by Davis GoldmanAARON P. DAVIS RECOGNIZED IN THE 2017 EDITION OF FLORIDA SUPER LAWYERS
MIAMI, FL- January 20, 2017- Davis Goldman, PLLC is pleased to announce that Aaron P. Davis has been selected as a Rising Star in the 2017 edition of Florida Super Lawyers.
Super Lawyers, a registered trademark of Thomson Reuters, publishes a list of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. No more than 2.5% of attorneys from each state earn this distinction.
Super Lawyers employs a stringent selection strategy, including peer nominations, third-party research, panel reviews, and a final selection process. The goal is simple: to recognize attorneys who have earned high-level professional achievements and peer recognition. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. The resulting selections create a comprehensive and reputable list of top-tier lawyers from across the nation. In order to qualify for the Rising Stars list, nominees must be no more than 40 years old and have practiced law for 10 years or less. Selections are made on an annual, state-by-state basis.
by Davis GoldmanAARON DAVIS WAS QUOTED IN THE SUN SENTINEL REGARDING SCHOOL VIOLENCE
Several girls yanked Tajzhana Hammond’s hair, beat her in the head and dragged her to the ground at Plantation High last week, according to video footage.
Another student at New Renaissance Middle was beat to the ground this year. Several kids took turns kicking her until school staff stopped them, according to her family’s attorney.
In each case, parents say the schools did not do enough to keep their children safe.
Several Broward school board members say they plan to examine ways to better quell violence and bullying at school.
“If it’s happening to one child then we’re not doing enough,” board member Nora Rupert said after a mother pleaded in October with the school board to protect her daughter from foes.
Every school has an employee responsible for providing educational materials about bullying prevention and an employee who investigates all bullying complaints. Staff, students and parents at every school get anti-bullying training every year. Available trainings include tackling dating violence prevention, conflict mediation and diversity sensitivity.
And a group called The Prevention Team collects data and gives ongoing guidance to students and advisers in an attempt to prevent violence.
After requests from the Sun Sentinel, Broward school district staff were unable to say three weeks later how many reports of bullying Broward receives or how many cases turn violent.
But a 2015 survey of middle school students showed that about one-third of about 1,500 students surveyed had been bullied at Broward County Public Schools, according to estimates from a Youth Risk Behavior Survey led by the Centers for Disease Control.
Almost half of the students had gotten into fights and just about 4 percent were injured, according to the report.
The survey of high schools estimated that about 16 percent were bullied and about 8 percent had physically fought at school within the year. About the same percentage of high school students avoided going to school at least once within 30 months of taking the survey because they felt unsafe.
Lowell Levine, founder of the Stop Bullying Now Foundation, which works with parents, schools and students across the country, said he’s gotten at least three dozen calls this year from Broward parents searching for help.
They come to him after trying to get school officials to answer their concerns, he said.
One board member said she’ll start parent and student forums on violence at school, and the board chair said she will ask staff to determine if schools have enough guidance counselors to adequately handle bullying.
The district pays $6.8 million to staff schools with about 150 police officers and sheriff’s deputies.
But Tajzhana Hammond said no one was there when she emerged from a circle of fists and stomping feet, found her shoe, called her mom and walked herself to the office last week when her classmates jumped her.
No adults can be seen near Hammond in a video of the fight, shot by another student on a cellphone.
Her mother, Helen George, stormed to the office when she received the call.
“I busted through the door like it was nothing. … I was Incredible Hulk. I wanted to fight. Ten girls jumped my daughter. No security guards there,” George said.
Hammond said students started threatening her shortly after she and her mom moved from Miramar and she switched schools. One slammed her with a backpack in the lunch room after several verbal threats. She told her mom, who went to the school office the next day, she said.
“I said there better not be a next time,” George said.
But just weeks later, the girls attacked Hammond.

The district will not answer specific questions related to the incident. Instead, a district spokeswoman emailed a statement saying that the altercation was determined to be the result of an ongoing neighborhood dispute and that no physical injuries were reported.
