In light of the recently-issued guidelines from the Florida Bar concerning lawyers’ website compliance, we became very interested in how social media profiles would be monitored once the six-month moratorium on the enforcement of the website rules, in effect beginning January 1, 2010, is lifted. In particular, we focused our inquiries on two sites: LinkedIn [...]

The State of Florida Third District Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court’s non-final order denying a summary judgment motion for Coastal Masonry, Inc. The company had appealed the trial court’s order, which found that Coastal was not entitled to a workers’ compensation exclusivity defense as a matter of law. This case is shared by Sam [...]

Employers Must Have a Policy & Guidelines for Dealing with Injured Workers As the Third District Court of Appeals in Florida (which includes Miami, FL) ruled,  in order to prevail on a retaliatory discharge claim under section 440.205 of the Florida Workers’ Compensation Laws, Chapter 440 of the Florida Statutes, the employee must prove: (1) he [...]

In Thomas v. Carnival Corp., 573 F.3d 1113 (11th Cir. 2009) , the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed and remanded a trial court decision that determined that plaintiff’s statutory claim under the Seaman’s Wage Act was subject to the arbitration clause in the relevant employment contact. This case concluded that a prospective [...]

In order to satisfy a growing demand from clients in Central and South America, Legal Solutions Group is translating portions of this website into Spanish and Portuguese. We will be translating overview and general service information in the first phase of the project, and when these pages are live, we will provide links right from [...]

A recent article in The Florida Bar News brought home the stark realities that lawyers in Florida must face if they want to continue to participate in the online and social media evolution: The Bar’s Standing Committee on Advertising on December 29 approved guidelines to help lawyers meet the Supreme Court’s new rules regulating the [...]

We are very proud to announce some expanded service offerings in 2010. We are now offering Accounts Receivable Recovery Services for foreign produce suppliers, and expanded Workers’ Compensation legal services. Contact us today for a consultation on these or any other of our services. We look forward to a year of helping clients through our [...]

In a recent ruling, a federal court in Texas determined that the ads used by an applicant disclose all of the limitations of the asserted claims, including each of the claimed chemical components, as well as the stated function of oral administration to a human to speed muscle recovery, allowed a person of skill in [...]

The NJ  appellate court held that  the arbitration clause contained in an employee manual and acknowledgment form was insufficient to compel the plaintiff to submit his discrimination claim to binding arbitration because it was too general to put the employee on notice that he or she was giving up his or her rights to a [...]

The Florida Fourth District Curt of Appeals  ruled that  a trial court’s decision to admit into evidence a Broward County Civil Rights Division “no reasonable cause” determination was an abuse of discretion and constituted reversible error because it was an abuse of disction in admitting the determination letter “because the conclusory nature of the BCCRD’s [...]