Spencer Aronfeld
Founder | Aronfeld Trial Lawyers
Spencer Aronfeld is a cruise ship injuries, personal injury and car accidents trial lawyer and founder of Aronfeld Trial Lawyers in Coral Gables, Florida. Admitted in Florida and District of Columbia; J.D., University of Miami School of Law (1991).
Meet Spencer
The practice of personal injury law is my calling.
Spencer Aronfeld is the founder of Aronfeld Trial Lawyers in Coral Gables, Florida, and is board certified as a civil trial lawyer by The Florida Bar and the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He represents injured people and families in cases against cruise lines, insurers, hospitals and large corporations, with a practice that includes cruise ship passenger injuries, car and truck crashes, slip and falls, defective products and dangerous medical devices.
Born in Chicago and raised in Wichita, Kansas, Aronfeld graduated cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law in 1991 and opened his firm the same year. In his first jury trial, an Orlando jury returned a $100,000 verdict for his clients against Walt Disney World after a pretrial offer of $1,200, a case later recounted in the book “Disney, the Mouse Betrayed.” He is a graduate of Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers College and has returned there as faculty.
Aronfeld has been named a Florida Super Lawyer since 2006 and is an Eagle Member of the Florida Justice Association and a longtime American Association for Justice member who has served on several of its committees. In 2010 he founded Lawyers to the Rescue, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian and pro bono legal help, and he has written for AAJ’s Trial magazine.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer, The Florida Bar
- Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate, National Board of Trial Advocacy
- J.D., cum laude, University of Miami School of Law, 1991
- B.B.A., University of Miami, 1988
- Admitted to The Florida Bar
- Admitted in the District of Columbia, 1993
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1996
- U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Northern and Middle Districts of Florida
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
- Trial Advocacy Skills Diploma (1994) and Deposition Skills Diploma (1997), National Institute for Trial Advocacy
Practice Areas
- The Florida Bar
- Florida Justice Association (Eagle Member since 1994)
- American Association for Justice (Member since 1997; Leader's Forum; Law Schools, Public Affairs and Membership Oversight Committees)
- Miami-Dade Justice Association
- Public Justice Foundation
- International Cruise Victims Association
- Lawyers to the Rescue (Founder and Chairman of the Board)
- Trial Lawyers College (Faculty)
- Florida Super Lawyers (2006-present)
- AV Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell
- 20 Most Intriguing Floridians, Florida Magazine
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 100
- $100,000 Verdict: First jury trial: Orlando jury verdict for his Uruguayan clients against Walt Disney World after a pretrial offer of $1,200.
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