Personal Injury & Criminal Defense Trial Attorneys
After a serious injury, Miller & Jacobs investigates what happened, preserves evidence, identifies available coverage, and prepares the claim for the path the facts support. The firm also provides criminal defense representation when an investigation, arrest, or charge puts freedom, reputation, work, or family at risk.
Free and confidential consultation. The written agreement explains the fee arrangement before representation begins.
Reported Recoveries for Injured Clients
Combined Legal Experience
Combined Jury Trials Across Their Careers
Experienced Trial Attorneys
Two Practice Areas
Miller & Jacobs now provides two distinct types of representation. Begin with the legal issue affecting you now, then explore the dedicated Personal Injury or Criminal Defense resources for more detailed guidance.
For People Hurt by Negligence
For people dealing with medical care, missed work, insurance pressure, and losses caused by a crash, unsafe property, medical negligence, defective product, or other preventable harm.
Preserve available evidence and identify responsibility
Identify insurance and other available sources of recovery
Document medical care, income loss, and the full impact
When Freedom or Reputation Is at Risk
For people facing an investigation, requested interview, arrest, warrant, court date, or criminal charge. Representation is provided by Mark Miller or Rick S. Jacobs, both former prosecutors and experienced trial attorneys.
Identify the stage of the matter and immediate deadlines
Avoid preventable statements or missed opportunities
Review the evidence, procedure, and realistic choices
Understanding Fees
The consultation is free and confidential. The fee arrangement depends on the type of matter and is explained in writing before representation begins.
Personal Injury Fees
The written contingency-fee agreement explains the percentage, case costs, and responsibilities before the firm begins representing an injured client.
Start a Personal Injury ReviewCriminal Defense Fees
Criminal-defense fees depend on the stage, complexity, expected work, and services involved. The attorney explains the proposed fee and terms before the firm is retained.
Discuss a Criminal MatterNo attorney-client relationship is created until Miller & Jacobs agrees to representation and a written agreement is signed.
Personal Injury Compensation
A personal injury claim may seek compensation for medical care, lost income, property damage, pain, emotional harm, and other documented losses. The categories that apply depend on the facts, evidence, coverage, and effect of the injury.
Emergency care, hospital bills, rehabilitation, medication, follow-up treatment, and reasonably supported future medical needs.
Wages already missed and future earning capacity affected by lasting restrictions, impairment, or disability.
The documented physical discomfort, emotional distress, and loss of enjoyment caused by the injury.
Repair or replacement of a vehicle or other damaged property, along with qualifying related expenses.
Loss of independence, household services, mobility needs, and other documented ways the injury changes ordinary life.
Damages Florida law may allow an estate and eligible survivors after a preventable death.
Start With What Matters
The useful work begins with three questions: What happened? What evidence proves it? What has the injury cost? A personal injury lawyer can coordinate that work and build a record for negotiation or trial.
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Identify every person or business that may share responsibility and any facts that could affect the claim.
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Secure reports, photographs, video, witness accounts, records, property data, and other time-sensitive evidence.
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Connect medical care, missed work, future needs, costs, and daily limitations to reliable records and testimony.
Personal Injury Cases
The label can wait. Start with what happened, where it happened, and what changed afterward. Miller & Jacobs can evaluate the facts and identify the legal path that fits.
Car, truck, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian, rideshare, boating, and commercial-vehicle claims.
Explore Vehicle Crash Cases →Falls, negligent security, dog bites, and injuries tied to dangerous property or worksite conditions.
Explore Unsafe Property Cases →Medical malpractice, nursing home neglect, and preventable errors in treatment or supervision.
Explore Medical Negligence Cases →Injuries connected to unsafe products, failed components, inadequate warnings, or defective design.
Explore Product Liability Cases →Brain, spinal cord, burn, child-injury, and other claims involving lasting impairment or future care.
Explore Catastrophic Injury Cases →Claims available to an estate and qualifying family members after a preventable death.
Explore Wrongful Death Cases →Not sure which category fits? Tell us what happened. The legal category can be sorted out after the facts are understood.
