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Goldberg & Rosen: The Biscayne Boulevard Firm Behind the Largest Single-Incident Settlement in Florida History

Goldberg & Rosen is a Miami personal injury firm that has been trying cases since 1975, and its partner Judd Rosen served as co-lead counsel in the Surfside condominium collapse litigation — where, per the firm, the security company he prosecuted paid $517.5 million into a $1.2 billion settlement fund, producing the largest negligent security settlement and the largest single-incident settlement in Florida history.

At a Glance

Origin and Background

The firm traces to 1975 and is now led by brothers Judd and Brett Rosen. Brett Rosen’s published biography is unusually personal for a trial firm: born and raised in Miami as the son of two public school teachers, he frames his obligation to fight for the underdog as a family inheritance. Judd Rosen’s Florida Bar record confirms the firm’s downtown address at 2 South Biscayne Boulevard, and his appointment as co-lead counsel in the Surfside building collapse case — among the most consequential injury litigations in Florida history — is the firm’s defining recent chapter.

A Miami Personal Injury Firm’s Practice Concentration

The firm’s docket spans catastrophic personal injury, medical malpractice, workplace injuries, negligent security, cruise ship cases, brain injuries, dangerous drug litigation, and insurance bad faith, with a large bilingual attorney team and a stated willingness to take cases through trial when insurers refuse fair settlements. See this Miami Personal Injury directory for how this high-capacity trial practice compares to boutique firms serving Miami-Dade County.

Notable Work / Track Record

Beyond the Surfside settlement figures, the firm reports more than $1 billion recovered since 1975, the largest verdict for adult surviving DUI victims, and the largest verdict in an elderly wrongful death case, along with verdicts in underlying negligence and bad faith trials. All of these superlatives are the firm’s own reported claims, which Awesome Attorneys attributes rather than independently re-verifies; past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter.

Client Voice

The firm’s published reviews are specific and attributed: one client praised staff member Melissa Sanchez as “a true gem” whose professionalism keeps the office on track; another wrote that the firm treated their mother’s case as if she were one of their own parents, crediting a staff member named May from beginning to end; a third described working with attorney Tyson as simple and well-guided. These are platform-published reviews reported as written.

Beyond the Courtroom

Brett Rosen’s public identity is rooted in his Miami upbringing and public-school-teacher parents; the firm’s bilingual staffing reflects the city it serves. The Surfside litigation itself — compensating the families of 98 people killed in the 2021 collapse — carried civic weight beyond any fee.

Recognition for This Miami Personal Injury Firm

The firm’s most checkable distinction is Judd Rosen’s court-appointed co-lead counsel role in the Surfside litigation — a judicial appointment, not a marketing award. Awesome Attorneys did not identify Florida Bar board certifications on the Rosens’ bar records during research and, per this directory’s standard, applies no “specialist” language.

Florida Legal Backdrop

Florida’s 2023 tort reform law, HB 837, cut the general negligence statute of limitations from four years to two (Fla. Stat. § 95.11) and adopted modified comparative negligence for most negligence actions (§ 768.81) — a plaintiff found more than 50 percent at fault recovers nothing. Negligent security claims against property owners, a Goldberg & Rosen concentration, were also restructured by HB 837’s presumption provisions for certain multifamily properties. None of this is legal advice; consult a licensed attorney promptly after any injury.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

Goldberg & Rosen’s clearest differentiator as a Miami personal injury firm is scale with a trial record: a 50-year firm whose partner held a court-appointed leadership role in Florida’s largest single-incident settlement. The honest trade-offs, disclosed directly: the firm’s record-setting superlatives are its own reported claims, and its high-capacity model sits at the opposite pole from the boutique, limited-caseload firms elsewhere in this directory — a structural difference clients should weigh. For a seriously injured person in Miami, particularly in a negligent security or catastrophic case, this firm is a strong basis for a shortlist.

Methodology and Sourcing

This profile was researched from The Florida Bar’s official member record for Judd G. Rosen (bar number 458953, confirming the firm’s downtown Miami address), and the firm’s own website (goldbergandrosen.com, including its attorney biographies, results claims, and published client reviews).

Publisher Disclosure and Independence Notice

Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal directory and editorial publication. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by Goldberg & Rosen, P.A. prior to publication. Awesome Attorneys may in the future offer sponsored placement products to attorneys and firms, including this one, but sponsorship has no bearing on the editorial content, inclusion, or findings of this profile.