South Florida-based litigation firm Kluger, Kaplan, Silverman, Katzen & Levine P.L. is doubling down on its efforts to promote diversity in the legal sector by expanding the H.T. Smith Legal Studies Scholarship for 2024. The scholarship, now in its fourth year, offers eligible minority law school students in Florida $15,000 …

If you like to hunt for sales at BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc., a Miami attorney is trying to put more change back in your pocket. Steve Silverman of Kluger, Kaplan, Silverman, Katzen & Levine filed a class action complaint alleging the Westborough, Massachusetts-based warehouse club overcharged Florida customers on sales …

By Steve Silverman Last week, the Third DCA’s opinion in Gulliver Schools, Inc. v. Snay served as a lesson to the Facebook generation to once again think before posting.  The former Gulliver headmaster sued the school for wrongful termination and the parties reached a settlement whereby Snay was to receive $10,000 …

By Steve Silverman On September 18, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued an opinion in Bland v. Roberts which held that Facebook “likes” are in fact protected speech under the First Amendment. In the case, Roberts, the Sheriff in Hampton, Virginia, fired several employees after they supported …

By Steve I. Silverman Recently I read a series of articles addressing the question of whether the e-discovery process violates a defendant’s due process rights because it forces the defendant to part with its property (in this case, money) without due process of law.  The rationale for this argument is …