UNDERGRADUATE
Florida State University
 
LAW SCHOOL
Florida State University
 
ADDMITTED
 Florida
 
PARTICIPATED in TRIALS
  50+
 
MILITARY
US Navy HIGHEST RANK:  Lieutenant Commander
 
MILITARY AIRCRAFT FLOWN
P-3c
 
LICENSES
Private and Commercial
 
FLIGHT HOURS
3000 +
 
AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS WORKED
35
 
MEMBERSHIPS
Florida Bar, Florida Trial Lawyers, ATLA
 
HONORS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Florida Trial Lawyers Most Tenacious Attorney, Board Certified in Litigation, Personal Injury, National Board of Trail Advocacy, AV Rated by Martindale Hubbell.
 
FOCUS
Product Liability and Personal Injury
Howard Acosta has a motto.  “The impossible takes a little longer.”  Howard was recently named Florida’s Most Tenacious Attorney.  He was a United States Navy P3c Aircraft Commander and accumulated 3,000 flying hours – mostly at night and in bad weather while searching for Russian submarines in the Arctic and other inhospitable waters.
In Aviation Law, very few attorneys have had such a successful and influential career.  Howard was lead trial attorney for the F-16 wire-bundle fire case featured on 60 Minutes.  He was lead plaintiff attorney in the Navy S-3 flight control malfunction case.  He also handled a B-1 Bomber accident and a B-52 fuel tank explosion case.  He has been successful in beating the Military Contractor Defense by developing evidence that the military really did not approve the pertinent specification in the design process.