Litigation

Enter a judgment before the case goes to trial by either the trial court entering summary judgment or the trial court entering a judgment on the pleadings.

If you have been named as a defendant in a lawsuit, and a process server has served a copy of the complaint, you may be wondering what you need to do.

The number of cases of coronavirus in Pinellas County has continued to rise. Pinellas County recently confirmed four hundred and thirteen cases of COVID-19 in Pinellas County alone. Pinellas County…

An important issue when deciding whether to file a lawsuit is whether the time to file your lawsuit has expired, this is known as statute of limitations.

It is not uncommon in the practice of law for an attorney to timely submit a motion to the court but to allow a substantial amount of time to pass before setting that motion for hearing.  Without a hearing, these motions almost never get decided and the case remains stagnant.  Perhaps this tardiness is a delay tactic or it could just as easily be the result of an honest scheduling conflict. Whatever the case, a recent ruling from Florida’s 4th District Court of Appeals suggests that perhaps attorneys should be more diligent in ensuring that their motions are timely set for hearing.

If you live in Pinellas County and have been served with a lawsuit (technically called a Complaint), you are probably either in shock or angry and ready for a fight.