Celebrity trial lawyer, John Uustal, is a Founding Partner of the Kelley | Uustal law firm in Fort Lauderdale. Uustal leads a team of elite trial lawyers, who have won some of the largest verdicts in the country. He limits his own practice to a small number of “cases that can’t be won for families that can’t afford to lose.” He has taken on some of the most complex and difficult legal cases of our time. His successes have resulted in safer fuel tanks, safer seatbelts, safer medical care, and safer equipment for firefighters. That success has earned him some powerful enemies. A car company promised to bankrupt him, he was attacked and maligned by Big Tobacco, and he was threatened in Argentina after antagonizing government officials who had been complicit in Argentina’s dirty war. He has won every case he has tried against tobacco companies. He has won every one of his cases involving keyless ignition defects. He has been named Product Liability Lawyer of the Year by America’s Best Lawyers, awarded the Most Effective Lawyer for Product Liability by the Daily Business Review, and has been interviewed and chronicled by national newspapers and television news programs.
Most recently, he secured an $82.6 million verdict on behalf of hip hop superstar Flo Rida, and was featured in newspapers across the country as well as in People Magazine, on Fox and Friends, and CNBC’s Squawk Box.