Sean Domnick
Shareholder | Rafferty Domnick Cunningham & Yaffa
Sean Domnick is a medical malpractice, catastrophic injury and wrongful death trial lawyer and shareholder at Rafferty Domnick Cunningham & Yaffa in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Admitted in Florida; J.D., University of Florida Levin College of Law (1989).
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Sean C. Domnick is a board-certified civil trial lawyer and shareholder at Rafferty Domnick Cunningham & Yaffa in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. His practice focuses on medical malpractice, catastrophic injury, wrongful death, nursing home abuse and neglect, birth injury, hospital negligence and product liability cases for individuals and families throughout Florida.
Domnick is a University of Florida graduate who has been a member of The Florida Bar since 1990. He is certified in civil trial law by The Florida Bar and by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. The Florida Bar’s Board of Legal Specialization and Education grants the former certification.
He served as president of the American Association for Justice in 2023-2024 and as immediate past president in 2024-2025. He has been a board member of the Florida Justice Association since 1996, was inducted into the International Academy of Trial Lawyers in 2017 and was selected for fellowship in the International Society of Barristers in 2019.
Domnick has been named to the Super Lawyers Top 100 list for Florida from 2016 through 2026 and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America. He teaches trial advocacy nationwide and has received the Florida Justice Association’s W. McKinley Smiley Jr. Award and the American Association for Justice’s Joe Tonahill Award for mentoring trial lawyers.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- University of Florida, B.S. (1986)
- University of Florida, J.D. (1989)
- Admitted to The Florida Bar (1990)
- Admitted to the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida (1991)
- Admitted to the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida (2002)
- Admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court (2018)
- Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer, The Florida Bar Board of Legal Specialization and Education
- Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate, National Board of Trial Advocacy
Practice Areas
- American Association for Justice (Immediate Past President, 2024-2025; President, 2023-2024)
- Florida Justice Association (Board Member since 1996)
- International Academy of Trial Lawyers
- International Society of Barristers
- American Board of Trial Advocates
- Palm Beach County Justice Association (President, 2018)
- Miami Dade Justice Association (President, 1999)
- The Florida Bar (Civil Procedure Rules Committee)
- Palm Beach County Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Public Citizen
- Pound Civil Justice Institute (Fellow)
- Pan European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers
- Ontario Trial Lawyers Association
- The Best Lawyers in America, Medical Malpractice Law and Personal Injury Litigation, Plaintiffs (2005-2027)
- The Best Lawyers in America Lawyer of the Year (2014, 2024)
- Super Lawyers Top 100 Florida (2016-2026)
- Florida Super Lawyers (2006-2026)
- AAJ Richard D. Hailey Distinguished Service Award (2026)
- Florida Justice Association Al J. Cone Lifetime Achievement Award (2026)
- AAJ Joe Tonahill Award (2023)
- Florida Justice Association W. McKinley Smiley Jr. Award (2018)
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers (2020-2025)
- Palm Beach Illustrated Top Lawyer (2018, 2019, 2023, 2026)
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