About Our Firm

At DML Attorneys, P.A., we are a boutique law firm. Our focus is representing people in business, real estate, family law, and criminal defense matters.

We are career litigators, and though we always strive to resolve cases for our clients without entering a courtroom, we are ready to try any case necessary. 

You should choose our Firm because we have the experience you need in the courtroom, and we have the sense to get a deal done in most cases. We get creative in settlement and the courtroom. In some cases, we reach settlements nobody even thought of in cases where the parties never thought settlement was possible.

In a majority of cases, trial is not the right answer. But, sometimes the other side needs to have their confidence shaken on cross examination before they are willing to come to the table. We strive to provide that very service. And, if that approach does not work, you will have our best effort on judgment day.

Our Expertise

Our attorneys are objectively recognized as among the best in the Tampa Bay area. We handle your case personally, and we will not hand your most important legal issue off to an inexperienced associate or delegate everything to a paralegal.

We bring experience from many years working at top national law firms. And, we have litigated against the attorneys from other top national law firms. We certainly are not intimidated by our peers in the legal community. We respect them, but we can litigate with anyone.

We are constantly apprised of developments in the law. Our attorneys teach continuing legal education courses and actively attend courses on emerging issues. The is always changing and developing, and our attorneys are nimble. We follow everything, from new laws passed by the legislature to the changing composition of the courts to evolving attitudes in our society. We live the law every day. You should benefit from it.

We created DML Attorneys, P.A. to better serve our clients. We have backgrounds in stakes business litigation and actively practice family law. We have the luxury of collaborating together every day, to secure the best interests of our clients.
— Richard J. Mockler, Shareholder

Our Approach to Billing

We work efficiently on your case. We will not staff it with paralegals or associates who are looking to inflate their bonus by overbilling your client number. We do not churn clients or cases.

We also save you money because we rarely need to reinvent the wheel. We have an enormous combined library of pleadings, motions, agreements, and legal documents. This saves us a tremendous amount time and reduces your bill. Numerous top attorneys have taken all or part of our work product for their own cases. That’s because our pleadings are “litigation-tested.” We actually try cases, so we have heard every argument other attorneys could think of to date. We are ready for them. And, when someone has a good argument, we have tailored our positions accordingly.

We Care

We genuinely enjoy practicing law. We got into this profession to help people and serve as advocates. We truly want the best for our clients, and we frequently go out of our way to achieve that goal.

No one can be in three places at once, but we always strive to communicate and follow up with our clients, the court, and opposing counsel. By creating this Firm, we have given ourselves depth and coverage when one of us faces a client emergency or other commitments. Now, we have each others’ backs, which helps our team have yours.

When you hire DML Attorneys, P.A., you can trust that we will advocate zealously for you and always protect your best interests.

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