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Koonlegal In 2012 Travis decided to leave the public defender's office in order to represent people throughout All cases are handled directly by our experience attorneys.

We are a full service law firm that provides representation in Criminal Defense, Bankruptcy, Personal Injury and Commercial Litigation. We provide a high level of customer service, and provide client\'s with one on one attorney time.

One month of this. Here is the whole thing in six lines.The arrest is not the charge.What happens in the first day of a ...
10/08/2026

One month of this. Here is the whole thing in six lines.

The arrest is not the charge.
What happens in the first day of a case decides more than people expect.
In a DUI, the license side moves on its own schedule and does not wait for court.
After a crash, get seen early and do not assume you have years to act.
Report a work injury to your employer promptly, and in writing.
And nothing you say to an insurer or an officer gets less true later.

If any of these landed close to home, the call is worth making.

Koon Legal. Travis Koon. Lake City 386-597-0000. Gainesville 352-729-1211.

Can the police search your car? There is more than one way in, and only one of them is up to you.Consent. Probable cause...
10/07/2026

Can the police search your car? There is more than one way in, and only one of them is up to you.

Consent. Probable cause. Search incident to arrest. Inventory after a tow.

Declining consent is not obstruction and it is not evidence of guilt. If the officer has probable cause, they can search without your permission. If they do not, your consent is what gives them the search.

How the search happened is often the whole argument. A motion to suppress does not argue you are innocent; it argues the evidence should never have reached the courtroom.

386-597-0000

The part of a criminal case nobody puts in a commercial is discovery.Body camera footage. Dash camera. Dispatch audio. T...
10/05/2026

The part of a criminal case nobody puts in a commercial is discovery.

Body camera footage. Dash camera. Dispatch audio. The officer's report against the officer's deposition. Lab reports and the maintenance records for the machine that produced them. Whether the confidential informant was paid, and how many times.

Cases turn on the gap between the report and the recording. Finding that gap is unglamorous, and it is most of the work.

Koon Legal, Lake City, 386-597-0000

Three things people mix up in a Florida workers' compensation claim.Whether you cannot work at all while you heal. Wheth...
10/04/2026

Three things people mix up in a Florida workers' compensation claim.

Whether you cannot work at all while you heal. Whether you can work reduced hours or restricted duty. And what happens once the doctors say you are as recovered as you are going to get.

Which one you are in drives the money, and it is driven by what the authorized physician writes down. Read the work status slip every single visit.

General information about Florida workers' compensation, not advice about any particular claim.

386-597-0000

Property damage settles in days. That is not the injury claim.Property damage and bodily injury are separate. Resolving ...
10/03/2026

Property damage settles in days. That is not the injury claim.

Property damage and bodily injury are separate. Resolving the vehicle does not resolve the person, and you should read every release you sign, because the wrong form language can reach further than the car.

Do not let the speed of the property side set your expectations for the rest. An injury claim cannot responsibly be valued until treatment is complete and the doctors can say what is permanent.

Free consultation on injury matters. 386-597-0000.

Bond is not a fine, and posting it does not resolve anything.Bond secures your appearance. That is all it does. The case...
10/02/2026

Bond is not a fine, and posting it does not resolve anything.

Bond secures your appearance. That is all it does. The case continues exactly as it was, and the conditions attached to release, no contact, no alcohol, travel limits, reporting, are real orders with real consequences for breaking them.

A bond amount can be argued. Ties to the community, employment, the nature of the charge and prior record all factor in, and the argument works better when someone makes it on the record.

386-597-0000

The first 24 hours after a crash, in order.Call law enforcement and get the report number before you leave the scene.Pho...
10/01/2026

The first 24 hours after a crash, in order.

Call law enforcement and get the report number before you leave the scene.

Photograph both vehicles from all four corners, the roadway, the signals, the skid marks and the debris. Wide shots and close shots.

Get medically evaluated the same day. Injuries from a crash often do not announce themselves the same day, and "I felt fine at the scene" turns up in defense files again and again.

Do not give the other insurer a recorded statement yet.

Write down what happened while it is today's memory, not March's.

General information, not advice about any particular claim.

Free consultation on injury matters. 386-597-0000.

"I'll just get a public defender."Public defenders are real lawyers and many of them are very good ones. Two things peop...
09/30/2026

"I'll just get a public defender."

Public defenders are real lawyers and many of them are very good ones. Two things people misunderstand.

First, you do not decide whether you qualify. The court decides, and people are often surprised which side of the line they land on.

Second, public defender offices carry heavy caseloads. That is a resource question, not a question about any individual lawyer.

If you qualify, take it. Going unrepresented is the worst option on the board. If you do not qualify, better to know that early than at arraignment.

386-597-0000

One accident can produce two separate claims.A delivery driver rear-ended on the clock may have a workers' compensation ...
09/29/2026

One accident can produce two separate claims.

A delivery driver rear-ended on the clock may have a workers' compensation claim through the employer's carrier and, separately, a claim against the driver who hit them. Different systems, different rules, different recoveries, and the two interact in ways that affect what you actually keep.

People routinely pursue one and never learn the other existed.

General information about Florida law, not advice about any particular claim.

386-597-0000

Hit and run. No plate, no driver, no insurance to sue.That is where uninsured motorist coverage does its work. A claim l...
09/28/2026

Hit and run. No plate, no driver, no insurance to sue.

That is where uninsured motorist coverage does its work. A claim like that carries its own reporting requirements, and what you do in the first days is what makes it possible later.

Call law enforcement from the scene. Get a report number. Look for cameras on the nearest business before the footage rolls over, which happens sooner than people expect.

386-597-0000

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284 SW Baya Drive, Ste 101
Lake City, FL
32025

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Monday 8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 5pm

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