Appeals
Appellate advocacy, state and federal. A colder record, a harder audience, one shot at persuading a panel that has read everything and owes you nothing — and, where the verdict has not landed yet, the record built for that shot while there is still time.
What the firm handles
- 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
Working with trial counsel
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.
Notable appellate victories
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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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United Automobile Insurance Group, Inc. v. Parillo
259 So. 3d 99 · Fla. 3d DCA · 2018
Affirmed. Judgment for the firm’s clients upheld.
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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.
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Berlinger v. Casselberry
No. 2D18-4273 · Fla. 2d DCA · 2019
Dismissed. Appeal against the firm’s client thrown out.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Appellate deadline calculator
Set the date the order was rendered. The dates that follow are the ones that matter, each with the rule that sets it. Weekends and Florida legal holidays are rolled forward.
Read this before you use it. This calculator is not legal advice and using it does not create an attorney–client relationship. It applies a few general rules to a date; it knows nothing about your case. It can be wrong. A real deadline can turn on whether the order is final, whether a motion was authorized and timely, whether the court has extended or shortened a time, or whether a different rule governs altogether — none of which this can see. Do not rely on any date it produces. Check every one against the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure and the court’s own docket, and if a deadline matters, speak to a lawyer.
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Appellate deadlines are short.
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