Diverse Legal Representation
Okay, folks. Many of you have asked about how my criminal law partner Brian Tannebaum and I started our firm, considering that our areas of practice are so different. So here’s as much information as you will need to slake your thirsts for knowledge about our unusually diverse practice. As you can tell from the format, it’ s from a press release we’re preparing.
Early in his career, Brian Tannebaum discovered that when a lawyer does a good job for a client, the client usually wants to be represented by that lawyer every time a new legal situation arises. “I’m a criminal defense lawyer, but my clients were coming to me saying they were getting divorced or they’d just been in an accident or they wanted me to review a contract,” Tannebaum says. Since those weren’t his areas of expertise, Tannebaum would have to call outside lawyers to meet those clients’ needs.
When he began building his own firm, rather than focusing on a single area of the law, as many small and medium-sized boutique firms do, Tannebaum and co-founding partner Daniel Weiss decided to focus only on excellence. “We brought together a group of attorneys who are at the top of their respective, and totally diverse, fields,” they explain. “This means that when clients tell us they’re having problems that are outside our practice areas, we can usually just send them down the hall instead of calling an outside lawyer.”
Today, Tannebaum Weiss has attorneys who specialize in criminal defense, municipal government, commercial litigation, employment law and matrimonial law.
Brian Tannebaum
Star-Quality Criminal Defense
When Hollywood needs legal advice, it calls Brian Tannebaum. His credits include serving as a legal consultant for TV’s CSI: Miami, providing legal commentary on Court TV and appearing on The O’Reilly Factor on FOX News. Tannebaum is an experienced and well respected criminal defense attorney, specializing in cases at the state and federal court levels. A not-guilty verdict he received in a federal conspiracy case was named one of the top 10 verdicts by the National Law Journal. He has been recognized as a “Top Lawyer” by the South Florida Legal Guide for three years running and has been voted “Best of the Bar” by the South Florida Business Journal. In addition, he is a past president of the Miami chapter of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Tannebaum says he believes criminal defense is the noblest aspect of the legal profession. “I represent people who are in trouble, people whose lives have been turned upside down by the government,” he says. “They need good representation in order to have the opportunity to put their lives back together.”
Daniel A. Weiss
Experienced Municipal Lawyer
You’d be hard-pressed to find an attorney with more municipal government experience than Daniel Weiss. After more than a quarter century of practice as a municipal lawyer, Weiss has more than 70 published legal opinions to his credit. Before entering private practice, Weiss was a 25-year employee of Miami- Dade County, spending 14 of those years as an assistant county attorney, including service as head of the appellate division. He’s now in his 12th year of private practice focusing on municipal cases. Weiss is a published author, lecturer and frequent media consultant in the field of property taxation. Click here to view Weiss’s property tax blog.
Weiss defines his practice areas as anything having to do with local government and property. This includes property tax appeals, land use and zoning, affordable housing, telecommunications, annexation, code enforcement and even civil appeals related to local government, he says. “Outdoor advertising is a subspecialty of mine,” Weiss says. “It’s an interesting field because it’s part land use, part code enforcement, part appellate procedure. But it also deals with constitutional issues.”
Weiss holds a master’s degree in public administration and is on the boards of the Miami Beach Bar Association, Miami Beach Community Development Corporation, Miami Beach Community Health Center and Douglas Gardens Hospice. Weiss formerly served as a legal special master for the Miami-Dade County Value Adjustment Board.
Honors include being named as a “Top Lawyer” by South Florida Legal Guide, Florida Super Lawyers, Florida Trend Legal Elite and Who’s Who in Practicing Attorneys, as well as selection to Miami’s “A” list in 5 categories: law, philanthropy, business, arts, and social prominence, according to New York’s Avenue Magazine.
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Daniel A. Weiss has over 26 years local government experience. Mr. Weiss represented the Miami-Dade County in litigation and appeals between 1981 and 1995 as a Miami-Dade Assistant County Attorney and has since represented both municipalities and people who do business with counties, municipalities and other local government agencies.
Daniel Weiss was named in the 2007 South Florida Legal Guide as one of the top lawyers in the practice area of Real Estate - Land Use, Zoning & Environmental. Weiss was named by Florida Super Lawyers 2006 as one of the top 6 local government lawyers in South Florida.
In Florida Trend magazine™'s Legal Elite's issue, July 2004, Mr. Weiss was selected by his peers as one of the top 30 government lawyers in the State of Florida.
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