Miami, Florida
Phone: (305) 595-3350
Fax: 305.595.6996
Email: Dpacheco@gmpcomplaw.com
David Pacheco, Esq., has been handling the claims of injured workers under the Defense Base Act and/or the Longshore & Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act for the past 10 years. During that time, Mr. Pacheco has also been representing injured workers under the Florida Workers’ Compensation laws. During the past 10 years, Mr. Pacheco has represented injured workers at more then 800 depositions and more than 800 mediations. He has become very experienced and extremely successful at the art of mediation, often obtaining results that far surpass his clients’ expectations. He has the gift of finding a diamond in the rough at mediation.
Mr. Pacheco began with the Law Firm of Gillis & Mermell, P.A. directly out of law school. After seven years of devotion and dedication to his work in the representation of injured workers, he was made partner and the firm changed its name to Gillis, Mermell & Pacheco, P.A. in 2004. Mr. Pacheco graduated from Florida International University with a double degree, a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, in 1994. Mr. Pacheco graduated from the Nova Southeastern University law school with a Juris Doctorate degree in 1997. While attending law school at Nova Southeastern University, Mr. Pacheco took a special interest in mediation and assisted as a mediator in over 200 Broward county restitution cases from 1995-1997. Mr. Pacheco has been invited to be a speaker on the topic of Longshore & Harbor Workers’ Compensation Law at several educational conferences.
Mr. Pacheco is completely bilingual in English and Spanish.
Areas of Practice
* Defense Base Act
* Longshore & Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act
* Florida Workers’ Compensation Act
* Personal Injury Law
Education
* Nova Southeastern Law University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1997
J.D.
* Florida International University, 1994
B.A.
Major: Political Science
Major: Psychology
Languages
* English (Primary)
* Spanish