Lawrence E. Burkhalter

Larry Burkhalter is an attorney in our Miami office and has an expansive litigation practice. He represents both businesses and individuals in complex litigation and has experience handling matters across a range of industries, including transportation, products liability, premises liability, negligent security, aviation, and medical malpractice. Larry also has significant experience representing clients in mass tort and class action opt-out matters. 

Larry has extensive trial experience and has secured defense verdicts in a variety of catastrophic injury and commercial disputes. Larry has also successfully handled multiple appeals on behalf of firm clients.

• Defense verdict in negligent security matter involving an individual who was catastrophically wounded from a gunshot wound outside an establishment in Miami Dade County, rendering the individual a quadriplegic.
• Defense verdict in a transportation matter involving an individual who was rendered at a high rate of speed, resulting in surgery.
• Defense verdict in a premises liability action involving an individual who allegedly suffered a permanent traumatic brain injury following an awning collapse. 
• Defense verdict in a medical malpractice action filed against a hospital and its staff in a medical negligence lawsuit brought by a patient who allegedly suffered permanent nerve damage and chronic region pain syndrome/reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
• Defense verdict after a two-month trial in a transportation case filed against a national automotive lobby and consumer group by a catastrophically burned individual who was rear ended on the New Jersey Turnpike.
• Defense verdict in an aviation wrongful death action involving the crash of a personal aircraft.
• Defense verdict in a tortious interference action between two transportation companies over a bid contract for commuter rail service.
• Defense verdict for an international hotel chain sued for wrongful death by a hotel guest for an alleged dangerous condition on its resort property.
• Defense final judgment in a premises liability matter in which the jury's verdict triggered the defendant's proposal for settlement/offer of judgment, rendering the defendant as the prevailing party.
• Summary judgment granted in favor of defendant pursuant to Florida's workers' compensation immunity statute.
• Defended and obtained favorable settlement for a national hotel ownership group and its management company in a toxic tort lawsuit brought by the estate of a fatally injured hotel guest and his brain-damaged father for injuries caused by carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.
• Successfully pursued appeal to the Third District Court of Appeals in Miami-Dade County, Florida on behalf of a dentist in a professional negligence case where the appellant attempted to compel binding arbitration after the claim was denied pre-suit.
• Representing gun manufacturer in class action opt-out cases in product liability litigation.

The Best Lawyers in America®, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, 2026 - 2027

South Florida Legal Guide, Top Lawyer, Product Liability - Defense, 2013 - 2017

Super Lawyers®, Florida Super Lawyers List, Personal Injury - General, 2014 - 2016

Super Lawyers®, Florida Rising Stars List, Personal Injury - General, 2009, 2011, 2013

Florida Supreme Court, Extern for the Honorable Justice Major Best Harding, Summer 1997