By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Laura Harris is not happy with how the Florida Bar handled her claim against a disbarred lawyer. She, her five siblings and their mother scraped together $38,000 to hire a Tallahassee lawyer and help their brother and son, Charles E. Bell, who is serving a life sentence in a Florida prison. It turned out the lawyer, Bernard Daley, made a career of ripping off people like Bell’s relatives.
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The Florida Bar has a pot of money available for swindled law clients. But getting some isn’t easy. For starters, you have to document exactly what your thieving lawyer extracted during your attorney-client relationship. The breakup must have been painful.
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Peter Lopez has sealed all court records in a high-profile defamation lawsuit brought by Jozef Opdeweegh against the parents and grandfather of a 6-year-old girl who accused him of sexually molesting her at a May 2017 pool party.
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Faced with persistent government stonewalling, a growing opposition that’s grounded in American hearts and taking root on Capitol Hill is calling on President Trump and the nation’s law enforcement and intelligence chiefs to declassify all documents related to investigations of the 9/11 attacks.
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward Health expects to pay outside law firms nearly $1 million more this year than in 2017, with its annual legal expenses now budgeted at more than $6.1 million. Those expenses don’t include any additional legal costs to indemnify at taxpayer expense five current and former Broward Health officials under indictment since December.
By Dan Christensen and Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
President Trump’s nominee to become the next U.S. Marshal in South Florida is the brother-in-law of Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera. The nomination of Gadyaces Serralta, a Miami-Dade police major, for the $160,000-a-year job was sent to the Senate last week for confirmation.
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