Practice areas: Personal Injury, Business Litigation; view more
Licensed in Florida since: 2016
Education: St. Thomas University School of Law
Languages spoken: English, Russian
Selected to Rising Stars: 2025 - 2026 Josef Timlichman is a Florida trial attorney whose practice focuses on first-party property insurance litigation, serious personal injury, and complex real estate matters. Since founding Josef Timlichman Law in 2016, he has represented homeowners, injured individuals, property owners, developers, investors, and businesses in high-stakes disputes and transactions.
Josef began representing policyholders following Hurricane Matthew and has handled hurricane and property-damage claims arising from every major Florida storm season since. He has extensive experience litigating coverage denials, underpaid claims, water losses, structural and roof damage, disputed repair scopes, and complex causation issues.
As a personal injury attorney, Josef has taken cases to verdict and represented clients in matters involving traumatic brain injuries, serious orthopedic and soft-tissue injuries, premises liability, slip-and-fall accidents, cruise-line injuries, Jones Act claims, and product liability. He works closely with physicians, engineers, and accident reconstructionists, using advanced three-dimensional reconstructions and demonstrative technology to make complex evidence clear and compelling in the courtroom.
Josef also advises clients on real estate development, construction, financing, zoning and entitlements, acquisitions, partnership disputes, and related agreements. He graduated cum laude from St. Thomas University College of Law, served on the International Law Review, and completed externships with United States Magistrate Judge John J. O’Sullivan and the Economic Crimes Unit of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.
Practice areas
Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff, Business LitigationFocus areas
Animal Bites, Brain Injury, Construction Accident, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Non-Compete Agreements, Personal Injury - Plaintiff, Premises Liability - Plaintiff, Sexual Abuse - Plaintiff, Trade Secret, Trucking Accidents, Wrongful Death
- 70% Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff
- 30% Business Litigation
First Admitted: 2016, Florida
Bar / Professional Activity
- The Florida Bar, 2016
Verdicts / Settlements (Case Results)
- $47.83 Million Jury Verdict — Real Estate Commission DisputeIn May 2026, Josef Timlichman secured a $47.83 million jury verdict in Miami-Dade County, including $19.83 million in compensatory damages and $28 million in punitive damages — believed to be the first Florida real estate broker commission case in which a court authorized punitive damages to be submitted to a jury.Read about How a South Florida Attorney Turned His Clients' $84K Recovery Into a $47.8M Jury Verdict
- Mitchell v. Puig — Circuit Court, Broward County (Sham Pleadings Stricken; Default Entered) The firm secured an order striking the defendants' answer, affirmative defenses, and counterclaim as a sham and entering default in favor of the client, a homeowner who sued the neighboring property owners for trespass and unauthorized use of his dock. After an evidentiary hearing, the Circuit Court found that the defendants had no knowledge of the lawsuit and never authorized the pleadings filed in their names, struck all defensive pleadings and the counterclaim, entered default on the client's claims, and granted the client's request for attorneys' fees and costs. Case No. CACE23000396 (Fla. 17th Jud. Cir., Broward Cnty.); order entered March 24, 2026.
- 142 Realty, LLLP v. Juice and Java NMB, LLC — County Court, Miami-Dade County (Emergency TRO) The firm secured an emergency temporary restraining order for a commercial landlord on a same-day filing. The court found all four injunction elements satisfied and barred the tenant from auctioning, selling, converting, or stripping chattel, fixtures, appliances, plumbing, and gas lines from the leased premises in which the landlord held a security interest and lien. Case No. 2023-028509-CC-23 (Fla. 11th Jud. Cir., Miami-Dade Cnty.); order entered April 6, 2023.
- Glover v. Vasallo — Florida Third District Court of Appeal The firm secured certiorari relief in Florida's Third District Court of Appeal after the trial court severed the client's replevin claim from his related fraud, conversion, and negligence claims. The appellate court granted the petition and quashed the severance, holding the claims were “inextricably intertwined” and that severing them departed from the essential requirements of law. 314 So. 3d 447 (Fla. 3d DCA 2020).
- $2 million - Catastrophic Injury - Slip & Fall
- $1.5 million - Commercial Insurance - Pipe Burst
- $650k - Disputed Liability - Left Hand Turn
- $500k - Car Accident - Rear End
- $400k - Hurricane Damage
- $400k - Products Liability
- $300k - Cruise Line Injury - Slip & Fall
Educational Background
- Baruch College, Bachelor’s degree in Business Management and Finance
Selections
- Rising Stars: 2025 - 2026
