Leesfield Leighton & Partners, P.A. has been consistently recognized as one of the leading trial law firms in the nation. We specialize in representing people and families who have suffered serious injury or the loss of a loved one due to the fault, carelessness, and negligence of others.
Our trial lawyers rank among the top attorneys in Florida and nationwide in the areas of personal injury, wrongful death, airplane crashes, car accidents, cruise line injuries, product defects, medical malpractice, and nursing home litigation. For a complete and detailed list of the firm's areas of expertise, please visit our Practice Areas section.
As personal injury lawyers, our job is to help our clients recover for their loss. Your case is important to us. Your future and our reputation depend on the outcome. Our attorneys and staff vigorously and aggressively fight to hold those responsible for causing an injury or death accountable for their actions. We have the resources, skills, and experience to take on any individual or corporation, frequently handling cases against powerful interests and big business.
Since its beginnings in 1976, Leesfield, Leighton & Partners, P.A. has established a reputation as one of the leading personal injury firms in Florida and nationwide by working tirelessly on behalf of our clients. When our attorneys represent you, you have a team of dedicated professionals on your side. We will fight for you.
We do not charge for consultations, whether by e-mail, telephone, or in person. We primarily represent our clients on a contingency fee basis, which means you do not pay any attorneys' fees unless we win.
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TRIAL LAWYER OF THE YEAR
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The Public Justice Foundation has nominated Ira H. Leesfield for their
2008 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award for his work and achievements in the
Smith v. Doubletree Grand Key Resort case.
This award is presented each year to the attorney or legal team that made the most outstanding contribution to public interest through precedent-setting or otherwise extraordinary litigation. Read below a synopsis of the Smith case for which Ira Leesfield was nominated as well as some background information regarding the instrumental contribution Ira Leesfield made to ensure that a Florida law requiring carbon monoxide detectors in Hotels be passed.
Ira H. Leesfield, and Leesfield Leighton & Partners, were
instrumental in implementing the new Carbon Monoxide legislation to
protect unsuspecting consumers and vacationers. Five months after a
terrible ordeal which cost the life of 26-year-old Thomas Lueders due
to carbon monoxide poisoning while vacationing at the Doubletree Grand
Key Resort in Key West, Florida's Legislature adopted a bill requiring
all new commercial construction with boiler rooms to have carbon
monoxide (CO) detectors.
With this new legislation, Florida becomes the eighth (8th) State to mandate that commercial buildings be equipped with CO detectors. This was the first attempt at passing the new bill, but because of Lueders' death and the efforts of former Florida Justice Association (FJA) President Ira Leesfield, Senate Bill 1822 was adopted. Specifically, the bill requires any public lodging establishment with a boiler room in the same area as a sleeping room install one or more CO detectors. Construction permitted in 2008 must have a carbon monoxide alarm installed within 10 feet of each sleeping room. Ira H. Leesfield fought for this critical new legislation after he took the cases of 25 people who suffered CO poisoning while vacationing at the Doubletree Grand Key Resort just a week before Lueders' death. After speaking with his clients, he quickly realized that everyone wanted to stop future cases of CO poisoning. Five months later, this new law is now a reality. This tragedy is not the first one of its kind that Leesfield Leighton & Partners has had to face in its 30 years of practice. Among the nation's leading trial lawyers, Ira H. Leesfield has successfully represented victims of toxic poisoning and gas leaks in hotels, motels and resorts for over twenty years. Because of the firm's office locations in Key West and South Beach, they are frequently presented with tragedies involving gas and toxic fume leaks in tropical settings. The firm has maintained its office in Key West's historic old town since 1986. One of the most well known successes by the firm was the case of Barbee v. Old Island Fumigation Co., where an exterminator negligently allowed toxic fumes to seek into adjacent structures. The case became a landmark decision in Old Island Fumigation Co. v. Barbee, when Florida's Third District Court of Appeal upheld the firm's obtaining a summary judgment on behalf of the victims. Leesfield Leighton & Partners has obtained numerous other verdicts and settlements of this type. In Schulz v. ABC Resorts, newlyweds were honeymooning at a resort. While they slept, gas from lines in their villa seeped into the building. When they turned on a light, the villa exploded. Both of these young people were horribly burned. The wife died days later. A multimillion dollar confidential settlement was obtained by the firm on behalf of the surviving victim. |
