The Safir Brothers Lawcast is a show about the part of law that does not make it into the brief: the trials, the war stories, and the nitty-gritty of trying cases and running a practice.
Candid conversations about real cases: what worked at trial, what did not, how a cross-examination comes together, and what the books never teach you about the job. Often the brothers bring on a third lawyer to talk shop, compare notes, and trade the kind of stories that only people who have stood in a courtroom can tell. Rory’s solo show, Reasonably Safir, walks the week’s Florida appellate decisions every Friday.
Episodes
Episode 1 · Personal injury
How to Maximize Damages in “Standard” Personal Injury Cases
Rory puts his brother Gary in the hot seat on the case that never makes the headlines: the everyday car crash or fall, a neck injury, a back injury, maybe a herniated disc. Gary spent years on the insurance defense side before he switched, and he explains what actually moves the value of a case like that. It is not the size of the medical file.
Clips
Short pieces from recent episodes. The full episodes and every clip also go out on the show’s own channels.
The Injury Claim With No Medical Records
No treatment records does not mean no case. What a jury believes is the account of what changed in your daily life, from the people who watch you live it.
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More Treatment Does Not Mean A Bigger Injury Claim
Piling up appointments does not make a claim worth more. What matters is whether the treatment answers the injury, and whether the records show why each visit happened.
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Your hosts
Rory Safir
DUI, criminal defense, and personal injury attorney in St. Petersburg, Florida, and one of only six ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientists in the state. He started out as a public defender in Tampa and now takes the science-heavy cases apart the way the State’s own analysts do, from the breath machine to the blood draw. He is NHTSA-qualified to teach the same field sobriety battery the arresting officer was trained on, and serves on National College for DUI Defense task forces on alcohol and drug testing devices and on trial advocacy. He has written five books: four in plain English and free to the Floridians who need them, and The Florida DUI Trial Manual, the working reference he wrote for the criminal defense bar.
Gary Safir
Personal injury trial lawyer based in Detroit, and Rory’s brother. He is licensed in Michigan, Ohio, and federal court and has been trying cases since 2013, handling motorcycle, auto, and pedestrian collisions and Michigan No-Fault claims. He began his career on the other side, defending insurance companies, which is a large part of why he is good at taking them apart now. He is AV Preeminent rated and has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star every year since 2019, and he is currently litigating a constitutional challenge to Michigan’s bar on non-economic recovery for uninsured drivers. He has spoken to other lawyers on winning opening statements, and he is a big part of why Rory took up injury work alongside his criminal defense.
Hurt in Michigan or Ohio? Rory is licensed in Florida, and only Florida. If you were hurt in Michigan or Ohio, call Gary directly. He takes those cases himself, and you are not being handed off to a stranger: he is family, and Rory would send his own to him. Call or text (313) 444-8476, or go to getsafir.com.
For Florida lawyers
The Florida DUI Trial Manual. The long version of what these shows do in twenty minutes. Breath, blood, and drugs, the roadside exercises from the instructor’s chair, the search and seizure fight, and the trial itself, with every case and study it works from indexed publicly.
Rory also takes DUI referrals and co-counsel arrangements from lawyers across Florida on science-heavy cases. Fees are divided as the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar require.
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What the show is for
The Safir Brothers Lawcast is for lawyers who try cases, and for the people whose cases they try. Rory practices DUI, criminal defense, and personal injury in St. Petersburg, Florida; Gary tries injury cases in Detroit. Each episode is the two of them, and often a guest, on what actually moves a case: the deposition, the credibility of the client, the offer that tells you what the adjuster thinks, and the trial itself.
If you are a lawyer, take what is useful and run it. If you were hurt and want to hear how a case like yours is actually worked, the plain English is deliberate and you are welcome to listen in.
Nothing on this page or in any episode is legal advice, and listening to it does not make either of us your lawyer.
Looking for the other one? Reasonably Safir is Rory’s solo show: the week’s Florida appellate decisions in plain English, every Friday, with the occasional deep dive.
