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Sword & Shield, PLLC

Service

Full Stop-Work Order Defense

We take over every contact with the Department: records, penalty, release, petition and any referral.

From the moment you retain us, the investigator talks to us, not you. We manage the records response, negotiate the penalty calculation, secure the conditional release so you can get back to work, file the Chapter 120 petition when the numbers are wrong, and handle any referral to the Department of Business and Professional Regulation or the Division of Investigative and Forensic Services. Fees are quoted after a free consultation and depend on payroll size, the period under review and whether a petition is needed.

What is included

  • Investigator contact goes through counsel
  • Records strategy and penalty negotiation
  • Conditional release and payment agreement
  • Chapter 120 petition and DOAH hearing
  • DBPR and criminal referral defense

How it starts

Call (850) 766-6825 or send the form. We talk through the order, the records request and the dates, and tell you honestly what we think the case needs. If it is this service, you can pay online and we start the same day; if it is something else, we say so.

If you have been served and the investigator is still there, do not fill out a form. Call.

Free consultation, 24/7

Tell us what happened. We answer around the clock.

Every message goes straight to Adrian Middleton's phone. If the investigator is still on your site, do not fill out a form: call or text the cell and put Adrian on the line with them.

  • · Do not hand over records until you know what is in them.
  • · Do not give a statement to the investigator without counsel.
  • · Do not keep working on the job site after the order is posted.

Sending this form does not create an attorney-client relationship. Do not include confidential details until we have spoken.