We take on a select number of high-stakes matters. We know our clients, know the case, and stay close to the work from our first conversation through resolution.
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Chambers & Partners is the most exclusive ranking service in the legal profession. Its rankings are research-driven, built from confidential interviews with clients, opposing counsel, and fellow attorneys, together with independent market intelligence, not a firm’s own submission. Only 1% of Florida law firms are Chambers-ranked.
The Band 1 ranking says the market considers us first for white-collar defense. The commercial ranking says the same litigators handle high-stakes business disputes against much larger, better-funded adversaries.
“The Stumphauzer team has top-notch knowledge and understanding of local and federal criminal laws and procedures. They have an excellent reputation for advising clients and standing by them during extremely difficult times and are uncompromising in the quality of representation.”
“The firm’s strengths are its superb advocacy, deep knowledge of the Florida bench and Bar and its diverse litigation-based experience. It is an extraordinarily capable firm.”
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Former federal prosecutors, federal and state public defenders, and Big Law partners, bringing their experience to high-stakes civil litigation and white collar criminal defense.
We push for resolution before a disagreement hardens into litigation, because that is usually what the client's balance sheet wants. When the other side will not resolve it, we try the case. They usually know that from our first filing.
Read Our Approach →We have handled hundreds of matters in federal and state courts, before government agencies, and in domestic and international arbitrations, a substantial number of them through trial or final hearing.
See Our Experience →Our lawyers previously served as federal prosecutors, including the former United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, former Federal Public Defenders, and former partners at the nation's largest firms. Many of us spent years on the other side of the table, which is the most useful thing we bring to a case with real exposure.
Meet the Team →High-stakes business disputes in state and federal courts, before domestic and international arbitral panels, and in foreign courts. Contract and partnership disputes, fraud and fiduciary claims, class and derivative actions, and real estate and construction litigation.
Federal and state indictments, grand jury subpoenas, and search warrants. White collar and regulatory cases, and the broader run of federal charges.
Grand jury subpoenas, civil investigative demands, and agency investigations, civil and criminal, often running on both tracks at once. We deal with the agency directly and, where the facts allow it, resolve the matter before anything is filed.
For companies, boards, and audit and compliance committees: investigating from within before a regulator does it for you, advising on whether and what to disclose, and building the program that keeps the next one from happening.
Hospitals, Medicare Advantage MSOs, pharmacies, laboratories, physicians, and executives, in fraud investigations, False Claims Act and qui tam litigation, and licensure and exclusion proceedings. And when the insurer is the plaintiff: we defend clinics, physicians, and owners against carrier fraud and overbilling suits.
Receiver, special master, and liquidator appointments in federal court, and counsel to fiduciaries administering distressed and disputed estates. This is the one engagement a firm cannot pitch its way into: the court selects and the court supervises.
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