About Michael Robert
Michael Robert Ufferman is a board-certified criminal appellate lawyer primarily based in Tallahassee, Florida. He has been working as an attorney since 1997, specializing in state and federal felony appeals and postconviction motions. His company, Michael Ufferman Law Firm, P.A., is located at 2022 Raymond Diehl Road, Tallahassee, FL 32308. Mr. Ufferman earned his Bachelor of Arts from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1994, graduating cum laude with majors in Political Science and History. He then obtained his law degree from the Florida State University College of Law in 1997, the place he served on the legal journal and earned magna cum laude honors. After law school, he served as a clerk for Justice Major B. Harding on the Florida highest court from 1997 to 2002.
In 2002, he joined the Robert Augustus Harper Law Firm in Tallahassee, specializing in criminal appellate work. In 2004, he founded his personal company, Michael Ufferman Law Firm, P.A., which concentrates on state and federal felony appeals and postconviction motions. Mr. Ufferman is licensed to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth. Eleventh Circuits, and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Florida. He is also licensed to all state and appellate courts in Florida.
He has handled thousands of state and federal appellate and postconviction motions, including instances involving charges of murder, robbery, sexual battery, assault, drug trafficking, baby pornography, RICO, white-collar crimes. DUI manslaughter. Mr. Ufferman has received numerous honors, which includes being acknowledged because the Tallahassee Lawyer of the Year in Appellate Practice by The leading attorneys list in America in 2024. He has also been decided on as a "Legal Elite" in appeals practice by Florida Trend Magazine in 2022. In 2016, he received the Richard W. Ervin Equal Justice Award from the Capital City Bar Presidents Council. He has served as President of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (FACDL) from 2015 to 2016 and has been an adjunct professor coaching felony process at the Florida State University College of Law.
He is the writer of the Florida Criminal Practice and Procedure treatise, 2025 version. Mr. Ufferman is a member of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the American Bar Association. The Tallahassee Bar Association. He is living in Tallahassee, Florida — For extra data, visit his firm's website at www.uffermanlaw.com.
