It’s Not Business, It’s Personal
Click Here to Watch on YouTube First off, let’s kill all the lawyers. I’m David Heffernan and I’m a practicing lawyer in South Florida for about the last 30 years or so. And we put this together just because it’s one of my favorite Shakespeare quotes and often gets misconstrued going back to the 1500s. But the one thing about…
Almost one (1) year after David Plazas struck and killed 14 years old Ethan Gordon, he has finally been charged. On August 22, 2020, Ethan Gordon was crossing Collins Avenue at the 10200 block on his bicycle at around 6 p.m. ,when he was hit by a 2018 silver KIA Optima that was traveling northbound on Collins Avenue. Police…
Road rage and car accidents are all part of a daily commute in Miami. Road rage occurs when a driver expresses extreme aggression or anger intending to cause physical harm. Aggressive driving and road rage are two different concepts. According to The National Highway and Transportation Safety Association (NHTSA), aggressive driving is “when an individual commits a combination of moving…
Click Here to Watch on YouTube Welcome to another episode of First off, let’s kill all the lawyers. I am extraordinarily excited this morning with the guests that I have on and, you know, we open the show with Let’s kill all the lawyers because it’s a 15 century phrase from Shakespeare, that often gets misquoted. But the problem is…
Did Champlain Towers fail to address issues raised in a 2018 Engineering report? As we wrote yesterday, buildings don’t just collapse, and when they do, it is usually the result of an engineering mistake, a construction defect, or an inspection mistake. In a 2018 report an engineer flagged a “major error” dating back to the building’s origin where lack of…
The Champlain towers condominium collapsed at 2 am on Thursday morning. How could a 12 story ocean front condo collapse in the middle of the night? The truth is, we don’t know yet. We will find out what went bad. We will find out who failed to notice a crack in a piling, who failed to authorize a repair, who…
Click Here to Watch On YouTube Welcome to the ghosts the Orange Bowl I’m Jay Rao for Miami’s community newspapers. Our guest today spent many Saturdays at the Orange Bowl as an offensive lineman for the University of Miami Hurricanes and during that time, he protected quarterbacks like Bernie Cozaar and Vinny Testaverde as a member of the 1983 National…
Click Here to Watch on YouTube Welcome to another episode of First off, let’s kill all the lawyers that often miss quoted phrase from Shakespeare in the 1500s. And unfortunately, a lot of people still hear it and go, that’s not a bad idea. I’m David Heffernan, and I’ve been practicing personal injury law in Miami for almost 30 years.…
Click Here to Watch on YouTube Welcome to the first episode of The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers. And it’s an often misquoted Shakespeare quote, but it’s funny, you know, lawyers, it’s fun that to try to say, no, it’s actually a positive thing about lawyers. Well, it wasn’t if you look at it when Shakespeare…
Personal injury cases are the most common lawsuits. Each year thousands of people who are seriously injured by the negligent acts of individuals and businesses, resort to filing lawsuits against such individuals and businesses. These injuries can result in long-lasting and sometimes debilitating physical and mental complications. The amount of money that can change hands after a personal Injury case…