Results

RECENT RESULTS

• Non-Compete:   Mr. Wier and Ms. Black achieved a significant victory for a Tampa-area doctor in a non-compete lawsuit initiated by the doctor’s former employer. Thanks to Mr. Wier’s compelling arguments and exceptional briefing, the former employer withdrew the lawsuit just before the injunction hearing. This dismissal entitles our client to full reimbursement of attorney’s fees. A complete triumph for Black Law P.A.! (April 2025)
• Judgment Affirmed by Appeals Court:  Black Law P.A. successfully defended an air conditioner repair company, securing a favorable judgment and entitlement to over $60,000 in attorney’s fees after a four-year-long lawsuit. The Plaintiff appealed the lower court’s decision, but the Fourth District Court of Appeals upheld the ruling, affirming the trial court’s judgment. Another victory for Black Law P.A.! (April 2025)
• Dismissal:  Mr. Shilling represented a local Pilates studio which was sued in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida for claims related to age discrimination. Mr. Shilling’s legal arguments prevailed across the board and he was successful in having the case dismissed, with prejudice, at the pleading stage due to the Plaintiff’s failure to bring the action (March 2025).
• Judgment: Ms. Black and Mr. Shilling represented an individual defrauded by a defunct chain of luxury car dealerships and successfully obtained summary judgment against the dealerships, and their principals, after 3+ years in litigation. (March 2025).
• Final Judgment:  Mr. Shilling represented a large maintenance company in a contract dispute regarding the purchase of a commercial drone and successfully prevailed in the litigation. Mr. Shilling obtaining a complete recovery for the client, which included all damages, attorneys’ fees, and then some (March 2025).
• Real Estate:  Mr. Shilling successfully settled a highly contentious real estate dispute between his corporate landlord client and various third-parties, obtaining a highly favorable result for the client which resolved multiple claims pending in various courts (March 2025).
• Evidentiary Hearing: Mr. Wier diligently represented clients whose were subjected to a forged promissory note, causing a foreclosure on their property.  Mr. Wier successfully argued that the clients were never properly served, undoing a four-year old judgment and imminent foreclosure. (March 2025)
• Final Judgment: Mr. Shilling and Ms. Black successfully represented a couple who bought property in Florida, only to find out the closing lawyer forged court documents, and they did not have clean title to the property.  After suing the owner, the (now) disbarred attorney, and the real estate company, Black Law P.A.’s clients own the home and BLPA has successfully secured a judgment for their losses against the disbarred lawyer that includes attorney fees. (March 2025).
• Shareholder Dispute: Mr. Wier and Ms. Black successfully represented a partner of an accounting firm against his former business partner.  Black Law P.A. succeeded in getting its client a settlement that encompassed all of his losses and complete ownership of the company within three month of filign the lawsuit (February 2025)
• FLSA Lawsuit:  Mr. Shilling successfully negotiated the resolution of a FLSA lawsuit within weeks after it was filed on behalf of a client facing a serious claim, greatly reducing the client’s exposure to a significant fee award. (January 2025)
• Evidentiary Hearing: Mr. Shilling diligently represented a doctor in a challenging evidentiary hearing concerning the replevin of a cherished family pet. Through his skillful argumentation of case law and effective cross-examination of the opposing side, Mr. Shilling successfully won the hearing for his client. (July 2024)
• Eviction: Mr. Shilling and Ms. Perez represented a couple who owned a property where their son lived with his wife and children. After the son and daughter-in-law divorced, the daughter-in-law refused to leave the property, claiming it was marital property, despite owning a second home nearby. Following several contentious hearings, the Court sided with Black Law P.A. and ordered the eviction of the daughter-in-law, thereby returning the property to the grandparents. (July 2024)
• Reseller Account Reinstated: Mr. Shilling was able to achieve re-activation of a Seller’s Account on the Amazon marketplace that had been deactivated due to a misunderstanding outside of our client’s control. Within three days of Mr. Shilling being involved, the account was reinstated. (May 2024)
• Medical Collections: A prominent pediatric surgery center treated an at-risk patient in its emergency department with intensive and critical care, but the patient was out of network.  The insurance company refused to pay the $70,000 in billing.  Mr. Shilling and Ms. Black were hired and now the pediatric surgery center was paid in full and considered “in-network” with the provider.  (April 2024)
