If you are Spike Lee or Mark Zuckerberg, you can dress however you want and nobody is going to criticize you. However, if you are not a famous film maker or renowned billionaire, you need to think about what you put on your body. Most of us have heard the [...]
Florida has a teen driving problem. No one denies that. The highest per capita rate for fatal traffic accidents involving teens in the nation is in Florida. There might be many reasons for that. Many roads in Florida are extremely congested and people often drive faster than they should in [...]
By now most Florida drivers know that fines are not the only thing that comes with traffic tickets. As I have discussed numerous times, traffic tickets also cause your insurance rates to increase. Actually, they do not just cause an increase in insurance rates, traffic tickets can cause your insurance [...]
It is something out of a nightmare. You go on what you think will be a relaxing vacation on the beach. However, through some bizarre turn of events, you wind up being accused of breaking the law while you are on vacation. You might not even have known about the [...]
A client came into our Hollywood office for a free consultation last week. He had two tickets, one for speeding and the other traffic ticket was for not wearing a seatbelt (which he removed to reach over and grab his registration and insurance card). He asked me if it was [...]
You have probably seen the commercials hundreds of times. They are on all the time in South Florida. Some clown, dog, monkey or even actors playing police officers tell you that if you get a traffic ticket, you should call this or that Florida traffic ticket attorney. I have even seen [...]
The end of hurricane season in South Florida always ushers in the other season that marks the local calendar: tourist season. For many in South Florida, such as hotel and restaurant owners, this is the busiest and most important time of year. But, for residents who are not directly involved [...]
Last Halloween, one of my Legal Assistants watched a movie called Evil Dead. She is a bit of a horror movie connoisseur, and was searching for the scariest thing since the Snuggie. Evil Dead was pretty scary but I think it is safe to say that it is no match [...]
The speeding ticket business is a 3 Billion dollar a year revenue generator. That is, the cities and states collect almost $3,000,000,000 a year from speeders across the country. Florida is by far one of the biggest pigs at the trough. I will not argue that excessive speeding can lead [...]
It kind of feels like a game of cat and mouse with the police. What I mean is that everyone breaks the traffic laws. Everyone speeds, even a little, once in a while. Everyone occasionally rolls through a stop sign when no other cars are around. This includes turning right [...]