July 31, 2009 – Attorney Rebecca Larson, who worked at the side of legendary lawyer Bob Montgomery, wants answers in the Acreage. For the first time, a top lawyer has joined the quest to determine whether there is indeed an industrial culprit in what many believe is an extraordinary number of tumors and cancers in the community of about 50,000 in northern Palm Beach County.

"I have a concern that Pratt Whitney may be involved in this...There is a long history of Pratt Whitney spilling, dumping toxins that contain carcinogens...I have no proof at this juncture but I have concern in that regard.”

July 10, 2009 - Four lawyers at West Palm Beach plaintiff's trial law firm Babbitt, Johnson, Osborne & Le Clainche, P.A., have been selected by their peers as among the top lawyers in the state by Florida Super Lawyers magazine.

Name partners Theodore Babbitt and Joseph Johnson and member Rebecca Larson were among the less than 5 percent of lawyers in the state selected through ballots sent to lawyers throughout Florida. Name Partner Stephan Le Clainche was listed in the "Star Search" category for notable achievement.

Palm Beach Post

April 30, 2009 - With his adoptive mother preparing to serve more than two decades in prison, 18-year-old Ray no longer has to endure the severe abuse that plagued and defined his childhood

Yet after being confined with nine other mentally-challenged children for nearly his entire life, shackled to others, beaten at his mother's will, eating nothing but peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and never seeing the sunlight, having Judith Leekin locked away in prison won't be enough to rehabilitate Ray.

"I was abused, my brothers and sisters were abused, and I felt like I was nothing after I left the house," said Ray, whose last name was withheld, during a news conference at the law office of Ted Babbitt.

"That's why Babbitt and co-counsel Howard Talenfeld of Fort Lauderdale sued, saying the City of New York should provide the victims with everything from neurological and medical care to lifetime behavioral counseling, years of adult education, vocational training and life skills coaching.

Palm Beach Daily News

May 1, 2009 — A former Everglades Club employee who was raped in her dormitory room settled her lawsuit against the club.

Melissa Legare sued the club, claiming negligence in its hiring practices and lax security created conditions that led to her rape.

A three-week trial was scheduled to begin Monday and could have revealed secretive inner workings and practices of the exclusive club on Worth Avenue.

Legare's attorney, Ted Babbitt, and Lyman Reynolds, who represents the club, said they could not comment because the terms of the settlement are confidential.

Miami Herald

May 29, 2009 - Half of Florida's hospitals didn't find a single doctor problem during a 17-year stretch. Experts say that indicates... Half of Florida's hospitals didn't find a single doctor problem during a 17-year stretch. Experts say that indicates lax reporting.

Almost half of the hospitals in Florida never reported having a problem with any doctor over a 17-year period, according to a report released Thursday.

Public Citizen, a Washington watchdog group, said 105 of 227 Florida hospitals -- 46.3 percent -- had never filed a complaint from 1990 through 2007 with the National Practitioner Data Bank, the federal group that keeps track of problem doctors nationwide.

Ted Babbitt, a West Palm Beach plaintiffs' lawyer, said he wasn't surprised by the findings. ``In my experience, hospitals never report doctors. They just allow them to resign.''

Babbitt said a new state law, intended to provide the public with more information, has made hospitals even more cautious. ``They just put nothing in writing.''