Owens, Keef F.

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Keef Owens began his legal career serving as a four-year law clerk to the Honorable Charles M. Harris of Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal. Keef subsequently joined an Orlando law firm where he defended employers, insurance carriers, and servicing agents in workers’ compensation litigation and on appeal before Florida’s First District Court of Appeal. From 2016 through 2022, he served as a governor-appointed Judge of Compensation Claims. Keef brings his experience as an appellate law clerk, appellate attorney, and judge to his representation of the firm’s clients in advanced motion practice and appellate matters.

 

Richman, Scott A.

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Mr. Richman is a shareholder and founding partner of the firm, representing clients in complex product liability, personal injury, and commercial litigation matters. He has extensive experience defending manufacturers in state and federal courts throughout Florida and across the United States in cases involving alleged defects in motor vehicles, consumer products, theme park attractions, and industrial tools and equipment. His practice also includes a broad range of personal injury matters—such as premises liability and motor vehicle collisions—as well as commercial disputes involving contracts, business issues, and alleged unfair trade practices.

For more than 20 years, Mr. Richman has served as national counsel in serious personal injury and property damage cases involving alleged product defects. He currently acts as regional trial counsel for a major tire manufacturer, overseeing catastrophic injury litigation in 19 states across the eastern United States. He also serves as national trial counsel for a major automotive manufacturer, handling litigation involving Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) nationwide. In addition, Mr. Richman has represented a major Orlando theme park in its personal injury litigation for more than 18 years.

Toole, M. Gary

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Gary Toole serves as national, regional and local counsel for domestic and foreign product manufacturers and excess insurance carriers in catastrophic injury cases throughout the United States. He has served as lead trial counsel in trials involving catastrophic injury cases in California, New Mexico, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Florida. He also assists domestic manufacturers in coordinating discovery throughout the United States and with their foreign subsidiaries.

Wiggins, Michael J.

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In December 2024, he announced that he was taking Senior Status with the newly formed McDonald Toole Richman & Correnti, P.A. Michael Wiggins was a founding member and senior partner of McDonald Toole Wiggins, P.A. He is counsel to manufacturers and corporations in the U.S. and internationally, and his litigation practice is devoted entirely to defending large damage and catastrophic injury cases for the automotive, consumer products, industrial equipment and medical device industries. He is a nationally-recognized trial lawyer that has defended and tried cases in over 20 states and federal jurisdictions around the country. He is frequently retained as lead counsel in mass tort, class action and pattern litigation around the country, and he has extensive experience managing local counsel in the role as regional or national counsel. Most recently, he has led or co-led trial teams in cases tried to verdict involving claims exceeding $100 million and is currently leading teams that are scheduled to defend catastrophic cases in Florida, Colorado, Indiana, and Nevada.

He has been listed or named to “Best Lawyers in America”, “Florida Super Lawyers”, “Florida’s Legal Elite” and Orlando Magazine’s “Best Lawyers” for 15 consecutive years dating back to 2010.

His most important work is as an advocate for children with cancer, and he is the co-founder and Former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cannonball Kids cancer Foundation (“CKc”), a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation dedicated to funding medical clinical research. To date, the Foundation has funded in excess of $5 million in clinical trials for cancer found only in children. He is a frequent speaker on the reason and need for funding of research. He lives in Orlando with his wife, Melissa, and their five children: Olivia, Cannon, Arran James, Gray and Charlie.