Carlos C. Del Amo

In his 27 years of service to the South Florida Community, Carlos del Amo has represented thousands of clients, some of who may be your family and friends. He has recovered millions, let him help you!  

Carlos del Amo has handled complex and difficult product liability, medical malpractice and wrongful death litigation to slip and falls and simple automobile accidents.  He is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates which means he received at least one settlement or verdict of more than million dollars. Carlos del Amo has an excellent reputation in the legal community.  He is “AV” rated in Martindale Hubbell for very high legal ability and ethical standards. His firm was voted best law firm of the year by the Latin Builders Association and he was proclaimed one of South Florida’s top lawyers by the daily business review, 

Carlos del amo was a past director of the Latin Builders Association, Coral Gables Bar Association President 2001-2002, the Dade County Bar Association Director 1995-2002, member of the American Bar Association, the Florida Justice Association f/k/a Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, the American Association for Justice f/k/a/ Academy of Trial Lawyers of America, the Miami-Dade Justice Association f/k/a Dade County Trial Lawyers Association, the Cuban American Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyers Association.     

Carlos del Amo is the founder and president of The Law Office of Carlos del Amo, P.A. Born in Havana, Cuba on September 26, 1953, he is the second oldest child of Carlos Blas and Olga Perez. 

On April 17, 1961, Cuban freedom fighters invaded Cuba in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. The assault ended in disaster. Olga was working for the American Embassy at the time and was given immediate residency for the entire family. Believing that the ill-fated invasion would shortly be followed by another successful one, Carlos Blas, on April 29, 1961, sent his seven year old son and eleven year old daughter with their mother to the United States for a short stay. He has been in the United States for over 55 years and is a United States citizen.

After attending Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland, Carlos del Amo studied at Florida International University and graduated in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. He began a master's program in psychology at Barry College but had to leave the program before completion to support his family. In 1985, at the age of thirty-two, he returned to school, this time to earn his J.D. from the University of Miami, graduating in January, 1988. He became an attorney in September of that same year.

From the age of eighteen to his entry into law school, He was a businessman with such diversified pursuits as a shoe and handbag manufacturer, designer and importer; a nationwide wholesaler of handbags; a cold storage manager; a meat broker; a grocery store owner; a real estate broker; and a mortgage broker.

His law career began with the law firm of High Stack Lazenby and Palahach. For the next seven years, he was a litigator for the firm, first as an associate and later as a partner. In 1996, He opened his own offices in Coral Gables. I am "AV" rated by Martindale-Hubbell  and is a Member of the Million Dollar Advocate Forum.