An attorney representing Robert Messick and his Sarasota law firm battling a $4.6 million FDIC lawsuit hopes to have the case resolved before a trial next year. Both sides have spent the past several months organizing legal depositions, documents and other evidence they believe may sway the case, which is scheduled to go before a jury next year in a U.S. District Court in Tampa. The December lawsuit charges Messick and his law firm Icard, Merrill, Cullis, Timm, Furen & Ginsburg with malpractice for their involvement in a Manatee County housing development planned in 2006. Dennis Waggoner, a Tampa attorney representing Messick’s firm, said “the law firm is and will continue to defend itself from this claim because we believe it’s extremely unfounded.  (Read Full Article Here)