Richard B. Berman is the principal of the Law Offices of Richard B. Berman, P.A., whose firm specializes in Workers’ Compensation and whose practice is limited to representing injured workers. Mr. Berman received his Undergraduate Degree Cum Laude in Speech Communication from American University and his J.D. Degree from the University of Miami School of Law. He has been a member of the Florida Bar Workers’ Compensation Rules Committee, Broward County Legislative Task Force on Health Care and the Advisory Board of the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association of Florida. Mr. Berman is on the Executive Council of the Workers’ Compensation Section of the Florida Bar. Mr. Berman is on the Board of Directors of Florida Workers’ Advocates, an organization whose focus is to fight for the rights of injured workers in the State of Florida, is Chairman of its Media Relations program and member of the sub-committee on insurance rates. Mr. Berman is affiliated with a number of other professional organizations, including the Broward County Justice Association, the American Association of Justice, American Bar Association, Florida Bar and the Washington D.C. Bar. Mr. Berman is also a Member of the Workers’ Injury Law and Advocacy Group (WILG), the national organization of attorneys whose focus is to fight for the rights of injured workers. Mr. Berman has been given an AV rating by Martindale-Hubbell, an honor accorded only two (2%) percent of attorneys nationwide, and has been elected to the Marquis Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in Emerging Leaders in America, the National Register’s Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals, Strathmore’s Who’s Who, Continental’s Who’s Who, and Stanford’s Who’s Who. Mr. Berman is a frequent lecturer on various workers compensation topics around the state of Florida.

Area of Practice: Government Relations

Marc J. Bern is the founding partner of Marc J. Bern & Partners LLP, a law firm headquartered in New York City that handles complex litigation across the United States. Mr. Bern focuses his practice on representing plaintiffs in mass tort cases, FELA railroad litigation, personal injury cases, product liability cases (including pharmaceutical and medical device injury cases), environmental litigation, and a wide variety of other types of cases involving catastrophic harm or property damage. With more than 35 years of experience as a litigator, Mr. Bern has led over 100 cases to a jury verdict. In addition, he has a successful record of achieving settlements of over $1 million in hundreds of cases. As a litigator, Mr. Bern advocates forcefully for his clients, achieving success for them with his experience and tenacity in the courtroom. He is a member of the prestigious Million Dollar Advocates Forum and has been featured in Who’s Who in American Law. Martindale-Hubbell has awarded Mr. Bern its pre-eminent AV rating: “Highest Rating in Legal Ability and Ethical Standards,” for over 20 consecutive years. In 2007, Lawdragon included him among its ranking of the Top 500 Plaintiff Lawyers in America. Mr. Bern has been designated a New York Super Lawyer® every year since 2006. In 2007, he was honored to become a charter member of the Litigation Counsel of America. Mr. Bern has been selected as one of “America’s Premier Lawyers” by Fortune Magazine and has been named one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers by the National Trial Lawyers. Mr. Bern also sits on the prestigious Board of Trustees of the New York City Police Museum. Marc J. BernMr. Bern graduated from the Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Prior to attending law school, he graduated with distinction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is admitted to practice before state courts in New York and Wisconsin and before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. He has tried cases and has argued legal issues in courtrooms across the United States. Mr. Bern has been invited to speak to a wide variety of organizations, including the Wisconsin Association for Justice, the New York County Lawyers Association, the Practicing Law Institute, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America on several environmental law topics. He has appeared as a well-recognized legal authority on Court TV, ABC, NBC and CBS, and he has also been interviewed for publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Forbes Magazine.

Daniel R. Bernard focuses his practice on estate planning, trust and estate administration, estate tax planning, business succession planning, and estate litigation, with an emphasis on estate planning for snowbirds. In fact, Dan literally wrote the book on estate planning for snowbirds, which you can download for free from this site. Dan’s philosophy on estate planning can be described in three words: originality, efficiency, and quality. Originality, in that Dan does not create cookie cutter assembly line style estate plans, where clients are fit into one of two plans the firm has on file. Rather, Dan creates a unique estate plan for each client that fits each client’s unique life. Efficiency, Dan values both his client’s time and money. So, he endeavors with every estate plan to preserve both of these precious resources. Quality, highest quality counsel and representation is the only counsel Dan supplies. Dan has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, and Newsday in articles related to estate planning and taxation issues. Dan has been a guest on the “Ask the Attorney” show, the “Dead Celebrity Podcast,”, the “Law You Should Know” radio show and podcast, and The Real Estate Law Podcast to discuss estate planning for snowbirds. Dan holds an advanced law degree, a Master of Laws in Taxation, from New York University School of Law. This allows Dan to better assist clients with advanced estate tax planning. Dan received his Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers School of Law-Newark, where he served as the Senior Managing Editor of the Rutgers Law Record. While in law school, Dan worked as a student attorney in the Rutgers Federal Tax Clinic and interned in the Tax Court of New Jersey and the Morris County Surrogate Court. After completing law school, Dan served a one-year clerkship with the Honorable Barbara C. Stolte in the New Jersey Middlesex County Family Court. Prior to law school. Dan earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Temple University, where he double majored in finance and economics. Dan is admitted to practice law in New York, Florida, and New Jersey.