Legal Services & Lawyers

Warren A. Zimmerman joined Associates and Bruce L. Scheiner in 2008 after a distinguished 25-year career with the United States Attorney's Office. Attorney Zimmerman spent the last 15 years of his federal career as chief of the Civil Division for the Middle District of Florida, including Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville and Fort Myers.

At Associates and Bruce L. Scheiner, Attorney Zimmerman works as a Trial Attorney, using more than two-decades of federal civil trial experience to bring justice to our clients and their families, both in the negotiating room and in the courtroom.

As civil chief with the U.S. Attorney's Office from 1994 to 2008, Attorney Zimmerman supervised the handling of virtually every civil case in Middle Florida -- the third-most populous district in the country -- arising from a motor vehicle accident allegedly caused by a federally employed driver, a slip and fall on federal property or alleged malpractice by a federal VA, military hospital or rural health clinic.

Mr. Zimmerman and his staff represented the United States of America in jury and bench trials, oral arguments before the United States Court of Appeals, grand jury proceedings and settlements and summary judgments too numerous to mention.

Bruce L. Scheiner moved to Fort Myers, Florida after graduating from the University of Miami School of Law in 1970.

After almost 40 years representing the injured, Bruce L. Scheiner is one of the most experienced and longest-serving personal injury lawyers in South Florida.

Today, with his wife Cheryl, who runs the office, and son Preston, who is an associate attorney, Bruce L. Scheiner hand selects each case the firm represents and partners with one or more of his associate attorneys to provide each client with tough, experienced and aggressive representation, both in the negotiating room ... and in the courtroom.

Jeffrey R. Garvin is a Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer who has litigated catastrophic injury and death cases throughout the country for over 30 years. During that time period he has tried before juries: cases involving aviation, automobile and boat accidents, medical and legal malpractice and defective products and has achieved multiple verdicts in excess of $1 Million. Mr. Garvin has been a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum® since 2004.

Beginning in law school Mr. Garvin demonstrated excellence in advocacy by receiving the Best Trial Lawyer Award. That tradition has continued throughout his career and in 2005 he was selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America ® in which he has been listed in each successive year. He is also listed in Law and Leading Attorneys and selected for inclusion in Florida Super Lawyers ® continuously since 2006. Additionally, Mr. Garvin has achieved an AV® peer review rating from the Martindale-Hubbell group; this is their highest possible rating.

Mr. Garvin is the President-Elect of the Florida Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, a past president of the Calusa Inns of Court, Past President of the Edison Community College Endowment Corporation, and Past President of the Sanibel-Captive Rotary Trust Fund. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Florida Trial lawyers for 14 years chairing virtually all of their committees. Mr. Garvin has lectured extensively to numerous legal associations including the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Georgia and South Carolina and Maine Trial Lawyers Associations. He has published numerous articles and was a co-author of Trial Advocacy: The Official Handbook of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyer.

A 1973 graduate of the University of Florida, College of Law, Mr. Garvin is licensed to practice law in Florida, and North Carolina, and has been admitted to numerous Federal Courts and various state courts throughout the country.

Mr. Garvin has been a pilot since 1975 and holds both single engine, multi-engine, and instrument ratings and his hobbies include flying, fishing and skiing. He has been married to his wife, Susan since 1975 and they have two children, Leland with whom he practices law and Daryl who teaches school in Fort Myers.