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Prosecuting and Defending High-Stakes Fraud and Deceptive Practices Claims Across Florida
When trust is exploited through misrepresentation, concealment, or self-dealing, the financial and reputational damage can be severe and difficult to undo. Florida sets a demanding bar for fraud: claims must be pleaded with particularity and proven to a heightened standard, which makes early, precise strategy the difference between a case that holds and one that unravels.
Our Florida business fraud litigation practice represents companies, owners, and individuals on both sides of these disputes. Whether you were fraudulently induced into a transaction or are defending against a high-exposure deceptive-practices claim, we bring forensic attention to the documents, the money trail, and the experience needed to protect your assets and your reputation
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If you're confronting a fraud claim or a business dispute that puts your company, your property, or your reputation at risk, you need trusted representation in your corner. Call us at 813.358.1607, or click below to speak with an experienced, Florida-licensed business litigation attorney.
Areas of Focus:
Fraudulent Inducement
We litigate cases where a party was lured into a business dealing by false representations or the deliberate omission of material facts. Whether it’s a misstated balance sheet, an undisclosed liability, or a promise made with no intention of keeping it. These claims turn on what was known, what was hidden, and when. We reconstruct that timeline to establish reliance and damages, or to dismantle a claim that can't meet Florida's pleading requirements.
Florida Deceptive & Unfair Trade Practices Act (FDUTPA)
The Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act (Chapter 501, Part II) reaches unfair, deceptive, or unconscionable conduct in trade or commerce – bait-and-switch sales tactics, misleading advertising, misrepresented goods or services, and undisclosed terms or fees. We pursue FDUTPA claims for businesses harmed by a competitor's or counterparty's deception, and we defend companies against exposure that can include actual damages and the other side's attorney's fees.
Civil Theft & Conversion
Conversion is the wrongful exercise of control over another's property; civil theft (Fla. Stat. § 772.11) is its statutory counterpart, carrying the possibility of treble damages and attorney's fees for a claimant who can prove felonious intent. These are powerful but exacting remedies. We bring and defend these claims with an eye to where the property went, who controlled it, and whether the conduct clears that elevated bar.
Breach of Fiduciary Duty
When an officer, director, agent, trustee, or other fiduciary uses a position of trust for personal gain, the resulting claims often sit alongside fraud and civil theft. We prosecute and defend breach-of-fiduciary-duty disputes involving self-dealing, diversion of funds, and undisclosed conflicts of interest. For breaches between business owners – partners, members, and shareholders – see our work in ownership and partnership disputes, where these claims most often arise.