What does an Orlando defendant actually get from a firm whose founder holds a credential almost nobody else in Florida can claim? At O'Mara Law Group, that founder is the firm's namesake. Mark O'Mara is the only attorney the Florida Bar has certified as double-board certified in both Criminal Trial Law and Family Law. That single fact reframes how you read the rest of the site, because most firms that advertise both criminal defense and divorce work are stretching one skill set across two very different courtrooms. Here the overlap is documented, not implied.

Dual certification in criminal and family law

The practice at O'Mara Law Group splits into three clear divisions. Criminal Defense is the deepest, covering DUI, fraud, assault, felonies, homicide, sex crimes, white-collar matters, and drug offenses, which is a span wide enough to handle both a first-time arrest and a serious indictment. Family Law runs through divorce, child custody, child support, alimony, and mediation. The third arm, Mass Torts, takes on product liability and corporate litigation, the kind of case that pulls in many plaintiffs against a large defendant. There is also a referral channel: other attorneys send complex matters here when they want a second team on board, which tells you something about how peers in the local bar regard O'Mara Law Group.

Criminal defense across multiple offense types

People who walk in with a custody fight on one side and a criminal charge on the other are exactly who this structure serves. A messy divorce can collide with a domestic charge, and a single firm able to read both files without handing you off is a practical advantage. The mediation work matters too, since not every family dispute belongs in front of a judge, and the firm lists Supreme Court Certified Family Mediators on staff to handle the cases that settle better at a table.

Family law with mediation services

Mark O'Mara is not an unknown quantity. He appears regularly as a legal analyst on CNN and has lectured at Harvard Law School, which puts a public record behind the name in a way you can check independently. O'Mara Law Group also points to Top 100 U.S. lawyers recognition, top ratings on Avvo and Martindale-Hubbell, and membership in the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. More than 40 years of combined experience sits behind the group as a whole. Those are the sort of markers worth a grain of caution since most firms collect a few, but the breadth here, paired with the verifiable media and teaching record, reads more credibly than a wall of unsourced badges.

Mark O'Mara's media presence and credentials

The bench at O'Mara Law Group is not one name. Bert W. Barclay, Brittany Staggs as Managing Attorney, and Michele M. Bernard are named alongside O'Mara, so a client is not buying a celebrity letterhead with the daily work shipped off to anonymous associates. Knowing who runs the practice day to day, in this case Staggs, is genuinely useful when you are trying to picture who will return your calls.

Named attorneys managing daily operations

On reputation, the outside record is solid without being spotless. Birdeye carries O'Mara Law Group at 4.4 stars across 417 reviews, which is a meaningful sample size, and TrustAnalytica lands at the same 4.4. A Better Business Bureau profile exists, and the firm also turns up on TopRatedLocal and ReviewYourAttorney, so the footprint is spread across several independent platforms instead of resting on one. Nothing in those results threw up a serious red flag. A 4.4 average over several hundred reviews reads like a busy firm that keeps most clients satisfied and occasionally does not, which is about as honest a number as a law practice tends to post.

Review ratings across multiple platforms

Reaching O'Mara Law Group takes little effort. A phone number and a downtown Orlando street address near the Rosalind Avenue corridor are published directly, so a prospective client can call or walk in without digging through subpages. For a criminal client working against a clock, that immediacy counts for more than it might for someone shopping a slower civil matter.

Contact information and office location

Where does this leave a prospective client? The pitch is consistent: a founder with a rare dual certification, a named team, three coherent practice areas, and a public profile you can verify outside the firm's own pages. The Mass Torts arm feels like the least developed of the three on the surface, and anyone with a product-liability case would want to ask directly how many of those the office has actually carried to resolution. The criminal and family sides, though, are where the credentials and the day-to-day staffing at O'Mara Law Group line up most convincingly. A defendant comparing several Orlando options will find few that put this much verifiable substance in one place.

How this firm compares to other Orlando options

Compared to other Orlando firms advertising both criminal defense and family law, O'Mara Law Group puts considerably more documented material on the table. The dual certification is Florida Bar-recorded, the review record across multiple platforms is consistently above 4.4, and the named team removes some of the guesswork about who handles daily case work. The Mass Torts side is the least publicly detailed of the three practice areas, and a product-liability client should probe that track record directly. On the criminal and family fronts, the outside profile is solid enough to treat as a meaningful starting point.