Gregorio Francis

Gregorio “Greg” Francis is a founder of Osborne, Francis & Pettis, a Florida plaintiffs’ firm with an office in Orlando. His work focuses on product liability, medical device and pharmaceutical litigation, medical malpractice and personal injury, and he served as lead counsel in the national class action brought on behalf of Black farmers, which resolved for $1.25 billion.

Francis was born in the Panama Canal Zone and moved to the United States as a child. He earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Florida in 1991 and his law degree there in 1994 as a Virgil Hawkins Fellow. He began practicing in 1994 at a statewide defense firm, joined Morgan & Morgan as a partner in 2001 and later became a shareholder, co-managing a Miami office run jointly with The Cochran Firm and leading the firm’s Jackson, Mississippi, office through 2014. He formed his current firm with Joseph Osborne in 2018.

The National Bar Association gave him its Vince Monroe Townsend Legends Award for civil rights leadership, and the University of Florida Levin College of Law named him an Outstanding Alumnus in 2025. He wrote a book on the Black farmers case, sits on the Board of Trustees of Bethune-Cookman University, and served as president of the Paul C. Perkins Bar Association from 2001 to 2003.