Florida’s First District Court of Appeal reversed a lower court ruling that sought to turn a Jacksonville lawyer’s $805,000 in attorney fees into $123,000, in litigation the lower court judge called “the most complex and delicate case” ever before him.

Michael Winer of the Winer Law Group in Tampa represents the plaintiff, Michael Rudolph of Rudolph, Israel, Tucker & Ellis in Jacksonville. Rudolph appealed a ruling by Judge Edward Almeyda of the Offices of the Judges of Compensation Claims on the attorney fees award for a settlement he obtained from defendants, Home Depot U.S.A. Inc. and Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.