I’ve been sitting in traffic court in Florida for almost 25 years and have personally handled well over 1,000,000 traffic related cases. I subcontract for all the larger traffic firms, including the firm you mentioned.

While the larger firms provide a valuable service, in the smaller counties they farm it out to the local attorneys. My advice is to hire the local experienced traffic lawyer, not the big traffic firm and not a local general practitioner. You may spend a few dollars more in attorney fees but you want the local guy who’s familiar with the players in the local court up to bat for you and not there because the some big firm is paying them $50 to cover. You become just a name. Trust me.

I love all the lawyers in this thread. LOL

If you get a ticket in another state, you will receive points on your Florida driving record if the violation is an offense that earns points in Florida. For example, if you get a speeding ticket for going 14 miles above the speed limit outside Florida, you will earn three points on your Florida record. In terms of points added to your driving record, Florida treats out-of-state citations as if the ticket was received in Florida. It does not matter how many points the other states would assess against their drivers for the same violation. The point system is a graduated scale of points that assigns relative values to convictions.

Florida drivers are not eligible to attend driving school for out-of-state tickets.

Toastertog will receive 4 points on his driving record by paying the out of state citation.

GA isn’t a member of the compact but they still share the information. I have several clients with suspensions of their Florida driver licenses due to GA tickets.