Philip Bloom has extensive experience in the US legal system, serving as a trial court judge for 18 years, advising clients in litigation matters in private practice, representing the state and federal governments in various roles, and as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami Law School. He has served or has been consulted as an expert in legal fee disputes case, lawyer malpractice and litigation.

As a trial court judge in Miami-Dade County for the state of Florida, he supervised approximately 22,500 civil cases and more than 400 jury trials. He also served as a trial judge in the criminal division, handling all aspects of each assigned case, including preliminary motions, sentencing and constitutional law.

While in private practice, Philip has served as litigation chief for the Miami office of a New York-based national firm and previously played a major role in the development of a 15-attorney law practice in Florida. He served as an assistant attorney general for the state of New York and as trial attorney for the US Department of Justice, Antitrust Division and special assistant attorney general to the US Department of Justice for grand juries.

Philip teaches each semester at the University of Miami as an adjunct professor of litigation skills. He has lectured on law and business at New York Law School, Pace College, Miami-Dade College, Florida International University and The Hebrew Academy.

He has presented at numerous seminars on a variety of topics, including “The Road of Life in the Law,” “Working with the Court System,” “Practice with Professionalism” and “Ten Sure Ways to Irritate a Judge.” He initiated and conducted the Court Observer Program, with more than 70 presentations to approximately 2,400 summer law clerks, on the practice of law and conducting jury trials – a program for which he was honored by the South Florida Association for Law Placement. Philip is also the author of articles on antitrust for legal publications.

Voted Most Outstanding Jurist in the State of Florida in 1997, Philip periodically received the highest total number of qualified and highly qualified votes of any judge in the Dade County Bar polls. He has earned the Outstanding Judicial Award from the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and a commendation from the Miami-Dade mayor and Board of County Commissioners for work in criminal court. In addition, he was recommended by Dade County Delegation of Young Lawyers Division of The Florida Bar for the Judge William Hoeveler Professionalism Award. In 2003, Philip received the Judge David Dyer Professionalism Award from the Miami-Dade County Bar Association, the most prestigious honor bestowed by it to a lawyer or judge, for “setting the highest standards of honesty, integrity, civility and professionalism in the legal profession.”

Philip remains involved in the Court Observer Program and with lectures to local bar associations. He participates in the Practice with Professionalism Program, where he was authorized by The Florida Bar to lecture to all newly admitted South Florida lawyers working with the court system.