Louis Arslanian

Louis Arslanian is a 57-year-old Miami native who was admitted to The Florida Bar and won his first case on March 3, 1989.

“I was on already out of law school, and I had a little delay of getting my license to practice law so I started a company working for different people doing legal research.  I worked for one guy who said he needed me to go to court and I said ‘but I am not licensed yet’ and he said ‘well you better get it quick.’  So I contacted the clerk to finish the admission process to get permission to go to court even though I was not sworn in yet.  She approved my appearance and I went to court and won. [The case ] was some lawyer [who] claimed that he did work in reducing a customs bill and he was suing someone for his attorney’s fees which he claimed was owed to him because he reduced the customs charges for goods coming into the county. But he did the work like gratuitously, as no one hired him to do it. It’s like having someone come to your house and do work on your house but you never asked them to do it. So I went to court and I got it thrown out.”

Arslanian was influenced to become a lawyer because, while in broadcast production, and he had to take a class called Law of Mass Communication.

“I really liked it and did really well so I honestly when I finished by b.a. I felt as if there wasn’t any way to make money in broadcasting, so I went to law school instead,” he said.

Arslanian also recently had a case regarding the invalidating of red light cameras tickets Miami-Dade upheld, which we cover in it’s own article.