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Notable Results
Partners Robert Klein, Sherryll Dunaj and Mark Sullivan successfully affirmed the second motion for summary judgment in a case against an attorney alleging violations of the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) , 15 USC Sec. 1692(e) (5). The Federal District Court in that matter had granted summary judgment on a prior occasion in...
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Following a six-day evidentiary hearing on a Sworn Motion to Strike the Plaintiff’s Complaint as a Sham Pleading, a Miami Dade Circuit Court entered a 15 page written order dismissing a plaintiff’s legal malpractice lawsuit against her former divorce attorney with prejudice. At the evidentiary hearing, Klein Glasser attorneys Rob Klein and Mark Sullivan presented...
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Rob Klein and Houston Park were successful in affirming a summary judgment which Mr. Park had secured for attorney clients who had allegedly failed to initiate a timely legal malpractice action on behalf of that very same client. Ironically, the Court of Appeal ultimately agreed with the Firm’s contention that the statute of limitations had...
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Rob Klein, Mark Sullivan and Sherry Dunaj obtained a summary judgment for an attorney client in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act claim filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The firm had secured a prior summary judgment, which was affirmed in large part by the U.S. Court of...
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Mike Breen was successful in obtaining a summary judgment on behalf of a subcontractor who performed renovation work at a shopping center. A suit was brought by the landowner against the general contractor alleging defective work. The general in turn sued the various subcontractors that were hired for the project. The defense successfully argued that...
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Rob Klein was successful in affirming a trial court verdict striking a Plaintiff’s legal malpractice claim as a sham. The plaintiffs had sued the Firm’s clients based upon the contention that the defendant law firm had failed to initiate and pursue child custody proceedings in Argentina pursuant to provisions of the Hague Convention. Through discovery...
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Rob Klein and Richard Jones were successful in defeating the attempts of a cruise line to prevent an attorney who had formerly represented the cruise line in a personal injury litigation from prosecuting a personal injury claim against the former cruise line client. In a published decision, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of...
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Rob Klein has been favored with a judgment in the trial of a legal malpractice action, arising out of the failure to properly perfect UCC-1 financing liens in a large loan transaction between their former client, the Strategica Capital Corporation, and the Appletree Group. Strategica claimed that the failure to perfect the liens had caused...
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Rob Klein and Mark Sullivan were successful in the trial of a bar grievance matter against an attorney who had been accused of making false statements to a state circuit court judge, who ultimately found the attorney guilty of contempt in a civil proceeding. The client admitted a lack of candor, but refused to accept...
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Rob Klein and Yelena Shneyderman were successful in affirming a Trial Court Order dismissing a legal malpractice claim with prejudice, based upon application of Florida’s judicial-immunity doctrine. The law firm defendant had been sued when it failed to discharge a number of garnishment writs, which had sought to garnish accounts in various offshore banks, belonging...
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