Leesfield & Partners’ Founder and Managing Partner, Ira Leesfield, has been an outspoken advocate for regulating the use of E-bikes and E-scooters throughout communities and now, years later, officials are heeding his warning. The University of Miami recently announced a plan to tighten restrictions on personal mobility devices on campus.…
A renowned pilot from Miami who was the 10th woman to fly solo around the world in 2024 died in a crash in Indiana on July 30 while trying to repeat the journey, CBS News reported Wednesday. Anh-Thu Nguyen, 44, died in Greenwood, Indiana, while attempting to circumnavigate the world…
Leesfield & Partners is representing 7-year-old Calena Areyan Gruber and her family following the devastating sailboat crash that killed three other minors in Miami Beach. “My heart goes out to the families of those involved in this most tragic incident,” said Partner Justin B. Shapiro. “Very few details have been…
A 10-year-old girl has died at the hospital days after being involved in a barge-sailboat crash in Miami Beach that killed two other children. Arielle Mazi Buchman died Thursday at Jackson Memorial Hospital, according to reporting from The Miami Herald. Mila Tankelevich, 7, and 13-year-old Erin Victoria Ko Han died…
Neither the tugboat captain, a camp counselor, nor a person aboard the barge was under the influence of drugs or alcohol during the fatal boat crash that killed one child and injured others off Miami Beach on Monday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. These initial findings were reported Friday…
A housekeeper at a Melbourne, Florida, hotel spotted a toddler drowning in the pool and raced to pull him out, but tragically, the child later died at the hospital despite her efforts. The incident happened as the 3-year-old boy’s father allegedly dozed next to him, passed out on the pool…
Celsius energy drinks are under recall after it was revealed that some of their products had been mislabeled and are actually High Noons, the canned vodka seltzers. The Food and Drug Administration sent out a notice of recall, announcing that an unspecified number of High Noon’s Beach Variety packs were…
With the dreaded return of school bells this August comes the equally as detested return of morning traffic in Miami; here’s everything you need to know about school zone laws in Florida. As a personal injury law firm with nearly five decades of experience handling pedestrian-involved accidents and other motor…
At least four people were pulled from the water after a boat slammed into a Fort Lauderdale seawall Friday evening, according to local media. Emergency responders were called out to the Intracoastal Waterway near the Commercial Boulevard bridge in Fort Lauderdale around 7:30 p.m. The vessel’s operator allegedly lost control…
Two children have died and two more are in the hospital after a barge hit a sailboat carrying several minors and a camp counselor, 19, from the Miami Youth Sailing Foundation, according to reporting from local media. The incident happened around 11:15 a.m. between Monument Island and Hibiscus Island in…