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Needle & Ellenberg: The Brickell Avenue Firm Concentrated on Medical Malpractice and Defective Products

Needle & Ellenberg is a Miami personal injury firm whose Brickell Avenue practice concentrates on two of the most technically demanding plaintiff specialisms in Florida law: medical malpractice and product liability.

At a Glance

Origin and Background

Managing partner Andrew Needle leads the firm’s Brickell Avenue practice, which peer-directory records place among Miami’s recognized medical malpractice and products liability practices — the two categories in which the firm’s attorneys appear in Super Lawyers’ Miami listings. Awesome Attorneys’ research for this profile relied primarily on those independent directory records; the profile is correspondingly conservative in scope, an editorial choice this directory discloses rather than papers over.

A Miami Personal Injury Firm’s Practice Concentration

Medical malpractice and product liability share a common structure: both turn on expert testimony, technical causation, and well-funded institutional defendants — hospitals and insurers on one side, manufacturers on the other. A firm concentrated in both is built for expert-heavy litigation rather than volume auto practice. The firm also handles catastrophic injury and wrongful death claims. See this Miami Personal Injury directory for how this concentration compares to general-negligence firms serving Miami-Dade County.

Notable Work / Track Record

Awesome Attorneys did not identify a firm-published itemized verdict table with amounts during research for this profile and discloses that directly; the firm’s most checkable public distinction is its dual-category presence in Super Lawyers’ Miami listings. Past results, where reported, do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter.

Client Voice

Awesome Attorneys did not identify a large consolidated body of itemized consumer-platform reviews for the firm during research and discloses that directly rather than substituting unverifiable testimonial language.

Beyond the Courtroom

Awesome Attorneys did not identify documented community initiatives for the firm during research for this profile and reports that plainly rather than inventing them.

Recognition for This Miami Personal Injury Firm

Super Lawyers listings are research-driven and peer-influenced; appearing in two separate practice-area categories reflects recognition across both of the firm’s concentrations. Awesome Attorneys did not identify Florida Bar board certifications on the firm’s attorneys’ records during research and, per this directory’s standard, applies no “specialist” language.

Florida Legal Backdrop

Florida medical malpractice claims carry a two-year discovery-based statute of limitations and require Chapter 766 presuit screening with a corroborating expert opinion. Product liability claims fall under the general negligence framework reshaped by Florida’s 2023 tort reform law, HB 837, which cut the limitations period from four years to two (Fla. Stat. § 95.11) and adopted modified comparative negligence for most negligence actions (§ 768.81). None of this is legal advice; consult a licensed attorney promptly about any potential claim.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

Needle & Ellenberg’s clearest differentiator as a Miami personal injury firm is its dual concentration in expert-driven case types — malpractice and products — from a Brickell Avenue base. The honest trade-offs, disclosed directly: this profile is among the most conservatively sourced in the Miami series, resting on independent directory records rather than an extensive public firm footprint, and readers should weigh that thinner public record accordingly. For a Miami family with a malpractice or defective-product case seeking a concentrated practice, this firm merits shortlist consideration alongside the more extensively documented firms in this directory.

Methodology and Sourcing

This profile was researched from Super Lawyers’ and Martindale-Hubbell’s published Miami directory listings, which document the firm’s practice concentrations, managing partner, and Brickell Avenue location.

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 Needle & Ellenberg, 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.