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With more than 30 years of appellate experience, Misti Zaruches Barnett provides clients with strategic consulting and experienced legal writing, research and litigation support services in state and federal court at both the trial and appellate level. She covers a wide range of practice areas including but not limited to business, commercial, employment, medical malpractice, personal injury, and family law. Misti has experience in all facets of litigation from the inception of a lawsuit through the appellate process including drafting complaints, dispositive motions, trial memoranda, jury instructions, post-trial motions, appellate briefing and appellate motions practice. She earned her juris doctor at Brooklyn Law School and graduated cum laude from the State University of New York at Albany. In addition to years of experience in private practice, Misti served as Career Staff Attorney to the late Honorable George A. Shahood at the Fourth District Court of Appeal for over a decade. She began her career as a trial court law clerk to various Circuit Court judges at the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court in Broward County, Florida, in civil, criminal and family court divisions. Misti is admitted to practice in Florida, New York, and Connecticut, as well as the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
BLS offers an array of litigation support services to support your practice needs before, during and after litigation. BLS is home for your litigation needs EBD* -- Everything But Discovery.
Misti Zaruches Barnett started Barnett Legal Services, LLC in 2020. With years of experience and a talent for legal research and writing, Misti created a company designed to help small firms and solo practitioners to level the field and exceed the written work and research done by BigLaw and other law firms. Whether a complex legal brief or just a need to prepare quality pleadings, motions or filings, BLS provides a complete solution.
Although BLS reviews the names of the parties and related individuals or entities to avoid a potential legal conflict, my clients are the lawyers and experts who retain me. BLS is a “lawyer’s lawyer.” Think of BLS as a valued second set of eyes to conduct legal research, ears to listen and discuss legal theories, and hands to make sure that pleading, motion or brief that needs to be drafted is just what you need.
“See a need, fill a need.” In my years of practice, one of the challenges I have seen facing small law firms and solo practitioners is the ability to stay step-to-step with the work of larger firms with a large cadre of junior and mid-level associates to research and draft pleadings, motions, briefs and memoranda. BLS can help you to match or even exceed the quality, detail and thoroughness of your opponents without the expense and time involved in hiring and training new lawyers. Think of BLS as your secret weapon to help you to win your case.
It is the difference between an off-the-rack suit and one tailored-made to fit you perfectly. Every case is different and each lawyer has unique needs. BLS has experience in all aspects of litigation support to customize a legal solution exactly to your case and needs. Whether it is drafting a complaint, researching a novel legal issue, verification of your artificial intelligence or a full turnkey appellate brief, BLS can help find the solution that meets your specific needs.
BLS understands the frenetic pace of litigation – the “I need this answer yesterday.” BLS offers flexible solutions to work with your timing. While there is truth in the adage that “fast work isn’t good and good work isn’t fast,” BLS will work with you to help meet the demands of busy litigation attorneys.
Experts are experts for a reason – they have developed specialized knowledge in their fields over years and years of experience. And while an expert’s knowledge and experience is invaluable in litigation, many do not have the same level of experience in meeting the heightened requirements when drafting expert reports and opinions for use in court. BLS can help ensure that your opinions are presented persuasively and cogently in a way that maximizes the effectiveness for your clients.
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