Trombley & Hanes

Tampa criminal defense work and federal investigations sit at the center of what Trombley & Hanes does, and the firm has been doing it since 1977. That is a long time to stay focused on one kind of law, and the record shows it. Trombley & Hanes operates out of downtown Tampa, represents individuals and small businesses in state and federal courts across Florida, and takes cases nationwide when the matter calls for it. The attorneys include former prosecutors, which is relevant for reasons that go beyond a marketing bullet point: former prosecutors know how cases are built, which changes how defense is mounted, especially at the pre-charge stage.

Criminal defense practice across Florida

The criminal defense practice at Trombley & Hanes runs wide. DUI, drug crimes, theft, fraud, conspiracy, racketeering, forfeiture, extradition. The mix is deliberate. A firm that lists racketeering next to DUI is telling prospective clients that it can handle a routine Hillsborough County arrest and a sprawling multi-defendant federal indictment, and it wants both to know that. For a single-charge defendant that depth may feel like overkill; for someone with co-defendants and a federal docket number, it reads as exactly what they need.

Drug crimes, DUI, fraud, conspiracy

The white collar side is where Trombley & Hanes separates itself from most Tampa defense practices. Federal grand jury investigations, tax fraud, healthcare fraud, money laundering, bank fraud, securities fraud, antitrust violations, and pandemic relief fraud tied to PPP and EIDL loans.

White collar federal investigations

The last items are specific and pointed in a way that generic practice descriptions rarely are. A firm does not put COVID-19 relief fraud on its website unless it has been fielding those calls. A substantial number of small business owners who took emergency loans during the pandemic are now seeing government inquiries about the paperwork, and Trombley & Hanes has positioned itself to handle that caseload. The former-prosecutor experience is especially relevant in white collar cases, where the most consequential defense work often happens before any charge is filed, in conversations with investigators and prosecutors about whether charges happen at all.

Pandemic relief fraud representation

Trombley & Hanes also handles civil litigation outside the criminal sphere, and the practice areas it chose are no accident. Qui tam and false claims cases sit directly beside the healthcare and government-fraud criminal work, sharing the same knowledge of federal enforcement patterns. Regulatory and administrative defense draws on the same comfort with federal agencies that white collar criminal defense requires. A client caught in a regulatory investigation that might turn criminal, or might stay civil, is exactly the kind of person this overlap is built to serve. Trombley & Hanes can follow that matter wherever it goes without handing the client off to a different firm.

Civil litigation connected to criminal work

Bankruptcy adversary proceedings round out the civil side, which makes practical sense given how financial crime investigations sometimes end in bankruptcy. The threading between practice areas is tighter than it might look on a list.

Qui tam cases, regulatory defense

Personal injury is also on the menu: auto accidents, premises liability, products liability, wrongful death. Here the firm shifts to the plaintiff side, which is a genuine tonal shift from the defense orientation of everything else. Plenty of full-service Florida firms carry personal injury alongside criminal and civil work, and Trombley & Hanes is competent to handle it. But if someone is choosing Trombley & Hanes over another firm, the reason is almost certainly the criminal defense depth and the federal reach, with the injury practice as a useful secondary capability rather than a primary draw.

Personal injury on the plaintiff side

On federal reach specifically, Trombley & Hanes describes the ability to handle complex regulatory investigations and cases in federal courts nationwide. That is not a boast every Tampa firm can make honestly. Federal court practice is its own world, with its own procedural culture, sentencing guidelines, and relationship dynamics with U.S. Attorney offices. A firm that lives in those courts is a meaningfully different proposition from one that occasionally crosses the street to the federal courthouse on a case-by-case basis. The depth of the white collar and grand jury practice at Trombley & Hanes reflects years of federal court exposure, not an opportunistic expansion.

Federal court practice nationwide

On Birdeye, Trombley & Hanes holds approximately 4.7 stars across thirteen reviews. The volume is modest, but the average is consistent. The firm also appears on Yelp, where it is listed and verified, and on ProvenExpert with ratings. Three attorneys at Trombley & Hanes have earned Super Lawyers or Rising Stars designations, the firm holds a U.S. News Best Law Firms ranking, and it appears on a BCG Search best-firm list. Peer and editorial recognition of this kind is harder to manufacture than consumer review counts, and for a practice whose credibility depends on how it is perceived by prosecutors, judges, and opposing counsel, those legal-directory credentials matter in a way that star ratings alone do not.

Professional recognition and peer credentials

The firm's website carries a phone number, fax line, and full street address on North Franklin Street. No public email is listed, which is a non-issue: a firm fielding sensitive criminal inquiries has obvious reasons to route first contact through a phone call rather than an email inbox.

The breadth of what Trombley & Hanes offers is the one thing worth scrutinizing. Federal fraud defense, DUI, qui tam litigation, regulatory investigations, and personal injury is a wide range, and a prospective client is right to ask whether Trombley & Hanes distributes that workload across attorneys with genuine depth in each area or dilutes it. The legal directory recognition points to a criminal and white collar core that is substantively strong. A reasonable first call to Trombley & Hanes should include a direct question: which attorney handles this type of matter, and what does their record look like in cases like this one? Any firm confident in its bench welcomes that question. The published credentials at Trombley & Hanes give enough reason to ask it.