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Florida DUI, criminal defense, and personal injury, explained by a forensic lawyer-scientist and former public defender. Celebrity cases, courtroom strategy, and the science behind the evidence, in plain English.

Rory Safir

Every post here is written by Rory Safir, one of a handful of ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientists in Florida and a former Assistant Public Defender in Tampa.

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What the National College for DUI Defense Is, and Why Faculty Matters

The National College for DUI Defense trains DUI lawyers nationwide. Here is what it is, what its faculty do, and why the science is the part that decides cases....

The Florida DUI Trial Manual: A Working Reference for Taking the State’s Science Apart

Every Florida DUI conviction rests on a number the State calls settled science: a breath reading, a blood result, or a score on a set of roadside exercises. It is not settled. Each one is a chain of assumptions the State has to prove and usually cannot....

I Wrote the Book on Florida Nursing Home Cases, and It Is Free

My fourth book is finished, and it is the hardest one I have written....

Hurt on Someone Else’s Property? I Wrote the Book, and It Is Free.

Falls are the injury our culture laughs at. People apologize on their way down, wave off the ambulance out of embarrassment, and tell the story as a joke on themselves, right up until the shoulder needs surgery and the joke stops being funny....

Hurt in a Florida Crash? I Wrote the Book, and It Is Free.

After a car crash, the hardest part is not always the injury. It is the not knowing. Is the adjuster really on your side? Should you give that recorded statement? Why did the emergency room say you were fine when you can barely move the next morning?...

I Wrote the Book on Florida DUI. Here Is Why Tampa Bay Gets It Free.

Every week someone sits across from me, a day or a week after the worst night of their year, and asks the same questions. They ask what really happened at the stop, whether the breath number is really the end of it, what the letter from the DHSMV means, and...

Remember the Name: Taylor Teeple

Every so often you meet a law student and you know, within a week or two, that this profession is in good hands. That is how it has felt having Taylor Teeple with us this summer....

On Court TV: The Forensic Turning Point in the Nancy Guthrie Case

On February 19, I joined Court TV to break down the forensic turning point in the Nancy Guthrie case: DNA recovered from gloves found near the scene was run through CODIS and came back with no match, and investigators turned to investigative genetic genealogy for leads....

Three Years Running: Selected to the 2026 Rising Stars List

Three Januaries, three letters. I have been selected to the 2026 Florida Super Lawyers Rising Stars list, which makes it three consecutive years: 2024, 2025, and now 2026....

Thanks to You: A 2025 Tampa’s Best Silver Winner

Some recognition comes from panels and peer committees, and I am grateful for those. This one is different, and honestly, it means more....

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