“School staff and law enforcement responded quickly and followed all proper protocols. … The school notified parents of all of the students involved in this incident. Based on the school’s investigation and review of the incident, some of the students involved will receive the appropriate disciplinary actions,” the statement read.
Plantation Police said several people will be arrested, but the department has not completed any reports.
Nancy Zimmer, president of Plantation High’s Parent Teacher Student Organization, said the principal did everything she could. She rang the lunch bell and told the students over the intercom that whoever was involved would be dealt with and that altercations like that would never happen again, Zimmer said.
“Not one parent I’ve heard thinks that the administration is at fault in any way,” Zimmer said.
Board member Rosalind Osgood, whose district includes Plantation High, said a student told her three fights broke out there the day of Hammond’s attack. Osgood wasn’t sure whether Hammond’s attack was one of those. The district, she said, has a student fighting problem.
Osgood said she will lead a push to quell it. She will start by increasing parent and student participation in shaping policy changes by hosting several forums to hear how they think the schools can best address bullying and violence, she said.
“It’s going to take a major culture change for all of us,” Osgood said.
But schools must strike a balance. Parents may say the school isn’t protecting their children because their kid’s attacker wasn’t sent to jail or removed from school, she said.
Leaders also must not issue punishments that provide little chance for the student to reform. Staff need to work to address anger issues with the student who is bullying, Osgood said.
And calls to increase security come with their own problems.
“I don’t want schools to be a place where we’ve gobs and gobs of officers walking around,” Osgood said. “I’m trying to keep kids out of jail, so I don’t want to create a jail environment.”
Broward currently runs a school, the Pine Ridge Education Center, that aims to reform aggressive or illegal behaviors instead of sending them to jail.
Nine months after several kids beat Jayla Cofer to the ground at New Renaissance Middle, her double vision lingers.
Jayla had feared her attacker for weeks, according to a lawsuit her mother, Santrail Cofer, filed against the school district. Her attorney said the student began threatening Jayla and her friends over relationship rumors. The dispute erupted into a physical battle in a classroom between that student and the friend a week before the beating, said Cofer’s attorney, Aaron Davis of Miami-based Davis Goldman law firm.
The student was suspended, according to the suit. But two boys went to the Cofer home the following night and banged on her door. Cofer went to school the next day and reported the incident to Miramar police, saying she was afraid for her daughter, according to the police report.
School staff sent Jayla home and told her they would change her schedule so she could avoid her bully, Davis said.
The next Monday, she returned to school, met with a guidance counselor, attended a class and walked down a flight of stairs to lunch when she saw several students waiting for a fight, Davis said.
And there stood the girl who had attacked her friend the week before.
Jayla landed in the emergency room with a deep wound on her face, her legs bruised, skin torn and vision trouble, Davis said.
The school resource officer and a school security specialist broke up the fight, but there were no arrests. The school handled the event through its Pine Ridge Education Center program, said Tania Rues, police spokeswoman.
The district will not answer specific questions, citing pending litigation. Nor would the district comment on whether staff typically alters a victim’s schedule to avoid bullies.
Schools commonly suggest that the victim change his or her schedule or habits to avoid the student harassing them, said Levine, of the Stop Bullying Now Foundation
“They may have lunch at the same time. They may be on the same bus, they may be in the same locker room. They may be walking to school in the same neighborhood. So what is that really accomplishing?” he said. “It’s just surface work so they can have an excuse to say, ‘Well, we tried.'”
Experts at the Melissa Institute, a violence prevention and treatment education and research organization, said schools can address bullying by paying equal attention to character development and emotional intelligence as they do to testing and evaluation.
Students who bully tend to have good leadership skills, since they’re so effective at influencing other kids’ self-esteem. To truly resolve bullying, schools can counsel these students to use their power to help others, said Heather Winters, director of the Melissa Institute.
Levine said schools can start by forcing students who bully to complete community service rather than suspend them.
Broward School Board Chair Abby Freedman said she will direct staff to determine whether each school has enough guidance counselors to effectively tackle bullying.
“You can write all the policies in the world, but you have to start communicating to find out what’s really wrong,” Freedman said.
