Our Mission & Values
Restoring Justice for Families, One Case at a Time.
Exposing negligence. Empowering families. Driving real change in rehab care.
Every case we win makes Florida's treatment landscape safer. We're not just seeking compensation—we're forcing facilities to improve standards, change policies, and protect future patients. This is our specialty, our mission, and our lived experience.
We speak the language of recovery without judgment, without stigma, with complete understanding.
Our Background
We Don't Just Know the Law. We Know This Fight — From the Inside Out.
Ryan and Susan didn't stumble into rehab malpractice. They were drawn to it — by the people it harms, by the industry's history of exploitation, and by a conviction that people in recovery deserve the same legal protections as anyone else.
We are rooted in the recovery community. Ryan serves on the Palm Beach County Sober Home Task Force and as Pro Bono Counsel to FARR's Compliance Committee, the frontline organizations fighting to clean up Florida's treatment industry. Susan has spent decades embedded in recovery advocacy, working alongside survivors, families, and the clinical professionals who do this work with integrity. We don't come to these cases as outsiders. We come as people who have watched this industry fail vulnerable people, up close, for years.
We have helped change the legal landscape for rehab victims in Florida. When our team secured a landmark ruling in Palm Beach County allowing a jury — for the first time — to decide whether a rehab patient qualifies as a "vulnerable adult" under Florida Statute § 415.1111, we didn't just win a case. We opened a door that had been closed to survivors across the state. When we defeated a treatment center's motion to dismiss in a patient elopement case, forcing the facility to face a jury for what happened after their 18-year-old patient walked off the property, we established that a facility's duty of care does not end at the front door.
Our Commitment
While other attorneys dabble in rehab cases, we've made it our sole focus. We know the regulatory framework, including:
✓ State licensing requirements
✓ CARF accreditation standards
✓ DCF oversight
✓ AHCA compliance
✓ Clinical standards such as proper detox protocols, supervision requirements, MAT protocols
✓ Common negligence patterns like inadequate staffing, unlicensed staff, patient brokering schemes, and inappropriate supervision
