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[email protected] [email protected] | April 5, 2017 | news

Roman Austin Car Accident and Personal Injury Lawyers is pleased to announce that our firm has earned a spot in the prestigious Top 50 and Top 100 Verdicts in Florida lists for 2016. This is a significant achievement that places our firm at the top of all plaintiff and cross-claimant jury verdicts obtained throughout the… read more

[email protected] [email protected] | March 29, 2017 | news

Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran knows how to get attention. He has famously picked a fight with Governor Scott, a fellow Republican, about what he perceives as corporate welfare. He has criticized Florida’s universities and promised to cut their budgets. Many political observers believe he is getting ready to run for governor in the next… read more

[email protected] [email protected] | February 15, 2017 | news

Politicians who criticize judges are front and center in the news right now. Donald Trump called a federal judge who temporarily suspended his immigration ban a “so-called judge” whose decision was “ridiculous.” Closer to home, House Speaker Richard Corcoran called for term limits for state judges. Among other things, Corcoran said judges need to be… read more

[email protected] [email protected] | December 14, 2016 | news

Our team of Clearwater personal injury lawyers at Roman Austin Car Accident and Personal Injury Lawyers would like to announce that we recently celebrated Attorney Mark Roman’s 30th anniversary of admission to the Florida Bar on Sunday, October 16. We are pleased to be led by such a dedicated, relentless, and compassionate Board Certified Civil… read more

[email protected] [email protected] | September 6, 2016 | news

A recurring theme in these blogs is the danger posed by arbitration. Arbitration is supposed to be an informal, inexpensive process for deciding legal disputes, but it has morphed into a way for corporations to take away a consumer’s right to their day in court. Multiple articles about the unfairness of the process have appeared… read more

[email protected] [email protected] | September 1, 2016 | Car Accidents, news, Personal Injury

Roman Austin Car Accident and Personal Injury Lawyers wishes everyone a happy Labor Day weekend! If you and your loved ones have plans to celebrate the upcoming holiday weekend, our team of personal injury lawyers would like to remind you about the importance of making safety a priority. Statistically, Labor Day weekend has been shown… read more

[email protected] [email protected] | July 11, 2016 | news

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles has designated July as Wrong Way Driving Awareness Month. Wrong way driving collisions occur when vehicles fail to observe pavement markings and posted traffic signs and proceed into a lane going the wrong direction. The majority of wrong way driving collisions are head-on, resulting in three-quarters… read more

[email protected] [email protected] | June 16, 2016 | news

Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited . . .the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose. These are not the words of a hysteria gun-control advocate. They are instead the words of the late Supreme… read more

[email protected] [email protected] | May 31, 2016 | news

The foreclosure crisis is well known to Americans, and particularly to Floridians. Mortgage fraud in writing home loans has been widely publicized, and many people know about the shameful underwriting practices (or really, nonexistent underwriting practices) of the big lenders. The back end of the story – how foreclosures worked their way through the court… read more

[email protected] [email protected] | April 5, 2016 | news

As a lawyer, I usually find TV shows about lawyers exasperating and un-watchable. Portrayals of lawyers and courtrooms which are designed to be entertaining are often ludicrous. If people’s perception of lawyers is based on what they see on television, it’s no wonder they don’t like us. Given that, I’m pleased to say there is… read more