Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2022 Brent G. Steinberg is a Florida Bar board-certified appellate specialist, a distinction achieved by only 216 of the more than 100,000 members of The Florida Bar. He is recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Appellate Practice, Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance, and Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs. He handles catastrophic injury, insurance bad faith, legal malpractice, and insurance coverage cases throughout Florida and Georgia, at both the trial and appellate levels.
Mr. Steinberg began his employment with Swope, Rodante P.A. as a law clerk in 2009, joined the firm full-time after graduating law school in 2010, and became a partner in 2018.
He has served as lead appellate counsel in cases before the Florida Supreme Court, all six of Florida's District Courts of Appeal, the Georgia Supreme Court, the Georgia Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. In 2022, he argued and won two important insurance bad faith appeals before the Eleventh Circuit.
Mr. Steinberg has also served as trial counsel in several multimillion-dollar cases, including a $30.1 million traumatic brain injury verdict, the sixth-highest personal injury verdict in Florida in 2019.
He successfully defended that verdict before the Florida Supreme Court in 2023.
Mr. Steinberg is a proud double Gator, earning his Bachelor of Science degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Florida in 2007 and his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2010. While at UF Law, he was a member of the Florida Law Review, where his work was published, and received six Book Awards for earning the highest grade in his classes.
Mr. Steinberg holds an AV Preeminent Rating (the highest possible) from Martindale-Hubbell. In addition to being recognized by Best Lawyers, he has been honored by Super Lawyers, The National Trial Lawyers, and the National Association of Distinguished Counsel. He has also received multiple awards from the Florida Justice Association, including the 2023 S. Victor Tipton Award for superior achievement in legal writing.
In 2023, Mr. Steinberg was appointed to The Florida Bar's Civil Procedure Rules Committee, where he evaluates and recommends proposed rule changes to the Supreme Court of Florida. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Florida Justice Association and is an elected officer of the Tampa Bay Trial Lawyers Association.
Mr. Steinberg frequently represents the interests of insurance consumers and accident victims against large insurance companies and other special interest groups in Tallahassee. He currently serves as Chair of the Florida Justice Association's Legislative Committee on Auto Insurance and Insurance Bad Faith. Over the past eight years, he has volunteered thousands of hours drafting legislation, authoring white papers, and lobbying state legislators on insurance and civil justice issues.
A frequent lecturer on insurance and tort law, Mr. Steinberg authored the chapter "Autonomous Vehicles and Transportation Network Companies" in Florida Automobile Insurance Law, published by The Florida Bar in 2020 and 2022. He also writes the bi-monthly column "Tips for Auto Practitioners" in the FJA Journal.
His greatest achievement, however, is being married to his wife, Tara, and being the father of their two young children.
