link […]

September 11, 2017: Hurricane Irma

Patriots Day was designed to commemorate the loss we suffered on 9/11/01. We remember the lost as we struggle to protect the living from natural destruction in Texas and Florida this hurricane season. We are committed to being here for the residents of South Florida. Having been through the claims process for Hurricane Charley, I […]