Scott P. Schlesinger
Founding Attorney
Practice Areas:
Since 1984, Attorney Scott P. Schlesinger has represented the rights of clients who have been injured by negligence. Over the years, he has established himself as a passionate advocate, even securing multi-million dollar verdicts on numerous cases. Scott is proud to have the opportunity to help those who have been injured move forward from their incident and pursue a secure future.
The firm, Schlesinger Law Offices, P.A., focuses on the representation of claims involving defective medical devices, tobacco litigation, defective drugs, birth injuries, and more. As the founder, Scott leads the way in providing legal services that are committed to excellence and to the individual needs of each client.
Education
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University of Florida, 1984
- J.D.
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Brown University
- B.S.
- Major: Biopsychology
Awards & Recognition
- Florida Trend Legal Elite, 2008-2012
- Super Lawyers®, 2014-2015, 2017-2019
- Featured in Daily Business Review, "Scott Schlesinger's Key to Avoiding Burnout: Fight For Something Worthy", October 2017
Professional Associations & Memberships
- Florida Bar
- American Association for Justice
- Florida Justice Association
- Broward County Justice Association
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$9,000,000
Tobacco Product Liability
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$4,300,000
Medical Malpractice
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$4,087,338
Tobacco Product Liability
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$32,750,000
Birth Injury
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$1,296,337
Breach of Contract
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$4,500,000
Tobacco Product Liability
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$269,609
Tobacco Product Liability
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$15,922,000
Medical Malpractice
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$12,600,000
Medical Malpractice
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$14,500,000
Medical Malpractice
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$20,000,000
Tobacco Product Liability
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$9,154,198
Tobacco Product Liability
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$4,500,000
Tobacco Product Liability
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$2,555,000
Tobacco Product Liability
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$2,055,050
Tobacco Product Liability
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$4,800,000
False Imprisonment
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$3,123,436
Tobacco Product Liability
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$37,851,741
Tobacco Product Liability
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$37,000,000
Tobacco Product Liability
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$481,500
Car Accident
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$1,590,000
Car Accident
- Bio
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Scott P. Schlesinger Blog Posts
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Attorneys Schlesinger, Gdanski, & Barron Named 2019 Super Lawyers®, Rising Stars℠
Attorney Schlesinger Was Selected for Inclusion in the 2019 List of Florida Super Lawyers® Ever since beginning his career as a lawyer in 1984, Attorney Scott P. Schlesinger has been working hard to protect the rights of the ...
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Attorney Schlesinger Interviewed About Class Action Lawsuit Against JUUL
JUUL Targets a Specific Consumer Base JUUL, a popular and profitable e-cigarette company, has recently been the focus of intense media scrutiny and severe legal backlash. The company was allegedly founded by two longtime ...
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Schlesinger Law Offices, P.A. Recovers $41 Million in Catastrophic Bicycle Accident Case
The Incident On the morning of April 10, 2016, James Schnurr, the Chief Accountant of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), was severely injured while cycling across a promenade in Jonathan’s Landing, a private ...
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Attorney Schlesinger Interviewed About Teen Vaping Epidemic
The Epidemic of Teen Vaping E-cigarettes were first introduced to the American tobacco product landscape in 2007 and quickly gained popularity as a trendy smoking cessation tool. However, scientific studies have since refuted ...
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Schlesinger Law Offices, P.A. Featured for $20 Million Jury Award in Tobacco, Lung Cancer Case
Schlesinger Law Offices, P.A. was recently featured in Courtroom View Network after securing a $20 million jury award against the two largest tobacco companies in the United States, R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris. Attorneys ...
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Attorneys Scott Schlesinger, Jonathan Gdanski, and Brittany Chambers Named 2018 Super Lawyers, Rising Stars
Schlesinger Law Offices, P.A. is excited to announce that attorney Scott Schlesinger was named to the 2018 list of Super Lawyers, and attorneys Jonathan Gdanski and Brittany Barron were named to the 2018 list of Rising Stars. ...
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Schlesinger Law Offices, P.A. Secures $20 Million Jury Verdict for Smoker's Widower
Attorneys Scott Schlesinger and Jonathan Gdanski recently secured a $20 million jury verdict for Herbert Landi, the widower of a woman who died of lung cancer in 1999 caused by smoking cigarettes. Marion Landi, the wife of ...
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Cutting Corners for the Sake of Profit Cost Lives
The tragic deaths at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills should have been preventable, if not for the negligence of the people in charge of the facility. “With Hurricane Irma threatening South Florida, managers at ...
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Florida Supreme Court Removes Damages Caps
Cap on Noneconomic Damages Deemed Unconstitutional On Thursday, June 8 th , Florida health care took a major step forward as the Florida Supreme Court ruled the cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice injury cases ...
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Jury Finds Tobacco Industry Culpable in Death of Marlboro Smoker
Dennis Oshinsky was a lifelong Marlboro smoker. He used the Philip Morris USA brand of cigarettes for decades before his death from cancer in 2000, rarely touching other tobacco companies’ products. But R.J. Reynolds Tobacco ...
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Broward Jury Awards $1.59M to Man in Premises Liability Claim
Man Sustains Severe Injuries When Car Plowed Into Bagel Shop Property Owner Failed to Address Known Crime Risk Fort Lauderdale, Florida – (May 23, 2016) – A Broward County jury awarded a Pompano Beach man more than $1.593 ...
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