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Areas we serve

Three offices. One attorney, across Florida.

Jose A. Dapena represents injured people throughout Florida from offices in South Miami, Homestead and Tampa. A claim belongs to the county where the injury happened rather than to where you live, so the office to call is the one nearest the crash — and the county is what decides almost everything procedural about the case that follows.

01 The three offices

Which office covers which county

Each office has its own number, its own courthouse and its own trauma center. Those three facts, not the drive, are what make one office the right one for a given claim.

  • The Miami office

    5975 Sunset Drive, Suite 102, South Miami, FL 33143

    (305) 662-4323

    County
    Miami-Dade County
    Circuit
    Eleventh Judicial Circuit
    Courthouse
    Miami-Dade County Circuit Court, 73 W Flagler Street, Miami
    Trauma center
    Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial

    Communities served: Westchester · Kendall · Coral Terrace · Olympia Heights · West Miami · Sweetwater · Glenvar Heights · Pinecrest · Palmetto Bay · Cutler Bay · Coconut Grove · Richmond Heights · South Miami Heights · Doral · Hialeah · Little Havana · Brickell · Sunset

  • The Homestead office

    100 NE 15th Street, Suite 210, Homestead, FL 33030

    (786) 900-0184

    County
    south Miami-Dade County
    Circuit
    Eleventh Judicial Circuit
    Courthouse
    South Dade Justice Center, 10710 SW 211th Street, Miami
    Trauma center
    Homestead Hospital

    Communities served: Florida City · Naranja · Princeton · Leisure City · Goulds · Redland

  • The Tampa office

    4231 N Habana Avenue, Tampa, FL 33607

    (813) 930-5422

    County
    Hillsborough County
    Circuit
    Thirteenth Judicial Circuit
    Courthouse
    Hillsborough County Circuit Court, 800 E Twiggs Street, Tampa
    Trauma center
    Tampa General Hospital

    Communities served: Town 'n' Country · Wimauma · Plant City · Brandon · Riverview · Ruskin · Seminole Heights · Ybor City · Westshore · Temple Terrace · Carrollwood · Lutz · Gibsonton · Apollo Beach · Westchase · Hyde Park · Davis Islands

Areas we serve

Communities, by county

Each is served from the office named. There is no office in any of these communities.

Miami-Dade County

From theMiami office

south Miami-Dade County

From theHomestead office

Hillsborough County

From theTampa office

02 What these pages are

Why only some communities have a page of their own

A community earns its own page when something about a claim there genuinely changes. In Town ’n’ Country it is the agency: the community is unincorporated, so the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office writes the report rather than Tampa Police, and its western edge is the Pinellas county line, which moves a case into a different judicial circuit altogether.

In Florida City it is the road: US-1 narrows below the city and there is no alternate route, so most of the traffic through it is people who do not live there. In Kendall it is the hospital and the volume. Those are not decorations on a template — they are the reason the page exists.

Where nothing changes, there is no page, because it would repeat the county with a different name at the top. That is a doorway, not an answer, and Google has treated it as one for years.

03 Not on the list

If your community is not named here

It is still served. Representation is throughout Florida, and the absence of a page for a place means only that a page would have had nothing of its own to say about it.

Call the office nearest where it happened. If the county is not obvious — a crash on the Turnpike, an injury on a trip — call whichever number is easiest and sort it out on the call. It is the same attorney at all three offices.

Questions about the areas served

Is there an office in my city?

There are three offices: South Miami, Homestead and Tampa. Everywhere else listed here is an area served from one of those three, not an address you can visit.

That distinction matters when you are comparing firms. A list of twenty "locations" usually means one office and nineteen pages.

Which office should I call?

The one nearest where the injury happened, not the one nearest where you live. A claim is tied to the county it arose in: that is where the report was written, where the records sit, and where a lawsuit would be filed.

If that is not obvious, call whichever number is easiest. It is the same attorney at all three, and working out which county a claim belongs to is part of the first conversation rather than something to settle before it.

I was hurt in a county where you have no office. Can you still take it?

Often yes. Representation is throughout Florida, and Jose A. Dapena is admitted in the Florida state courts and in the Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Florida.

Where a case genuinely belongs with someone local to another county, he will say so on the first call rather than after signing you up.

Why do some communities have their own page and others do not?

A community gets its own page when something about a claim there actually changes — which agency writes the report, which courthouse hears it, or which roads produce the crashes.

Kendall, Florida City and Town ’n’ Country each change one of those. A page for every neighborhood name would repeat the county page with the name swapped, which helps nobody and is the reason most "areas we serve" sections are worth nothing.

Does it matter which county the crash happened in?

Yes, more than most people expect. The county decides which agency holds the crash report, which courthouse would hear a lawsuit and which circuit it is filed in.

It does not change the law. The fourteen-day deadline for initial care, the injury threshold and the two-year limitation period are the same across Florida.

Do I have to come to an office at all?

No. A first conversation can happen by phone or by video from anywhere in Florida, and most do.

Home and hospital visits are available when someone cannot travel, which after a serious injury is the ordinary case rather than the exception.