About Mustafa Dandashly

Mustafa Dandashly is a Lebanese-American attorney who focuses on serious personal injury cases with particular emphasis on federal litigation, wrongful death, medical malpractice, civil rights, and maritime cases, including those involving the Death on the High Seas Act, the Limitation of Liability Act, and the Jones Act. He is a graduate of Florida International University College of Law, where he was a member of the FIU Law Review, and holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of South Florida. While in law school he also worked at GE's Global Research Center focusing on patent and trademark issues for emerging technologies. He is admitted to practice in Florida and in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Goldberg & Rosen

These results are credited to Goldberg & Rosen. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

The families of 98 people killed in the June 2021 Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside, Florida, recovered over $1 billion through a class settlement run by a court-appointed Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, with final approval reached in under a year.

Miami-Dade Circuit Court, Miami, FL · 2022Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$35 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2013 · #14

Goldberg & Rosen attorneys Judd and Brett Rosen secured a $35 million jury verdict against drunk driver Thomas Cypress, whose blood-alcohol level was three times the legal limit when he killed retired Maryland couple Robert and Paulette Kirkpatrick on Tamiami Trail in 2009, producing what was at the time the largest damages award for surviving adult children in Florida history.

Miami-Dade Circuit Court · 2013Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$13 millionVerdict

Goldberg and Rosen secured a $13 million jury verdict on behalf of a man left near death after a nightclub bouncer's felony battery, but a Miami judge vacated the award in 2024 and ordered a new trial after finding the defendants were wrongly barred from presenting certain defenses.

Florida state court, Miami · 2024Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$10.58 millionVerdict

A Miami-Dade jury awarded $10,577,853.93 to plaintiff David Brown after a 2015 T-bone collision left him with a traumatic brain injury, a stroke, and two years during which he could not speak, eat, or drink.

Miami-Dade Circuit Court (Case No. 2015-008856 CA 10, Judge Peter Lopez) · 2018Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$5.2 millionVerdict

A Miami jury awarded $5.2 million to the estate of cyclist Miguel Del Angel Ortiz, killed in a 2022 truck collision, after Goldberg and Rosen attorneys rejected a $80,000 settlement and proved the driver was distracted on a phone call.

Miami-Dade Circuit Court · 2024Truck AccidentsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Florida International University College of Law
J.D.
University of South Florida
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Florida

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.