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Philip C. Johnston grew up in New York City and Florida, but has resided continuously in South Florida for the past twenty years. After graduating from the prestigious Columbia University School of Law in New York City in 2000, he spent two years clerking for a federal judge in Miami in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He then worked for the top tier Wall Street law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Manhattan in their white-collar criminal defense practice group. He is licensed to practice law in both Florida and New York. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Johnston worked as a foreign correspondent for United Press International, where he covered political affairs, including the Kremlin and the war in Chechnya. He speaks fluent Russian.
Mr. Johnston started his own criminal defense practice in West Palm Beach, Florida in 2018 and has had criminal cases dismissed against doctors, lawyers, and hedge-fund managers.
Mr. Johnston recently had felony charges of Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer dismissed against a young woman after a filing a sworn Motion to Dismiss. The woman, who had been falsely arrested for DUI, was brutally beaten by three corrections officers while in custody. She was then charged with an offense carrying a mandatory felony conviction in order to cover up the attack. All three officers were eventually arrested and are currently being prosecuted for aggravated battery. The story made national news when the officers became inmates at the same Broward County jail where they had been working as corrections officers at the time of the assault.
He prevailed upon the State to dismiss three felony charges wrongly filed against a commercial real estate attorney, including burglary of a dwelling, domestic battery by strangulation and child abuse. He also succeeded in getting a sales tax fraud case dismissed against a Fort Lauderdale businessman and won a case against the Department of Revenue charging an alleged father with failing to pay child support.
Mr. Johnston successfully negotiated the resolution of a felony prosecution in St. Lucie County, charging an 18-year-old college student with 25 counts of possession of child pornography. The student, who had no prior record, faced 125 years in Florida State Prison for viewing photos of teenagers on his phone while he himself was a minor. After 18 months of negotiation, the settlement permitted the young man to avoid jail time, a felony conviction, sex offender registration, and his criminal record will eventually be eligible to be sealed. He further persuaded the university to allow him to remain enrolled in college.
Mr. Johnston played a high-profile role as an attorney in the controversy surrounding whether former President Donald Trump was entitled to live at Mar-a-Lago under the terms of a 1993 Use Agreement signed with the Town of Palm Beach.
He recently succeeded in getting felony burglary charges dropped in Broward and Palm Beach against a man accused of stealing cooking oil from fast food restaurants, which is re-sold to make biodiesel. He also got charges dropped against a man accused of impersonating a police officer in Hillsborough County.
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Posted by Juliette | August 11, 2021 | Hired Attorney | Lawsuits & Disputes
Great Lawyer
I hired Johnston my lawyer you went above and beyond my expectations.I would strongly recommend Phillip to anyone looking for an attorney, that will throughly provide you with all the necessary details and information needed. If I ever need a lawyer again I will be hiring Phillip Johnston because he...
Posted by anonymous | December 08, 2020 | Hired Attorney | Criminal Defense
Great Attorney
I worked with Phil for an early termination for my probation. He was extremely knowledgeable and had great communication throughout the process, even when I had a million questions. Whenever I needed something he would text or call back right away and always had time to explain my situation and my ...
Posted by Aron | October 22, 2020 | Hired Attorney | Child Support
Best attorney in the world
He is not afraid for a challenge not only is he not afraid but he packs a punch he knows his stuff he is a amazing attorney I would recommend him to the world he is very specific on knowing details and if he does not know it he's going to find it right away he is so quick at what he does it blows my ...
Posted by Dani | August 12, 2020 | Hired Attorney
Great attorney!
Philip is a phenomenal attorney! He's very available to clients, he works hard at really getting all of the necessary relevant information to support your case as best as possible. He went above and beyond any attorney I've worked with in the past has. And I appreciated that he didn't "nickel and dim...
Posted by Steve | May 14, 2019 | Hired Attorney | Criminal Defense
Powerful Negotiator!! The Real Deal!!
I was in serious legal trouble with the state of Florida because of a bad business I lost everything in. After consulting with and meeting Phil Johnston my family and I decided that Phil would be the best option to defend me. Once hired, Phil immediately went to work on the best defense options. He i...
"Attorney Philip C. Johnston is one of the finest lawyers I have ever had the pleasure of working with. He is very intelligent, hard-working, and extremely thorough in his research and writing, with a solid journalism background, having lived and worked in Russia for 5 years with UPI, United Press International. He went to Columbia Law School in NYC and has successfully handled hundreds of cases around the state. He has been my partner for quite some time and worked hand-in-hand with me to achieve so much success in our practice. There are very few lawyers anywhere that have the qualities, experience, and success that Phil has had and continues to display going forward."
Litigation lawyer
2021 - Present
Partner, Roderman & Johnston
2018 - Present
Managing Partner, The Law Offices of Philip C. Johnston, P.A.
2014 - 2018
APD - Felony Trial Division, Law Offices Of The Public Defender, Fort Lauderdale and Sarasota
2012 - 2013
Attorney, Boyes & Farina
2010 - 2011
General Counsel, Green Source Energy
2003 - 2010
Founder and President, BPI
2002 - 2003
Associate, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, N.Y.
2000 - 2002
Law Clerk to Federal Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of Florida
Member
ongoing matter
2000
JD - Juris Doctor
1994
MA - Masters
1990
BA - Bachelor of Arts
Russian
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