Phillip J. Sheehe

Commercial, Products Liability & Insurance Litigation

When preparing for trial, attorney Phillip J. Sheehe spares no expense-with his time or money. Sheehe, the founding partner of Sheehe & Associates, P.A., will spend months poring over thousands upon thousands of documents. He will interview scores of witnesses and line up experts from across the nation. And as the trial date approaches, Sheehe has been known to work 15 hours a day, seven days a week.

“We do whatever is necessary to be completely ready for trial,” he said. “We don’t walk into the courtroom unless we are prepared.”

Sheehe, an attorney for more than four decades, specializes in complex commercial and insurance litigation cases, which tend to be very fact-intensive and may require several weeks, if not months, to try. Sheehe has tried numerous complex jury trial, including a jury trial that exceeded six months in duration.

He has tried complex cases in Florida, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, West Virginia, Colorado and District of Columbia.

Sheehe represents major corporations and individuals in trial in both state and federal courts. He has been handling such cases throughout the United States since 1974 and has garnered a multitude of favorable verdicts and settlements on behalf of his clients.

He began his legal career on the staff of the General Counsel to the United States Steel Corporation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During his career at the United States Steel Corporation, he obtained substantial experience in litigating complex antitrust and commercial cases.

Sheehe is a native of Marion, Ohio, though he attended college as an undergraduate at the University of Florida, where he graduated with a degree in finance and was a four-year letterman and captain of the University of Florida swim team. He obtained his Juris Doctor from University of Tennessee in 1974. During his time at the University of Tennessee, Sheehe served as the editor of the Tennessee Law Review and received the Order of the Coif in recognition of outstanding scholarship.

In 1978, Sheehe moved to Miami. Sheehe has been married to his wife Jo Ann for 48 years, has two grown daughters, Johanna and Brooksley, participates in U.S. Masters Swimming and owns an Arabian horse farm in Ocala. Sheehe & Associates, P.A. maintains offices in Lake Mary, Miami, Tampa and Pensacola.