Firm Overview

A Miami Law Firm Known for High Impact, High Profile Cases

do Campo & Thornton, P.A. is a Miami, Florida-based law firm specializing in criminal law and high impact civil litigation.

The firm was founded in 2008 by two Harvard Law graduates who had worked together earlier in their careers at a prestigious law firm, and who recognized in each other a commitment to justice and a talent and passion for winning.

Awards and Honors
Do Campo & Thornton, P.A. was named to the U.S. News and World Report and Best Lawyers 2019 “Best Law Firms” list.  In addition to the Firm ranking, do Campo & Thornton, P.A.’s White Collar Criminal Defense practice is ranked in “Tier 1” in U.S. News and World Report and Best Lawyers 2019 regional practice rankings.   This recognition follows awards such as Orlando do Campo winning the Rodney Thaxton Award, an honor bestowed on only a few criminal defense lawyers each year, and the the firm winning the “Most Effective Lawyers” Award from the Daily Business Review for work in international law. In addition Orlando do Campo has been named to The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers.

Experience

Criminal Defense

The Firms’ attorneys have extensive experience in criminal law, and have represented defendants in healthcare fraud, Medicare fraud, Medicaid fraud, DME infusion therapy fraud, home healthcare fraud, real estate fraud, mortgage fraud, drug cases, money laundering cases, bonds, immigration fraud, passport fraud and criminal appeals. The firm’s attorneys have tried more than 60 criminal jury trials. They have achieved remarkable success for their criminal defense clients in all stages of the criminal law process, from pre-investigation, investigation, negotiating with the government, bond hearings, defense of charges, trial and post-trial relief and appeals.

Principals

John Thornton and Orlando do Campo

do Campo & Thornton's Miami Office
do Campo & Thornton Offices Located in Chase Bank Building, Miami

High Impact Civil Litigation

They also leverage their knowledge of the courts for high impact civil litigation. For example, in their first year together, they won a groundbreaking $80 million judgment.

do Campo & Thornton’s lawyers also seized the lottery winnings of a Haitian general, and have earned victories in numerous other civil matters, ranging from a qui tam whistleblower action that enlisted the government to prosecute a fraud against it, to dismissals of civil actions on jurisdictional grounds, to winning a dismissal based on a noncompete being unenforceable. Plus, because of their penchant for winning in Court, do Campo & Thornton’s cases are often settled outside of court on favorable terms for their clients.