Miami, FL Lawyers

Workers Compensation Law

7300 North Kendall Drive, Suite 550, Miami, FL 33156

Mr. Powers was born and raised in Miami, Florida. After graduating from Archbishop Curley High School in 1964, he attended the College of Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and majored in French. He spent the summer after his junior year traveling abroad in Europe and studying French at a school in Pau, France while living with a local French family. After graduation from college in 1968, Mr. Powers returned to Miami and attended University of Miami Law School and joined Delta Theta Phi law fraternity. However, law school was interrupted by the War in Vietnam. After the first year of law school Mr. Powers enlisted in the Navy and served as a personnel man aboard a destroyer DD-763 William C. Law based in Jacksonville, Florida and as a French interpreter for the Navy at Mare Island, California. Later he attended Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island and Damage Control School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served as a line officer aboard a cable repair ship ARC-2 Neptune for two years. After the decommissioning of his ship, Mr. Powers served in the Naval Reserves and subsequently received an honorable discharge. Mr. Powers returned to the University of Miami School of law and graduated in 1976. While in law school Mr. Powers clerked for a defense law firm on Miami Beach and worked in the law school library. In the last year of law school he was an intern with Legal Services of Greater Miami and specialized in civil litigation. After passing the Florida Bar Mr. Powers worked in a large law firm in Miami for 11 years and specialized in the defense of cases concerning general liability, products liability, and medical malpractice involving doctors, hospitals, and nursing homes. Mr. Powers then worked for two years in a small law firm in Ft. Lauderdale with a varied legal practice and he gained experience in probate estates, liability cases, domestic cases, and landlord-tenant cases. In 1990 Mr. Powers started working for a law firm in Miami specializing in workers’ compensation law. For five (5) years Mr. Powers spent his vacations in Costa Rica in a two week total immersion Spanish language program attending language school and living with a local family in San Jose, Costa Rica. Mr. Powers obtained a Masters Degree of Business Administration from Barry University and in 1994 he was admitted into Delta Mu Delta, the National Honorary Society in Business Administration. Mr. Powers also obtained a Master of Science Degree in Health Services Administration from Barry University. In the year 2000 Mr. Powers joined a law firm specializing in the defense of employers and carriers in workers’ compensation cases throughout the State of Florida. In 2013 Mr. Powers concentrated on representing only injured workers in workers compensation and became of counsel to the law firm of DeVarona Arango & Weinstein, P.A. as well as starting his own law firm. Mr. Powers obtained an LLM. In Elder Law from Stetson University College of Law in 2018. Throughout his years of practice, he has regularly attended continuing legal education courses, seminars, and conferences in order to keep up with the latest developments in laws, rules, and judicial decisions.

Insurance Defense

4040 NE 2nd Avenue, #6D, Miami, FL 33137

Rob Squire is the Managing Shareholder of the Florida offices of Resnick & Louis, P.C. He focuses his practice on complex tort litigation including premises liability, products liability, auto, medical malpractice, first party property and coverage, SIU, bad faith defense, bodily injury defense, automobile liability, construction defect, employment law, commercial litigation, catastrophic and personal injury, aviation, real estate and title defense and negligent security matters. He represents national retail, restaurant, and hospitality clients, as well as manufacturers, in a variety of diverse matters. Rob represents clients nationwide and has significant experience handling matters in federal and state courts, both at the trial and appellate level. Rob works with several MGA’s, Underwriters and Lloyd’s syndicates on matters including insurance defense, construction defect and premises liability. <br> <br> Rob has handled logistics providers in bodily injury and cargo loss litigation, including large clients such as Macy’s, JC Penney’s, CEC Entertainment, Saks 5th Avenue, and Uber. Rob has provided full-service solutions for issues that affect consignees confronted with the many challenges of delivering, transporting, storing, and receiving freight and commercial goods. Rob has helped business entities to obtain tax and insurance benefits, liability protection, transportation operational efficiencies, and regulatory compliance.

Real Estate Law

701 Brickell Avenue, Suite 1550, Miami, FL 33131

Civil Litigation

66 West Flagler Street, 12th Floor, Miami, FL 33132

Born and raised in the “Glass City” – Toledo Ohio, Robert attended Bowling Green State University and went on to graduate from Barry University’s College of Law. Robert is licensed to practice law in the State of Florida, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, and before the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Robert J. Lee is a member of the Florida Trial Lawyers Association, The Dade County Bar Association, the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, and The National Trial Lawyers ‘Top 40 Under 40

Immigration Law

3134 Coral Way, Miami, FL 33145

Attorney Robert Sheldon has more than 20 years of experience helping immigrants to legally establish themselves in the United States. He is a member of the State Bar of Florida and the District of Columbia; He worked in Latin America for Baker & Mckenzie, the world's largest law firm representing corporate clients. In the United States, he has made possible the approval of thousands of immigrant and nonimmigrant visas, successfully defended entire families before the different Immigration Courts, avoiding unfair deportations. Attorney Sheldon offers seminars to educate criminal defense lawyers about the immigration consequences of criminal activity, and new immigration laws.