About Our Firm | Marchetti & Vance

You're Far More Than Just a Client

The months after a serious injury are consumed by logistics that have nothing to do with law. Appointments are scheduled and rescheduled around treatment that does not follow a predictable course. Bills arrive from providers you do not remember seeing, often with balances that bear no relationship to what was actually done.

Employers begin asking questions that are difficult to answer honestly without putting a job at risk. Family members who want to help are unsure what to do, and the person best positioned to coordinate everything is the one who is injured.

Our staff absorbs as much of that burden as the rules permit. We coordinate with treating physicians, handle provider correspondence, and manage the paperwork that otherwise lands on a client at the worst possible moment.

This is not a courtesy. A client managing a medical crisis alone tends to make decisions under pressure that are expensive and difficult to undo, and preventing that is a substantive part of the representation.

A Record Built Case by Case

The firm's reputation was assembled one file at a time, through results that mattered enormously to individual families and attracted no attention beyond them. That is the ordinary texture of this work and the part we are proudest of.

Our attorneys have tried catastrophic injury and wrongful death matters across Florida's circuit courts, handling claims involving commercial trucking, premises negligence, defective equipment, and medical error. Several resolved on terms that funded lifetime care for clients who had been told by prior counsel their case was worth a small fraction of what it ultimately recovered.

Catastrophic injury and lifetime care claims
Commercial trucking and fleet liability matters
Wrongful death actions on behalf of surviving families
Premises negligence involving inadequate security

Prior results depend entirely on the facts of each case and do not predict the outcome of any other matter.

Marchetti & Vance in the Courtroom

Trial work rewards clarity above everything else. A jury will follow a mechanism they can picture and lose patience with an argument assembled from adjectives. We invest in demonstrative exhibits, scene reconstruction, and medical illustration for that reason alone, because those tools convert a complicated injury into something twelve people can hold in their heads through deliberation.

That work begins long before a trial date is set. Building exhibits early forces us to confront the weak parts of a case while there is still time to address them, and it sharpens the questions we ask in deposition. By the time a carrier sees the materials at mediation, the presentation is essentially finished, and opposing counsel understands exactly what a jury would be shown.

Tampa Roots, Statewide Reach

Both founding partners were raised in Hillsborough County and built their practices here. That matters in ways beyond sentiment. We know the local bench, we know which defense firms genuinely try cases, and we have a working sense of how juries in this circuit respond to particular categories of claim.

We appear in courts throughout Florida and associate with counsel in other states when a client's matter requires it. But Tampa Bay is where this firm is rooted and where the large majority of our clients live and work.

Florida Justice Association membership
Hillsborough County Bar Association
American Association for Justice

A Different Kind of Law Firm

Most injury firms operate as volume businesses. They advertise heavily, sign a large number of files, and resolve them efficiently at fairly predictable multiples of medical expenses. It is a legitimate model that serves straightforward claims perfectly adequately.

It serves catastrophic injuries badly, because those matters require an investment of attorney hours that volume economics cannot support. We built the opposite structure deliberately: fewer cases, substantially more time on each, and a genuine willingness to decline work when we are not the right firm for it.

The Fighter's Mentality

Willingness to try a case is not bravado, it is an economic position. A carrier calculates settlement value by weighting the likely verdict against the probability that the matter ever reaches a jury. Firms that never try cases watch that second number collapse, and every claim they touch is discounted accordingly regardless of how strong the underlying facts happen to be.

As our mission states:

"Fortune favors the brave."

We protect that number deliberately. We file suit when negotiation stalls, we take cases to verdict when an offer does not reflect the harm, and we accept the occasional loss that comes with holding that posture. The benefit flows to the large majority of our clients who never see a courtroom, in the form of offers that arrive higher and earlier.

No Recovery, No Fee

We work exclusively on a contingency fee basis. You pay nothing unless we recover compensation on your behalf, and case costs are advanced by the firm rather than billed to you as the matter proceeds.

Beyond the Courtroom

The firm provides pro bono representation to Tampa Bay families whose matters fall outside the economics of a contingency practice, typically cases involving genuine harm but limited available insurance coverage. These files receive the same preparation as any other.

We also support local legal aid organizations and take part in clinics that help injured workers understand their rights before they have committed to any representation. This work generates no revenue and we do not publicize individual matters, but it accounts for a meaningful share of the firm's time each year.

Your Advocates in a Crisis

When a catastrophic injury occurs, the decisions made in the first few weeks tend to shape everything that follows. Having counsel involved early is what preserves options later.

Investigate thoroughly
Negotiate strategically
Litigate fearlessly

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