Melrose Lawyers

Stephanie K. Heimann received her Juris Doctor in 2013 from Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, where she received the Barrister’s Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy and was a founding member of the International Criminal Court Moot Court Team.

Stephanie has clerkship experience in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, The Superior Court of Pennsylvania, and she held a clerkship at the Federal Criminal Court of Switzerland. Before joining the Lento Law Group, Stephanie worked as an intelligence analyst for the City of New York in the Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Investigation investigating financial...

Attorney Trendowski is the Managing Partner for the Haymond Law Firm offices in Daytona Beach, Jacksonville, and St. Augustine. He has tried over 120 jury trials to verdict and has represented clients in literally thousands of cases over his 35 years of practice. Aside from his jury trials, Attorney Trendowski represented clients in countless other proceedings, including arbitrations, appeals,and administrative hearings. While many of his current trials involve personal injuries resulting from assaults and auto collisions, he has handled a variety of cases over the years, including medical malpractice and civil rights matters. He is currently licensed to practice...

Since 1988, Kelly Mathis has been a trusted counsel and respected advocate for the Jacksonville community. He has assembled a like-minded team of attorneys into a fast-growing firm who strive to create client-focused solutions and get results. Under his leadership and guidance, our firm is committed to providing personal and effective representation when you need it most.

Our attorneys leverage years of experience and expertise to solve problems for the benefit of our clients. Whether it is a business negotiation or medical malpractice case, we fight for you to protect your interests.

More than anything, our firm is guided by a...

Todd M. Davis, Esq. is the owner and founder of the Davis Law Firm. Before founding the firm, Mr. Davis worked for Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in Miami, Florida for several years where he practiced primarily in insurance and commercial disputes. Prior to going into private practice, Mr. Davis clerked for the Honorable Eugene E. Siler, Jr. in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. In 2014, he was selected to the prestigious list of Florida Super Lawyers Rising Stars (Insurance Coverage), a distinction which less than 3% of attorneys in the state receive....

Austin is a business litigation attorney who joined Jimerson Birr, P.A., in February 2019. For six years prior to joining Jimerson Birr, P.A., Austin worked for a business litigation firm in Jacksonville representing a wide variety of clients from small business owners to associations and larger corporations. Austin has a diverse legal practice focused on obtaining the best results for his clients. Austin focuses on all aspects of business litigation in both state and federal court. Austin is AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell, recognized by his peers as having the highest level of ethical standards and professional ability. ...

Brandon C. Meadows is a Partner with the firm, where he concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial litigation, financial services litigation, real property litigation, business torts and creditors’ rights.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Meadows served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Roy B. Dalton, Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida and the Honorable Mark W. Moseley of the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida. While in law school, Mr. Meadows served as the Executive Editor of the Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy and as President of the University...

R. Scott Costantino is Board Certified by the Florida Bar in Civil Trial Law. He is also Board Certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Mr. Costantino has received an "AV" rating by Martindale-Hubbell. He has been elected as a Fellow of the International Society of Barristers and has been selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers magazine as one of the top attorneys in Florida. Mr. Costantino is also a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. He represents clients in medical malpractice cases, personal injury cases, automobile...

Charles B. Jimerson founded Jimerson & Cobb and continues to lead its preeminent business litigation practice. Born in Sarasota, FL, Charles B. Jimerson, Esq. is a 7th generation Floridian. Mr. Jimerson represents various corporations, entrepreneurs, financial institutions, and small and mid-size businesses in business litigation matters ranging from commercial collections, contract disputes and business torts to real estate, construction, bankruptcy and foreclosure proceedings. After leaving home at the age of 15, Mr. Jimerson supported himself with odd jobs to put himself through high school. Upon graduation, Mr. Jimerson enlisted in the U.S. military to serve his country and earn money...

DEVON RICHARDS is an experienced civil litigator currently focusing on complex business and probate/trust disputes for high net worth individuals. Devon seeks to implement targeted pre-litigation and litigation strategies concentrated on progressing matters to favorable and efficient resolutions. In her business litigation work, Devon has experience in a wide range of claims including breach of contract and contract interpretation issues, shareholder disputes and freeze-outs, breaches of fiduciary duty, intellectual property disputes including trademarks and trade secrets, bad faith insurance claims, and consumer protection claims. In her work on probate- and trust-related disputes, Devon has litigated issues involving testamentary capacity, undue influence,...

