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Where We Practice In Florida

Firm lawyers are admitted and available to practice in: all Florida state courts; the three United States District Courts located in Florida (Middle District, Southern District, and Northern District); the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; and the United States Supreme Court.


Florida State Judicial Circuits and Counties

Fourth Circuit

Clay County

  • Green Cove Springs

Duval County

  • Jacksonville

Nassau County

  • Yulee

Fifth Circuit

Citrus County

  • Inverness

Hernando County

  • Brooksville

Lake County

  • Tavares

Marion County

  • Ocala

Sumter County

  • Bushnell

Sixth Circuit

Pasco County

  • Dade City
  • New Port Richey

Pinellas County

  • Clearwater
  • St. Petersburg

Tenth Circuit

Hardee County

  • Wauchula

Highlands County

  • Sebring

Polk County

  • Bartow
  • Lakeland
  • Winter Haven

Twelfth Circuit

Desoto County

  • Arcadia

Manatee County

  • Bradenton

Sarasota County

  • Sarasota

Thirteenth Circuit

Hillsborough County

  • Plant City
  • Tampa

Eighteenth Circuit

Brevard County

  • Viera

Seminole County

  • Sanford

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Seventh Circuit

Flagler County

  • Bunnell

St. Johns County

  • Julington Creek

Volusia County

  • Daytone Beach
  • Deland
  • New Smyrna Beach

Ninth Circuit

Orange County

  • Orlando

Osceola County

  • Kissimmee

Nineteenth Circuit

Okeechobee County

  • Okeechobee

Twentieth Circuit

Charlotte County

  • Punta Gorda

Collier County

  • Naples

Glades County

  • Moore Haven

Hendry County

  • LaBelle

Lee County

  • Fort Myers

Workers’ Compensation Districts:

Daytona Beach
Ft Myers
Gainesville
Jacksonville

Lakeland
Orlando
Port St Lucie
Sarasota

Sebastian-Melbourne
St Petersburg
Tallahassee
Tampa


Florida District Courts of Appeal

Our attorneys are available to handle appeals through Florida.

First Appellate District

All Workers’ Compensation appeals are heard by the First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee, FL

Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Calhoun, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Duval, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gilchrist, Gulf, Hamilton, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Levy, Liberty, Madison, Nassau, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Suwannee, Taylor, Union, Wakulla, Walton and Washington

Comprising the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 8th, and 14th Circuits

Second Appellate District

Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands,
Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

Comprising the 6th, 10th, 12th, 13th, and 20th Circuits

Third Appellate District

Miami-Dade and Monroe

Comprising the 16th and 11th Circuits

Fourth Appellate District

Broward, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie

Comprising the 15th 17th and 19th Circuits

Fifth Appellate District

Brevard, Citrus, Flagler, Hernando, Lake, Marion, Orange, Osceola, Putman, Seminole, St. Johns, Sumter, Volusia

Comprising the 5th, 7th, 9th and 18th Circuits

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United States District Courts Located in Florida

Firm attorneys are admitted to practice in all Florida United States District Courts.

Northern District

Gainesville, Panama City, Pensacola, and Tallahassee

Middle District

Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Ocala, Orlando, and Tampa

Southern District

Fort Lauderdale, Fort Pierce, Key West, Miami, and West Palm Beach

Florida District Court Map

United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Appeals from the three United States District Courts located in Florida go to the Eleventh Circuit. Firm attorneys are admitted to practice in the Eleventh Circuit.


United States Supreme Court

Matters from Florida State and Federal Courts may be reviewed by the United States Supreme Court. Members of the Firm are admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.


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  • Insurance — Homeowners — Windstorm loss — Notice of loss — Timeliness — Prejudice to insurer — No error in entering summary judgment in favor of insurer based on determination that insured failed to overcome presumption that insurer was prejudiced by his failure to timely report claim for hurricane damage — Insured failed to act with reasonable dispatch and within a reasonable time where insured waited two years and seven months to report claim of hurricane damage to his roof — Conclusory affidavits submitted by insured in opposition to summary judgment were insufficient to rebut presumption of prejudice where passage of time rendered insurer unable to determine what current damage was directly attributable to the storm — Court rejects argument that policy was ambiguous because it contained a clause imposing a blanket bar on any hurricane-related claim beyond three-year window and a second clause requiring insured to provide prompt notice of any claim — Clauses, when read together, require an insured to file any hurricane-related claim within three years of the storm, and to act swiftly upon discovering damages
  • Insurance — Uninsured motorist — Bad faith — Complaint — Amendment — Addition of claim for punitive damages — Action alleging that insurer violated law by issuing policies without a written rejection form and by accepting verbal rejections of UM coverage — Error to grant insured’s motion for leave to add punitive damages claim where insured failed to provide reasonable basis to find that insurer’s acts occurred with such frequency as to indicate a general business practice, and were willful, wanton, and malicious and in reckless disregard for insured’s rights
  • Consumer law — Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices — Proposal for settlement — Attorney’s fees — Costs — Prevailing party — Where partial summary judgment as to liability was granted in favor of plaintiff, but jury awarded no damages, it was not an abuse of discretion for trial court to deny defendant’s request for attorney’s fees as a prevailing party on Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act claim — No error in denying fees and costs under proposals for settlement presented to trial court — None of the proposals proffered satisfied strict requirements of section 768.79 and rule 1.442 where proposals required plaintiff to execute a release but failed to describe release with sufficient detail, contained ambiguity as to punitive damages, and required payment from date of settlement without defining such date — Error to deny request for costs under section 57.041 — A zero judgment constitutes a judgment in favor of the defendant for purposes of recovery of costs under the statute
  • Torts — Premises liability — Slip and fall — Discovery — Relevance — Appeals — Certiorari — Order requiring defendant’s corporate representative to address areas of inquiry related to defendant’s corporate-wide operations is quashed — Allowing corporate-wide discovery amounted to carte blanche discovery that results in irreparable harm and departs from essential requirements of the law — Information is not discoverable based on its relevance to show negligent mode of operation because, under section 768.0755, negligent mode of operation is not a viable theory of recovery in slip-and-fall cases
  • Insurance — Uninsured motorist — Bad faith — Complaint — Amendment — Addition of claim for punitive damages — Action alleging that insurer violated law by issuing policies without a written rejection form and by accepting verbal rejections of UM coverage — Error to grant insured’s motion for leave to add punitive damages claim where insured failed to provide reasonable basis to find that insurer’s acts occurred with such frequency as to indicate a general business practice, and were willful, wanton, and malicious and in reckless disregard for insured’s rights

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