Palm Beach County Lawyers

Justin J. Shepard graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2018 where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Political Science with a minor in Journalism Studies. He received his Juris Doctor from the Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law in 2021, and has been admitted to practice law in the State of Florida since 2021. Mr. Shepard practices in the areas of real property and transactional law and estate planning. He is a member of the Florida Bar Association as well as the Palm Beach County Bar Association. Additionally, he is an active member of the Attorneys...

I have spent most of my life in Florida, having moved here when I was just eight years old from New Jersey. After high school, I attended the University of Florida (UF), where I earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, and developed a love for sports. Prior to joining The Law Offices of Craig Goldenfarb, I first began my career practicing personal injury on the defense side. Defending insurance companies, however, was not something I enjoyed doing for long. I much prefer being on the Plaintiff's side, representing clients who have been injured in a motor...

Gabriel F. Zambrano, a resident of South Florida, has been practicing law in the State of Florida since 1994. Throughout his career, he has handled commercial litigation and insurance defense cases, successfully resolving them through mediation or trial. He holds an esteemed AV rating from the Martindale Hubbell Peer Review Rating system. With extensive trial experience, Gabriel has taken on complex and severe injury cases, some of which have lasted for over thirty days. In 2011, he was selected as co-counsel for an Engle Tobacco trial, which resulted in one of the largest reported verdicts of that year. Today, he passionately...

Attorney Nellie L. King is a recognized criminal defense attorney in the West Palm Beach community. Recipient of the Women in Leadership Award from the Executive Women of the Palm Beaches for her work on the Obama administration’s Clemency Project and former president of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Attorney King has made long-lasting contributions in the criminal defense field to her community. She brings years of experience as a defense attorney and as a former public defender, and she is a firm believer in the Constitution’s duty to protect the people. Attorney King takes each case personally...

Thomas J. Chapman is a trial attorney at NextGen Injury Law where he provides legal representation to those mistreated due to nursing home neglect, assisted living injuries, and home health negligence. He graduated from the University of Florida - Levin College of Law in 2009 with honors.

Robert H. Friedman focuses his practice on helping clients navigate through difficult insurance coverage issues. He represents policyholders in disputes with their insurers involving property damage, bodily injury, environmental liability, products liability, director and officer liability, intellectual property liability, business interruption, and crime and fidelity matters. He has litigated insurance and other complex commercial disputes in various state and federal courts. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Mr. Friedman served as a law clerk to the Honorable Naomi Reice Buchwald of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He practiced for seven years in...

Member of the Florida and Maryland Bars; BBA in Finance from F.A.U.; J.D. from Indiana University at Bloomington; conducted over 125 jury trials and thousands of non jury trials.

Civil Trial Lawyer

Mr. Peter Blatt is the president at Blatt Financial Group. He has more than 17 years’ experience in the financial industry. He received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Boston University, a law degree and a post doctorate degree in tax from the University of Miami School of Law. Peter formerly ran the financial planning department of a Trust Company in Palm Beach. He is an active member of the Florida Bar Association, the Palm Beach County Bar Association and the former secretary of the Tax Section of the Florida Bar. He is the founder of the North County...

Ann Fitz has 20 years of experience representing criminal defendants in federal court. She is a former prosecutor, and in addition to her private practice she has served as a federal Panel Attorney under the Criminal Justice Act (CJA) in Atlanta, Los Angeles and, currently, West Palm Beach. She has handled numerous high-profile white collar crime, Internet-based crime and other criminal cases, including a $25 million loan modification scheme, a $12 million tax fraud scheme, a $7 million Ponzi scheme, constitutional challenges to Florida's and Georgia's sex offender registration laws, and has argued precedential cases in the 11th Circuit...

Melanie Rose Kalmin is an associate attorney with Vette Law. She focuses her practice exclusively on divorce and family law related matters including time-sharing, alimony, paternity, custody, domestic violence, child support and enforcement matters. As a Florida native, Melanie attended the University of Central Florida. Melanie then attended law school at Florida International University, College of Law. After law school, Melanie went on to practice in the health care realm of law for several years until she realized her passion was in family law.

Attorney Julianne Frank, Esq. has over 40 years in practice. She has helped hundreds of people start a business or improve the organizational structure of their existing businesses. She has also successfully orchestrated the restructuring and reorganization of business entities including airlines, construction companies, restaurants, software development companies, retail operations, homeowner associations, agricultural business, and medical practices. She actively represents creditors in bankruptcy proceedings and has extensive experience in bankruptcy adversary proceedings. She has prevailed against such adversaries as the Internal Revenue Service and opposing bankruptcy trustees, and her cases have resulted in published and game-changing case law. Her authored...

