Since 1995, The Alvarez Law Firm has fought for the families that nobody else would fight for. Today, our Catastrophic Birth Injury Division pairs the only kind of legal team that catastrophic birth injury cases really demand: a Board Certified trial lawyer and a physician who became a lawyer.
Alex Alvarez founded The Alvarez Law Firm in 1995 after a career as a Miami-Dade police detective — including leading the historic "Miami River Cops" investigation that resulted in the conviction of 18 corrupt officers. He brought the same investigative instinct, the same refusal to let powerful institutions hide their misconduct, into the practice of law.
For three decades, the firm has handled some of the most complex catastrophic injury cases in the country: medical malpractice, tobacco product liability, defective medical devices, sexual abuse litigation, and now — with the dedicated Catastrophic Birth Injury Division — the cases that involve the youngest, most vulnerable plaintiffs of all.
We are not a TV-advertising volume firm. We take on cases we believe in, build them carefully with the right medical experts, and prepare every one for trial. Most of our cases settle. The ones that don't, we try.
30+
Years Fighting
for Justice
Alex Alvarez began his career in law enforcement, rising to detective with the Miami-Dade Police Department, where he was named Officer of the Year in 1987. He led the historic "Miami River Cops" investigation that exposed and prosecuted 18 corrupt officers — one of the largest police corruption cases in American history.
He brought that same investigative discipline to the law. Today he is one of fewer than 1% of attorneys nationwide certified as a Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer by the National Board of Trial Advocacy — a credential earned by demonstrated trial experience, peer review, and rigorous examination.
In catastrophic birth injury cases, Alex leads the strategic and trial work: identifying every responsible party, building the discovery plan, deposing the doctors and nurses, working with experts, and preparing every case to be tried in front of a jury. That trial readiness is what produces the strongest settlements.
Herb Borroto earned his medical degree (M.D.) and trained as a physician before deciding to go to law school. That decision — to leave clinical medicine for the courtroom — came from watching the medical system fail patients and seeing how often the legal system failed to hold it accountable.
On birth injury cases, Herb does the work that other firms pay outside consultants thousands of dollars to do, except he does it from inside the legal team. He reads the prenatal records. He reads the fetal heart rate strips minute by minute. He reads the nursing notes, the anesthesia record, the neonatal MRI, the cord blood gas results. He finds the moment the standard of care broke down and explains it to Alex, to the experts, and eventually to a jury.
"When I read a labor and delivery record, I see the moment the team should have moved — and didn't. That moment is your case."
— Herb Borroto, M.D., J.D.
We don't take every case. We take the ones we believe in, where the medical evidence is real and the responsible parties are identifiable. That selectivity is part of why our clients win.
Every catastrophic birth injury case we take, we prepare for trial — even if it eventually settles. Insurers know which firms will go the distance, and that knowledge shapes every negotiation.
If we don't think you have a case, we will tell you. We will not chase a weak claim, and we will not promise a result we can't deliver. The free consultation gives you an honest read — nothing more, nothing less.
Tell us what happened. We'll listen, and Herb Borroto will give you an honest read on whether your child has a case.
