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 →Written by Rory Safir, Forensic Lawyer-Scientist Personal Injury · · 3 min read Nobody plans to need a guide about car crashes. If you’re reading this, the wreck has probably already happened. Maybe your car is in a tow yard. Maybe you walked away feeling fine, and this morning your...
The choices you make in the first hours and days after a crash can shape both your recovery and any claim you bring, and Florida has one deadline in particular that catches people off guard. Here is the practical order of operations, written for the person still sitting at the...
It is the first question almost everyone asks after a crash, and the honest answer is that no one can hand you a number on day one. Anyone who promises a figure before the medical picture is clear is guessing. What a good lawyer can do is tell you what...
One of the roughly ninety new Florida laws that took effect on July 1, 2026, is aimed squarely at a problem many injured drivers already know too well. Known as Isaiah’s Law, House Bill 35 adds driving without a valid license to the list of offenses that can push a...
A crash with a fully loaded tractor trailer is not just a bigger version of a car accident, and treating it like one is how injured people leave the real case on the table. A loaded commercial truck can weigh twenty to thirty times what a passenger car weighs, so...
The other driver’s story often changes between the roadside and the insurance claim, and by the time an adjuster is on the phone, a clear rear end or a plain failure to yield has somehow become your fault. The good news is that the physical evidence does not change its...
A rideshare crash is not an ordinary car accident, because the moment an Uber or Lyft is involved, who pays for your injuries turns on a corporate insurance structure the companies built to control what they owe. If you were hurt as a passenger, as another driver, or as a...
A motorcycle crash is not just a car crash on two wheels, and a rider’s legal situation is meaningfully different in Florida, in ways that can cut for the rider. The trouble is that riders often walk into a claim carrying assumptions from car cases that do not apply, and...
People walk all over Tampa Bay, and every year the roads here prove how dangerous that is. In Smart Growth America’s Dangerous by Design report, the Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater metro has ranked among the deadliest in the nation for pedestrians and the most dangerous in Florida. If a...
The most useful thing to know after a bicycle crash in Florida is that the law is already on the rider’s side of the road. A cyclist is not an intruder in traffic. Under Florida law, a person on a bicycle has the rights and the duties of the driver...
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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.
