Firm Overview

Who We Are

Jimerson Birr is a Florida-based law firm with global reach that seeks to exceed client expectations through commitment to excellence and by adding value to our clients’ businesses. We are committed to handling each matter with the same quality, care, attention to detail and respect as if we were representing ourselves. We are accessible, responsible, prepared, efficient and results driven. Our clients and colleagues value us because they trust our integrity and abilities.

Our team has accepted the lasting responsibility of protecting our clients’ rights, businesses, properties, investments and finances. In both established and emerging businesses, our professionals are integral, trusted advisers and advocates, giving our clients insights into legal and business considerations that guide prudent decision making. We work with some of the world’s most respected and well-established businesses, as well as start-up visionaries, and individuals looking to overcome challenges. Our award-winning law firm is at its best when it helps clients set measurable goals and develops multi-level strategies to achieve them. Our lawyers are trained to take ownership of our clients’ challenges by getting close to the problem and close to the people who can benefit from the solutions we provide.

Jimerson Birr is dedicated to helping clients manage risks, maximize opportunities and move their businesses forward. Our attorneys work resolutely to protect and promote our clients’ interests on legal matters around the world, often high-stakes litigation with immeasurable consequences. We’re business-oriented lawyers equally comfortable as community leaders, private transaction counselors or courtroom advocates. Efficiency and effectiveness are the highest priority for our firm, and we continue to look for ways to partner with clients in identifying new strategies, new approaches and different ways of working together to optimize results.

What Is Important To Us

At Jimerson Birr, as a company, we’ve identified three things that are most important to us: our clients, our colleagues, and our communities. We believe in putting people first, and our dedication to results-based service and doing the right thing is at the heart of what we do. Our relationships are built on trust that we build every day through every interaction. Our employees are empowered to perform optimally and ethically to ensure they share our clients’ vision for success. Jimerson Birr works tirelessly to power the potential of our clients, colleagues and communities.

For clients, it is important to us to become essential by providing services that have enduring value in helping them achieve their goals. We strive to be indispensable to our clients by delivering remarkable results and exceptional experiences every day. Our promise is to have their backs in everything we do. It is important for us to deliver an unparalleled standard of excellence in everything we do, staying focused on the biggest opportunities to be impactful to our clients. Retaining loyal clients is important to us, because we want our clients to trust our brand and people. We earn that trust by ensuring everything we do is reliable, consistent, and tethered to the irresistible goal of producing enduring value.

For our colleagues, it is important to us to practice servant leadership through respect. We trust and respect one another for who we are and what we contribute. We are accountable to one another and empower every voice through open, courteous dialogue focused on delivering client results. As co-workers, we focus on the needs of others, especially team members, before we consider our own. Our culture is one of acknowledging other people’s perspectives, giving them the support they need to meet their work and personal goals, and building a sense of community within our team. It is important to us that each team member embody and contribute to our firm’s core values and cultural goals, which we hire by, train on, and live by.

For our communities, it is important to us to invest in the well-being of the places where we live and work. As a company, we are proud to make positive economic contributions that include providing good jobs with opportunity, and donating our time and money to causes we believe in. We consider ourselves fortunate to be able to support local organizations and causes that help to make our communities stronger. Our community investment is grounded in our commitment to serve programs that provide public benefit, advance human relations at a fundamental level and improve the public’s perception of lawyers. Our belief is that all people deserve to live healthy, safe, and fulfilled lives. By immersing ourselves in our communities and employing people who are dedicated to bettering the world, we are able to learn so much about how the community and its people work. We gain a unique sense of purpose by serving those around us, one which often manifests in other areas of personal and professional lives.

Our core values are simple: Commitment to service; Commitment to quality; Commitment to results.

What We Do

Growing demand for our services has shown that hiring and retaining the most capable and fulfilled employees translates to positive results and enduring value for our clientele. Our practice is full service, as we are equipped to address most any need a business will have in the industries we serve. At Jimerson Birr, we take a multi-disciplinary approach to handling complex legal matters and in advising clients on a wide range of legal issues. We are well-rounded and accomplished, from bet-the-company litigation and business-changing transactions to daily risk-management counseling and regulatory guidance. With broad industry knowledge and significant experience in our areas of practice, we devise solutions that address each client’s particular needs and objectives to assure the highest levels of effective representation. We do all this on a state, regional, national, or international scale, as our esteemed and venerable clients expect.

Who We Do It For

Our most important service axiom is to listen to our clients to ensure that we garner a complete understanding of the complexity of their legal issues and business goals. By aligning our practice with certain industries, we bring together the knowledge and experience of attorneys from varied practice disciplines with a primary focus on addressing our clients’ industry-specific needs. This knowledge enhances our ability to offer advice and counsel on specific legal needs based on an understanding of the sector. We advise business executives, department heads, entrepreneurs, investors and individuals on critical transactions, disputes, and regulatory matters within dozens of industries and lines of work, reflective of the Florida and U.S. economy at large.

Why We Serve Who We Serve

We are selective in only taking on clients whose needs align with our service specialties. Every consultation begins with an assessment of client goals and pain points, and then a thorough vetting of that information against our core competencies and capacity. We do not engage clients without understanding their true needs and aspirations, and we do not accept any representation of a client or trade whose needs don’t actually align with our expertise and service offerings.

We find that when our core values and goals align with those of our clients, we are especially motivated to push ourselves to deliver great results that reflect an appreciation for the significance of the relationship. Our best client relationships are the ones where there is mutual respect and appreciation. Enjoyment, challenge, prestige, gratification, integrity, creative freedom, communication style, responsiveness, investment and personal chemistry are just some of the reasons our lawyers have cited in recent surveys for why they choose to represent the clients they do. We have found that when we personally enjoy our clients the way we do, it influences everyone’s attitude and energy level. A lawyer-client team with compatible goals and attitude are often the source of our force.

Jimerson Birr’s clients understand the value of our ongoing relationship. Our clients are apt to engage the firm for multiple matters because of the mutual satisfaction levels we share. The firm fully understands that while acquiring new clients is necessary for our business to grow and prosper, it is the significance of repeat engagements from loyal clients that makes us stand out from our competitors. Repeat engagements with pleased clients is the lifeblood of our business. Our indefatigable commitment to the client service experience and measurable results keeps our clients happy, loyal and satisfied so that they will come back again and again. We choose clients as we would choose our friends, and when chosen, we treat them like our family.

Where Are We At and Where Are We Going

We are lawyers dedicated to utilizing our collective experience to provide personalized solutions to the challenges our clients face in doing business, from corporate formation to wind down and everything in between. Our firm seeks to be flexible in the way we offer uniquely tailored legal counsel and the way we are compensated for our work. Each of our lawyers is their own sophisticated brand, trained to practice law in a creative and efficient manner designed to get results. At our core, we are fundamentally focused on redefining what it means to provide exceptional professional services to our clientele at a competitive market rate.

Delivering quality legal services that our clients truly value means understanding their business, caring for their needs, being invested in their success, and supporting them to achieve their objectives. Combining technical expertise with commercial wisdom enables our lawyers and staff to turn the most complex questions into the clearest answers. Our lawyers and support staff will approach each matter we handle with an invigorated, pragmatic business style geared towards distilling complexity and providing clear-cut solutions for our diverse and select client base.

Our vision is to be a leading business law firm in the Southeast U.S. with unrestricted legal capability and capacity. We will do this by only hiring people who love practicing law and then empowering them to grow and to achieve great things for our clients in an energetic, dynamic and supportive environment. Passion, aptitude and a deep understanding of business and people is the powerful mix we will bring to every engagement. Delivering measurable value is at the heart of Jimerson Birr’s offering. We ask the right questions, listen intently and focus not just on what clients want, but how they want it. The information we glean from collaborative representation and goal alignment will help our clients recognize where they are, where they want to be, and where they could be.

