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Neil A. Ambekar

Partner

Neil Ambekar is a partner in the firm’s Workers’ Compensation practice group. He exclusively represents employers and carriers in workers’ compensation matters, including appeals and subrogation issues. He has tried cases before JCCs in every OJCC district office. 

He is board certified in Florida Workers’ Compensation Law. He is AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell, and was named a “Best Lawyer in America” and a Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2023, 2024 and 2025. He has spoken at numerous conferences and seminars on workers’ compensation issues, and authored several articles on workers’ compensation and related issues. 

Neil is a program chair of the Florida Bar Workers’ Compensation Forum and a member of the Florida Bar Workers’ Compensation Section Executive Council. In 2023, he helped to create the Section’s Emerging Leaders Committee, which provides training and mentoring programs for young lawyers. He is the vice-president of the Judge William Wieland Inn of Court. He formerly chaired the Florida Bar’s Workers’ Compensation Rules Advisory Committee and the OCBA Workers’ Compensation Section. 

Neil obtained a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Central Florida, and a Juris Doctor from Florida A&M University College of Law. Prior to law school, he worked as a paralegal for an insurance defense firm handling workers’ compensation matters, and he has nearly 20 years of workers’ compensation defense experience.

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Admitted to Practice:

  • Florida, 2014
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, 2018

Education:

  • Florida A & M University College of Law, J.D. 2014 
    • FAMU Law Review, Articles Editor
  • University of Central Florida, B.A. 2004

Professional Affiliations:

  • The Florida Bar, Workers’ Compensation Section, Executive Council; 2022-present
  • Judge William Wieland American Inn of Court; Secretary, 2022-2024 term

Honors & Awards: 

  • The Best Lawyers in America, 2024-2025, Listed in Florida for Workers' Compensation Law - Employers
  • Florida Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2023-2024
  • Board Certified in Workers’ Compensation Law, 2021
  • AV® Preeminent™ rated by Martindale-Hubbell, 2017-2022
  • InTouch Excellence Awards, Exceptional Defense Attorney 2018

Speaking Engagements:

  • "Indemnity – AWW/TTD/TPD/PTD/Offsets," Co-Presenter, The Florida Bar Workers’ Compensation Forum, April 2025
  • "Mission Possible: Closing the Un-Closeable Claim," Co-Presenter, CLM Western Florida Chapter Networking Event, March 2025 
  • "Navigating Cognitive Biases in Workers Compensation Claims Management," Co-Presenter, CLM Focus Conference, February 2025
  • "Workers' Compensation - The 120 Day Rule," Co-Presenter, Conroy Simberg Webinar, April 2024 
  • “Average Weekly Wage, TTD and TPD,” Co-Presenter, The Florida Bar Workers’ Compensation Forum, April 2024
  • “Workers’ Comp for People Who Don’t Do Workers’ Comp just the bits you need to know," Presenter, RIMS Orlando Chapter Meeting, November 2023
  • “Death/Dependency Benefits and Mental and Nervous Injuries,” Co-Presenter, The Florida Bar Workers’ Compensation Forum, April 2023
  • “Death & Dependency Benefits,” Presenter Florida Bar Workers’ Compensation Forum Coursebook, March 2022
  • "Workers’ Compensation Case Law Update," Orange County Bar Association Webinar, 2021 
  • "COVID-19 & Florida Workers’ Compensation Law...Where Are We Now?," Presenter, InTouch Webinar, 2020
  • "Exposure & Occupational Disease," 21st Annual Southeast Florida Workers’ Compensation Claims Conference of International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals in Sunrise, Florida, 2019 
  • "Compensability of Cancer Under Florida Workers’ Compensation Law," University of Miami Health Workers’ Compensation Symposium in Miami, Florida, 2019
  • "Defending Traumatic Brain Injury Claims," Co-Presenter with Eric Kaplan, M.D., North American Risk Services in Orlando, Florida, 2018
  • "Effective Written Advocacy," Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law in Orlando, Florida, 2017 
  • "Florida Workers’ Compensation: What an Employer Should Know,"  American Society of Safety Engineers, 2017 

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Community Involvement:

  • Friends of 440 Scholarship Fund, board member (2019-2022)
  • Orange County Teen Court, Judge (2017-2019)
  • American Moot Court Association, Southeastern Regional Moot Court Competition Judge (2014-2018, 2020)

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