Kim Johnson fears her daughter could land in another situation like these.
She recently pleaded with the school board to investigate bullying of Kaila after she said she filed several complaints with Nova High School and has received no relief.
At the beginning of this year, for example, some girls saw Kaila leaving the school parking lot, ran to their car and sped up to pass her. They hit her car in the process, Johnson said.
A traffic report documents the incident.
And three weeks ago, Kaila’s boyfriend overheard the girls saying they were going to do something to her before winter break, she said.
So Kaila goes to school early to avoid running into them. And she leaves school late.
“You always have your guard up,” Kaila said. “There’s always that feeling of being on edge.”
The district is investigating Kaila’s case.
“It makes you not want go to go to school to be honest,” Kaila said. “Just go to get the motions done instead of actually enjoying school.”
cmcglade@sun-sentinel.com, 954-356-4528 or Twitter @caitmcglade
by Davis GoldmanJASON N. GOLDMAN APPOINTED CHAIRMAN OF JUSTICE & LAW DAY FOR THE GREATER FORT LAUDERDALE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
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Leadership Fort Lauderdale is designed to create better communities by identifying, educating and motivating leaders. Founded in 1994, the program is sponsored by the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce. Participants in the program go through training to develop an awareness of business issues and challenges facing the community and the region; discover personal leadership strengths, and find new areas in creating meaningful contributions; network with a diverse, regional group of community and business leaders; and make a commitment to creating better communities.
Goldman focuses his practice in commercial litigation handling complex business disputes from inception through trial and post-judgment proceedings. He has successfully litigated federal and state court jury and non-jury cases, and argued before Florida’s District Courts of Appeal. Goldman is also a Florida Supreme Court Qualified Arbitrator with a diverse background in complex business dispute resolution. He also handles transactional matters including asset purchases and sales, mergers, corporate formations, and a diverse range of contract negotiations. In addition to litigation and transactional matters, Goldman serves as outside general counsel for multiple companies that have a continuing need for legal expertise and desire easy access to a trusted, business-minded attorney, with experience in employment law, commercial litigation and transactional matters.
Goldman received his J.D. from Florida State University College of Law and his B.A., magna cum laude, from University of Florida.
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Davis Goldman, PLLC, with offices in Miami and Hollywood, Florida, serves clients in the areas of personal injury, business transactions, business litigation, outside general counsel services, intellectual property, construction litigation, and product liability.
MEDIA CONTACT: For more information please contact Andrew Beckwith, at The Supersede Group, 305-680-8665 or andrew@supersede.com.
[/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]by Davis GoldmanAARON DAVIS WAS QUOTED IN THE DAILY BUSINESS REVIEW AND LAW.COM REGARDING THE PITFALLS AND FUTURE OF INSURANCE POLICIES FOR CONTINGENCY CASES
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by Davis GoldmanJASON N. GOLDMAN APPOINTED VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE BEN GURION SOCIETY FOR THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF BROWARD COUNTY
AUGUST 1, 2016 – HOLLYWOOD, FL – Jason N. Goldman, Founding Partner of Davis Goldman PLLC, has been appointed Vice Chairman of the Ben Gurion Society for the Jewish Federation of Broward County. He will serve a 1-year year term.
The Ben Gurion Society of The Jewish Federation of Broward County is a committee of the organization’s Young Leadership Division. The Jewish Federation of Broward County is committed to the sacred work of building community by transforming lives and enriching Jewish life here in Broward County, in Israel and around the globe.
Goldman focuses his practice in commercial litigation handling complex business disputes from inception through trial and post-judgment proceedings. He has successfully litigated federal and state court jury and non-jury cases, and argued before Florida’s District Courts of Appeal. Goldman is also a Florida Supreme Court Qualified Arbitrator with a diverse background in complex business dispute resolution. He also handles transactional matters including asset purchases and sales, mergers, corporate formations, drafting shareholder and operating agreements and a diverse range of contract negotiations. In addition to litigation and transactional matters, Goldman serves as outside general counsel for multiple companies that have a continuing need for legal expertise and desire easy access to a trusted, business-minded attorney, with experience in employment law, commercial litigation and transactional matters.
