Joseph S. Geller focuses his practice on civil litigation, administrative law, election law, government relations, municipal law and land use and zoning. He has extensive litigation experience in both the Florida and federal courts. Mr. Geller served for four terms in the Florida House of Representatives, representing District 100, having been elected in November 2014, and re-elected without opposition in November 2016, and again in November 2018, and most recently in 2020 to begin his fourth and final term. Mr. Geller reached term limits and concluded his legislative service in November 2022. Mr. Geller is also the former long-time Chair of the Miami-Dade County Democratic Party. Additionally, Mr. Geller has served as the Village Attorney for the Village of El Portal for many years, and also serves as Town attorney for the Town of Bay Harbor Island. He also previously served as City Attorney for the City of Opa-Locka. He is the former Town Attorney for the Town of Miami Lakes and the Town of Golden Beach and former City Attorney for the City of North Bay Village. Mr. Geller is a member of the Attorneys’ Title Insurance Fund. Mr. Geller has also served as the Southeast Regional President of the American Jewish Congress, and is long-time pro bono counsel for Movimiento Democracia.

Mr. Geller has more than 40 years of experience, including state and federal court litigation, at both the trial and appellate levels. Mr. Geller is especially well known for a series of landmark Election Law cases, beginning with the City of Miami Mayoral Election Vote Fraud case in 1997, and including Recount Litigation, including the Gore Presidential Campaign in 2000, the “Ted’s Shed” School Board residency case in 2000, successful representation of judicial candidates in the 2006 Election cycle, and successful representation in the 2010 cycle of candidates facing Resign to Run and Entitlement to Run-off issues. Most recently, he successfully defended a candidate's eligibility to run in the 2018 cycle. Mr. Geller has over twenty (20) years of experience in serving as a Municipal Attorney, and has served six (6) municipalities as their principal attorney, as well as serving as special counsel for a number of other municipalities. He has extensive litigation experience in a variety of complex civil litigation fields, including Construction Law, Intellectual Property, Fraud and Misrepresentation, Real Property Law, Family Law and Probate Litigation, along with others too numerous to mention.

Prior to joining Greenspoon Marder, Mr. Geller was partners with his brother, Senator Steven A. Geller, for many years in Geller & Geller, P.A., a long-time South Florida Civil Law Firm.

Bar Admissions

• Florida, 1980

Education

• J.D., Florida State University Law School, 1979
• B.A., History, Florida State University, 1975