Robert J. Kuntz Jr. has represented commercial clients in a wide range of industries including national security, defense, aviation, shipping, private security, undersea cable communications, pharmaceuticals, insurance, payment technology, maritime carriage of cargo and passengers, firearms, design, garment, construction, lending, manufacturing, and gaming. He has successfully handled all manner of business disputes—including fraud, torts, contract claims, class actions, and product liability—at every stage, from pre-suit negotiations, through discovery, trials in state and federal trial courts, and to appeal.

Robert has worked with experts from such varied disciplines as aviation, the maritime trades, industrial manufacturing, the physical sciences, medicine, and forensic accounting. He has deep experience working on both sides of very large fraud, antitrust, and class action cases.

Besides his commercial litigation practice, Robert also serves as professional responsibility and legal ethics counsel to other attorneys. Since 2011, Robert has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law where he teaches attorney ethics and professional responsibility.

He is admitted to practice in all courts of Florida, the United States District Courts for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, and the Eleventh and Second U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals, and he has been admitted pro hac vice before federal district courts across the country.

Before going to law school, Robert was a newspaper reporter and editor for more than 12 years. His undergraduate degree, a Bachelor of Science in biology, is from the University of Cincinnati. Robert graduated summa cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law, where he finished 6th in a class of 340 and was the Paul B. Anton Scholar, a three-semester Dean’s Fellow, and was a member of the University of Miami Law Review and the Order of Coif.

Robert maintains an extensive pro bono legal practice. His work has included children’s advocacy, immigration, and family law matters. He now concentrates his pro bono practice on representing domestic violence petitioners seeking judicial protection from their abusers.

Robert is a member of the Board of Directors of the Children’s Voice Chorus.  He is a member of the Minister and Church Relations Committee of the South Florida Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in America. He was General Counsel of Opsail Miami 2000, where he conducted all legal affairs for the largest-ever convocation of international tall ships, a festival attended by more than 500,000 people. For his work on the event, he was awarded a Public Service Commendation by the United States Coast Guard.

Robert is conversant in Spanish.

Partner, Devine Goodman & Rasco, LLP, 2002-2022

Associate, Holland & Knight LLP, 1996-2002

Newspaper reporter and editor at various publications, 1982-1993

University of Miami School of Law, JD, summa cum laude

University of Cincinnati, BS in Biology

All State Courts of Florida

United States District Court, Middle District of Florida

United States District Court, Southern District of Florida

Eleventh United Stated Circuit Court of Appeals

Second United Stated Circuit Court of Appeals

Has been admitted pro hac vice in numerous state and federal courts across the country

Complex Commercial Litigation

Class Action Litigation