Attorney Marc E. Golden is the Worker's Compensation Practice Chair for Rosenthal, Levy, Simon & Sosa. He has more than 32 years of experience practicing law. Marc received his Juris Doctor degree from Nova, Southeastern University and is known for his professionalism, personal touch and his special ability to understand people. Marc has handled thousands of cases and easily builds good working relationships with his clients. He has extensive knowledge of the law and is always working on staying on top of new laws.

Before joining Rosenthal, Levy, Simon & Sosa, Mr. Golden served as an Assistant State Attorney in Palm...

Aaron M. Cohen is a highly respected criminal defense attorney in Palm Beach County, Florida, and principal of AMC Defense Law. With over 25 years of dedicated experience in state and federal courts, Mr. Cohen has built a strong reputation for defending individuals and businesses facing serious criminal charges. Based in Palm Beach County, his practice focuses on federal cases, including white-collar crimes like cryptocurrency fraud, money laundering, healthcare fraud, mortgage fraud, and wire fraud. Known for meticulous attention to detail and strategic advocacy, Mr. Cohen has achieved favorable outcomes for clients across Florida and beyond. Throughout his career, Mr. Cohen...

Mr. Mallory is the President of Mallory Law Group in Jupiter, Florida. The firm practices primarily in the areas of Commercial Litigation, Business Law and Transactions and Construction and Land Development Litigation. Additionally, the firm provides services in Personal Injury, Professional Malpractice, and Family Law. Prior to his admission as a lawyer, Mr. Mallory had a long history in the construction and land development industry. Starting as a construction laborer in high school, he later became a carpenter and crew leader. He was the owner of M-Square Framing Company, a drywall/interior construction company, in Vero Beach in the early...

William A. Fleck, Esquire manages the Firmâs Commercial Litigation Division, specializing in the litigation of commercial matters, construction related disputes, real estate and title matters, contested probate issues and general civil litigation. He is an accomplished, experienced trial and appellate practitioner, admitted to practice before all trial and appellate courts of the State of Florida, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, The U.S. Court of Military Appeals, the United States District Court, Southern District of Florida and the United States Supreme Court. He has practiced law for over 25 years and is a member of the...

Thomas J. Ali, Esquire Personal Injury and Criminal Law Divisions Phone 561-748-8000 Fax 561-748-9000 tali@jupiterlegaladvocates.com Thomas J. Ali, Esquire manages the firm’s Personal Injury and Criminal Law Divisions. He was born on October 26, 1958 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Mr. Ali and his family moved to the Delray Beach, Florida area in approximately 1973. He graduated from Delray Beach Atlantic High School in 1976. Mr. Ali obtained his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Florida in 1980. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Esplison Fraternity, Florida Upsilon Chapter. Mr. Ali received his Juris Doctorate from University of Florida...

At a young age, Scott’s grandfather died as a result of medical malpractice from his treating physician’s failures, and his family lost years they thought they had left. His life’s work is dedicated to fighting back when someone’s life, liberty, and/or happiness has been taken away, in his grandfather, Victor’s memory. Scott has handled hundreds of injury and insurance claims, settled millions of dollars worth of claims, and when necessary, litigated and gone to trial on cases in state and federal courts across Florida. Scott’s career started representing insurance companies like State Farm, Travelers, USAA, and multiple others. As an...

John Naizby was raised in a small dairy town in upstate New York. He grew up with his sister, mother, maternal grandparents, and great grandmother; he lost his father at the age of three. John knew from an early age that he wanted to be involved in helping people; ultimately that is what led him to the law.

John started his career as a public defender, and eventually became an insurance defense attorney. For over 20 years now though, John has exclusively represented people (not Insurance companies). A graduate and senior instructor at the Trial Lawyers College, John was...

Mr. Herman is an aggressive, client-minded advocate who has recovered millions of dollars for injured Floridians in nearly a decade of practice. He began his career defending injury cases for insurance companies, and has since used that experience to maximize settlements and verdicts for his injured clients. Mr. Herman was designated as a Client Champion by Martindale Hubbell in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. In 2021, he was named a Top 40 under 40 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyer in Florida by The National Trial Lawyers. Mr. Herman focuses his practice on catastrophic injury, brain and spine injuries, wrongful death, car...

Ronald M. Zakarin is licensed to practice law in Florida, New York and the District of Columbia. He specializes in domestic relations, personal injury, and medical malpractice. Ron has nearly 30 years of litigation experience and has successfully tried family law matters and medical malpractice/wrongful death cases throughout the State of Florida. Ron’s dedication to his clients is second to none. He works diligently to resolve cases where he can, and tries them in the court of law when he must. Ron has tried complex divorce cases involving business valuations, vocational assessments, social...