Explore All Personal Injury Services
Criminal Defense
An investigation, requested interview, arrest, warrant, or court date can create immediate pressure. Former prosecutors Mark Miller and Rick S. Jacobs bring extensive courtroom experience to the criminal-defense matters they accept.
The dedicated criminal-defense hub explains the firm's approach, the questions that may require prompt attention, and how evidence and procedure can shape the defense.
Prior experience evaluating criminal cases
Combined across their legal careers
Your matter is not handed to a junior attorney
Experience You Can Check
The firm reports more than $150 million in verdicts and settlements for injured clients. Mark Miller and Rick S. Jacobs have each been members of The Florida Bar since 1995, are former prosecutors, and report more than 230 jury trials combined.
Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every matter depends on its own facts, evidence, law, and circumstances.
Reported Recoveries for Injured Clients
Years of Combined Legal Experience
Combined Jury Trials
Both Admitted to The Florida Bar
Personal Injury by Location
Personal injury location pages provide office details, community-specific guidance, and local contact information. Criminal defense visitors are directed to the statewide criminal-defense hub until additional local pages are completed.
Headquarters
The main office on South Federal Highway serves Pompano Beach and nearby Broward communities.
Visit the Pompano Beach Page →Central Florida Office
The South Kirkman Road office serves injured people in Orlando and communities across Central Florida.
Visit the Orlando Page →County Guidance
Find county-specific guidance for personal injury claims arising across Broward County.
Visit the Broward County Page →Western Broward
Find local information for injured people in Pembroke Pines and western Broward County.
Visit the Pembroke Pines Page →The Attorneys
Mark Miller and Rick S. Jacobs are former prosecutors and experienced trial attorneys who handle the personal injury and criminal-defense matters accepted by the firm.
Partner | Former Prosecutor | Trial Attorney
Mark has been a member of The Florida Bar since 1995. After serving as an Assistant State Attorney, he worked in insurance defense before focusing on representing injured people and handling criminal-defense matters accepted by the firm. He reports more than 70 jury trials.
Read Mark Miller's Bio → Partner | Former Prosecutor | Trial Attorney
Rick has been a member of The Florida Bar since 1995. He served as an Assistant State Attorney in Miami-Dade County and reports more than 160 jury trials. He handles personal injury and criminal-defense matters accepted by the firm.
Read Rick Jacobs's Bio →When you hire Miller & Jacobs, the responsible attorney is Mark Miller or Rick S. Jacobs.
The matter is not handed to a junior lawyer, although staff and outside professionals may assist with investigation, records, experts, scheduling, and case support.
Client Experiences
Short excerpts from client experiences published by Miller & Jacobs. Results and experiences vary because every matter is different.
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Sophia Thompson
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Before the First Call
These are firm-level questions about starting a conversation with Miller & Jacobs. The detailed criminal-defense questions remain on the dedicated criminal-defense page.
Yes. The firm evaluates personal injury claims and criminal-defense matters. The first conversation should identify which practice area applies, what may need immediate attention, and whether Miller & Jacobs can accept the representation.
You explain what happened, the documents or deadlines you know about, and the concerns that cannot wait. The attorney asks questions, identifies missing information, and explains potential next steps.
Matters accepted by the firm are handled by Mark Miller or Rick S. Jacobs as the responsible attorney, rather than being handed to a junior lawyer. Staff, investigators, experts, and other professionals may assist where appropriate.
For personal injury matters, there is no attorney fee unless compensation is recovered, subject to the written contingency-fee agreement. Criminal-defense fees depend on the nature, stage, complexity, and expected scope of the matter and are explained before representation begins.
No. Start with what you have. Reports, photographs, insurance information, court papers, bond paperwork, messages, medical records, and witness names can be gathered or organized after the initial conversation.
Tell the attorney what was asked, what you said, and whether you signed or authorized anything. Do not guess about prior conversations. Accurate details help the attorney assess what should happen next.
Describe the incident, accusation, or investigation and the effect it has had. The legal category can be identified after the relevant people, evidence, deadlines, coverage, court status, and other facts are reviewed.
The firm evaluates matters across Florida depending on the practice area, location, facts, deadlines, and ability to accept representation. Call to confirm whether Miller & Jacobs can evaluate the matter.
