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GILWIT LAW
01About

Mark D. Gilwit, Esq.

Founder · Managing Partner · Boca Raton, FL

Mark D. Gilwit is the founder of Gilwit Law, a private civil practice in Boca Raton, Florida. He has practiced continuously since 1978.

Mark D. Gilwit, Esq., Founder and Managing Partner of Gilwit Law

The firm's work spans corporate and commercial matters, employment, insurance, real estate, and serious injury, in state and federal courts and in private arbitration. Mark advises principals, families, and other counsel, bringing the kind of senior view that lets a sophisticated client know, early, which path the facts support and which is worth the cost of pursuing.

That posture is built on a long record. The Daily Business Review named Mark one of South Florida's Most Effective Lawyers. His Martindale-Hubbell peer rating is AV Preeminent — the highest awarded for professional skill and integrity. One of his employment matters drew national attention and was the subject of a 60 Minutes feature; his courtroom record includes a verdict in Kusherman v. Continental Florida Materials, Inc., tried in Broward County and reported by the Sun Sentinel and Palm Beach Post.

Beyond his Florida practice, Mark holds active bar admissions in New York and Illinois and maintains long-standing of-counsel relationships in both jurisdictions. Where a matter is better carried by counsel elsewhere, he places it well and stays close to it, so the client keeps one advisor with the whole picture.

02Notable matters

Qorrolli v. Metropolitan Dental Associates

S.D.N.Y. · Hon. Denise L. Cote · affirmed, 2d Cir. 2024

A dental practice and its principals were sued for sex discrimination and harassment under Title VII and the New York State and City Human Rights Laws. An October 2022 first trial produced a $2.575 million verdict: $575,000 in emotional-distress damages and $2 million in punitive damages. Mark then filed an appearance in the case as trial counsel for the defense and moved for a new trial; the court granted it, finding the award excessive and the product of unfair prejudice. At the retrial in February 2023, the jury found liability only under the City law and awarded one dollar in nominal damages. The plaintiff's motion for a third trial was denied, and in December 2024 the Second Circuit affirmed every ruling in a published opinion.

Kusherman v. Continental Florida Materials

Broward Circuit Court · Hon. David Krathen

Acting for a construction flagman whose legs were crushed by a reversing concrete truck, Mark established the defendant's liability before trial — striking its affirmative defenses and winning summary judgment on an indemnity clause in its own subcontract, so the case was tried on damages alone. The jury returned $6.59 million. Reported by the Sun Sentinel and the Palm Beach Post.

Full record & recognition