Older Lundy Koch & Martino

Focus and practice areas

Older Lundy Koch & Martino covers a wide span of Florida legal work from its Tampa base. The firm handles marital and family law, personal injury, business litigation, corporate and tax law, estate planning and probate, real estate, property insurance disputes, mediation and intellectual property.

Inside those areas the work gets specific. Family matters include divorce, child custody and support, and prenuptial agreements. Personal injury work covers auto and motorcycle accidents along with wrongful death claims.

On the business side the firm takes breach of contract disputes, mergers and acquisitions, and tax planning. Estate work runs to wills, trusts and probate administration. Intellectual property matters include trademark, patent and copyright.

Two client types under one roof

The firm represents individuals and businesses. That matters in practice, because the same client often needs both. A business owner going through a divorce has a company valuation problem sitting inside a family law case.

In my opinion, that mix is the clearest signal of how the firm is organised. A family lawyer, a corporate lawyer and a tax lawyer can sit in the same building and talk about one client's file.

How the team is built

Benjamin Older is founding partner. Michael Lundy is managing partner. Ky Koch and Anthony Martino are partners, and the firm carries a further group of attorneys plus two of counsel lawyers.

Named attorneys on the team page include Charles A. Carlson, Aline Chapin, Amanda Colón, Richard DePippo, Martin Deptula, Kendrick Donnelly, Matthew Evans and Courtney Fernald. The titles used across the page are Founding Partner, Managing Partner, Partner, Of Counsel and Attorney.

The of counsel designation usually signals a lawyer with a continuing relationship to a firm who works outside the standard partner or associate track. Firms often use it for senior practitioners who have narrowed their caseload, or for lawyers brought in for a defined area of work.

Reading a roster of this size

A firm listing nine or more practice areas needs headcount to support them. Intellectual property, property insurance and family law draw on almost no shared body of law. Each requires its own procedural habits.

The team page names attorneys without publishing individual bios, so the roster reads as a directory of who is there. As a reviewer, the useful takeaway is the ratio: four partners named in the firm's own name, with a working group of attorneys around them.

Coverage across Tampa Bay

The firm keeps five offices. Tampa is the base, with further locations in St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Trinity and Wesley Chapel.

Those points cover Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties. For litigation that geography is functional. Florida circuit courts are county-based, and family and probate filings go to the circuit where the party lives or where the estate is administered.

A client in Trinity and a client in Clearwater file in different courthouses under different local practices. A firm with a physical presence in both areas has lawyers who appear regularly in each.

What the practice areas involve

Some general context helps set expectations for the kinds of matters the firm names.

Property insurance disputes

Florida property insurance claims typically start with a written claim to the carrier, followed by an adjuster inspection and a coverage decision. Disputes usually turn on the policy language and the cause of loss. Where a carrier denies or underpays, the policyholder's route is a suit on the contract, and Florida has revised the governing statutes repeatedly in recent years.

Probate

Probate in Florida runs through the circuit court in the county where the decedent lived. Formal administration involves appointing a personal representative, notifying creditors, inventorying assets and closing the estate. Smaller estates can qualify for summary administration, which is faster. Estate planning done in advance shapes which route an estate takes.

Mediation

The firm offers civil, family, and estate and trust mediation. Florida courts order mediation in most civil and family cases before trial. A mediator is neutral and does not decide the case: the parties reach their own agreement, or they do not, and the case proceeds. Firms that provide mediation services are supplying a lawyer to sit in that neutral chair for other parties' disputes.

Business litigation and transactions

Breach of contract claims and mergers and acquisitions sit at opposite ends of a company's life. One is a dispute already in motion. The other is a deal being built, with due diligence, purchase agreements and tax structure to work through. A firm listing corporate and tax alongside business litigation has both capabilities available.

What the record shows

The firm dates its founding to 2003. That gives it more than two decades of operation in the Tampa Bay market, through several cycles in Florida real estate and insurance law.

Older Lundy Koch & Martino maintains a public presence on Facebook and Instagram, linked from its own site markup. The website lists practice areas and team members and gives a single main phone line for all five offices.

As a reviewer, what stands out on the evidence available is breadth held together by a stated structure. Four named partners, a group of attorneys under them, and a practice list that spans disputes, transactions and planning.

Prospective clients should ask which attorney will handle their file and which office that attorney works from. The site names the people and the locations, so those questions have concrete answers available before a first meeting. The firm has operated under the Older Lundy name since 2003.

Additional names on the attorney roster

The public record identifies many lawyers beyond the shorter group discussed above. Lindsey French, Alicia Gangi, Tim Garding, Jaime R. Girgenti, Gina Gonzalez and Sam Heller each carry the title Attorney. Geneva Hernandez, Chase Howard, Elizabeth Kellar-Kelly, Courtney Koch and Jeffrey Koster have the same title.

Eric Maier, Frances Martinez, Kim Hamill Maxwell, Beatriz McConnell and Jennifer Murphy appear in the next part of the roster. Kaley Ogren, Anthony Orlando, David Pettinato, Colin Rice and David Singer are also listed as attorneys. The record supplies titles for these lawyers, though it gives no individual education or admission information.

The attorney list continues with Robin Horton Silverman, Thomas Stanton, Amy Stoll and Ann-Eliza Musoke Taylor. Kit Van Pelt, Marc Wolfson and Taylor Woolfenden complete the recorded attorney roster. Each appears under the general Attorney title rather than a partner or counsel designation.

The record also identifies the lawyers who hold the Of Counsel title. They are Linda S. Griffin and Jon Johnson. This name-to-title detail helps distinguish them from the attorneys whose entries use the general Attorney designation.

From a directory standpoint, the full list is useful when confirming whether a particular lawyer is associated with the firm. It also shows the exact public spelling of names such as Amanda Colón, Elizabeth Kellar-Kelly, Ann-Eliza Musoke Taylor and Robin Horton Silverman. That can matter when searching court records or preparing correspondence.

The Tampa office contact point

The listed Tampa street address is 1000 West Cass Street. This adds a precise contact point to the broader Tampa Bay office coverage already described. The address identifies the Tampa location at street level without assigning individual attorneys or practice groups to that office.

The telephone number in the record is 813-254-8998. The 813 number corresponds with the Tampa listing, and the record presents it as the firm's listed phone contact. Clients seeking a named lawyer can use that number while referring to the lawyer's exact roster entry.

The directory record pairs the West Cass Street address with the firm's Tampa city designation and Florida location. It does not supply separate attorney biographies, law school details or admission years. As a result, the dependable personnel information available here is limited to each lawyer's name and stated title.