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GILWIT LAW
01Standing

Selected matters & recognition.

A subset of the public record. Most of the firm's work resolves privately and never appears here. Each matter is unique; past results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

02The rating

What AV Preeminent means

AV
PreeminentPeer rated for the highest level of professional excellence
Mark D. Gilwit · Martindale-Hubbell2026

Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings are gathered confidentially from currently practicing attorneys and sitting judges, who assess a lawyer's ethical standards and legal ability in a specific area of practice.

Reviewers score two things: general ethical standards, and legal ability across five areas — legal knowledge, analytical capabilities, judgment, communication ability, and legal experience.

AV Preeminent® is the highest peer rating standard, signifying that a large number of a lawyer's peers rank him at the highest level of professional excellence for legal knowledge, communication skills, and ethical standards. Mark D. Gilwit is rated AV Preeminent.

03The work

Both sides of the caption

The practice has been civil litigation and trial work since 1978 — in state and federal courts, and in arbitration. Commercial and contract disputes, employment, business, insurance, and real estate on one side of the docket; negligence, premises liability, products liability, medical negligence, and wrongful death on the other.

The firm has appeared for plaintiffs and for defendants, which is worth stating plainly. It means a matter is weighed on what the facts will carry rather than on the side of the caption the firm is accustomed to sitting on, and it is the reason an early assessment here tends to be the same one the other side's counsel is giving privately.

A good deal of the work arrives from other lawyers. The firm has worked alongside firms in other states and is engaged as often to evaluate a matter, or to sit second chair on it, as to try it.

04Verdicts

Tried to verdict

  • 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.

05Recognition

Peer recognition

  • Daily Business Review "Most Effective Lawyer"

    Daily Business Review

    Named one of South Florida's Most Effective Lawyers by the Daily Business Review. The program covers Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties, and its editors select on results delivered to clients, obstacles overcome, and the impact of the case — not on nomination volume or an anonymous peer survey.

  • Alumnus of the Year

    Northern Illinois University College of Law

    Named NIU College of Law's Alumnus of the Year for 2011, thirty-three years after graduating with the class of 1978.

06Press

In the press

  • 60 Minutes

    CBS News

    An employment matter handled by the firm became the subject of a 60 Minutes segment and drew national attention.

  • "Fort Lauderdale man awarded $6.6 million"

    Sun Sentinel

    Coverage of the Kusherman verdict against a cement company defendant.

  • Coverage of the $6.6 million negligence verdict

    Palm Beach Post

    Reported on the negligence verdict obtained by Mark Gilwit on behalf of a day-laborer plaintiff.

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