Larry Stewart became a personal injury lawyer in Miami in the early 1960’s. It was a time when the longevity of the then-fledgling profession was in doubt. He took “show & tell” presentations before a jury to a whole new level, in one of the

Titans of Trial – Jimmy Gustafson

Nov 20th, 2020 43m 21s

It was losing a personal injury case in mid-career that almost made Jimmy Gustafson give up the practice of trial law. In a few minutes, you’ll hear about the inspirational story that changed him - and his career - and the lesson he learned ab

Titans of Trial – Sean Domnick

Nov 6th, 2020 38m 52s

All Sean Domnick ever wanted to be while growing up was a lawyer. Today, he represents some of the most catastrophically injured people in the country – many from medical malpractice – and has won among the largest verdicts. As you’ll hear, h

Titans of Trial – Rich Newsome

Oct 23rd, 2020 38m 48s

Rich Newsome of Orlando has been at the center of some of the biggest personal injury cases involving automobiles in this century. He played a key role in convincing Congress to pass the “Tread Act.” He also identified a quiet trend of settle

Titans of Trial – Fred Cunningham

Oct 9th, 2020 39m 6s

Fred Cunningham of West Palm Beach has made a definitive impact on bad faith law in Florida, enforcing the duty of good faith that insurance companies owe their insureds. To date, he’s won more than $600 million in verdicts and settlements. He

Titans of Trial – Phil Freidin

Sep 25th, 2020 43m 1s

When Phil Freidin opened his own practice in Miami at the age of 29, he quickly became a legal trend-setter. His success in a product liability case in the mid-1970’s and a bad faith case a decade later, both established significant case law.

Titans of Trial - Don Hinkle

Sep 4th, 2020 29m 15s

It was a chance encounter with trial lawyers Fred Levin and Chris Searcy when he was just a few years out of law school that taught Don Hinkle a big lesson: To be a successful trial lawyer, you just have to be yourself. It’s that and good old-

Titans of Trial – Jeffrey Liggio

Aug 21st, 2020 36m 55s

Jeff Liggio approaches law practice as a human being first, rather than acting like a lawyer. It’s advice he passes along to younger lawyers and is one of his keys to trial success. As you’ll learn, he brings “honor” to an honorable professio

Titans of Trial – Keith Mitnik

Aug 7th, 2020 42m 51s

His parents were school teachers, so it’s no surprise that part of Keith Mitnik’s practice at Morgan & Morgan in Orlando is to counsel other lawyers. He has a reputation as the “go-to guy” who helps turn seeming problems into solutions. He’s

Titans of Trial – Ted Leopold

Jul 23rd, 2020 38m 53s

It was helping a friend of a friend in a practice area outside of his usual cases that led Ted Leopold to find – and win – a new kind of case, one that would change his career. It was the first managed care case of its kind in the country and

Titans of Trial – Michael Haggard

Jul 10th, 2020 39m 1s

Having a father who was a well-known and successful trial lawyer didn’t mean that Mike Haggard was on easy street. His interest in practicing law first came from his dad Andy, but Mike had to work hard. He had no success in repeated testimony

Titans of Trial – David Fonvielle

Jun 5th, 2020 43m 53s

David Fonvielle went from running a concessions business on Fort Lauderdale Beach to eventually starting a personal injury law firm in Tallahassee. He gladly shares how he did it and why, including overcoming concern about advertising to becom

Titans of Trial – Richard Slawson

Apr 23rd, 2020 35m

Richard Slawson’s guiding principal in life has been to stay determined and never give up. He credits it to his success in personal injury cases and to becoming one of Florida’s preeminent insurance bad faith lawyers. He’s now focusing that t

Titans of Trial - Tom Edwards

Apr 10th, 2020 28m 3s

Florida’s large percentage of folks over the age of 65 has highlighted a too common problem: elder abuse in nursing homes and other facilities. Originally a defense lawyer, Tom Edwards of Jacksonville changed sides to help this needy and helpl

Titans of Trial – Greg Barnhart

Feb 14th, 2020 42m 6s

Greg Barnhart refers to trials as “the ultimate game.” While certainly a competition between two sides, he insists that juries expect to be entertained. To be a successful trial lawyer, as you’ll hear, you have to be entertaining and tell a s

Titans of Trial – Steve Pajcic

Dec 6th, 2019 35m 21s

On today’s program, something different. We feature someone who is as well known for his political life as his distinguished trial career. Steve Pajcic served Jacksonville in the Florida House of Representatives for six terms in the 1970’s an

Titans of Trial – Dale Swope

Nov 15th, 2019 43m 49s

Dale Swope jokes that he’ll pay a thousand dollars to anyone that can prove they’ve been more broke than he’s been. He had to take losing cases no one else would touch and find a way to win them. He did, including his first personal injury ca

Titans of Trial - Neal Roth

Oct 18th, 2019 41m 18s

He really wanted to be a doctor. But a bad automobile accident in his teens that almost killed him – twice – landed Neal Roth in a courtroom as a plaintiff in a personal injury lawsuit. It was that early legal experience that convinced him to

Titans of Trial - Wayne Hogan

Sep 6th, 2019 1h 9m

As one of the nine Florida trial lawyers hired by the state to fight Big Tobacco in the 1990’s, Wayne Hogan became part of the glue that held the elite team together. He worked to smooth the disparate legal approaches and personalities to help

Titans of Trial - John Romano

Aug 16th, 2019 41m 19s

His first boss and mentor was Al J. Cone, the founder of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, the predecessor of the Florida Justice Association. As such, our conversation with John Romano of Lake Worth is as much the story and lessons of the

Titans of Trial - Stuart Grossman

Jul 26th, 2019 39m 32s

As a young man growing up in Coral Gables, Stuart Grossman was upset at the social injustices shown on television news every night and wanted to change that if he could. He could and did. His victories include the largest verdict of its time

Titans of Trial - James "Booty" Nance

Jun 28th, 2019 40m 56s

It was his older sister’s mispronunciation of the word “beauty” that, as just an infant, gave James Nance the nickname that would stick with him for life: “Booty”. With a name like that, he had to be a good trial lawyer – and he was – and stil

Titans of Trial - W.C. Gentry

May 31st, 2019 33m 23s

His mother was a smoker who died of lung cancer at the age of 54. So when W.C. Gentry of Jacksonville got the call to join a team of lawyers fighting Big Tobacco to recover state Medicaid dollars spent on those smokers’ care, his was an easy a

Titans of Trial - Chris Searcy

May 8th, 2019 49m 24s

Chris Searcy grew up in trial practice in Miami, hanging around legendary lawyers such as Bill Frates, Larry Stewart, Bill Coleson, Bill Hicks, and J.B Spence, to name but a few. As a young law student at Stetson University in 1972, he became

Titans of Trial - Troy Rafferty

Mar 27th, 2019 33m 59s

Working in a sausage factory while attending college taught Troy Rafferty the value of hard work and sacrifice. Which helped him become what he is today: one of the top trial lawyers nationally who police the pharmaceutical industry by trying