Tim Groves

Born and raised in Winter Springs, Tim is Central Florida through and through. He loved the state so much that he ended up a double Gator, having done both his undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Florida.

It was moot court that eventually moved him. Tim and Kara were paired as partners for a competition, and some years later he traded Seminole County for a few acres in Mount Dora.

Out of law school, Tim joined Grower, Ketcham, Eide, Telan & Meltz (now Telan, Meltz, Wallace & Eide), defending hospitals, physicians, and physician groups in medical malpractice lawsuits. He spent those years learning litigation from the inside out, investigating claims in presuit, deposing experts, arguing the complex motions that decide cases long before anyone sees a jury, and trying the cases that got that far.

He then took that same skill set to the other side of the table representing patients and families in catastrophic medical negligence cases. Knowing how a defense file gets built turns out to be a considerable advantage when your job is to take one apart.

That experience is the backbone of Tim’s personal injury practice. People call a personal injury lawyer during what is usually one of the worst weeks of their life, injured, out of work, and dealing with a complex set of legal rules and regulations. Tim has seen it from both sides. He knows which records matter before the request ever goes out, how a defense expert gets prepared, and what a claim is actually worth as opposed to what the first offer suggests. His clients get straight answers early, which is the thing people need most and get least often.

The same instincts carry into the firm’s commercial litigation work. A business dispute runs on much the same machinery as a malpractice trial. Documents, experts, and the discipline to build a record that holds up under pressure, only this time pointed at contracts, partnerships, and business disputes. Tim keeps his eye on what the client is actually trying to accomplish, which is usually not a trial. When it is one, he has been there.

His hallmark, though, is collaboration. Tim works his cases alongside his clients and his experts rather than around them, and his clients always know exactly where things stand.

Off the clock, you will find Tim on a golf course or at a board game table. He shares the Mount Dora property with Kara and three dogs — a Great Pyrenees, a rough collie, and an Australian cattle dog — which is either a small herding operation or a very committed hobby, depending on the day.