March 20, 2024: KPL Partners, Robert Klein and Andrew Feldman, and associate, Charley Short, secured a written opinion from the Third District Court of Appeal affirming an order dismissing a complaint against a condominium association’s general counsel This lawsuit was filed by Fisher Island condominium-unit owners against their condo association’s general counsel and her law...Read More
January 26, 2023: KPL’s client—a personal injury law firm headquartered in New York—was retained by the Plaintiffs in 2018 to investigate the viability of a potential cause of action against the University of Utah and related entities, stemming from in vitro fertilization services provided to one of the plaintiffs in 1990. Those services resulted in...Read More
September 23, 2022: KPL attorneys Richard Jones and Chris Fraga secured dismissal of a third-party claim for contribution stemming from a soured business deal between a 90-year-old businessman diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and his longtime lawyer, Howard Kleinhendler. Initially, Applestein sued Kleinhendler for professional malpractice, elder abuse, breach of fiduciary duty and other tort theories...Read More
July 19, 2019: KGPL attorneys Alex Diaz and Chris Fraga prevailed in demonstrating to the Court that a legal malpractice claim brought by numerous beneficiaries of a will was a sham pleading. The case stems from an underlying guardianship and the ultimate death of local Miami artist Purvis Young. During the guardianship, several attorneys rendered...Read More
May 9, 2019: The Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed a verdict in favor of an attorney represented by the Firm who was accused of failing to honor a renegotiated fee agreement by his client. Partners Rob Klein, Mark Sullivan, and Andrew Feldman successfully defended the appeal. The attorney had originally taken on the underlying...Read More
September 26, 2018: The Third District affirmed a trial court’s order dismissing the appellant/plaintiff’s complaint with prejudice based on her failure to state a cause of action against the University of Miami’s Children and Youth Law Clinic. The court agreed with firm attorneys Robert Klein and Andrew Feldman that plaintiff was not a client of the...Read More
January 19, 2018: Partners Robert Klein, Richard Jones, and associate Andrew Feldman obtained final summary judgment on behalf of a law firm that was accused of engaging in a RICO conspiracy to funnel assets into a charitable organization through a scheme to forge estate planning documents. In ordering the claim dismissed, the Court concluded there...Read More
The Firm was successful in affirming a summary judgment in favor of a law firm which had allegedly failed to appreciate a one-year statute of limitations which was applicable to a potential claim of quadriplegia arising out of an incident in Puerto Rico. Partners Rob Klein, Alex Diaz, and associate Andrew Feldman argued that Puerto...Read More
Rob Klein, Andrew Feldman, and Mark Sullivan were successful before the Fourth District Court of Appeal in affirming the trial Court’s February 2014 order striking the plaintiff’s defamation and malicious prosecution claims against their lawyer clients as a sham. http://www.4dca.org/opinions/Nov.%202015/11-4-15/4D14-957.pdf http://www.law360.com/articles/723335/appeals-court-agrees-former-judge-s-slander-suit-was-shamRead More
Following the June 2014 striking of the same claims as a sham, Rob Klein and Mark Sullivan secured a $101,000 fee sanction judgment on behalf of their attorney clients, against a Miami Beach Hotel that had sued the firm for malpractice in the representation of the hotel in a fire safety dispute with the City...Read More
