If you are looking for class action attorneys in Florida, the practical choice comes down to a short list of firms — most of them clustered in South Florida — that regularly lead or co-lead the state’s largest collective cases. The right firm for you depends on the kind of claim (consumer fraud, data breach, defective product, investment loss, antitrust), the firm’s record in that specific area, and the fee and management terms you nail down before signing anything.
Florida is one of the busiest class action jurisdictions in the country. A large consumer population, an active Southern District of Florida docket, and state laws that support collective litigation have pulled national multidistrict cases into Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa, and West Palm Beach. The firms below are the ones that keep showing up as lead or liaison counsel in those cases.
Leading Plaintiff Firms
Podhurst Orseck (Miami)
A Tier 1-ranked firm that frequently serves as lead or liaison counsel in multidistrict litigation. Podhurst Orseck held central roles in the Blue Cross Blue Shield antitrust litigation, which concluded with a $2.8 billion settlement approved by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama in August 2025; founder Aaron Podhurst sat on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee and partner Peter Prieto chaired the Experts Committee. The firm also led the Takata airbag MDL (settlements exceeding $1.5 billion) and helped secure the $1.2 billion judgment for victims of the 2021 Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside. Strongest fit for aviation, antitrust, environmental contamination, and large-scale product liability.
The Moskowitz Law Firm (Coral Gables)
Led by Adam Moskowitz, with a national practice built around consumer protection and financial fraud. The firm served as co-lead counsel in 31 nationwide force-placed insurance class actions, securing $5.9 billion in relief for 5.3 million homeowners, and won a $195 million settlement for Transamerica life insurance policyholders. It also helped negotiate the Champlain Towers South settlement of over $1 billion. Its highest-profile ongoing matter is the FTX crypto investor MDL, consolidated in Miami before Judge K. Michael Moore; Moskowitz and David Boies serve as class counsel against FTX insiders and celebrity promoters including Tom Brady, Shaquille O’Neal, and Kevin O’Leary. The court narrowed some claims in May 2025 but allowed the case to proceed, and counsel were seeking approval for an initial wave of settlements exceeding $100 million as of February 2026. Strongest fit for crypto losses, insurance practices, and consumer financial fraud.
Colson Hicks Eidson (Coral Gables)
Nearly 60 years old, Band 1-ranked by Chambers USA in 2026 for plaintiff litigation in Florida. Nine partners were named to the 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers guide. The firm’s most notable recent work is the Havana Docks Corp. litigation, with judgments totaling nearly $500 million against major cruise lines for trafficking in property confiscated by the Cuban government; the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8–1 in May 2026 to revive those judgments. The firm was also part of the Champlain Towers South legal team and has a long history of Cuba-related class actions, including one for over 40,000 refugees at Guantanamo Bay. Strongest fit for product liability, aviation disasters, data breaches, and international property disputes.
Conrad & Scherer (Fort Lauderdale)
Founded in 1974 and handles both plaintiff and defense class actions. Founding partner William Scherer led the legal effort for victims of the Scott Rothstein Ponzi scheme, and the firm reports Florida’s highest percentage of recovery for Ponzi scheme victims. In March 2025, a Broward County jury awarded roughly $826 million in Gopher v. Wells Fargo, which the firm later reported was amended to a judgment exceeding $1.25 billion including prejudgment interest; the case involved claims that Wells Fargo and predecessor Wachovia Bank mismanaged trust funds for about 2,000 Seminole Tribe minors and collected around $7.6 million in unauthorized fees. Wells Fargo has indicated it will appeal. Recognized in Best Lawyers in America 2026 for plaintiff-side mass tort and class actions.
Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton (Coral Gables)
Founded in 1982, with a practice focused on class actions, investor fraud, Ponzi scheme recovery, and consumer protection. The firm represented approximately 650,000 physicians in the Humana managed care litigation, recovering more than $1 billion, and has secured hundreds of millions more in force-placed insurance, consumer protection, and bank fraud cases. Its bankruptcy practice has included serving as counsel to trustees in major fraud recoveries. Strongest fit for investor and professional-group claims and Ponzi recoveries.
Morgan & Morgan (Orlando)
Describes itself as the largest personal injury law firm in the country, with more than 1,000 attorneys, offices in all 50 states, and over $30 billion in reported total recoveries. Its class action practice covers data breaches, defective products, consumer fraud, wage theft, and environmental disasters. Results include a $45 million settlement with MGM Resorts in Tampa over data breaches in 2019 and 2023, and a Tampa-based class action recovery of over $873 million. The scale and geographic reach make it a common first call for consumer claims, though you should still ask who will actually handle your case day to day.
Boies Schiller Flexner (Fort Lauderdale and Miami)
A national firm that has kept Florida offices for over two decades and takes work on both sides. Managing Partner Stuart Singer co-founded the Fort Lauderdale office in 2000 and has served as lead counsel in antitrust and securities cases recovering over $1 billion, including more than $750 million for clients who opted out of price-fixing class actions. Partner Sigrid McCawley recovered a combined $365 million from two financial institutions on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims and obtained a $150 million class settlement in an Amway pyramid scheme case. The firm also led a decade-long pro bono class action that improved medical and dental care access for 2 million Florida children on Medicaid.
Other Plaintiff Firms Worth Knowing
Wites & Rogers in Lighthouse Point, founded by Marc Wites in 2001, focuses exclusively on consumer and investor class actions, with work covering cryptocurrency exchanges, data privacy, debt collection, and title insurance overcharges, and has litigated cases before the Florida Supreme Court. Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, based in West Palm Beach with offices in Tallahassee and Tampa, has over three decades of mass tort and unsafe-product experience and is currently active in weight-loss drug injury, contaminated eye drop, chemical hair straightener, and defective medical device claims. Lieser Skaff in Tampa has been certified by a Florida circuit court as class counsel and handles product liability, consumer fraud, and securities fraud class actions.
Defense Firms
If you are on the receiving end of a class action, the Florida defense bar is active and specialized. GrayRobinson, a statewide firm, runs a dedicated class action defense practice led by shareholder Ted Craig, who has over 20 years of experience defending national class actions. The firm has secured dismissals in cases valued at $200 million or more, successfully contested removals under the Class Action Fairness Act, and represented Fortune 100 corporations and national title insurance underwriters across products liability, consumer fraud, wage and hour, securities, and real estate matters.
Boies Schiller Flexner also represents major defendants in Florida, including Florida Power & Light in Hurricane Irma class action litigation and one of the nation’s largest cruise lines in Helms-Burton Act proceedings. Running both plaintiff and defense books at this level is unusual for a top-tier litigation firm.
How to Evaluate and Hire a Class Action Attorney
Class action litigation is expensive and slow. Two to five years to resolution is common. Most plaintiff firms work on contingency, taking a percentage of any recovery rather than billing hourly, and most offer free initial consultations.
Before you sign anything, work through a short checklist:
- Confirm the attorney is in good standing with the Florida Bar.
- Look for specific experience in your subject area — data breach, defective product, Ponzi recovery, insurance, antitrust — rather than general class action experience.
- Ask who will actually manage your case day to day. At larger firms this is often not the name on the door.
- Get a written fee agreement that spells out the contingency percentage, costs, and how expenses are handled if the case loses.
- Check the firm’s actual litigation history through the PACER federal court database rather than relying on marketing claims.
Joining a class action typically means giving up the right to file an individual lawsuit on the same issue, though class members can usually opt out and pursue a separate claim. The trade-off is real: class actions pool resources and share costs, but individual recoveries can be modest relative to the headline settlement number, and the process runs at the pace of complex court proceedings, not your own.