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Unique and Personalized Nature of Our Practice
No More Than 10 Clients Represented At A Time
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During the past three decades, Fortune Law Offices has represented hundreds of clients, one at a time. Most of the men and women Scott has represented learned about his practice by word of mouth, or by referrals from other attorneys and former clients.
- Small Number of Clients
- Personal Service
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Fortune Law Offices, which includes Scott Fortune and his staff, represents only a small number of clients at any given time because that is the only way Scott can provide the personal and careful attention that each client deserves. We are not a "volume" office, and we treat each and every case with the personalized attention it deserves -- the way we would want to be treated by another professional. Our office does not advertise on television, radio, newspapers or billboards, does not broker cases out to other attorneys for referral fees, and relies on "word of mouth" and referrals from other attorneys and from former clients to maintain its client base. Scott Fortune is passionate about his work and is personally involved in and responsible for every case from beginning to end. |
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Recent Trials and Settlements
| Fortune
Law Offices and its clients
have prevailed in many
trials and substantial
settlements during the
past three decades. On
occasion, Scott’s
cases have been publicized
in the media and in legal
periodicals. |
- Scott and co-counsel obtained a settlement, without trial, of $634,700.00, including attorneys’ fees and costs, in March 2010 on behalf of a former employee of Carrier Corporation. Carrier repeatedly refused to pay the employee approximately $120,000.00 that he had earned as incentive compensation over a period of several years, and refused to provide a logical explanation for its actions. Carrier fired Scott’s client after he repeatedly complained about the underpayment.
- Scott
and co-counsel obtained
a $4.2 million binding
arbitration award,
including attorneys'
fees, costs and interest,
in February 2009 on
behalf of a Senior
Director at Citigroup
who was terminated
due to his age. The
amount of the recovery
was due in large part
to the fact that Scott’s
client had been earning
several hundred thousand
dollars a year before
he was terminated.
The case was presented
for three days to a
panel of three arbitrators
and was decided in
favor of Mr. Fortune's
client, who was age
59 when terminated.
More Info> [View
Final Judgment]
- In
September 2009 Scott
persuaded Unum Life
Insurance Company of
America to give up
its claim seeking
$300,000.00 from Scott’s
client. While Scott’s
client was receiving
monthly disability
payments from Unum,
Scott was
able to help him recover
additional money damages
from the persons responsible
for his injuries/disability.
Unum had tried
to obtain $300,000.00
of that recovery as
reimbursement for
some of the disability
payments it had made
to Scott’s
client.
- In June 2009, Scott and
his co-counsel obtained a settlement in excess of $1
million on behalf of his client who was injured
in a rear-end collision on Butler Boulevard, in Jacksonville.
The case was especially difficult because the client had
no objective medical proof to explain the cause of his neck
injury. Scott obtained policy limits of $200,000 from his
client’s underinsured motorist policies; another $50,000
from a driver causing a subsequent collision; and with the
help of co-counsel Scott obtained an additional $750,000.00
from the insurer of the driver who rear-ended him on Butler
Boulevard.
- In December 2009, Scott obtained a settlement of approximately $400,000 on behalf of a wrongfully terminated warehouse worker making approximately $12 per hour. Scott's client was "downsized" in a reduction in force less than a month after his wife was diagnosed with cancer. Scott alleged that the employer had fired his client in order to avoid paying for his wife's medical treatment, which was expected to be very expensive.
- Scott obtained a $575,000.00 settlement
in December 2008 on behalf of his client who was fired at
age 62 from his job as Business Development Manager with
a Florida utility. The client was fired shortly after his
62nd birthday even though he had received very good performance
reviews throughout his tenure with the utility. The Defendant
had alleged that his job was no longer necessary.
- In 2005, Scott and his client won an age
discrimination case in federal court on behalf of a 62-year-old
crane operator who was laid-off due to an alleged lack of
work, and was then replaced by a much younger operator.
Mr. Fortune’s client recovered nearly $900,000.00 at trial,
including attorneys’ fees and costs.
More Info> [Click
here for recent news coverage] [View
Verdict]
- In May 2007, Scott represented a UNF professor
who had been ticketed and fined for feeding the homeless
on public property. Mr. Fortune and his client challenged
the constitutionality of the local ordinance as an unlawful
restriction on the exercise of his client’s freedom of religion.
That case has since been resolved favorably on terms which
included the City’s agreement to amend the ordinance so
that feeding the homeless is no longer illegal.
More Info> [Click
here for recent news coverage]
[Amended
Ordinance] [Agreed
Settlement Terms]
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