Todd Michaels

Todd J. Michaels is a partner at The Haggard Law Firm in Coral Gables, Florida. He handles wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases, with a practice centered on negligent security claims in Florida and around the country, along with rideshare liability, premises liability, aviation, pool drowning and auto crash cases.

Michaels joined the firm in 2009 and became a partner in 2014. Before that, he spent about five years as an assistant public defender in Miami-Dade County, where he supervised other felony trial lawyers, and later worked as an assistant federal defender and in private criminal defense practice. He has tried more than 50 cases in state and federal courts.

In 2019 he and co-counsel won a $24.5 million verdict in Broward County in a medical malpractice case involving the death of a mother of four after childbirth complications. He was lead counsel in Snell v. Family Food Saver, a negligent security case that produced a $5.7 million verdict. Michaels served as president of the Florida Justice Association in 2024-2025 and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. A lifelong Miami-Dade resident, he earned his law degree from the University of Miami School of Law and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan.