Alex Rosenthal

Mr. Rosenthal was born in Miami, Florida. He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1986 and his Juris Doctorate (with honors), from the University of Florida College of Law in 1989, where he served on served on the law school’s Journal of Law and Public Policy. He served as an intern for United States Magistrate Judge William C. Turnoff. He worked for two years in the Miami office of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan and then worked several years with the firm of Britton, Weissman, Lichtman & Dervishi, P.A., before forming his own law firm. In August 1997, Mr. Rosenthal formed Reimer Rosenthal. Mr. Rosenthal’s practice areas include business counseling and transactions and state and federal commercial litigation with an emphasis on contract, fraud, employment law, real estate litigation, and complex commercial landlord-tenant litigation. Mr. Rosenthal's litigation practice extends statewide in both state and federal courts. He is a member of the local Florida Bar, United States District Courts for the Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Florida, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.  Mr. Rosenthal is a  certified arbitrator in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, in and for Broward County, Florida. Mr. Rosenthal is AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® 2010 in the field of Commercial Litigation .

Mr. Rosenthal handles trial and appellate issues before both state and federal courts where he has obtained several precedent setting decisions including Martin v. Florida Power and Light Co., 909 So.2d 555 (Fla 4th DCA 2005), the first case in Florida to establish the duty of utilities in underground damage cases, Briceno v. Sprint Spectrum, L.P., 911 So.2d 176, (Fla. 3d DCA 2005), a case involving the ability to bind parties to standard contractual terms posted on the internet, Watson v. Adecco Employment Services, Inc., 252 F.Supp.2d 1347 (M.D.Fla. 2003), one of the first cases ever to establish the limitation on liability of a temporary staffing firm for discrimination against a temporary employee, J & P Transp., Inc. v. Fidelity and Cas. Co. of New York, 750 So.2d 752 (Fla. 5th DCA 2000), the first Florida case to establish the automatic trebled civil damages following a criminal conviction for theft, and Enriquillo Export & Import, Inc. v. M.B.R. Industries, Inc., 733 So.2d 1124 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999), the first Florida case to clarify that payment by check does not constitute payment when mailed.