Richard J. Goldman has been duly licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of the State of Florida since 1988, by the Supreme Court of the United States of America since 1991, and by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida since 1996. Mr. Goldman has been a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America since 1988. After obtaining his Juris Doctorate at Nova University in 1988, Mr. Goldman worked exclusively in insurance defense where he was responsible for defending insurance carriers, self-insureds, school districts, hospital districts, and cities, in all insurance-related claims...

Scott Solkoff has been certified by The Florida Bar as a specialist in Elder Law and is author of the leading attorney textbook on Elder Law, now past its seventeenth print editions. Scott focuses his practice on protecting his clients' assets against the cost of long-term care. This includes securing the client's assets while also obtaining Medicaid and V.A. eligibility to pay for care in the home, care in assisted living facilities, care in memory care facilities and care in nursing homes without compromising quality of care. Scott's father, Jerome Ira Solkoff, was one of the founders of...

Michael Hersh is a founding partner of Hersh Kirtman Injury Law. He dedicates his practice entirely to representing and helping those who have been injured, suffered harm, or lost loved ones because of the negligence or wrongdoing of others. Michael has successfully obtained numerous seven and eight figure jury verdicts and settlements, achieving justice for his clients, while helping them recover funds for needed medical care and future financial security. Michael began his career at an international law firm representing Fortune 500 companies in complex commercial and business disputes. Despite a long record of legal successes, Michael always felt...

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Ms. El Fadel is a senior associate with KS Attorneys at law and currently heads up our Firm’s business development, business structuring, business funding and commercial civil trial departments. As such, Ms. El Fadel is experienced in most all areas of commercial business development, commercial civil trial and appellate representation and is licensed to practice in the Federal and State Courts of Florida and the State Courts of New Jersey. Ms. El Fadel’s educational accolades range from graduating summa cum laude from the Shepard Board Law School at Nova Southeastern University to serving as the past Notes and Comments Editor...

WE ARE COMMITTED TO DEFENDING YOU AND YOUR BUSINESS. Our Firm Is Dedicated To You. We Understand That Experience Is Everything. We approach our Personal Injury cases with compassion for our injured clients and are committed to obtaining the highest compensation possible for our client's case. Our relationship with many local physicians enables our clients to be treated by the area's top doctors. One of the unique features of our law firm is our ability to stay in constant communication with our clients during all aspects of the personal injury case from the initial sign up to the disbursement of...

David J. Zappitell, the firm’s founding partner, attended Michigan State University and the University of Miami School of Law where he was moot court champion. Mr. Zappitell has worked for General Electric as a financial analyst – he understands the value of every case.

Mr. Zappitell is Board certified by the Florida Bar in the area of Civil Trial Litigation, thus he is a specialist in his area of practice. Mr. Zappitell is a member of the Florida Bar, U.S. District Court (Southern and Middle Districts of Florida) and has been a repeat guest lecturer at the National Business Institute Seminars...

Joel Feldman has been practicing law in the Boca Raton for over 39 years.

He is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, DC, with a degree in Government. He got his law degree from Duke University.

His law firm, Feldman & Schneiderman, began in 1999 when he and his law partner, Audrey Schneiderman, Joel purchased its building on Camino Gardens Boulevard. His practice is almost exclusively in the area of family law. He is certified in collaborative law and has served as mediator in divorce cases, arbitrator in attorney fee disputes and has testified as an expert in the areas of...

David Kotler, Esquire is a partner with the law firm of Schwartz, Gold, Cohen, Zakarin & Kotler, P.A. located in Boca Raton, Florida. Mr. Kotler is a litigation attorney who has tried numerous jury and bench trials as lead trial counsel. He currently represents individuals and corporations in general civil, complex commercial, personal injury, and medical malpractice cases within the civil realm. Mr. Kotler has individually obtained and/or participated in matters which have resulted in significant dollar awards to his clients, including awards over the one million-dollar mark. Finding it difficult to reject a client...

I started my legal career in the public service sector serving as both an Assistant Public Defender and Assistant State Attorney. Prior to joining Johnson Law Group, I worked at the nationally recognized litigation powerhouse of Boies, Schiller and Flexner LLP, performing and contributing to all phases of complex commercial litigation nationally, in both state and federal courts. I have dedicated myself to pro bono work on behalf of children in foster care, and have been recognized by the Palm Beach County Legal Aid Society with the Juvenile Advocacy Award for over ten years consecutive years. I am also the...