Appeals

• Plenary appeals in Florida's district courts of appeal, prosecuting and defending judgments
• Federal appeals, including the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Extraordinary writs: certiorari, mandamus, prohibition
• Interlocutory and non-final appeals, including injunction and jurisdiction rulings
• Preservation-of-error counsel embedded with trial teams before and during trial
• Post-trial motions written with the appellate record in mind
• Appellate consultation for trial lawyers weighing whether an appeal is worth taking

Because the firm tries cases as well as appeals them, the brief is grounded in how the error actually happened at trial, not a law-review reconstruction of it. Referring counsel stay involved to the degree they want: some hand the case off entirely, others co-author strategy and keep the client relationship front-and-center. Either way, the client remains the referring lawyer's client, and fee arrangements are written, transparent, and compliant with the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar.

Each stated in the court’s own words, with its citation, so any of these can be pulled and read.

Supreme Court of the United States

• Stok & Associates, P.A. v. Citibank, N.A. No. 10-514 · 2011

  Certiorari granted. Whether, under the Federal Arbitration Act, a party must show prejudice for an opponent’s waiver of the right to arbitrate to bind. On the briefs; the case settled before argument.

Florida district courts of appeal

• Frye v. Ironstone Bank 69 So. 3d 1046 · Fla. 2d DCA · 2011

  Certiorari granted; order quashed. The bank’s law firm was disqualified for simultaneously representing the borrower’s former lawyer in a related malpractice claim, and through it reaching privileged material. Still cited in Florida on attorney disqualification.

• Demir v. Schollmeier 199 So. 3d 442 · Fla. 3d DCA · 2016

  Reversed. The parties’ agreement operated as an LLC operating agreement governing contributions, not as a promise of personal liability, so the money judgment against the member individually could not stand.

• Cohen v. Jain 219 So. 3d 100 · Fla. 3d DCA · 2017 · Nos. 3D16-281, 3D16-1297

  Affirmed on the appeal and on the cross-appeal. An $8.19 million judgment for the firm’s client on the promissory note stood, and the attempt to set it aside under rule 1.540 was rejected.

• Worth v. Estate of Idelle Stern 241 So. 3d 882 · Fla. 3d DCA · 2018

  Petitions denied. Three consolidated certiorari petitions turned back, leaving the ruling for the firm’s clients in place.

• Inglis v. Casselberry Nos. 2D18-486, 2D18-490 · Fla. 2d DCA · 2018

  Petitions denied. Trustee challenges turned back in long-running spendthrift-trust alimony enforcement.

• United Automobile Insurance Group, Inc. v. Parillo 259 So. 3d 99 · Fla. 3d DCA · 2018

  Affirmed. Judgment for the firm’s clients upheld.

• WD 19790, LLC v. Dan Trust 263 So. 3d 240 · Fla. 3d DCA · 2019

  Reversed in part. A temporary injunction against trespass did not reach a tower crane swinging through the neighboring airspace, no evidence of that trespass having been presented. A citable real-property holding.

• Berlinger v. Casselberry No. 2D18-4273 · Fla. 2d DCA · 2019

  Dismissed. Appeal against the firm’s client thrown out.

• Shimon v. R.B. No. 3D20-1599 · Fla. 3d DCA · 2021

  Order quashed in part. A criminal investigation that had closed but could still be reopened left a reasonable fear of prosecution, so the client could not be compelled to testify over his Fifth Amendment privilege.

• Lally v. AIM Recovery Services, Inc. No. 3D22-845 · Fla. 3d DCA · 2023

  Affirmed. Summary judgment for the firm’s client upheld against challenges of duress and the binding effect of a settlement.

• Pierre Woodland Meadows, LLC v. KAC 2021-1 LLC 377 So. 3d 625 · Fla. 4th DCA · 2024

  Reversed and remanded. Published venue holding on security-deposit claims: a claim served at the tenant’s last known mailing address was good, and a change-of-address notice filed in a separate eviction case did not move it. Sections 83.49(3)(a) and 83.49(5), Florida Statutes.

• Motif Apartments LLC v. Tenant’s First, LLC No. 4D2024-1322 · Fla. 4th DCA · 2025

  Reversed and remanded. Applying Pierre Woodland Meadows, the court held venue lay where the lease put the place of payment, which a notice filed elsewhere could not change.

A selection, not the full docket, from matters handled before this firm was founded. Every case turns on its own facts; no result predicts another.

Set the date an order was rendered and see the dates that follow, each with the rule that sets it, weekends and Florida legal holidays rolled forward. The calculator now has a page of its own, among the firm’s resources.