Florida Bar licensed attorney with extensive legal research and writing skills handling complex immigration cases, international adoptions, who is dedicated to helping families including spouses, children and parents of US citizens or permanent residents. I also offer a broad range of immigration law services including helping domestic violence victims file VAWA relief, naturalizations, employment based green cards, religious workers, and responses to requests for evidence. I am a former magistrate who presided over family law hearings and stand ready to provide you quality, personal family law representation through northeast Florida. Low cost divorce paperwork preparation for a...

Jessica Jowers is a staff attorney with the AmeriTrust Law Group and primarily handles cases involving family law, civil litigation, immigration and traffic tickets. Before coming to work at the AmeriTrust Law Group, she worked as a Certified Legal Intern at the State Attorney’s Office, Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit. She earned her Doctor of Law (JD) from the Florida Coastal School of Law in 2013 and was admitted ot the Florida Bar. Before going to law school, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish from the Georgia College and State University. Jessica enjoys contributing to the...

I am a United States Air Force Veteran who graduated Magna Cum Laude from Florida Coastal School of Law, where I earned numerous awards for written and oral advocacy in local and national competitions. I founded Wilkerson Law in July of 2017, where I have since focused my practice on Family Law, Estate Planning, Contracts and Civil Litigation primarily in the Northeast Florida area.

Attorney Jeffrey C. Regan is the managing partner and founder of the construction litigation, business litigation, and real estate litigation law firm Regan Atwood P.A. located in Jacksonville, Florida, with offices in Orlando, Florida.

Jeff is a double-board certified attorney in business litigation and in construction law and has successfully undergone rigorous and extensive examinations, peer reviews, and vetting by the
Florida Board of Bar Examiners. Jeff provides clients expert representation in construction law and business litigation.

Jeff has successfully tried dozens of business and construction cases in federal, state and arbitration forums. Jeff founded Regan Atwood upon the principles of experience, integrity,...

Kelly H. Musleh was born at Homestead Air Force Base and raised in Vero Beach, Florida. She received her Bachelors Degree from the University of Florida in 1991 and her Law Degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1994. Kelly was an Assistant State Attorney with the Fifth Judicial Circuit from 1994 to 2000, where she tried in excess of 100 cases. Kelly has been a member of the Florida Bar since 1994 and is a member of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, the Marion County Bar Association and the American Inns of Court.

Since 1988, Jonathan Dean and Susan Dean have handled thousands of the firm’s clients’ estate planning needs resulting in the establishment of estate plans for the orderly transfer of $Billions of clients' assets. Dean and Dean, LLP offers a full range of estate planning and administration services ranging from simple wills to the most complex estate plans. We also serve as representatives and trustees for our clients' probate and trust administrations.

Jon also oversees the firm’s extensive real estate practice, including managing the firm’s sister company, Advantage Title, LLC. With over 6,000 closings representing more than $10...

Founding partner Joshua Silverman is a 2001 graduate of the University of Florida College of Law in Gainesville and an experienced former prosecutor with the Florida State Attorney’s Office in Gainesville. Mr. Silverman brings a wide variety of legal experience to the firm, having worked extensively during his five years as a state prosecutor in the areas of child abuse, domestic violence, and sexual offenses. In addition, he handled various criminal matters ranging from routine crimes to more serious misdemeanors and felonies, such as cases involving DUIs and homicides. As an experienced litigator, Mr. Silverman’s...

Leveraging experience in the resolution of complex legal matters within the healthcare industry, James has provided over a decade of legal counsel in litigation and transactional matters supporting the quality care mission of major health institutions, researchers, clinicians, and their stakeholders. He is a graduate of the University of Florida (BA – ’06) and Stetson University (JD – ’09). James has provided legal counsel in both public and private sectors and has published and presented on a variety of topics, including medical records, litigation, clinical standards of practice, and data security.

With offices in Gainesville, Florida, Bush Health Law PLLC represents...

Matthew Emerson been a practicing attorney for more than 24 years. He has been trial counsel on a multitude of cases resulting in jury verdicts, settlements, or judgments amounting to more than $1,000,000.

Matt earned his juris doctorate degree at Stetson University College of Law in 1993 where he graduated cum laude. Throughout his time there, he was awarded many recognitions some of which include honors grants, Dean’s Lists, and book awards.

After a clerkship, Matthew worked as an associate attorney with Rwyant, Alvarez, Jones, Russo & Guyton, P.A., a well-respected law firm in Tampa, FL.

