Practice Areas:
Civil Litigation
Real Estate Litigation
Criminal Defense
Personal Injury
John Rockwell
John Rockwell is an experienced jury trial lawyer who brings over 15 years of experience in a variety of practice areas as a Florida attorney to Woolsey Morcom and leads the firm’s established criminal defense practice. John focuses almost exclusively on successfully defending individuals accused of committing crimes in both state and federal court ranging from misdemeanors such as DUIs and drug charges, to serious felonies including firearm and drug offenses, murder/death penalty, RICO, white collar crimes and fraud, as well as injunction/restraining order prosecution and defense, post-conviction claims, and expungements and record sealing.
As a former prosecutor with the 4th Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office for almost five years, John successfully tried to verdict over 50 criminal jury trials in Duval, Nassau and Clay County. He was ultimately promoted to the Major Crimes division where he handled homicides, shootings, and other violent criminal offenses from initial crime scene response to jury trial including first degree murder cases where the State of Florida sought and obtained the death penalty.
After graduating from the University of Miami School of Law with cum laude honors in 2004, John practiced at several law firms throughout Florida, including a large national law firm in downtown Jacksonville where he handled criminal defense matters as well as construction defect, foreclosure, real estate, and nursing home matters in both state and federal court.
John also has over six years in the insurance coverage/claims industry as a corporate attorney where he adjusted multi-million dollar complex construction defect and commercial general liability insurance coverage matters around the country for one of the nation’s largest insurance companies, as well as real estate title insurance claims for a national title insurance underwriter. In this role, John learned how insurance companies think and evaluate claims, and, most importantly, what Plaintiff’s lawyers can do to trigger significant settlements.
John also practices in the areas of personal injury, real estate/foreclosure prosecution and defense, civil litigation and family law.
“I can’t thank John and his team enough for what they did for my family...John truly made me feel like family, protected and understood. He has gone above and beyond for us, and I can not recommend him higher.”