Haliczer Pettis & Schwamm (HPS) is pleased to announce that Richard “Rick” L. Allen, Jr. has joined the firm’s Orlando office as a Partner. For more than 40 years, Rick has represented clients in the areas of personal injury, medical malpractice and professional/legal malpractice. “Rick is a great addition to our Orlando office,” says Jim Haliczer, Managing Partner of HPS. “His years of experience handling personal injury and medical malpractice trials, and the knowledge he gleaned...

Haliczer Pettis & Schwamm (HPS) is pleased to announce that Kaitlin Stapleton has joined the firm’s Fort Lauderdale office as an Associate. Kaitlin mainly focuses her practice in the areas of personal injury litigation. Prior to joining the firm, Kaitlin was an attorney for a law firm located in Deerfield Beach, FL. She also served as a legal intern for the HIV Education and Law Project, Inc., an organization that provides legal assistance to low-income clients...

Trisha Widowfield‘s MTN Legalcast podcast interview “Medical Malpractice: Practicing with Professionalism & Kindness,” is available now! Trish talks about the collaborative environment being one of HPS’s biggest strengths, some of Ms. Esquire group’s creative networking opportunities and how even though we are in an adversarial industry, “there is a graceful way to represent your clients.”

Eugene K. Pettis‘s Legal Talk Network podcast interview “Service To Others, The Secret To Success,” is available now! Listen in as Gene discusses his business development philosophy — public service builds connections, a memorable brand, and ultimately business!

HPS is pleased to roll out a series of videos, presented by Kenneth J. Miller, discussing common types of medical malpractice cases. Ken has investigated and litigated hundreds of medical malpractice cases and has the experience HPS clients need to fully evaluate injuries and successfully obtain justice. In this first episode, Ken discusses “Failure to Diagnose” cases, including what happens when a physician makes the wrong diagnosis, or fails to make a timely diagnosis, of...

Haliczer Pettis & Schwamm (HPS), a leading Florida catastrophic injury law firm, is pleased to announce that it has been ranked by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” in multiple practice areas for their 2022 edition. This includes being ranked TIER 1, in both Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, in the area of Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs, and ranked TIER 1, in the area of Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, in Fort Lauderdale....

HPS Co-founder and Senior Partner Eugene K. Pettis, Esq. offers his poignant point of view in The Florida Bar News article recently published discussing the purpose of the Florida Bar’s Special Committee on Opportunity in the Practice of Law, a group he Co-chairs with Hilarie Bass. This group’s focus is to ” look at ways to increase opportunities in the legal industry for all Florida lawyers, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any...

On September 21, 2021, Haliczer Pettis & Schwamm (HPS), a leading Florida catastrophic injury law firm, won a $6.46M verdict, which is the highest reported wrongful death verdict in Volusia County history.*** This medical malpractice trial lasted two weeks, and law partners, Richard B. Schwamm and Trisha Widowfield, were able to secure this victory for Laura Staib’s surviving family members. In late February 2016, Mrs. Laura Staib, 39, a stay-at-home-mom, was seen by cardiologist Roy...