While with Rwyant law firm, he represented...

JoAnne Eichelberger is an attorney at Jimerson Birr. Ms. Eichelberger joined the firm in 2018 and currently focuses her practice on business litigation and appellate law. Ms. Eichelberger served as a Judicial Law Clerk for the United States District Court in Jacksonville for over 24 years. For 23 of those years, she was the law clerk to the Honorable Howell W. Melton, Senior United States District Judge. In addition to traditional law clerk responsibilities with regard to civil and criminal hearings, trials, research, and drafting, she managed Judge Melton’s caseload. During her tenure with the federal court,...

Ms. Brooks focuses on corporate law (including mergers and acquisitions), business, contracts, venture capital, securities law and technology law. She represents clients in business acquisitions, dispositions and mergers, as well as providing ongoing counseling regarding business formation, corporate governance, contract law and ancillary legal issues. In regard to her technology law practice area, she counsels clients on software licenses, data licenses, software development agreements, hosting agreements, non-disclosure agreements, vendor agreements and various other information technology-related contracts

Partners in life as well as law, Steve and brother Gary Pajcic founded Pajcic & Pajcic in 1974. Steve not only supervises all Pajcic & Pajcic cases and jury selections, but still also actively argues cases to juries and judges. PUBLIC SERVICE Steve and Gary’s charitable contributions have focused on the education of disadvantaged children including an unrestricted gift of $2 million to Edward Waters College, a $1 million to establish a college scholarship program at their former high school and an additional $1 million for teacher salary incentives at their struggling elementary school. Steve has also given his...

Mr. Johnson received his law degree from the University of Dayton School of Law (UDSL) in 2004. During his final year of law school, he was an extern law clerk for the Honorable William A. Clark, United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Ohio, at Dayton and the UDSL student nominee for the Distinguished Law Student Program of the American College of Bankruptcy. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Evansville in 2001. After law school Mr. Johnson became an Associate Attorney for a general practice law firm in Middletown, Ohio where he practiced business law, litigation, and creditors'...

Mr. Dempsey served with the Office of Immigration Litigation at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. for over a decade. He retired in March 2018 as the Chief of the National Security and Affirmative Litigation Unit within his Section, where he supervised a team of attorneys conducting national security and immigration-related, affirmative and defensive litigation in district courts and courts of appeal across the nation. Mr. Dempsey supervised all national security litigation of an office with over 75 attorneys, regularly trained Department attorneys in Washington, D.C. and the National Advocacy Center, and instructed agency attorneys and...

Bruce Feifer has been an associate at Farah & Farah since 1997 and is the head of the workers compensation department. Bruce is a graduate from the University of Miami School of Law. In addition, he is a proud member of
The Florida Bar, The American Bar Association and Florida Workers Advocates.

James Moore is a partner at DMP&H. His practice area focuses on technology law and real estate law. With respect to his technology law practice, he counsels clients on software licenses, data licenses, software development agreements, hosting agreements, non-disclosure agreements, vendor agreements, SaaS agreements and various other information technology related contracts. With respect to his real estate law practice, he focuses on commercial real estate with a particular emphasis on office, retail and warehouse leasing, representing both landlords and tenants in all aspects of owning and operating commercial office buildings, retail shopping centers and warehouses.

Charles L. Gibbs II is a partner at DMP&H. Mr. Gibbs focuses on real estate law, with particular emphasis on retail leasing and commercial real estate transactions. He counsels both landlords and tenants in all aspects of retail leasing and various other commercial real estate transactions.

Commissioned 2d Lieutenant,US Army Infantry at age 19 (1968),served as a rifle platoon leader with the 1st Cavalry(Airmobile) in Viet Nam, 1968-1969. Cases on appeal, of note, see 968 So2d 1079; 912 So2d 28; 764 So2s 653;605 So2d 890; 558 So2d 133 and 504 So2d 1265.

Anne Kelly Skinner graduated magna cum laude from West Virginia University, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Thereafter, Anne attended the West Virginia University College of Law where she earned her law degree in 1997.

Anne began her legal career as an Assistant Attorney General within the Office of the West Virginia Attorney General. While there, Anne worked within the Office’s Consumer Protection Division, where she represented the state on behalf of consumers against businesses that had violated the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act.

In 2001, the Governor of West Virginia appointed Anne to serve...