Marcus Joseph Michles II, Attorney

Marcus Michles obtained his undergraduate degree from Furman University and his Law Degree from Stetson University College of Law where he was chairman of the moot court board. Following undergraduate school, Mr. Michles was a Captain in the US Army serving with the 82d Airborne Division, Third Special Forces Group, and the First Special Operations Command.

While on active duty he was lead trial counsel in a number of highly sensitive and classified trials for the United States Government. After leaving active duty Mr. Michles joined a statewide medical malpractice defense firm and became the Managing Partner of the Pensacola office specializing in defending physicians sued for medical negligence.

In 1993 Mr. Michles joined the firm of Kerrigan, Estess, Rankin and McLeod where for eight years he specialized in representing personal injury plaintiffs with an emphasis on medical malpractice.

Mr. Michles is board certified by the Florida Bar as a specialist in Civil Trial Practice and has had some of the largest medical malpractice jury verdicts in northwest Florida. He has had over a dozen verdicts published in local news media, is a member of The Million Dollar Advocates Forum For Trial Lawyers achieving the highest jury verdicts, and was recently named one of Florida's Top Trial Attorneys by Climate Magazine. He and his wife Cindy live in Gulf Breeze with their four children.

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