Raul C. De La Heria has practiced law in the State of Florida since 1995, exclusively representing Plaintiff’s in the field of Personal Injury, Workers’ Compensation, and Longshore and Admiralty Law. In addition, Raul has also practiced before the Florida State Court, Federal Administrative Court, and State Administrative Court, and in Binding Arbitration cases pursuant to the admiralty contracts of seamen.  

Mr. De La Heria received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Miami in 1984. Upon graduating, he began working in the Banking and Advertising Industry for several years. He later became interested in the law and attended St. Thomas University, School of Law where he received his Juris Doctor degree in 1995. 

Upon completing law school in 2.5 years, Mr. De La Heria was offered the opportunity to become a founding partner in a firm that exclusively dealt with representing injured workers under the Workers’ Compensation law in the State of Florida. 

In 2001, Mr. De La Heria left that firm and opened his own boutique firm, which expanded its practice to include Personal Injury, Longshore & Admiralty cases in addition to Workers Compensation. Mr. De La Heria has successfully litigated cases in Florida, Puerto Rico, Georgia, and California.

University of Miami (B.A. 1984)

St. Thomas University School of Law (J.D. 1995)

English / Spanish 

Plaintiff in landmark case, Ocean Reef Club, Inc. v. Wilczewski, 99 So.3d 1 (2012), which established the precedent that failure to report the accident by the employer for seven (7) days waived the workers compensation immunity. It also stood for the fact that the carrier denied on the basis that the worker was not injured in the course and scope of employment also was tantamount to a waiver of tort immunity.

Member, Workers’ Compensation Section of The Florida Bar
Member, Trial Bar 
Member, Executive Council of the Workers’ Compensation Section of The Florida Bar 
Florida Top Verdicts and Settlements (2012)
 

The Florida Bar (1995)
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida (2003)

Association of Trial Lawyers of America (2004)
Top Attorneys of North America (2016)