Think You Waived the Right to Jury Trial in Your Initial Pleading? Maybe Not.

By June 12, 2014

By: Justin B. Kaplan Young litigators are routinely taught that if the plaintiff does not demand a jury trial in its complaint (or counterclaim), it permanently waived this important right.  This time-worn lesson is not necessarily correct, however.  There is still hope. The Florida Rules of Civil Procedure provide: “Any …