Welcome to your legal team. Our lawyers, paralegals and litigation staff are dedicated to serving your legal needs. With decades of combined litigation experience, we are lawyers not only for seriously injured people and their families, but also for lawyers throughout Florida and the nation.
As a nationally recognized law firm specializing in personal injury, wrongful death and insurance litigation, Slawson Cunningham Whalen & Gaspari is consulted on a regular basis by prominent trial lawyers throughout the United States seeking advice on complex insurance issues and personal injury cases. As a true litigation law firm with an established statewide presence and national prominence, our team has devoted decades of work on behalf of Florida’s families who have suffered injury or death, in order to hold wrongdoers accountable regardless of the opponents’ power. Our areas of concentration are personal injury , wrongful death, vehicular accidents, aviation accidents, bicycle accidents, boating accidents, motorcycle accidents, nursing home neglect, pedestrian accidents, product liability, trucking accidents, insurance company bad faith and wrongful denial of insurance benefits.

The firm has an AV rating, the highest possible rating, from Martindale Hubbell, a publication that rates attorneys based on surveys of judges and lawyers. The firm is led by senior partner, Richard Slawson, a past-president of the Florida Justice Association, who is included in Best Lawyers in America and is one of only 500 lawyers in America currently invited for membership in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Richard Slawson, Fred Cunningham and Jeanmarie Whalen have held leadership roles in the Florida Justice Association. Jeanmarie Whalen is also the past president of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers. David Gaspari holds a leadership position with the Palm Beach County Legal Aid Society. Fred Cunningham is also included in the Best Lawyers of America and is a Past President of the North County Section of the Palm Beach County Bar Association. Richard Slawson, Fred Cunningham and David Gaspari are Board Certified as Civil Trial Lawyers by the Florida Bar Association. Richard Slawson is Board Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

We use various presentation software in mediations and trials. Our firm’s use of sophisticated multi-media presentations at trial and in mediation has been very successful. With a virtual plethora of information available on the Web, proper skills are necessary to harness that information in a useable format. By tapping into various government websites and other organizational sites, the firm has been successful at using information collected on the Web to effectively cross examine witnesses and help win lawsuits.

The firm is known in our community for its dedication to the safety of children and the prevention of child abuse. Every staff member volunteers time, energy and money to help protect our greatest resource – our children. Our warmest thanks and utmost appreciation is extended to all of you who have entrusted your legal needs to our care and for your confidence in referring your friends and relatives. To those of you in need of legal representation, we invite you to call us for a complimentary consultation with one of our attorneys.  We stand ready to seek justice for you.