• Medical Collections: A health insurance company went out of business, leaving Black Law P.A.’s client with over $300,000 in uncollected claims.  Ms. Black successfully negotiated repayment of more than 5x of what the insurance company was originally offering to resolve the dispute.  (April 2024)
• Medical Collections: Days before trial in the United States District Court for Southern District of Florida in a medical billing suit brought against Ms. Black’s client for damages exceeding $4,000,000.00, Ms. Black succeeded in resolving the case for essentially nuance value on behalf of her client, a medical billing company.  Complete win! (February 2024)
• Maritime/Commercial: Ms. Black and Ms. Perez received a final judgment for a client against a boat manufacturing company for $287,000 + attorney’s fees for unfair and deceptive  acts, fraud, and breach of contract, along with a replevin order compelling the return of various marine parts and equipment.  (January 2024)
• Employment: Ms. Black successfully negotiated a dismissal of a lawsuit for breach of a non-compete agreement in what could have been a 7-figure claim.  (December 2023)
• Insurance Coverage – Maritime: Insurance denied coverage on the total loss of a $975,000 vessel. Ms. Black was retained, and the insurance paid the entire loss less the deductible. (October 2023)
• Fraud – Settlement: One of Black Law P.A.’s aviation clients was defrauded out of $55,000 and Black Law P.A. was able to quickly file suit and negotiate a favorable settlement compensating the client for its losses. (August 2023)
• Noncompete – Injunction Granted: Ms. Black successfully prevailed on getting a forensic examination of an ex-employee’s computer searched, yielding results that forced the other side to resolve the case quickly. (August 2023)
• Negligent Security – Settlement: Ms. Black successfully secured a favorable settlement against a security company for failure to properly secure a warehouse, which resulted in a theft of over $1,600,000 in product. The client was compensated in full for its losses after three years of litigation and dispositive motions, all of which Ms. Black’s client prevailed. (August 2023)
• Construction Defect – Judgment:  Mr. Shilling and Ms. Black successfully secured dismissal of a four-year-old lawsuit brought against our client for alleged negligent failure to install a HVAC product.  The Court dismissed the entire case less than two weeks before trial.  It is expected that the client will be awarded all their fees incurred in defending the lawsuit from July 2022 onward. (April 2023)
• Complex Civil – Commercial Litigation:  Ms. Black successfully secured a seven-figure settlement in favor of her pharmacy client in a lawsuit brought against a health center after years of litigation.  The lawsuit settled after two days of trial.  The client was thrilled!  (February 2023)
• Federal Court – Injunction:  Mr. Shilling successfully brought a motion for temporary injunction and won after an evidentiary hearing, crippling the business that the motion was brought against and forcing them to settle for full value of our client’s claims. (February 2023)
• Dismissal of Lawsuit:  Mr. Shiling successfully secured the dismissal of the owner of LLC who was sued for product liability relating to the Company she owned.  Not only did the Court agree with Black Law P.A.’s legal argument, but he dismissed the client with prejudice which set up the pathway for final resolution of what could have been a contentious lawsuit for the client. (November 2022)
• Insurance Coverage:  Ms. Black successfully secured insurance coverage on behalf of a law firm client for a contentious malpractice action, despite the insurer denying coverage two times before.  Complete victory for the client! (August 2022)
• Judgment – Real Estate:  Mr. Shilling successfully received a judgment for all damages plus attorney’s fees in favor of a client who sued the seller of the their home for fraud and misrepresentation.  Complete win! (September 2022)
• Construction Dispute:  Ms. Black successfully brought a claim against a general contractor by a subcontractor for unpaid invoices.  On the eve of trial, the Defendants settled for all of our client’s requested damages. (October 2022)
• Insurance Coverage:  Ms. Black successfully brough a coverage claim against an insurance company to cover her client against a claim brought by an employee who was injured working aboard a cruise ship saving her client tens of thousands of dollars. (August 2022)
• Judgment + Fees:  Mr. Shilling secured a judgment against an aviation parts company for all his client’s damages plus attorney fees, which was paid in full due to clever post-judgment garnishment efforts on the behalf of Black Law P.A. (April 2022)
