Shaun Cummings
Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer | Florin Roebig
Shaun Cummings is a wrongful death, medical malpractice and personal injury trial lawyer and board certified civil trial lawyer at Florin Roebig in Palm Harbor, Florida. Admitted in Florida, Texas and Colorado; J.D., Stetson University College of Law (2014).
Meet Shaun
Shaun M. Cummings is a trial attorney with Florin Roebig in Palm Harbor, Florida, and a member of the firm’s personal injury and medical malpractice teams. He represents seriously injured people and families in wrongful death cases and also handles large-loss first-party insurance claims. The Florida Bar has board certified him in civil trial law.
In March 2025, Cummings was part of the trial team that won a contested $200 million wrongful death verdict in Pinellas County, a case later featured on NBC’s Dateline. In 2023 he served as lead trial counsel in a Hillsborough County wrongful death case that ended in a $150 million jury verdict, and in 2016 he helped try a $42 million case, the largest contested verdict in Hernando County history.
Raised in Ocala, Cummings earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida in 2011 and graduated cum laude from Stetson University College of Law in 2014, where he served on the law review and the trial team and was inducted into the National Order of Barristers. He later coached Stetson’s trial team to an American Association for Justice national championship in 2015 and has taught trial advocacy at Stetson as an adjunct professor since 2023. He is admitted in Florida and Texas and before the 11th Circuit.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Board Certified in Civil Trial Law, The Florida Bar
- J.D., cum laude, Stetson University College of Law, 2014
- B.S., University of Florida, 2011
- Admitted to The Florida Bar, 2014
- Admitted to the State Bar of Texas, 2020
- Admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, 2016
- Admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, 2014
- Admitted to the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, 2016
Practice Areas
- American Association for Justice
- Clearwater Bar Association
- Million Dollar Advocates Forum and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- National Order of Barristers
- Phi Alpha Delta
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Civil Plaintiff
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40
- Florida Super Lawyers Rising Star (beginning 2021)
- Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum (life member)
- $200 Million Verdict: Contested wrongful death jury verdict in Pinellas County in March 2025; Cummings was part of the trial team.
- $150 Million Verdict: Wrongful death jury verdict in Hillsborough County in 2023, with Cummings as lead trial counsel.
- $42 Million Verdict: Contested jury verdict in Hernando County in 2016, which the firm describes as the county's largest; Cummings was part of the trial team.
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