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 →When a family loses someone to another person’s carelessness, the legal questions arrive at the worst possible time, and the answers are not obvious. Florida channels every one of these cases through a single statute, the Wrongful Death Act, and that statute decides who may recover, what they may recover,...
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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.