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Education
  • University of Miami, U.M. School of Business, 2007 B.B.A. With Double Major in Finance and Legal Studies
  • University of Miami, J.D., 2011
  • Graduated Top Third of Class
  • Recipient of the Priscilla Jewett Schneller Scholarship
  • Dean’s Fellow for Torts
  • Received the Book Award for International Criminal Law and Coastal Law
  • Member of Phi Delta Phi
Membership
  • The Florida Bar 2011
    United States District Court of the Southern District of Florida 2011

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit 2011 (inactive)

  • District Court of Puerto Rico (inactive)

Miscellaneous Information

Annually selected as a Florida Super Lawyers Rising Star from 2015 to the present through nominations by his peers.

Eric C. Morales
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ERIC C. MORALES, ESQ.

Practice Areas: Personal Injury; Products Liability; Trucking Accident and Injuries; Automobile Accidents and Injuries; Motorcycle Accidents; Cruise Ship Injuries; Boating, Yachting, and Watercraft Accidents; Commercial Shipping Injuries under the Jones Act, Unseaworthiness, and Maintenance & Cure; Brain Injury; Wrongful Death; Premise Liability; Negligent Security; Slip and Fall Accidents

Eric C. Morales the managing partner of the firm and focuses his practice exclusively in plaintiff’s personal injury cases and maritime accidents. With a legal career spanning a decade Mr. Morales brings youth and technical integration into Freshman, Freshman & Morales. Mr. Morales began his career by focusing exclusively on plaintiff’s maritime injury cases. After several years he moved to a regional, and then a national defense law firm. In both of those positions he practiced products liability and general liability defense for large clients including Uber, Kmart, Sears, Outback Steakhouse, Knight Transportation, Hard Rock Café, John Crane, Weil-McLain, Stiles, Alliance Construction, Tortuga Music Festival, and Okeechobee Music Festival. His insurance clients included AIG, The Hartford, Iron Shore, Liberty Mutual, Nationwide, Progressive, Travelers, Chubb, Tokio Marine, Zurich, Allianz, Arch, United Fire & Casualty, and multiple underwriting syndicates out of the Lloyds of London amongst others.

In his experience working for both plaintiffs and defendants, Mr. Morales has gained unique knowledge over a broad array of cases that make him as adept at handling a slip and fall as a complex product liability claim with multiple parties. He is also an adept writer having authored numerous appellate briefs in both the state and federal appellate court system.

After forming his own practice in 2020 Mr. Morales quickly partnered with Freshman & Freshman, LLC to form Morales & Freshman. With the over 60 years of combined experience the firm has extensive knowledge to bring any personal injury case to a fair and just conclusion through arbitration, mediation, trial or appeal if necessary.

Education
  • American University, Washington, D.C. B.A. 1968
  • Accounting/Comptroller in Student Body
  • University of Miami, J.D., 1972
  • Graduated top four of the Class
  • Deans List 1971
Membership
  • The Florida Bar 1974
  • New York Bar Association 1972
  • Federal District Court  1979
  • Florida Supreme Court 1979
Miscellaneous Information
  • Phi Alpha Delta. Member,
  • Chairman of The Florida Bar Grievance Committee from 1995-1996
  • Honorable Discharge from Armed forces March 1972

LAWRENCE N. FRESHMAN, ESQ. (1946-2021)

Practice Areas: Personal Injury;  Trucking Accident and Injuries;  Automobile Accidents and Injuries; Motorcycle Accidents; Cruise Ship Injuries; Brain Injury; Wrongful Death; boat and watercraft injuries; slip and fall accidents

Lawrence N. Freshman was the founder of this practice.  He forcused his whole career on plaintiff’s personal injury cases including wrongful death,  brain injury, cruise ship, boat and watercraft injuries and slip and fall with concentration and expertise in trucking accident cases throughout Florida.  With a legal career spanning four decades, Mr. Freshman handled  thousands of personal injury cases in trial, arbitration, mediation and settlements.  He began his legal career in Florida in 1972 and opened his own practice in 1974.

He received his Bachelors of Science Degree from American University in 1968.   He graduated with Juris Doctorate degree in 1971.  He was admitted to the New York Bar Association in 1972;  The Washington, D.C. Bar in 1972; and The Florida Bar in 1974.  He began his practice representing public corporations in New York.  He was involved in thousands of personal injury claims over a thirty-year career, and hundreds of personal injury trials His work ethic and dedication to clients lives on in the practice he founded.


 

Eric C. Morales
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Eric C. Morales
Rated by Super Lawyers


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Eric C. Morales
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