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.

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.
About Rory →Early in 2026, the FDA announced a recall that swept up more than two thousand products from brands as familiar as Tylenol, Advil, and Coca-Cola, after a Minnesota facility was found operating under insanitary conditions. Recalls that large make national news, and they leave a lot of people asking the...
For years, Florida law put a hard ceiling on the pain and suffering a medical malpractice victim could recover, no matter how severe the harm. A patient left permanently disabled by a preventable error could see a jury’s award for their suffering slashed by hundreds of thousands of dollars, purely...
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Forensic Lawyer-ScientistOne of six attorneys in Florida with the ACS-CHAL designation from the American Chemical Society.What that means for your case →$285,000, Pinellas County: a hotel guest slipped on algae left on a pool deck despite repeated reports, and suffered an ankle fracture, a mild brain injury, and lasting balance problems.
Past results are examples only and do not predict, promise, or guarantee the outcome of any other case.
“When so many others told me to give up, Rory encouraged me to fight for what I deserved. We won, and my outcome would not have been the same without him.”
Ashley W.