Eric Romano is a Board Certified Trial Attorney with Romano Law Group in West Palm Beach, Florida. He received his B.S. degree in Business Management from Florida State University in 1993, where he played football for Coach Bobby Bowden, and he earned his J.D. degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1997.
State Attorneys Office
He began his career in 1997 as a prosecutor with the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office. As an Assistant State Attorney, he prosecuted a wide variety of criminal cases in the Misdemeanor, Juvenile, Domestic Violence and Felony trial divisions. He left the State Attorney’s Office to join Romano, Eriksen & Cronin in 2001, which was renamed Romano Law Group in 2007. He has gone to verdict in more than 125 civil and criminal trials.
Industry Associations
Eric served as President of the Florida Justice Association in 2020 and is a Past President of the Southern Trial Lawyers Association and the Melvin M. Belli Society. He is also a member of the American Association for Justice, The National Trial Lawyers, the Palm Beach County Bar Association, The Palm Beach County Justice Association and the Palm Beach County Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He is a Life Member of both the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Practice Areas
He concentrates his practice in the areas of personal injury/wrongful death, criminal defense, and commercial litigation, and he frequently lectures in the areas of both criminal and civil trial practice.
Eric is admitted to the Florida Bar, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida and the Middle District of Florida, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. He is Board-Certified by both the Florida Bar and the National Board of Trial Advocacy in Criminal Trial Law and is “AV” rated by Martindale-HubbellSM.
Education
- B.S. in Business Management, Florida State University, 1993
- Institute on World Legal Problems, University of Innsbruck, 1995
- J.D., Stetson University College Of Law, 1997
Bar Admissions
- Florida Bar – 1997
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida – 2002
- U.S. Supreme Court – 2005
- 11 th Circuit Court of Appeals – 2007
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida – 2010