Position: Member

TEL: (407)838-2000

FAX: (407)838-2022

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Website: www.floridatriallawyer.com

Admitted: 1982, Florida, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; 1988, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1992, U.S. Supreme Court; 2005, Nevada

Law School: Florida State University, J.D.

College: University of Central Florida, B.A

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Practice Areas: Aviation Law; Insurance Law; Medical Malpractice/Negligence; Motor Vehicle Collision; Personal Injury; Pharmaceutical Litigation; Premises Liability; Products Liability; Professional Negligence; Railroad Law; Civil Litigation

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For the past nine (9) years, Riley has been named one of the 500 Leading Lawyers in America by Lawdragon Magazine, whose extensive research covers all areas of the law in attempting to identify, from more than a million lawyers nationwide, the leading 500 lawyers in the country. He is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, one of the highest and most coveted ratings possible for legal ability and ethical standards, and is identified in its Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. He was first named to SuperLawyers in 2006. He has consistently been recognized as one of Orlando's Top Attorneys in Orlando Home & Leisure, Orlando Style, Orlando Life, and Orlando Magazine, as well as one of Florida's and the Nation's Top Lawyers by The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Town & Country Magazine, Time, The Tampa Tribune, Tampa Bay Magazine, and The Miami Herald. He has also been recognized as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America in recognition of his achievements as a trial lawyer, and is listed in Outstanding Lawyers in America, Best Attorneys, and every Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Law since 1985. In 2014, he was named as a recipient of the Litigator Award and was named Trial Attorney of the Year in Florida by Corporate International Magazine and Corporate Live Wire. In 2015, he was named the Trial Attorney of the Year in Florda by Lawyer Monthly. He has been a long-standing member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and has achieved more than sixty settlements or verdicts in excess of one million dollars. He achieved a $13,000,000.00, result in a bad faith insurance case, one of the largest bad faith results achieved in Florida, and one which the insurance carrier could have resolved for $300,000, or less, had it acted appropriately. More recently, he achieved as co-counsel in a whistleblower claim a result of $32M for the payment of illegal kickbacks, as well as a verdict of $1.7M against a well known hotel for negligent security where the pre-trial offer was $280K.