Palm Beach Law Group, P.A.

Focus and practice areas

Palm Beach Law Group, P.A. is a Florida firm working out of West Palm Beach, with a second office in Fort Lauderdale. The practice page covers commercial and business litigation, criminal law, family law, health and dental law, intellectual property and personal injury.

That is a wide brief for one shareholder to build around. The listed matters give it shape: business entity formation, contracts, landlord and tenant disputes, DUI, drug charges, domestic violence, divorce, paternity, child support and child custody.

On the intellectual property side, the firm lists copyright and trademark matters along with trade secret theft. The personal injury list runs to auto and truck accidents, wrongful death, dog bites, slip and fall claims, defective products, nursing home abuse and workers' compensation.

The health and dental practice

This is the part of the firm's offering that sets it apart from the general civil and criminal work. The health and dental section covers administrative hearings, Department of Health matters, employment agreements, practice transitions and professional licensing defense.

Those five items describe a practice built around the business and regulatory life of a medical or dental office. A licensing defense matter and a practice transition sit at opposite ends of a clinician's career, and a firm that handles both sees the same client under very different pressures.

How Florida licensing matters usually run

General context helps here, so readers know what kind of process they would be entering. A complaint against a Florida health or dental licensee goes to the Department of Health, which investigates before deciding whether probable cause exists. If it does, the department issues an administrative complaint.

The licensee then chooses between a settlement with the relevant board or a formal administrative hearing. Formal hearings go before an administrative law judge at the Division of Administrative Hearings, with witnesses and documentary evidence. The judge issues a recommended order, and the board decides the penalty.

Practice transitions run on a different track. They involve asset or share purchase agreements, patient record custody, restrictive covenants and, often, the retiring dentist's landlord. In my opinion, keeping licensing defense and transactional health work under one roof is a sensible pairing, because the same regulatory rules shape both.

How the team is built

Jason R. Kaplan founded Palm Beach Law Group, P.A. and is its sole shareholder. His profile says he earned his law degree from Oklahoma City University, Sarkey College of Law, in 2003.

Kaplan came to law from another line of work. He was in commercial and residential real estate and development before he practised. That background touches several of the areas the firm lists, particularly landlord and tenant disputes, contracts and business formation.

His own practice, as the site describes it, includes health and dental law, employment law, civil and business litigation, breach of contract, personal injury and criminal law. That covers most of what the firm advertises, which tells you where the centre of gravity sits.

Of counsel attorneys

Three lawyers appear on the attorneys page in an of counsel capacity: Todd A. Onore, Cynthia Simpson-Cannon and Robert C. Wallach. The site gives their names and their status with the firm.

An of counsel arrangement is a recognised structure in US practice. The attorney has an ongoing relationship with the firm without being a partner or a salaried associate. For a single-shareholder firm carrying six practice areas, that structure is a practical way to bring in extra capacity when a matter calls for it.

What the criminal and family work involves

The criminal list names DUI, drug charges and domestic violence. These three overlap more than they might appear to. A domestic violence arrest in Florida can carry a no-contact order that reshapes a client's living arrangements within days, and the same client may already have a family law matter open.

Florida DUI cases run on two parallel tracks. One is the criminal charge in county court. The other is an administrative licence suspension handled by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, which has a short window for requesting a formal review. Missing that window costs a driver options that the criminal case cannot recover.

The family law matters the firm lists are divorce, paternity, child support and child custody. Florida child support runs on statutory guidelines that take both parents' incomes and the overnight timesharing split as inputs. Paternity actions are the route by which an unmarried father establishes both his rights and his obligations.

What the listing shows

The firm names its attorneys, gives its entity name in full and states one lawyer's law school and graduation year. As a reviewer, I treat named attorneys as the most useful thing a small firm's website can publish, because it lets a prospective client check bar records independently.

Two office locations across Palm Beach and Broward counties give the firm reach into the two most populous South Florida markets. Both offices appear on the contact page with full addresses.

The site does not state a founding year, and the three of counsel attorneys have no biographies, law schools or admission years published. Anyone weighing the firm on the strength of a particular attorney will want to ask about that attorney's own background directly.

What the site does establish is the range: six practice areas, one shareholder, three of counsel attorneys, two Florida offices. Kaplan's law degree dates from 2003.

Contact details and formal identity

The record distinguishes the public name, Palm Beach Law Group, from the legal name, Palm Beach Law Group, P.A. That small difference matters when a reader compares the directory entry with a fee agreement or invoice. The longer form identifies the firm as a legal entity, while the shorter form provides its public identity.

The website address, https://thepalmbeachlawgroup.com/, closely tracks that public name. The wording connects the directory entry directly to the firm's web presence without depending on an attorney's surname. For this reviewer, consistency between the listed name and the domain is a useful detail when checking that contact information belongs to the intended firm.

The published West Palm Beach contact point

The West Palm Beach street address is 900 Osceola Dr. This gives prospective clients a precise physical contact point within the city. It also helps distinguish the office from other firms that use Palm Beach wording in their names, since the public name alone offers a broad geographic reference.

The telephone entry is 561.257.5000. The record assigns this number to the firm as a whole rather than to a particular attorney. A caller therefore has one published starting point and can explain the nature of the inquiry before asking where it should be directed.

Using the contact information

The supplied facts describe the available contact channels without setting out an intake procedure. They give no instructions for appointments or document delivery. A prospective client should use the published number to confirm those arrangements before visiting the Osceola Drive address or sending material connected with a legal matter.

Formal correspondence should identify Palm Beach Law Group, P.A., since that is the legal name shown in the record. The shorter Palm Beach Law Group name remains the practical search term for the website and directory listing. Keeping those two forms distinct can make later paperwork easier to compare with the original listing.