About Michael Robert
Michael Robert Ufferman is a board-certified criminal appellate lawyer based in Tallahassee, Florida. He has been practicing law since 1997, focusing on state and federal criminal appeals and postconviction motions. His firm, 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 Juris Doctor from the Florida State University College of Law in 1997, where he served on the law review and graduated magna cum laude. After law school, he clerked for Justice Major B. Harding at the Florida Supreme Court from 1997 to 2002.
In 2002, he joined the Robert Augustus Harper Law Firm in Tallahassee, focusing on criminal appellate work. In 2004, he founded his own firm, Michael Ufferman Law Firm, P.A., which concentrates on state and federal criminal appeals and postconviction motions. Mr. Ufferman is admitted 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 admitted to all state and appellate courts in Florida.
He has handled hundreds of state and federal appellate and postconviction motions, including cases involving charges of murder, robbery, sexual battery, assault, drug trafficking, child pornography, RICO, white-collar crimes. DUI manslaughter. Mr. Ufferman has received numerous honors, including being recognized as the Tallahassee Lawyer of the Year in Appellate Practice by The Best Lawyers in America in 2024. He has also been selected as a "Legal Elite" in appellate 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 teaching criminal procedure at the Florida State University College of Law.
He is the author of the Florida Criminal Practice and Procedure treatise, 2025 edition. 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 resides in Tallahassee, Florida — For more information, visit his firm's website at www.uffermanlaw.com.
