Federal · trial
Constitutional Trial v. City of Boca Raton
Served as first chair in Natural Lands, LLC v. City of Boca Raton (S.D. Fla.) — a five-day federal bench trial against the City. The trial court ruled for the firm's client and found the mayor and two council members biased, barring them from further proceedings on the property. The Eleventh Circuit later reversed on procedural grounds (holding a state-court remedy had to be used instead), and a petition for review is pending in the U.S. Supreme Court. Reported by the Palm Beach Post and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Legal malpractice
Summary Judgment vs. a Law Firm
Won summary judgment on liability — for the firm's client and against a law firm and its principal — in a legal-malpractice action, and in the same order defeated the defendants' own competing motions for summary judgment. The court held, as a matter of law, that an attorney-client relationship existed, that the defendants breached their duty of care by failing to revise the client's assignment of benefits to comply with amended § 627.7152, Fla. Stat., and that the breach was the proximate cause of the client's loss — deficiencies that had led to insurer denials, adverse rulings, and dismissal of the client's underlying claims with prejudice. Damages proceed to trial. (RestoPro770, Inc. v. Font, No. CACE22017461, 17th Jud. Cir., Broward Cty., May 2, 2025)
Contract enforcement
An $18,200 Refund, Enforced to a $105,200 Judgment
Our client, a homeowner, was owed an $18,200 refund on a canceled pool-construction contract. The firm negotiated a written settlement with real teeth — a liquidated-damages late fee for every week the payment ran past due — and, when the contractor still did not pay, sued to enforce it. The court entered final judgment for the client and upheld the late-fee provision as a valid, enforceable liquidated-damages clause under Florida law, awarding $105,200 in principal (the refund plus accrued late fees), together with pre- and post-judgment interest and the client's reasonable attorney's fees and costs as the prevailing party. (Eddy v. Guilbe Construction, LLC, No. 50-2025-CA-006014, 15th Jud. Cir., Palm Beach Cty., 2026)
Commercial litigation
Summary Judgment as a Sanction
In Lighthouse List Co. v. Cross Hatch Ventures (S.D. Fla. 2014), the firm's principal — then on the trial team at a national firm — helped prove by clear and convincing evidence that the opposing party had intercepted privileged attorney-client communications in what the court called a fraudulent scheme to interfere with the judicial process. The court struck the defense's opposition and granted partial summary judgment as a sanction; the case resolved on an accepted offer of judgment weeks later.
Government
Election-Eligibility Challenge
Argued and won a 5–0 committee ruling on a challenge to the eligibility of a candidate for Florida Democratic Party chair.
Regulatory · N.Y. · statutory interpretation
Closing a Physician-Discipline Loophole
As a New York Assistant Attorney General, defended the State's authority to investigate and discipline a physician who sought to exploit an ambiguity in newly enacted professional-misconduct enforcement language to avoid review. Briefed and argued the dispositive motion on a question of first impression under the new statute; the challenge was dismissed with prejudice — closing the loophole and preserving the State's power to hold physicians accountable. (N.Y. Dept. of Health / OPMC)
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