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Affordable Aerial Photography Copyright Infringement Defense

December 30, 2021 Griffin Klema Leave a comment
CopyCat Legal & Affordable Aerial Photography letters

No one likes to receive a letter from a lawyer, especially one claiming that you’ve done something wrong, like infringing someone’s copyright. That’s exactly what Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc., and its proprietor, Robert Stevens are doing: employing law firms to send demand letters to people who might have a photograph

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How to Copy-and-Paste Text from a PDF to Word in Seconds and Make It Pretty

December 1, 2021 Griffin Klema Leave a comment

Now that the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure require parties to prepare their responses to written discovery (interrogatories, requests for production, and requests for admissions), lawyers and support staff need to become efficient with creating their response documents based on a PDF-version that was served. Sometimes it can be difficult

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How to identify the owner of a PO Box or get a person’s change of address

November 1, 2021 Griffin Klema 3 comments

Updated: May 4, 2022.  One problem that people sometimes run into is figuring out who they need to sue or a potential witness’s true identity. It’s usually necessary to identify an individual person you need to sue or subpoena, but the United States post office boxes often don’t let you

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Rules of Civil Procedure Amended Based on My Request

October 8, 2021 Griffin Klema 2 comments
In re amendments to the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, case no. SC21-120

Florida Bar and Supreme Court adopt rule changes to increase efficiency.

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Miami-Dade Summons Fillable Form

March 20, 2019 Griffin Klema 2 comments

You know what’s annoying? Finding a form online that isn’t fillable. You know what’s even more annoying? Having a form with additional pages that require re-entering the same information from the first page multiple times! Well, the Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts has just such a form for a civil court

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Griffin Klema Quoted in Florida Bar News on Credit Card Fees

January 15, 2019 Griffin Klema Leave a comment
credit cards

Attorney Griffin Klema has been quoted in the Florida Bar News on the Florida Supreme Court’s recent approval of an ethics rule change allowing lawyers to pass along credit card fees to judgment debtors and parties entering into settlement agreements. I am pleased that Floridians now have greater freedoms to

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Proposal for Settlement Calculator

October 25, 2018 Griffin Klema Leave a comment
PFS calculator

Calculating Statutory Settlement Offers Trying to figure out what an opposing party would have to get in a judgment to beat your proposal for settlement? Want to make an offer of judgment under Florida’s statute (Section 768.79) and need to calculate the amount? The math seems pretty straightforward, but in

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Trademark Registration as Defensive Asset

April 10, 2018 Griffin Klema One comment
Registered Trademark Pie Shield

Can you use a trademark as a defensive shield to protect yourself and your business, besides using it to enforce your brand? Most people think of a trademark as a weapon to prevent a competitor from stealing their customers, ripping off their brand, and taking marketshare. True, that’s the primary

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No Trade Secret for Uber’s Data in Government License

January 12, 2018 Griffin Klema Leave a comment
Uber vs. Yellow Cab

No Trade Secret Protection for Uber’s Rider Data On January 10, 2018, the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeals held that rideshare company Uber (through its subsidiary Raiser LLC), could not claim trade secret protection to prevent the disclosure of its rider data. The case resulted from traditional taxicab company,

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