Joseph S. Geller focuses his practice on civil litigation, administrative law, election law, government relations, municipal law and land use and zoning. He has extensive litigation experience in both the Florida and federal courts. Mr. Geller is currently an elected member of the Miami Dade County School Board, representing coastal District 3, having been elected to a four-year term in November 2024. He served for four terms in the Florida House of Representatives, representing District 100, having been elected in November 2014, and re-elected without opposition in November 2016, and again in November 2018, and finally in 2020 to begin his fourth and final term. Mr. Geller reached term limits and concluded his legislative service in November 2022. He served two terms as Mayor of North Bay Village, FL, first elected in November 2004 and re-elected without opposition in November 2006. Mr. Geller is also the former long-time Chair of the Miami-Dade County Democratic Party. Additionally, Mr. Geller has served as the Village Attorney for the Village of El Portal for many years and also serves, through the firm, as City Attorney for the City of North Miami Beach, and Town Attorney for the Town of Bay Harbor Islands. He also previously served as City Attorney for the City of Opa-Locka. He is the former Town Attorney for the Town of Miami Lakes and the Town of Golden Beach and former City Attorney for the City of North Bay Village. Mr. Geller is a member of the Attorneys’ Title Insurance Fund. Mr. Geller has also served as the Southeast Regional President of the American Jewish Congress and is a long-time pro bono counsel for Movimiento Democracia.
Mr. Geller has more than 40 years of experience, including state and federal court litigation, at both the trial and appellate levels. Mr. Geller is especially well known for a series of landmark Election Law cases, beginning with the City of Miami Mayoral Election Vote Fraud case in 1997, and including Recount Litigation, including the Gore Presidential Campaign in 2000, the “Ted’s Shed” School Board residency case in 2000, successful representation of judicial candidates in the 2006 Election cycle, and successful representation in the 2010 cycle of candidates facing Resign to Run and Entitlement to Run-off issues. More recently, he successfully defended a candidate’s eligibility to run in the 2018 cycle, and has since then been involved in numerous other election cases and recounts. Mr. Geller has almost thirty (30) years of experience in serving as a Municipal Attorney and has served seven (7) municipalities as their principal attorney, as well as serving as interim or special counsel for a number of other municipalities. He has extensive litigation experience in a variety of complex civil litigation fields, including Construction Law, Intellectual Property, Fraud and Misrepresentation, Real Property Law, Family Law and Probate Litigation, along with others too numerous to mention, and he maintains an active private practice in Zoning and Land Use matters.
Prior to joining Greenspoon Marder, Mr. Geller was partners with his brother, Senator Steven A. Geller, for many years in Geller & Geller, P.A., a long-time South Florida Civil Law Firm.
Bar Admissions
- Florida, 1980
Court Admissions
- Supreme Court, State of Florida
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Education
- J.D., Florida State University Law School, 1979
- B.A., History, Florida State University, 1975
