The Florida Rules of Civil Procedure aim “to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action and proceeding.” For a corporate defendant, the difficulty of obtaining summary judgment
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David Weinstein is the Managing Shareholder of the Tampa Office and Chairs the firm’s national Environmental & Toxic Torts Litigation Practice. With over 30 years of experience, David Weinstein has built a broad practice comprised of high-stakes and complex civil and white-collar litigation, including environmental, toxic tort, real estate, land use, business, financial, health care, and other challenging matters. While David is an accomplished litigator who takes pride in mastering the skills of trial advocacy, he also strives to help his clients find out-of-court approaches to address their problems, disputes, and legal issues whenever appropriate. Drawing on both his entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen, David has handled diverse business matters and enjoys assisting clients with their unique challenges and legal concerns. In the civil context, he represents clients in class actions, mass torts, and other complex litigation. David also represents organizations and individuals in federal, state, and local criminal investigations. In both the civil and criminal areas, David has experience assisting clients with developing and implementing crisis management and public relations strategies. He has significant "first-chair" trial experience in jury and non-jury trials, as well as arbitrations.
Using Florida’s Amended Summary Judgment Standard in Litigation
“When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men’s weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped.”
Sun Tzu, Art of…
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Happy Earth Day from Greenberg Traurig’s Environmental Practice
Because we were reminded this last year how interconnected it all is, and hopefully, we learned a few things about how to keep it beautiful, bountiful, and healthy.
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Price-Anderson Act Removal of Litigation Involving a “Nuclear Incident”
“Configuration of terrain is an aid to the army. Analyzing the enemy, taking control of victory, estimating ravines and defiles, the distant and near, is the Tao of the superior…
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Florida Appellate Court Reverses Class Certification in Commercial Fishing Action Arising From a 65-Million-Gallon Process Water Release Into Tampa Bay
In the summer of 2004, during Hurricane Frances, an industrial facility released approximately 65 million gallons of process water into Tampa Bay. A group of commercial fishermen promptly filed a…
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