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Mr. Mermer is a seasoned litigator and accomplished trial lawyer with over 26 years of experience.  He is regularly consulted not only by clients, but because of his experience and officially reported winning cases, by other lawyers throughout the State of Florida working on complex DUI and traffic matters.  

He earned his J.D. degree from Hofstra Law School in 1979 and graduated in the top 30% of his class.  After attending the University of of Miami in 1974, he completed his undergraduate studies at Hofstra University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Psychology.  During law school, Mermer worked as an intern for the Joint Bar Association Grievance Committee for the 9th Judicial District in White Plains, New York where he was assistant to the Chief Counsel and prosecuted lawyers charged with misconduct.  He also interned at Dale Funding Company in Hempstead, New York where he was an assistant to the General Counsel  and participated in closings on hundreds of FHA/VA loans.

In New York City in 1980, he served as an outside attorney to Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons and Gates, an International Law Firm and was in charge of document control for the United States/Chrysler loan closing, one of the largest financial transactions in history.  He was then hired as a litigation associate for Attorney George David Rosenbaum across from City Hall, the New York County & Federal Courts handling a large volume of criminal, personal injury, divorce and estate cases.  While at the firm, he handled numerous criminal matters in state and federal court, appeared at bond hearings, arraignments, filed pre-trial motions, engaged in jury selection and trial.  Mermer filed and litigated hundreds of personal injury cases in court and tried cases before juries.  He argued his first capital murder case before the United States Court of Appeals in 1982.  In 1984 he went into private practice in mid-town Manhattan on 57th Street and also served as General Counsel to the New York Yellow Pages on University Place and then, on Fifth Avenue and 17th Street.  While on University Place, Mermer had the privilege of meeting former United States Attorney General Ramsey Clark who occupied another floor in the building and the General graciously allowed Mermer regular use of his law library facilities.

In 1986, Mermer became Counsel to the Southwestern Bell Corporation and several of their subsidiary company's where he lectured to the firm's legal department and staff in New York and across the Mid-West on the subject of contract law, trial preparation and trial techniques.  As their attorney of record, he handled hundreds of litigated cases in New York and supervised outside attorneys on literally thousands of commercial cases across the Mid-West.

In 1988, he was nominated and received the prestigious Outstanding Young Men of America Award.  During the 1980's Mr. Mermer regularly appeared on network television as a legal commentator on the Morton Downey Jr. Show and on CNBC on the topic of DWI/DUI.  Mr. Mermer was also legal advisor to the New York Business Forum TV Show.   Mr. Mermer has authored articles on legal issues affecting businesses, won an appeal in what has become one of the "Most Cited Cases" on Municipal Liability & Damages.  He has lived in Florida since 1990 and opened a Law Practice in Boca Raton.   Mr. Mermer also has a business interest, founding one of the first online stock and commodities trading company's and Counsel to the company.  Mermer is also a Registered Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) under 7 U.S.C. § 1, et seq. and is very well known in the financial industry.  He has written numerous feature articles in national financial publications on techniques and strategies for successful investing.

Mr. Mermer frequently authors a column "Ask The Lawyer" Our Town News.  For the last few years, Mr. Mermer has instructed lawyers on the use of the Intoxilizer 5000 Alcohol Breath Testing machine and Standardized Field Sobriety Testing procedures at the Broward and West Palm Beach Offices of the Public Defender.  Mr. Mermer was associated with the law firm of Fleming K. Whited, III, of Daytona Beach, Florida, famed DUI Defense lawyer as local counsel in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Due to Mr. Mermer's experience in the field of Traffic Criminal matters and DUI defense, he was asked to join the public defender's office where he was a trial attorney in the Felony Division.  After leaving the public defender's office, he was appointed a Special Public Defender in Broward County to handle certain indigent criminal cases while maintaining his private practice. Mr. Mermer recently won and several precedent-setting cases published in Florida Law Weekly Supplement on search and seizure issues in Broward county and was also a candidate for Broward County Court Judge in 2006.  Mr. Mermer has been consulted and participated in scores of DUI Jury trials in South, Central and Northern Florida.

As an advocate and trial lawyer for the past 25 years, he has handled thousands of cases and been lead counsel in hundreds of judge and jury trials.  Mermer, guided by the principle of fundamental fairness for all, has a proven record dedicated to defending the constitutional rights of individuals in the community and will provide skilled legal counsel for clients on all matters accepted for representation by his him.  In most of the criminal cases he has handled, he has either won, charges against his clients have been dismissed, reduced or the client did not receive a conviction*.

Court Admissions and Memberships:

Florida Bar, New York Bar, New Jersey Bar, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, American Bar Association, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, New York State Trial Lawyers Association, United States Tax Court, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 

Mermer speaking with voters outside the polls in Coral Springs
on Primary Day in his Campaign for Broward County Court Judge

*Every case is unique and these past results may or may not apply to your case.