Max N. Panoff

About Max

Max N. Panoff is a trial attorney whose practice focuses on tort litigation including wrongful death, medical malpractice, birth injuries, negligent security, nursing home and assisted living facility negligence, premises liability and falls, construction site accidents, motor vehicle, motorcycle, bus, commercial carrier and trucking accidents, pedestrian victim accidents, and other negligence cases. His courtroom successes include traumatic brain injury and motor vehicle crash cases, and Mr. Panoff has recovered several million dollars in recoveries in sexual assault, medical malpractice, premises liability and trucking cases. He was instrumental in recovering over $1.6 million against a bar and over $750,000 for a slip and fall case. He and Mr. Leighton recently won a $49.3 million verdict in a sexual assault case. Prior to joining Leighton Panoff Law, Mr. Panoff represented personal injury victims at a leading plaintiff’s firm in Florida. He is a graduate of the University of Miami with a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism and Criminology and a minor in Political Science, and received his law degree from the University of Miami School of Law, where he was awarded the John F. Evans Memorial Scholarship for excellence in trial. He was a finalist in the Charles C. Papy Jr. Moot Court Board’s Mock Trial Competition and received High Honors in the law school’s Litigation Skills/Trial Advocacy Program and Mediation course. He has authored numerous publications and contributed to the textbook Litigating Premises Security Cases. Max has been chosen as a member of the National Trial Lawyers Association: “Top 40 Under 40” and repeatedly selected by Florida SuperLawyers as a Rising Star lawyer. He was also honored by the Dade County Bar Association as a “Rising SuperStar.” He is a member of the teaching faculty of the National College of Advocacy Depositions College, and serves in a leadership position on the Young Lawyers Council of the National Crime Victim Bar Association. He is an active member of the Florida Bar (Trial Lawyers Division, Young Lawyers Division), American Association for Justice, the United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, National Crime Victim Bar Association, American Association for Justice, Florida Justice Association, and the Miami-Dade County Bar Association.

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Colleagues at Leighton Panoff Law

John Elliott Leighton

Managing Partner

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Zoltan Pinter

Trial and Corporate Attorney

Michael C. DeGori

Trial Attorney

Amy Bronzwaig