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Gary Kollin

Gary Kollin

Law Office of Gary Kollin, P.A.

Civil Rights, Juvenile Law, Personal Injury, Federal Appellate Practice, Firearms, Police Misconduct

Experience: 46 years
Language(s): English | Spanish
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About Gary

Gary Kollin is a sole practitioner in a boutique law firm concentrating in criminal defense and civil rights litigation. He represents clients in the state and federal courts charged with crimes ranging from petit theft to first degree murder including federal charges of drug trafficking and continuing criminal enterprises.

Gary Kollin is also an expert and specialist in criminal trial law and in criminal appellate law as well as police misconduct law and section 1983 civil rights cases. He was selected as a leading Florida attorney in the area of felonies and misdemeanor defense law by the American Research Corporation, declared a “super lawyer” in civil rights law by Super Lawyers magazine and declared a South Florida "top lawyer" by the National Law Journal. He is Martindale - Hubbell "AV" rated and have an AVVO rating of 10.

For over 36 years Gary Kollin has fought to protect the rights of all people in the criminal courts, appellate courts, and in police misconduct, false arrest and civil and constitutional rights cases. Gary Kollin cut his teeth working as a state prosecutor, public defender and chief of a state agency investigating Medicaid fraud.

Gary Kollin prosecuted 1,000s of felony cases while serving as a division chief in the State Attorney’s Office. As a public defender he represented hundreds charged with felonies as well as juveniles charged with all levels of crimes.

After trying hundreds of cases as a prosecutor and public defender, Gary Kollin became a chief of the Auditor General’s Medicaid Fraud Unit. He headed a unit which investigated doctors, pharmacists, nursing homes and other health care providers for cheating the public by stealing funds for the poor and disabled.

In 1987, Gary Kollin entered private practice. He took the years of experience in governmental practice and uses them to provide preeminent legal services.

In his criminal trial and appellate practice, he tried cases in the state and federal courts including first degree murder, drug trafficking and continuing criminal enterprises. He argued cases in the state and federal appeal courts.

He argued the case of Smith v. United States, 508 U.S. 223 (1993), in the United States Supreme Court. He was appointed by the United States Supreme Court to argue and brief the case.

Among his police misconduct cases he sued the Sheriff in a 220 person class action suit, Jones v. Sheriff, 9 Fla. Law Weekly Fed. D107 (S.D. Fla. 1995). The federal judge ruled that the sheriff illegally held acquitted defendants in jail after they were found not guilty. He won the case and the federal judge ordered the sheriff to pay over one million dollars.

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Experience

Attorney and Counselor at Law

Law Office of Gary Kollin, P.A.

September 1987 – Present

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Field Counsel

State of Florida Medicaid Fraud Agency

June 1985 – May 1987

Florida

Assistant State Attorney

State Attorney Office

December 1981 – May 1985

Florida

Assistant Public Defender

Broward Public Defender's Office 17th Judicial Circuit

October 1979 – November 1981

Broward County

Computer Programmer/Analyst

Brigham and Women's Hospital

July 1975 – June 1976

Massachusetts

Admission

Verified U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida

2010

Verified U.S. Supreme Court

1982

Verified Florida

1979

Verified U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

1979

Verified U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida

1979

Verified U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida

1979

Education

Harvard University

Bachelor of Arts (Biology)

1975

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Recognitions & Achievements

Associations
  • -Florida State Bar Association
  • -National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
  • -Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
  • -Million Dollar Advocates Forum
  • -MENSA
Honors / Awards
  • -MENSA
  • -Leading Florida Lawyer in Criminal Law | American Research Corporation
  • -Million Dollar Advocate | Million Dollar Advocates Forum

Notable Work

Cases

GOTOWALA v. STATE

Attorney for the Appellant in a case in which said Appellant filed a petition to seal criminal records with a trial court and was denied. Said Appellant appealed on the grounds that the trial court did not conduct and evidentiary hearing. The higher court reversed the order and remanded the trial court to provide specific reasons, not generalizations for the denial.

Publications

-The Florida Court Reporter | To File or Not to File, That is the Question



-Florida Defender | Post Acquittal Detention: Go Directly Back to Jail

Additional Info

Founded 1987

Law Office of Gary Kollin, P.A. Highlights

Criminal, Civil & Human Rights, Personal Injury, Class Action, Police Misconduct

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Languages: English | Spanish
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