Born And Raised

I am genuinely different from most Orlando personal injury lawyers and car accident lawyers. Not in the way every injury firm in Florida claims to be different — but in ways that directly affect what you recover from your case. Before I explain how I practice, I want to tell you something about my background that I think will matter to you when deciding which lawyer to hire. Before I ever represented an injured person, I spent years on the inside of the insurance defense world — at the highest possible level. I worked at Lord Bissell & Brook, an AmLaw 100 firm now merged into Locke Lord, where my primary client was Lloyd’s of London, one of the world’s most recognized insurance institutions. My job was to oversee the defense attorneys handling serious personal injury and accident cases on behalf of primary insurers — evaluating their litigation strategy, assessing exposure, and making sure higher insurance policy layers were protected. This was not the routine local insurance defense work you’ll hear other plaintiff lawyers mention when they say they used to work for the insurance companies. I was working at an entirely different level — overseeing the entire litigation process on behalf of one of the world’s most sophisticated and demanding insurance institutions, on cases that routinely involved claims valued at multiple millions of dollars, and in some instances over ten million or even over one hundred million dollars. I also worked at prominent Florida defense firms including Shutts & Bowen, handling serious cases for major insurers and corporations throughout my early career. What that experience gave me is something no amount of plaintiff-side practice alone can provide. I know exactly how insurance companies think about serious injury claims. I know the strategies they use, the pressure points they look for, the tactics their lawyers employ, and the ways they try to minimize what they pay. I studied all of it from the inside, at the highest possible level. And every single day, that knowledge works entirely in my clients’ favor.