Eric Ginnis

Eric Ginnis co-founded Ginnis, Krathen, & Zelnick, P.A., a deliberately boutique Fort Lauderdale personal injury firm where senior partners, not junior staff, handle the cases. What separates Ginnis from most injury lawyers is his science background: he studied pre-med at Washington and Lee University, wrote a senior thesis on hippocampal lesions and short-term memory, and published work in neurophysiology before ever opening a law book. That medical literacy matters when a case turns on interpreting imaging studies, surgical records, or competing expert opinions.

His courtroom pedigree is equally substantial. His firm bio states he has served as first-chair litigation attorney in more than 80 jury trials to verdict, experience built partly during three years as a trial attorney with the State Attorney’s Office for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in Broward County. He is a lifetime member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a group limited to lawyers who have obtained judgments or settlements above $2,000,000, and Super Lawyers has rated him a Rising Star. The firm he leads reports results including a $7.8 million verdict described as the largest Florida slip and fall case in decades.

Ginnis earned his J.D. with honors from the University of Florida in 2002, along with a Master of Science in Management from UF’s Warrington College of Business in 2001. During law school he clerked for Judge Barry Stone of the Fourth District Court of Appeal. He has also served the profession through the Florida Bar’s 17th Circuit Grievance Committee, including a term as its chairman, and belongs to the Florida Justice Association and the Broward County Trial Lawyers Association.

Injury victims with medically complex claims, from disputed spine injuries to medical malpractice and wrongful death, will find his combination of medical fluency and heavy trial experience hard to match at a small firm. Consultations are free and available in English or Spanish.