About Keith Mitnik

Keith Mitnik is Morgan & Morgan's senior trial counsel, the lawyer the firm sends into courtrooms across the country to try its toughest cases alongside other attorneys. A Eustis, Florida native who graduated magna cum laude from UCF and with honors from Florida State's law school in 1984, he joined the firm in 1997 after making partner within two years at his first firm. His verdicts include awards of $18.1 million, $27 million, $40 million, and a $90 million verdict that ranked as the seventh-largest in America in 2010. His high-profile docket has included the Backstreet Boys' suit against their former manager, the civil case against Casey Anthony, and the landmark "Tailwind" defamation case against CNN and Time, and he has been interviewed by Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$25.5 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2010 · #13

Morgan & Morgan trial lawyers Keith Mitnik and Gregory Prysock won a $90.8 million jury verdict against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco for Lyantie Townsend, whose husband Frank died of lung cancer after smoking since age 13. The award, $10.8 million compensatory plus $80 million punitive, was later reduced through appeals to a final judgment of $25.5 million, which stood.

Alachua County Circuit Court, Florida · 2010Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$20 millionVerdict

A Jacksonville motorcyclist was paralyzed from the waist down in June 2013 when the front brake of a 2007 Suzuki GSX-R1000 failed. After four trials, the fourth Duval County jury found Suzuki negligent for failing to warn about the brake master cylinder and awarded $20 million in April 2024. Florida's Fifth District Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment on April 10, 2026.

Circuit Court, Duval County, Florida; affirmed by the Fifth District Court of Appeal, No. 5D2024-1959 · 2024Product LiabilityRead 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 State University College of Law
J.D., 1984
University of Central Florida
Undergraduate, 1981

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Florida

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Orlando firms

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Wooten Kimbrough Damaso & Dennis
$5.2 Million Verdict for Tow Truck Driver Burned by Battery Acid in I-75 Spill
Colling Gilbert Wright
Colling Gilbert Wright
$6.8 Million Verdict for Widow of WWII-Era Smoker Who Died of RJR-Caused Lung Cancer

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