Leesfield & Partners

A Miami-Dade jury returned a $95 million verdict, among the largest motor-vehicle awards in the history of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, for the family of a young woman killed and her brother catastrophically injured when a drunk driver traveled the wrong way on I-95 in December 2015 after being overserved at a Miami bar.

A Seminole County jury awarded $24.1 million -- the largest verdict in county history at the time -- after an obstetrician's prolonged vacuum extraction and use of fundal pressure caused a uterine rupture that deprived a newborn girl of oxygen and left her with severe cerebral palsy.

Justin Shapiro of Leesfield and Partners secured a $16 million settlement for a 67-year-old woman who was beaten and sexually assaulted in the open hallway of a northwest Miami-Dade Rodeway Inn while hotel employees and the property's security guard stood by and did nothing.

A Broward County jury awarded $15.4 million to Dwight Grant, a 22-year-old backseat passenger who suffered skull fractures and permanent frontal-lobe brain damage when a drunk driver with a BAC of .21 rear-ended the stopped car at a drawbridge in Pompano Beach.

Justin Shapiro of Leesfield and Partners secured a $6 million policy-limits settlement for a client who suffered multiple skull fractures and brain hemorrhages after being struck in a crosswalk, completing the resolution during the Florida COVID-19 shutdown of 2020.

Thomas Scolaro and Justin Shapiro of Leesfield Scolaro secured a $1.575 million settlement for a Broward electrician who fell eight feet from an unsecured marina ladder while boarding an 83-foot yacht at River Bend Marina in Fort Lauderdale.

Justin Shapiro of Leesfield and Partners negotiated a $1.25 million presuit settlement for the family of an 84-year-old man fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver in Orlando, despite the vehicle owner and the driver both invoking the Fifth Amendment and refusing to cooperate with their insurer.