Goldman received his J.D. from Florida State University College of Law and his B.S, magna cum laude, from University of Florida.
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Davis Goldman, PLLC, with offices in Miami and Hollywood, Florida, serves clients in the areas of personal injury, business transactions, business litigation, outside general counsel services, intellectual property, construction litigation, and product liability.
MEDIA CONTACT: For more information please contact Lori Rabinowitz, President of Marca, 954-895-7743 or lori@whatismarca.com.
by Davis GoldmanAARON P. DAVIS RECOGNIZED IN THE 2016 EDITION OF FLORIDA SUPER LAWYERS
MIAMI, FL – June 9, 2016 – Davis Goldman, PLLC is pleased to announce that Aaron P. Davis has been selected as a Rising Star in the 2016 edition of Florida Super Lawyers.
Super Lawyers, a registered trademark of Thomson Reuters, publishes a list of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. No more than 2.5% of attorneys from each state earn this distinction.
Super Lawyers employs a stringent selection strategy, including peer nominations, third-party research, panel reviews, and a final selection process. The goal is simple: to recognize attorneys who have earned high-level professional achievements and peer recognition. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. The resulting selections create a comprehensive and reputable list of top-tier lawyers from across the nation. In order to qualify for the Rising Stars list, nominees must be no more than 40 years old and have practiced law for 10 years or less. Selections are made on an annual, state-by-state basis.
Davis is a former Partner at Thornton Davis Fein, where he focused his practice on personal injury litigation, product liability, intellectual property, business litigation, construction litigation, premises liability, and outside general counsel services. He has successfully litigated numerous high-exposure cases involving motor vehicles, pharmaceutical drugs, beauty care products, banking technology, aviation products, and construction materials. Davis is consistently listed in Florida Super Lawyers and Florida Trend’s Legal Elite, serves on the Board of Directors for the FDLA, holds leadership positions on several committees through the American Bar Association, and is a recent recipient of one of six fellowships granted by the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section. Davis is also a member of Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation’s Young President’s Club. He received an LL.M. from The George Washington University Law School, J.D. from University of Florida College of Law, and B.S. from University of Florida.
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Davis Goldman, PLLC, with offices in Miami and Hollywood, Florida, serves clients in the areas of personal injury, business transactions, business litigation, outside general counsel services, intellectual property, construction litigation, and product liability.
MEDIA CONTACT: For more information please contact Lori Rabinowitz, President at Marca, lori@whatismarca.com or 954-895-7743.
by Davis GoldmanPRACTICEPANTHER SELECTS DAVIS GOLDMAN AS LAW FIRM OF THE WEEK
Source: www.practicepanter.com
http://www.practicepanther.com/law-firm-of-the-week-davis-goldman-pllc/
Firm Details:
- Firm Name & Slogan: Davis Goldman, PLLC
- Location: Main office is 1001 Brickell Bay Drive, Suite 900 / Miami, FL 33131
- What does your firm do? Davis Goldman, PLLC provides sophisticated legal representation for complex personal injury, commercial litigation, and outside general counsel needs of large corporations, small businesses, and individuals. Davis Goldman, PLLC provides a service far superior to the country’s largest law firms by operating more efficiently and with a singular focus on ethically solving the most complex issues to bring clients successful results.
The Story:
- How did your firm start and how did it grow? Davis Goldman, PLLC was founded by Aaron Davis and Jason Goldman, two South Florida lawyers with strong academic and practice backgrounds from highly regarded South Florida law firms. The firm was fueled by their ambition to provide clients with an unprecedented legal representation experience. In our current legal marketplace, there seemed to exist two options: 1) a large law model where capitalized companies can afford to forgo efficiency and cost-savings in exchange for a reputable name and full-service model; and 2) a small-to-medium firm model where clients might sacrifice reputation, experience, and the ability to service versatile needs in exchange for cost savings. Davis Goldman, PLLC created a third model: The third model saved clients money, demanded responsiveness to clients, operated with cutting-edge technology and clean systems to save time, and provided the experience and sophisticated representation far beyond that provided by large international firms. Since founding the firm, the clientele and business has grown exponentially as businesses and individuals began to recognize this availability.
