Tina Michelle Willis

Tina Willis is an Orlando personal injury lawyer and car accident attorney whose background combines elite national law firm experience, academic distinction, and a deliberate commitment to personalized client representation that sets her apart from high-volume personal injury firms throughout Florida.

Defense-Side Experience at the Highest Level

Before founding Tina Willis Law Injury Accident Lawyer, Ms. Willis started to build her legal career at Lord Bissell & Brook, an AmLaw 100 firm now merged into Locke Lord, where her primary client was Lloyd's of London, one of the world's most recognized insurance institutions. In that role she oversaw defense counsel handling serious personal injury and accident cases on behalf of primary insurers — evaluating litigation strategy, exposure, and risk from the perspective of a global excess insurer. This was not the routine insurance defense work common among plaintiff attorneys who worked for local carriers, often on much lower value claims. It was high-stakes litigation oversight involving multi-million dollar claims for one of the world's most demanding insurance institutions, making her particularly well-suited to handle the most serious and catastrophic injury and accident claims. She also worked at prominent Florida defense firms including Shutts & Bowen, further deepening her knowledge of how insurers and corporations fight serious injury and accident claims from the inside.

Before transitioning to plaintiff work, Ms. Willis also drafted critical trial motions and appellate briefs for personal injury attorneys handling multi-million dollar cases — giving her a comprehensive view of serious injury litigation from every angle before she ever opened her own practice.

That insider knowledge now works entirely in her clients' favor. The strategies, pressure points, and tactics she studied at the highest levels of the insurance defense world are the same ones her clients face today — and she knows exactly how to counter them.

Academic Excellence and Teaching Experience

Ms. Willis graduated second in her class from Florida State University College of Law in 1995, earning book awards — recognition for achieving the highest grade in the class — in some of the most challenging and relevant subjects in law school, including Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Federal Jurisdiction, Property Law, and Criminal Law and Procedure. She was selected for Law Review, Florida State's prestigious academic legal journal, and earned membership in the Order of the Coif, the legal profession's highest academic honor reserved for the top 10% of law graduates nationally.

After her defense firm career, Ms. Willis joined the faculty at Barry University School of Law, where she taught Civil Procedure and Advanced Legal Writing — the disciplines most directly relevant to how serious personal injury and accident cases are built, argued, and won in court. Civil Procedure is widely considered one of the most demanding courses in law school, covering the rules and strategy that govern how injury lawsuits actually move through the court system.

A Deliberate Alternative to High-Volume Practice

Rather than building a high-volume settlement mill, Ms. Willis deliberately limits her caseload at Tina Willis Law Injury Accident Lawyer to ensure every client receives direct, focused attention from Ms. Willis herself — not a paralegal or case manager. This approach is supported by research from Stanford University Professor Nora Freeman Engstrom showing that high-volume personal injury firms consistently deliver lower settlements than boutique practices providing personalized attention.

The firm also collaborates with a network of Florida's top personal injury lawyers and trial attorneys, assembling litigation teams of more than a dozen attorneys — all among Florida's most accomplished trial lawyers — for complex truck accident, catastrophic injury, and high-stakes cases demanding that level of firepower. Clients receive the resources of a large litigation team at no additional cost.

Advanced Medical Evidence

Ms. Willis routinely uses advanced medical imaging technology — including Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Susceptibility Weighted Imaging brain scans — to document injuries that standard imaging misses. This approach has transformed cases that other firms might have undervalued, producing full policy limit recoveries in cases where the true extent of injury was initially invisible on conventional scans.

Professional Recognition

Ms. Willis has earned numerous professional recognitions, including selection among the National Trial Lawyers Top 100, designation as one of the Ten Best Female Lawyers in Florida by the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys, a perfect 10.0 Superb AVVO rating, recognition as the number one personal injury, car accident, and wrongful death attorney by Orlando Style Magazine, and a perfect 10.0 rating on Justia.

Practice Areas

Tina Willis Law Injury Accident Lawyer handles serious injury and accident cases throughout Central Florida and across Florida, including car accidents, truck accidents, medical malpractice, brain injuries, traumatic brain injuries, wrongful death, premises liability, slip and fall, motorcycle accidents, bicycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, and catastrophic injury cases. The firm serves clients in Orlando, Kissimmee, Sanford, Deltona, Daytona Beach, Melbourne, Leesburg, and surrounding communities across Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Lake, Volusia, Brevard, Sumter, and St. Johns counties.

Personal Background

Tina Willis is a lifelong Central Florida resident, raised in Winter Garden, Florida by her grandparents. Her grandfather's work as an orange grove foreman in Central Florida instilled the values of hard work and determination that drive her advocacy for seriously injured clients today. She remains an active Winter Garden resident and is a dedicated distance runner and cyclist, frequently training on the West Orange Trail. She and her husband share their home with rescued cats and are passionate advocates for animal welfare. Her husband operates a successful Orlando business specializing in commercial ice machine and refrigeration repair.