About

Anthony T. Martino

Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer. Supreme Court Certified Circuit Civil Mediator. A trial lawyer's mediator, in practice in South Tampa since 1980.

Forty-five years in the well of the courtroom

Anthony T. Martino has practiced as a civil litigator since 1980 and has been a Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer since 1987, certified by both The Florida Bar and the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He has practiced continuously as a civil trial specialist in South Tampa for more than four decades and has lectured frequently to lawyers and physicians on civil litigation.

That record is the reason the mediation works. Having tried auto and trucking cases, medical malpractice, products liability, nursing home neglect, commercial litigation, and estate disputes, Mr. Martino can value a file the way both trial counsel and the carrier will value it — and say so plainly.

How he mediates

As mediator, he discusses the issues with both sides of a claim, identifies the strongest and weakest issues for each side, and presents a balancing test to resolve the dispute. Where a party is interested in reaching a reasonable settlement, he works to help clients understand the benefit of resolution based on a clear-eyed reading of the issues and the likelihood of success at trial.

As arbitrator, the posture changes: the focus moves to the strengths of each case and to reaching a decision on the merits.

Appointments and distinctions

Professionalism Award, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Professionalism Committee (2025)
Appointed by Chief Judge Ficarrotta to the Local Professionalism Panel, Hillsborough County Bar Association (2023)
Herb Goldberg Award, HCBA Trial Lawyers Section (2023)
Fogarty “In The Trenches” Award, HCBA Trial Lawyers Section (2017)
Chairman, Judicial Nominating Commission, Second District Court of Appeal (2012)
Commissioner, JNC for the Second DCA, appointed by Governor Crist (2008–2012)
Chairman, JNC for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit (2002)
Commissioner, JNC for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, appointed by Governor Chiles (1998–2002)
Past President, Tampa Bay Chapter, American Board of Trial Advocates (2009)
Board of Directors and Executive Committee, Florida Justice Association (1995–2005)
Founding President, Tampa Bay Trial Lawyers Association (1998–99)
Board of Directors, Hillsborough County Bar Association (1987–89)
Florida Justice Association EAGLE Hall of Fame inductee and FELLOW; Crystal Eagle recipient (2005)

Outside the practice

Mr. Martino and his wife live in South Tampa. They have three grown and married children, six granddaughters, and one grandson. He is a member of Palma Ceia Golf and Country Club and of Christ the King Catholic Church, and enjoys golf, hunting, and fishing.

Credentials

Admitted

Florida, 1980

Board Certified

Civil Trial, 1987

Certification No.

293601

Mediator

Circuit Civil

Arbitrator

Qualified

Courts

All Florida State Courts

Record

A career, in sequence.

Certification, service on judicial nominating commissions, and recognition from the bench and the bar of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit.

1980

Admitted to The Florida Bar

Begins civil litigation practice in South Tampa.

1987

Board Certified in Civil Trial Law

Certified by The Florida Bar and the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

1998–2002

Judicial Nominating Commission, 13th Circuit

Appointed Commissioner by Governor Chiles; Chairman in 2002.

2008–2012

Judicial Nominating Commission, Second DCA

Appointed Commissioner by Governor Crist; Chairman in 2012.

2009

President, Tampa Bay Chapter of ABOTA

American Board of Trial Advocates.

2023

Herb Goldberg Award

Hillsborough County Bar Association Trial Lawyers Section.

2025

Professionalism Award

Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Professionalism Committee.

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