Practice Areas

With a broad range of experience, our practice areas provide a comprehensive resource for your organization’s specific needs.  For more information about each area of practice, including our experience, attorneys, news and events, please select a practice from the listings below.

Our appellate practitioners who have successfully argued and defended appeals, petitions, and writs before all appellate courts in the state of Florida, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, as well as other courts throughout the country.

We defend commercial airlines and aviation component manufacturers in general commercial litigation, as well as in product liability lawsuits stemming from aviation accidents. We also represents vendors, including major rental car companies, in disputes with airport governing authorities.

Our Casualty Defense Group represents a large variety of clients in a wide range of matters throughout the state of Florida, including representation of various businesses directly, as well as through insurance companies, TPA’s, and adjusting firms.

We represent major corporate clients in matters involving pest control, agricultural, other chemical products, and products once manufactured with asbestos. We also defends claims of direct and indirect exposure to such chemical products.

RKC’s Business and Commercial Litigation Group handles a wide range of cases, both locally, regionally, and nationally. The Group services a broad spectrum of clients, ranging from local business owners to Fortune 500 companies. The Group's considerable litigation and trial experience ranges from simple contract disputes to the most complex commercial matters.

RKC attorneys represent a variety of construction-related clients, including owners, general contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, and design professionals. We represent these clients through all phases of the construction process, from project design, contract negotiation, construction and contract administration, through final close out.

Our Criminal Defense attorneys have extensive experience representing clients in criminal matters in state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate level.

Businesses, governmental entities, and individuals turn to Rumberger Kirk & Caldwell when faced with employment-related disputes. Rumberger Kirk & Caldwell attorneys represent local, national, and regional employers in a wide range of labor and employment issues.

Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell has made this field of practice a priority. The firm's practice includes both litigation and regulatory matters.

In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the food, dietary supplement, drug, biologic, medical device and cosmetic industries. Attorneys at Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell have a wide range of experience from handling regulatory matters to litigation and trial.

Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell represents a wide variety of municipalities, school boards, law enforcement agencies, and other governmental entities throughout Florida. Initimately familiar with Florida's statutes governing elections, RKC represents federal and state election candidates of both parties as well as non-profit public interest advocacy groups in ensuring fair election procedures.

Our firm has established a formidable presence in the insurance defense field thanks to the firm's depth and breadth of experience. In matters spanning the full range of insurance interests, from motor vehicle and industrial accidents to complex coverage and bad faith matters, RKC serves a diverse clientele of small businesses, international corporations, and many of the nation's largest insurance carriers.

Our Mediation Panel Practice Group comprises of attorneys who have received special training and certification by the governing courts to serve as mediators. They possess the special skills required to facilitate negotiations between opposing parties.

Named by several of the nation's leading automakers as their primary legal defense counsel in the southeast, our firm's partners and associates have also championed products cases ranging from construction and agricultural equipment to motor vehicles, watercraft, electronics, explosives, pharmaceuticals, and toxic substances. RKC has worked on some of the most challenging cases in this field.

Often recognized as "the attorney's attorney", our practitioners have a clear understanding of the depth and importance of all that is at stake when suit is brought against practicing professionals. We represent attorneys, accountants, architects, doctors, engineers, insurance agents and other professionals on a regular basis.