- How did you do things before PracticePanther and how has PracticePanther helped today? Before using Practice Panther, we operated on supersized document management and billing platforms. Many of the features were impractical, technical support was cumbersome, and they provided no advantage to the clients themselves. Practice Panther has been intuitive to operate, integrates easily with accounting and document management programs, and allows us to keep clients in the loop through portals and clean invoicing systems.
- What is your favorite thing about PracticePanther? Our favorite feature of Practice Panther is the availability of technical support to guide lawyers through most any issue.
- What is one piece of advice you would offer other lawyers in your industry? One key piece of advice to offer other lawyers and firms in the industry is to spend time becoming not just great lawyer, but also a more efficient one. In the end, clients do not want to overpay or wait unnecessarily for results.
by Davis GoldmanATTORNEYS AARON P. DAVIS AND JASON N. GOLDMAN FORM DAVIS GOLDMAN, PLLC
MIAMI – MAY 16, 2016 – Attorneys Aaron P. Davis and Jason N. Goldman are pleased to announce the formation of Davis Goldman, PLLC, with offices in the heart of Brickell’s Financial District in Miami, Florida and in historic downtown Hollywood, Florida. The law firm’s practices will focus on business transactions, business litigation, construction litigation, intellectual property, outside general counsel services, personal injury litigation, and product liability. Both Davis and Goldman will serve as Partners of the firm and will combine their experience and expertise after spending years at some of South Florida’s leading law firms.
Davis is a former Partner at Thornton Davis Fein, where he focused his practice on personal injury litigation, product liability, intellectual property, business litigation, construction litigation, premises liability, and outside general counsel services. He has successfully litigated numerous high-exposure cases involving motor vehicles, pharmaceutical drugs, beauty care products, banking technology, aviation products, and construction materials. Davis is consistently listed in Florida Super Lawyers and Florida Trend’s Legal Elite, serves on the Board of Directors for the FDLA, holds leadership positions on several committees through the American Bar Association, and is a recent recipient of one of six fellowships granted by the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section. Davis is also a member of Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation’s Young President’s Club. He received an LL.M. from The George Washington University Law School, J.D. from University of Florida College of Law, and B.S. from University of Florida.
Goldman is a former Managing Member of General Counsel Solutions, PLLC, where he advised the Board of Directors of multiple mid-size companies in matters stemming from complex commercial litigation, corporate restructuring, to employment and regulatory disputes. Goldman previously handled complex business litigation at Grumer & Macaluso, P.A. in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He has successfully litigated cases involving fraudulent and deceptive trade practices, professional negligence and liability, corporate officer liability, employment disputes, shareholder disputes, shareholder derivative litigation, easements, trade secrets, non-compete / non-solicitation agreements, fraudulent and negligent misrepresentations, contractual breaches, receiverships, construction defects and sophisticated judgment enforcement. Goldman has prevailed in numerous complex federal and state court jury and non-jury cases, and secured numerous recoveries, dismissals, and defense verdicts on behalf of his clients. He is a Florida Supreme Court Qualified Arbitrator and an inductee of Leadership Fort Lauderdale and a member of the Ben Gurion Society of the Jewish Federation of Broward County. Goldman received a J.D. from Florida State University College of Law and B.S. from the University of Florida.
“Our combined backgrounds and experience will undoubtedly leave a footprint as an aggressive, young law firm in the South Florida area and beyond”, said Aaron P. Davis, partner at Davis Goldman. “We endeavor to bring a concierge level of service to our clients”.
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Davis Goldman, PLLC, with offices in Miami and Hollywood, Florida, serves clients in the areas of personal injury, business transactions, business litigation, outside general counsel services, intellectual property, construction litigation, and product liability.
MEDIA CONTACT: For more information please contact Lori Rabinowitz, President of Marca, 954-895-7743 or lori@whatismarca.com.