Private counsel forcomplex civil matters
A private civil practice advising principals, families, and counsel on complex corporate, commercial, employment, insurance, real estate, and serious-injury matters. Admitted in Florida, New York, and Illinois.
- Preeminent
- AVPreeminentPeer rated for the highest level of professional excellenceMartindale-Hubbell2026
- Years in practice
- 48Years in practiceContinuous civil practice since 1978Florida · New York · Illinois
Practice areas
A private practice, deliberately selective
Not every matter is taken. Mark D. Gilwit reviews each inquiry himself and accepts those where his involvement will change the outcome, which is what keeps the docket short enough to hold in mind.
The long view
Clients rarely arrive with a single matter. They arrive with a business, a family, and interests that keep raising questions over years. Those are long relationships rather than single transactions, and keeping them is why the practice stays small.
Counsel that travels
with the matter
Private interests rarely stay inside one state. Bar admissions in three jurisdictions, together with a long-standing of-counsel relationship in New York, let a matter follow a family or a business across state lines without being handed to a stranger.
Where another firm is better placed to lead, the firm says so — and stays involved only as far as it is useful.
- Bar admissions
- FloridaNew YorkIllinois
- Federal courts
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
- Of counsel
Michael H. MaizesOf Counsel — New York