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Alan Goldfarb, P.A.: The All-American Basketball Player Who Has Tried More Than 250 Cases to Verdict

Alan Goldfarb is a Miami personal injury attorney whose career predates most of his competitors’ law licenses: admitted to The Florida Bar in 1972, he has tried more than 250 cases to verdict over five decades, with the firm reporting more than $250 million in verdicts and settlements — including over 100 results exceeding $1 million each.

At a Glance

Origin and Background

Goldfarb grew up in Miami Beach and attended Clemson University on a full basketball scholarship, becoming a Division I All-American before returning home for his 1972 University of Miami law degree. The competitive framing is his own — from courtside to courtroom — but the record beneath it is unusually concrete: more than three decades as a founding member of his own firm, admission to the U.S. Supreme Court bar in 1998, and a trial count few active Florida plaintiff lawyers can match.

Miami Personal Injury Attorney Practice Concentration

The firm handles catastrophic injury, medical malpractice, auto, boating, construction, electrocution, negligent security, toxic tort, and trucking cases from Miami Tower, and its operational details are client-facing in unusual ways: a full-time nurse paralegal assists with case evaluation, staff speak Spanish, and the team will meet clients at home or in the hospital. See this Miami Personal Injury directory for how this five-decade practice compares to others serving Miami-Dade County.

Notable Work / Track Record

The firm reports over 100 verdicts and settlements exceeding $1 million each, a $16 million wrongful death recovery among them, within a career total exceeding $250 million; the trial count — more than 250 to verdict — is its most distinctive figure, given that most injury cases settle. All figures are firm-reported; past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter.

Client Voice

One of the firm’s published reviews stands out for its specificity: parents who lost their son during a routine surgery wrote that Goldfarb and his staff treated them like they mattered, spoke honestly and with care, and fought diligently through the entire case to tell them what had happened to their son. It is an attributed platform review reported as written.

Beyond the Courtroom

Goldfarb was an original member of the Miami chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates and remains a member of The Florida Bar, the Dade County Bar Association, and the American Bar Association; his firm was twice a finalist for the Daily Business Review’s Most Effective Lawyers award.

Recognition for This Miami Personal Injury Attorney

His recognitions are the peer-review kind this directory weights most heavily: Martindale-Hubbell’s AV rating, Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers since its Florida inception, South Florida Legal Guide since 2001, and Florida Legal Elite nomination among the top 1.9% of Florida attorneys in every year of its publication. Awesome Attorneys did not identify a Florida Bar board certification on his record 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), while medical malpractice claims run on their own two-year discovery clock with Chapter 766 presuit requirements. None of this is legal advice; consult a licensed attorney promptly after any injury.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

Alan Goldfarb’s clearest differentiator as a Miami personal injury attorney is verified longevity plus actual trial volume — 250-plus verdicts across 50 years is a fundamentally different résumé from a settlement-driven practice. The honest trade-offs, disclosed directly: the dollar figures are firm-reported, and clients weighing a five-decade solo-named practice should ask ordinary succession and staffing questions they would ask any senior practitioner. For a seriously injured person in Miami who wants a lawyer with deep courtroom mileage, this firm is a strong basis for a shortlist.

Methodology and Sourcing

This profile was researched from the firm’s own website (goldfarbpa.com), Martindale-Hubbell and Super Lawyers records confirming the Miami Tower office and selection years, The Florida Bar’s member directory, and published platform 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 Alan Goldfarb, 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.