Law Office of Denaro J. Allen

03/31/2026

A Central Florida judge is facing a public reprimand after court records show he asked a Black defendant during a plea hearing whether she had ever “chopped cotton.”

03/02/2026

12/15/2025

There has been a lot of misinformation circulating on social media about HB 253 – Offenses Involving Motor Vehicles. This official guidance from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles clarifies what the law actually does, and does not, prohibit when it comes to license plate frames. Always rely on verified sources and the statute itself, not viral posts or speculation.

11/12/2025

Attorneys for a biologist who was fired because of a social media post after Kirk's death squared off against lawyers for the state Monday.

10/23/2025

RWU Law Professors Peter Margulies and Jared Goldstein debate the legality of the president sending the National Guard into Los Angeles, Chicago, and Portland, Oregon.

10/11/2025

Saturday morning with Attorney Jerry Girley doing the community work that has to be done!

09/08/2025

On this day in 1975, Joseph W. Hatchett was sworn in as the first Black Justice on the Florida Supreme Court, appointed by Governor Reubin Askew. At just 42 years old, he broke racial barriers in the deep South, paving the way for greater representation in the judiciary.

Hatchett’s journey started when he graduated from Florida A&M University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1954. His career spanned decades of public service: from earning his law degree at Howard University, serving as an assistant U.S. Attorney, to becoming a U.S. Magistrate Judge. After his groundbreaking appointment, he became the first Black person to win a statewide contested judicial election in Florida in 1976

His trailblazing continued with a presidential appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 1979, another “first” for a Black jurist in the South.

05/20/2025

Community work is good work!

05/03/2025

A Florida man managed to marry three different women he met on dating sites in three different Florida counties.