All Resources

Everything on this site that teaches, explains, or points you somewhere helpful, gathered in one place. Some of it is for people facing a charge or an injury claim, some for their families, and some for anyone who wants to understand how these cases really work.

Books

• The Safir Lawyer books: four plain-English books, on Florida DUI defense, car crashes, injuries on someone else’s property, and nursing home abuse and neglect, free to the Floridians who need them, in paperback by mail and as an instant digital edition
• Florida DUI Reference: a public index of 160 Florida and federal DUI decisions and 54 scientific sources on breath, blood, and field sobriety testing.
• The Florida DUI Trial Manual: the practitioner volume, written for lawyers rather than for the people charged. Ebook on Amazon, hardcover coming soon.

Free guides and downloads

• Instant Downloads: free guides you can download right now, covering what to do after an arrest or a crash
• Newsletters: the firm’s print newsletter archive, with plain-English case stories and law updates

Read, Watch, and Listen

• The Safir Lawyer Blog: celebrity cases, courtroom strategy, and the science behind the evidence, in plain English
• In the News: press coverage and my commentary on national cases
• The Safir Brothers Lawcast: the podcast, where we take cases apart out loud
• Media and Press: TV appearances, videos, and where to follow along

Reference and tools

• What a Florida DUI actually costs: the three year total, including the FR-44 insurance requirement, and what a reduction saves
• Florida DUI License Deadline Checker: three questions, and it shows the exact date your permit expires, the suspension you are facing, and whether you can still keep driving
• The DUI case evaluator: three minutes of the questions a defense lawyer asks, and what your answers suggest is strong and weak. No email.
• The BAC estimator: what a population model predicts from what you drank, as a range, set against the breath result. For a test that already happened.
• How to choose a DUI lawyer: eight questions that separate a real workup from a plea mill, plus the red flags. Ask them of me too.
• Bureau of Administrative Reviews offices: all eight Florida BAR offices, with addresses, email addresses, and the two forms filed there
• Florida DUI Reference: the case law and the scientific literature behind these defenses, with links to read or buy each source
• The 11D-8 quick reference: the alcohol testing program rules behind every breath and blood case, written for lawyers
• Licensed DUI programs by county: Florida assigns one program per county, with addresses and phone numbers

Going to court: know before you go

• Police records, body camera video, and published policy: where each Tampa Bay agency keeps them, plus the St. Petersburg General Orders
• The Pinellas Sheriff after an arrest: inmate search, posting bond, DUI immobilization fees, probation, and body camera requests
• Pinellas County Justice Center guide: parking, security, which floor your courtroom is on, and what happens at arraignment
• Hillsborough County Courthouse guide: the downtown Tampa courthouse complex, the annex, and video first appearances
• Sarasota County courthouse guide: the Silvertooth Judicial Center on Ringling, the two downtown buildings that are not it, and where to park on Main Street
• Venice courthouse guide: the South County courthouse, free parking, and which cases go downtown instead
• Manatee County Judicial Center guide: the garage across the street, why the Clerk’s criminal records are in a different building, and the jail eleven miles north in Palmetto
• DeSoto County courthouse guide: Arcadia, free parking with no time limit, and the Clerk in the same building
• West Pasco Judicial Center guide: New Port Richey, free parking out front, and the published dress code
• Dade City courthouse guide: the Sumner Judicial Center, not the historic domed courthouse on Meridian

Help beyond the courtroom

• Treatment and Recovery Resources: DUI programs, treatment providers, and peer support across Tampa Bay, and how treatment can change a case
• Diversion and Treatment Courts: drug court, veterans treatment court, mental health court, and pretrial intervention
• The D.R.O.P. DUI Diversion Program: the Pinellas and Pasco first-DUI diversion program, tier by tier
• DUI Diversion and Reduction to Reckless: every DUI diversion program in my six counties, including DETER and RIDR
• Juvenile Diversion: keeping a young person’s mistake off the record

After the case: your record

• Sealing and Expunging: who qualifies to seal or expunge a Florida record, and how the process works

For crime victims and families

• Reporting nursing home abuse in Florida: the abuse hotline, the long-term care ombudsman, and the licensing agency, and how each one protects an elderly loved one
• Crime Victim Representation: your rights under Marsy’s Law, and how I enforce them
• How to Get an Injunction: step by step, how to get an injunction for protection in Florida

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