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By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq.
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By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq. June 1 , 2026 The billable hour is not one thing. It depends on where you sit in the legal marketplace. A solo commercial litigator, an insurance-defense firm, and an elite national law firm may all use the same basic unit — the hour — but they are not really…
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By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq. May 27, 2026 In Weber v. Weber, the Sixth District Court of Appeal reversed a trial court’s denial of attorney’s fees to a former wife who successfully defended against her former husband’s motion to enforce a marital settlement agreement. That is the immediate holding. But the more interesting part of…
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By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq. May 27, 2026 Florida appellate courts frequently affirm trial court orders without a written opinion. Lawyers call that a per curiam affirmance, or PCA. A PCA tells the parties the result, but it does not explain the reasoning. It is common. It is efficient. And in many cases, it is…
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By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq. May 24, 2026 I do not think every bad boxing decision is the result of an old-fashioned cash bribe. That is the cartoon version of corruption: a referee in a smoky room, a promoter whispering in his ear, an envelope changing hands, and the preferred fighter being protected. The real…
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A Trial Lawyer on Boxing: The Heavyweight Division Has Outgrown Itself By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq. May 23, 2026 Frank Sanchez knocking out Richard Torrez Jr. should force boxing to confront a problem it has avoided for too long: the heavyweight division is no longer one division. It is an open-ended size category pretending to…
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By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq. Commercial contracts often contain limitation-of-liability language that parties treat as boilerplate. But in litigation, that “boilerplate” can become the most important language in the contract. The Fourth District Court of Appeal’s decision in Chetu, Inc. v. CA Short Company a/k/a Casco International, Inc., No. 4D2024-2977, is a useful reminder that…
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By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq. May 15, 2026 Boxing has always had a referee problem. Not in every fight. Not with every referee. But often enough that serious boxing fans know the pattern immediately. The referee stops watching the fight and starts managing it. He gets too close. He touches fighters. He breaks legal exchanges.…
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By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq. Florida’s medical-malpractice presuit system is usually defended in respectable-sounding language. We are told that Chapter 766 is designed to screen frivolous claims, reduce meritless litigation, encourage early settlement, and protect the stability of the medical and insurance markets. That sounds reasonable in the abstract. But the actual structure of the…
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By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. opened The Common Law with one of the most important sentences ever written about law: “The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.” That sentence should be required reading before anyone is allowed to become a lawyer, judge, legislator, law professor,…
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By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq. There is a basic economic problem at the center of commercial litigation that many clients do not fully understand until they are already deep inside a lawsuit. Most people are used to paying for a visible result. If the air-conditioning repairman comes to your house, you expect that when he…
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