Lawyers like to say they wrote the book on something. Here the phrase is literal. Rory Safir wrote and published four plain-English books: on Florida DUI defense, on Florida car crashes, on getting hurt on someone else’s property, and on nursing home abuse and neglect. All four are free to the Floridians who need them, mailed from the first printing with an instant digital edition. A fifth, The Florida DUI Trial Manual, is written for lawyers rather than for the people charged.
The books are free to the people who need them, and that is deliberate. An informed client asks better questions, makes better decisions, and gets more from every conversation with their lawyer. An informed client is a better client.
The books
Arrested for DUI in Florida: What a Forensic Lawyer-Scientist Wants You to Know Before You Plead
250 pages: 19 chapters in four parts, a Common Questions FAQ, four plain-language appendices, and 16 full-page diagrams. The print edition ends with an 8-page Your Case Notes workbook you fill in and hand to your lawyer, so your first meeting starts with the facts of your case already on paper. Written by Rory Safir, one of six ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientists in Florida and a Faculty member of the National College for DUI Defense, an NHTSA-qualified field sobriety instructor, and a former Assistant Public Defender in Tampa’s Thirteenth Judicial Circuit with hundreds of cases behind him.
Facing a charge in Tampa Bay? The book is free to you: the paperback mails from the first printing, and the digital edition, cover and all, is delivered the moment you submit the request form.
Want it faster? The paperback ($17.95) and Kindle ($7.99) editions are available on Amazon.
Hurt in a Florida Car Crash: The Plain-English Guide the Insurance Company Hopes You Never Read
325 pages: 21 chapters in five parts, a plain-language glossary, a first-two-weeks checklist, a list of questions to ask any injury lawyer, and 15 full-page diagrams. It covers the ordinary crash and the hard ones too: hit by a drunk driver, hit by someone with no insurance, and the crash that turns fatal. Written by Rory Safir, who represents injured people across Tampa Bay and handled hundreds of cases as an Assistant Public Defender in Tampa’s Thirteenth Judicial Circuit.
Hurt in a Tampa Bay crash? The book is free to you: the paperback mails from the first printing, and the digital edition, cover and all, is delivered the moment you submit the request form.
Want it faster? The paperback ($17.95) and Kindle ($7.99) editions are available on Amazon.
Hurt on Someone Else’s Property: The Florida Guide to Falls, Attacks, and Dog Bites Nobody Hands You
344 pages: 22 chapters in six parts, 20 full-page diagrams, a plain-language glossary, a first-seven-days checklist, a what-to-photograph guide, a fill-in case-notes workbook, and a list of questions to ask a premises lawyer. It covers the fall at the store, the broken step, the dog bite, the attack in the parking lot your landlord promised was safe, the fall on government property, and the honest truth that many of these cases have to be filed as lawsuits. Written by Rory Safir, a member of the National Association of Premises Liability Attorneys and a former Assistant Public Defender in Tampa’s Thirteenth Judicial Circuit.
Hurt on someone else’s property in Tampa Bay? The book is free to you: the paperback mails from the first printing, and the digital edition, cover and all, is delivered the moment you submit the request form.
Want it faster? The paperback ($17.95) and Kindle ($7.99) editions are available on Amazon.
Hurt in a Florida Nursing Home: The Family’s Guide to Abuse, Neglect, and Wrongful Death Nobody Hands You
340 pages: 23 chapters in six parts, 17 full-page diagrams, a plain-language glossary, a warning-signs checklist, a records request list, a choosing-a-facility guide, a dated visit-log workbook, and a list of questions to ask any nursing home lawyer. It covers the signs that mean tonight, the records race, the staffing spreadsheet at the root of almost everything, bedsores, falls, dehydration, medication errors, sepsis, wandering, abuse, financial exploitation, the arbitration trap in the admission papers, the corporate shell game, and the two-year clock that is shorter than it sounds. Written for the family member who suspects something is wrong and needs to know what to do tonight, this week, and after.
Worried about a loved one in a Florida nursing home or assisted living facility? The book is free to you: the paperback mails from the first printing, and the digital edition, cover and all, is delivered the moment you submit the request form.
Want it faster? The paperback ($17.95) and Kindle ($7.99) editions are available on Amazon.
For lawyers
The Florida DUI Trial Manual: A Working Reference for Taking the State’s Science Apart
Unlike the four books above, this one is written for lawyers, not for the people charged. It explains the forensic science behind the breath machine, the blood vial, and the field sobriety exercises, then shows how to challenge each piece in a Florida courtroom: measurement uncertainty, retrograde extrapolation, and David Ball’s rule-out method; worked cross-examinations of the analyst, the officer, and the machine; and discovery, Daubert, and suppression, with two hundred cases, the current chapter 11D-8 rules, and a complete motion and form set. Written by an ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientist and Faculty member of the National College for DUI Defense, who is brought into other lawyers’ DUI cases to read and challenge the science.
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The hardcover is a case-bound edition built to sit open on counsel table, 784 pages at 8.5 by 11. If you have a DUI case where the science is the case, refer it or bring me in as co-counsel.
Questions about the books or a pending case? Call or text (727) 761-4318, any hour.
Everything on this page is general information, not legal advice; every case is different, and past results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
