Florida Statute 44.104 authorizes parties to almost any civil dispute to select and substitute a voluntary trial resolution judge for the circuit judge in the case. Almost all proceedings and orders are handled by the private judge including trial in a public courtroom. The right to jury trial also remains intact.
Motions are adjudicated rapidly, often within days of being fully briefed, and trials can be held as soon as the parties are ready. There are no calendar calls because every case is specially set for trial. As Private Judges, Alan Fine and Rudy Sorondo are are available to attorneys and their clients to provide an efficient and fair way to resolve civil disputes.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss what switching to a private judge would mean in your case, please call or send us an email.
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Binding and non-binding arbitration services are available for the resolution of complex legal disputes. We offer articulate, record-based decisions consistent with law and precedent.
We are available to serve as court appointed special magistrates under Rule 1.490, Fla.R.Civ.P., in any matter for which a special magistrate may be appointed including resolving discovery and privilege issues.
Once appellate briefs have been filed, we are available to serve as judges in practice oral arguments to assist attorneys in refining their arguments.
“No preparation for oral argument is as valuable as a moot court in which you’re interrogated by lawyers as familiar with your case as the court is likely to be. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is so effective in bringing to your attention issues that have not occurred to you and in revealing the flaws in your responses to issues you have been aware of.”
Antonin Scalia & Bryan A. Garner, Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges 158 (2008).
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