USF coach hired Hulk Hogan’s attorney

Lawyer Wil Florin was driving to a meeting with several attorneys and professional wrestler Hulk Hogan about the highly publicized car crash involving Hogan’s son. On the way, Florin’s iPhone rang. It was Jim Leavitt, who had been fired that day as the University of South Florida’s football coach, and suddenly found himself in need of a good attorney. So Florin changed plans, drove to Leavitt’s house and checked on the other meeting by cell phone. Before long, Florin had filed a lawsuit on Leavitt’s behalf, criticizing USF for a “biased, flawed and legally unsupportable” investigation that led to the firing. That’s the kind of year it has been for Florin, 55, who has found himself in some of the most-scrutinized cases in the Tampa Bay area. — St. Petersburg Times