May
31
2016
A recent article by the Miami Herald highlighted Calli Law, LLC attorneys Paul Calli and Chas Short’s victory in obtaining $4 million for their clients – a prestigious law firm and its partners – who were sued in a series of frivolous lawsuits. As...
Jan
06
2016
Over the past three years, Paul Calli and Chas Short have successfully defended clients who were sued in a campaign of vexatious litigation by the Miccosukee Tribe. The Tribe had falsely alleged, in a series of lawsuits in federal and state court, that its...
Dec
24
2015
The federal Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a Civil RICO lawsuit against Calli Law’s clients. The Court ruled that the lawsuit failed to state a plausible claim and also lacked the required degree of specificity.
The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians...
Jan
21
2015
U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke ordered Florida’s Miccosukee Tribe of Indians and their attorney to pay more than $1 million in sanctions on Friday, January 16, 2015. In the 27-page order granting Lewis Tein’s motion for Rule 11 sanctions against the tribe; their lawyer,...
Oct
14
2013
This article was originally published on FCPAProfessor.com.
Last Friday in Miami, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral argument in U.S. v. Joel Esquenazi & Carlos Rodriguez. The issues on appeal did not just relate to the FCPA’s ”foreign official” element, but as to...
Aug
02
2013
The bloggers of Justice Building Blog covered the victory of attorneys Guy Lewis and Michael Tein in the case Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida v. Lewis et al. In their news coverage, they recognized Lewis and Tein’s attorney, Paul Calli.
The blog post recognized...
Feb
23
2012
From the New York Times:
The case — which was commonly called the African sting case — was a prominent piece of an increasingly aggressive, and increasingly successful, effort to bring indictments under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits anyone with business in the...
Jan
10
2012
Our client was found not guilty after an seven week trial and was completely vindicated.
Read the judgement of acquittal. (PDF).
Jan
09
2012
From the Miami-Dade "Daily Business Review"
Paul Calli won an acquittal at trial for a former Sunrise executive who faced trial with other executives in the military and law enforcement products industry. United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia Richard J. Leon...
Apr
24
2009
Paul Calli's client, the top assistant to the former governor of Puerto Rico, was acquitted of corruption charges. Legal analysis of the acquittal was featured in the BNA White Collar Crime Report, Vol. 4, No. 9. (April 24, 2009).