EDITORIAL REVIEW
This personal injury and civil rights champion scored a mammoth $80M
victory on behalf of three Cuban workers forced to work as slave laborers
repairing ships for a Cuban joint venture.
—2008 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America
Even in Florida, a somewhat prickly state for plaintiffs, Grossman grabs big wins in products liability, aviation/injury litigation and police misconduct cases.
— Lawdragon,
January 2008
This legal eagle won the biggest wrongful death verdict of a child in Florida as well as countless verdicts and settlements exceeding $1M, many involving medical malpractice and products liability.
— Lawdragon,
January 2008
He grossed $37 million for a deceased Pinecrest girl’s family,
largely by convincing jurors that Florida Power & Light didn’t care about
the 12-year-old’s traffic death.
— Lawdragon,
February 2007
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Co-founder of the firm, Mr. Grossman is recognized as one of America's pre-eminent trial lawyers concentrating in medical
malpractice, products liability, police misconduct, aviation and personal injury litigation. His successful career is
distinguished by an unprecedented number of favorable verdicts; he has consistently won some of the largest awards in
Florida. Mr. Grossman was named Trial Lawyer of the Year by the American Board of Trial Advocates of Florida. He was the
recipient of the Academy of Trial Lawyers' Crystal Eagle Award and inducted into the Academy's Hall of Fame. Mr. Grossman is
named as a trial lawyer in the book, The Best Lawyers in America. He is a Fellow of the prestigious International
Academy of Trial Lawyers and was elected into the Iron Arrow, the University of Miami's highest honorary society.
When not in the courtroom, Mr. Grossman is an author and lecturer, and has written two chapters in High Risk Pregnancy- A
Team Approach published by Saunders, a leading medical publication. He is actively involved in issues regarding the
prevention of malpractice and catastrophic accidents and was lead counsel in Goldberg vs. Florida Power and Light
which was the largest verdict in the United States for the death of a minor. Among his many civic undertakings are his
commitments to United Cerebral Palsy and United Way, in addition to his financial support of numerous charities. He is one
of the few lawyers invited to speak at national medical meetings. His lectures within the legal profession have been
videotaped and circulated nationwide. Ted Koppel and Larry King have interviewed him as an expert on malpractice for their
nationally televised programs.
He is chairman of Margaux’s Miracle Foundation which is named
for his late daughter, Margaux, who succumbed to a rare form of cancer, Ewings Sarcoma, at age 15. This foundation has
endowed a research fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center in New York City in her memory devoted to finding a cure for this and other rare cancers.
Selected Memberships
Stuart was a member of the board of governors of The Florida Bar through three consecutive terms; has been a member of the
National Board of Directors of the American Board of Trial Advocates since 1988, was appointed by four consecutive presidents
to head its prestigious Civil Justice Committee, and a member of the Board of Trustees of its Foundation. He has been the
American Board's representative to the Brookings Institute in its study of the American jury system. He is also a member of
the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers; Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Sustaining Member; Dade County Trial Lawyers
Association; Former Vice-Chairman, Law and Medicine Committee of the American Bar Association; Dade County Bar Association;
South Palm Beach County and Palm Beach County Bar Associations; Florida Keys Bar Association; admitted to the Supreme Court
of the United States.
Awards and Honors
In 2007 and 2008, Stuart was named as one of Florida’s top ten lawyers in Florida Super Lawyers magazine, while
Lawdragon named him one of America’s top 500 lawyers. Previously, Florida Trend magazine also named Stuart one
of Florida’s top 10 trial lawyers. Lawdragon named Stuart as one of the 500 leading plaintiff lawyers in America.
The American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) named him Florida Trial Lawyer of the Year and awarded him the Masters in Trial
award while the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers (AFTL) elected him into its Hall of Fame.
Admitted to the Florida Bar: 1973
