Position: Member

TEL: 813-221-8800

FAX: 813-228-9813

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Admitted: 1975, Iowa; 1976, U.S. Tax Court; 1979, U.S. Supreme Court; 1983, District of Columbia; 1986, Florida; U.S. Courts of Appeal: 1976, Eighth Circuit; 1978, Fifth Circuit; 1983, District of Columbia Circuit; 1983, Eleventh Circuit; 1989, Fourth Circuit; U.S. District Courts: 1975, Northern District of Iowa; 1976, Southern District of Iowa; 1981, Western District of Oklahoma; 1983, Eastern District of Kentucky; 1986, Middle District of Florida; 1988, Southern District of Florida (General Bar), District of Maryland and Southern District of Alabama; 1989, Southern District of Florida (Trial Bar); 1992, Northern District of California; 1993, District of Columbia; 1999, District of Connecticut, Northern District of Illinois (General Bar and Trial Bar). Pro Hac Vice: 1988, Northern District of Florida; 1989, Southern District of West Virginia, Western District of North Carolina; 1990, Southern District of Mississippi; 1997, District of Utah; 1999, Middle District of Tennessee.

Law School: J.D., University of Iowa College of Law

College: B.A., St. Norbert College

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Practice Areas: Criminal Defense; Criminal Trial Law; Appellate Practice

Additional Information: John M. Fitzgibbons began his career as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of Iowa where he also served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief, Criminal Division. He then spent two years as a Special Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington where he directed a Congressional investigation into the nation’s meat industry involving criminal and antitrust issues. Mr. Fitzgibbons returned to federal criminal prosecution for three years as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section in Washington, which has responsibility for public corruption cases in the United States. Mr. Fitzgibbons then came to Tampa where he spent four years as an Assistant United States Attorney and was the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida. In 1987, Mr. Fitzgibbons left the United States Attorney’s Office in Tampa and founded this firm.