• Dissolve Injunction and Lis Pendens – Real Estate:  Ms. Black successfully argued a motion to dissolve an lis pendens and injunction that was improperly entered against her client with her client being afforded notice of the hearing.  Once the injunction was resolved, it enabled her to client to litigate the lawsuit and bring counter-claim for extensive real estate fraud conducted against it. (March 2022)
• Post-Judgment Collection:  Ms. Black successfully defend two members of LLC from post-judgment collection efforts being commenced against them personally for allegations relating to piercing the corporate veil.  Ms. Black was able to show that there was no basis to pierce the Court veil, and her clients were able to avoid liability for the company’s debt. (July 2021)
• Employment:  Past employee sued a construction client for violations relating to the FLSA.  Ms. Black brought a third party complaint against the employee leasing company that the client used and successfully negotiated a settlement with the employee that required the third party leasing company to pay half of the settlement.  (December 2020)
• Non-Jury Trial:  A wholesale perfume client sued a vendor for failure to pay over $150,000 worth of invoices in a breach of contract and Florida Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practice lawsuit.  After a bench trial, Ms. Black secured a verdict against the vendor and its owner for the entire amount of requested damages, along with attorney fees.  (October 2020)
• Insurance Coverage/Employment:  Past employee sued a restaurant client of Ms. Black’s for violations of the FLSA and retaliation.  Ms. Black filed a declaratory judgment action against the insurance carrier for the client because the carrier wrongfully denied coverage.  After the lawsuit was filed, the insurance carrier agreed to resolve the lawsuits.  (November 2019)
• Insurance Coverage:  Client was sued in Broward County in a wrongful death action.  Client’s insurance filed a declaratory judgment action in federal court.  Ms. Black filed a motion to dismiss, and the insurance company voluntarily dismissed the federal court action.  (October 2019)
• Insurance Coverage:  Client’s CEO was about to be sued for a wrongful death action involving an auto accident.  Ms. Black’s quick response immediately on behalf of the CEO to its insurance carrier after the accident created a fair and just settlement without the necessary expense of a lawsuit.  (August 2019)
• Evidentiary Hearing:  Ms. Black successfully advocated on behalf of her client that an adverse inference instruction should be read to the jury due to the adverse party’s spoliation of evidence for an upcoming trial.  The court agreed and the case resolved for the full value of Black Law P.A.’s client’s damages. (October 2019)
• Non-compete enforcement:  Client’s employee breached noncompete agreement, and we sued for injunctive relief. The employee ask for an early mediation and agreed to a stronger noncompete and paid monetary damages in exchange for dismissal of the lawsuit. (June 2019)
• Trial:  Ms. Black’s client was sued for breach of contract, fraud and breach of Florida’s unfair and deceptive practices act.  After a one-day bench trial, Ms. Black secured a defense verdict on all claims, but the breach of contract action.  (June 2019)
• Insurance Coverage:  Ms. Black persuaded pre-suit an insurance company to cover 100% of all losses to a commercial property, despite the initial denial of the claim.  (March 2019)
• Insurance Coverage:  A Caribbean dive company client of Ms. Black’s was sued in the United States District Court for Southern District of Florida by a customer for personal injuries.  The dive company’s insurance carrier attempted to exclude coverage.  Ms. Black was successful in forcing the insurance to live up to its commitments under the policy and provide coverage to the company.  (May 2019)
• Trial: Ms. Black first chaired a 5-day federal court jury trial on behalf of a surety company.  The jury found minimal damages against the bond principal and defense verdict in the surety’s favor.  (January 2019)
• Trial:  Ms. Black participated in a one-week bench trial involve a shareholder dispute in a closely held company.  Ms. Black was successful in assisting in achieving a complete win on behalf of the firm’s clients.  (November 2018)
• Trial:  Ms. Black participated in a jury trial involving a shareholder dispute in a closely held company and was able to achieve a favorable result for the majority shareholders against the minority shareholder.  (July 2018)
• Arbitration:  Ms. Black assisted a client in an arbitration to recover the full value of his speculative investment made in a cannabis company.  (June 2018)