Why Clients Should Choose Us

Jimerson Birr offers clients a customer-focused and cost-effective alternative to larger business law firms. Our firm prides itself on our attentive and personal approach to every client. We work closely with our clients to discover and implement the customized legal solutions that best meet their needs. Jimerson Birr handles commercial transactions and disputes with the same dedication and intensity whether our client is a Fortune 500 company or a privately-held small business.

Our Florida-based law firm has national reach and a national reputation for being well-prepared counselors, influential negotiators and aggressive litigators. In-house corporate counsel, corporate executives and department leaders, business owners and individuals choose our firm because we are dedicated to gaining an operational business knowledge of each company we serve in order to employ clever strategies geared towards achieving client objectives established at matter inception. Our proven approach to an efficient and results-driven practice of law allows us to be a trusted partner to our clients in building a business designed to bring them the future they desire.

Legal challenges are often very complex. The lawyers of Jimerson Birr have a communication style that ensures ensure that they don’t become perplexing as well. Clear, luminous and digestible communication is a hallmark of our dialogue with clients. As a leading legal service provider in the business law space, we have a reputation for innovative and flexible service delivery that keeps clients with us for the long-term. Our ability to provide meritorious solutions, combined with our deep industry expertise and specialty service knowledge, builds long-term relationships in an business climate that is constantly changing.

Our clients choose Jimerson Birr because they want a partnership with a successful, solutions-orientated firm they can rely on to add value in current transactions, litigation, regulatory or operational challenges. We have a “problem spotted, problem solved” mentality that gives our clients the peace of mind they need to manage risk and run a profitable business. Our quick and sensible methods of resolving commercial disputes, closing deals, or managing operational risks guarantee minimal business disruption, limit the economic loss of our clients, and create opportunities for future growth.

We welcome all inquiries and invite prospective clients to browse the firm’s website so that you may learn more about the industries and trades we serve, as well as the industry-specific legal services that we provide. Also, we strongly encourage all visitors to the site to subscribe to the firm’s newsletter and legal publications, which deliver useful blogs, articles, videos and news updates on legislative, legal and business issues impacting those engaged in business in the State of Florida and nationwide.

Why Legal Professionals Should Join Us

Working at Jimerson Birr means feeling empowered to make a difference and inspired to bring innovation to practice of law. We’re transforming the legal industry and are looking to bring on talented professionals with varied perspectives. At Jimerson Birr, we acknowledge and value our differences as well as our combined strengths. We want all employees, regardless of their background, to feel respected personally and professionally. We cultivate a working environment that inspires new ideas, promotes ownership and experimentation, supports highly motivated individuals to be their best versions of themselves, and invites investment into our corporate culture focused on our goal of attaining personal and professional fulfillment. We’re constantly working to find new and better ways to help businesses succeed, and we’re looking for like-minded people to help shape tomorrow at Jimerson Birr.

A world where anyone can belong anywhere starts with a workplace where employees feel welcome and can contribute their best work. Jimerson Birr welcomes candidates with backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented in law and offers opportunities to create community and lasting impact in the places we live and work. We provide comprehensive training and support every step of the way to help our legal staff, administrators and legal professionals achieve their career development goals. In return, we expect our personnel to deliver excellent client service and legal advice, possess a strong sense of core values, have a keen intellect, be flexible and accountable, strive for distinction, commit to professional development, serve their communities, and demonstrate leadership. When the expectations of our clients, the firm, and our employees align, we will all find success.

Join us if you are a servant leader who likes to create client value. A career at Jimerson Birr is more than just a job- it’s an opportunity to shape the future. We’re working to build something meaningful and lasting here. We try to approach everything we do thoughtfully- and if you feel the same about your work, we’d love to hear from you.