Kimberly L. Erwin, Esq.
Kimberly attended Bishop Verot High School and was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2006, after attending Florida State University and Florida Gulf Coast University, graduating cum laude with a B.S. in Forensic Psychology. Honors included Moot Court Honor Society, Phi Alpha Delta, the Family Law Clinic and the Order of the Barristers Award. After graduating from Nova Southeastern University School of Law, she began her practice in insurance defense and criminal law. As a prosecutor, Kimberly gained extensive trial experience and became the court chief of the juvenile division and head of the special victims unit, prosecuting cases involving human trafficking, homicide, animal abuse, child abuse, domestic violence, injunctions and sexual assaults in Florida and Texas. Some of these were high profile cases that received notice in local newspapers.
Kimberly began focusing on the needs of families and abused children, both as a family law attorney and counsel for the Guardian ad Litem Program. She became a Certified Florida Supreme Court Family Law Mediator and began conducting investigations as a private, court appointed Guardian ad Litem for children in family law cases.
Her legal career has focused on helping children and families, through collaboration with other mediators, attorneys, therapists, forensic accountants, physicians, educators and tutors, addiction specialists, the Department of Children and Families, law enforcement, the Children's Advocacy Center, case managers and other governmental agencies.
Kimberly has been involved in organizations such as Calusa Inns of Court, the Association of Family Law Professionals, the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association, the Lee County and Hendry-Glades Bar Association, the Bishop Verot Legal Society and the Florida Prosecuting Attorney Association. When not working with families, Kimberly can be found backpacking overseas, working out or spending time with friends and family.
Contact Kimberly: kimberly@erwin-legal.com
Trainings, Seminars and Workshops
- The Online Courtroom Now and Post Pandemic: Skills and Tools for Remote Advocacy
- Trauma Informed Advocacy
- Mediator Ethics: We Are Headed to a Disciplinary Hearing Panel
- MIT Department of Biology, Covid-19 and the Pandemic
- Witness Preparation in Dependency Cases
- Residential Mental Health Treatment for Children
- Ensuring Self-Determination Mediation: Ethical, Effective Practices
- Intellectual Disability
- Attorneys Ad Litem for Dependent Children
- Witness Preparation in Dependency Cases
- Residential Mental Health Treatment for Children
- Mediator Ethics: Mediation Confidentiality 101
- Child Support in Dependency Cases
- Medical Marijuana in Florida
- Delinquency 101: What Every Guardian ad Litem Needs
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- Sibling Separation
- Educational Advocacy
- A View From the Bench
- Courtroom Etiquette & Topics For Testifying
- Families, Children, Mental Health, Professionalism
- Guardian Ad Litems in Family Court
- It's Not All About You: Making a Difference
- Being Relevant in a Mobile World
- Alexa, Help Me Improve My Mediations
- Potpourri of Family Law Pitfalls
- Be a Voice for Children in Family Court
- Problems that Polarize
- Before the Rice is Thrown: Pre-Nups and the Benefits
- Family Mediation Certification Training
- Basic Family Law
- Basic Evidence
- Basic Discovery
- An Alienation Case: How Far Can You Go
- Transforming Legal Environment: Setting a New Path
- Technology Planning for the New Law Practice
- ABC's of Starting and Managing Your Law Practice
- The (Legal) Hunger Games
- Building the Small Firm Marketing Program
- Grievance/Malpractice: Got You Covered
- Calming the Troubled Waters
- New Rule 2.526 Digital Accessibility of Documents On-line
- Developing a Business Plan for the Start-up Law Firm
- 10 Dirty Tricks Attorneys Use and How to Handle Them
- Prosecutor Trial Skills Course
- Social Security & Divorce: A Closer Look at SSI
- Depositions: Mechanics & Insights
- On the Cutting Edge: Tools & Insights
- Ethics and Professionalism
- Primer on Preservation
- Accounting & Financial Issues That Lead to Malpractice
- It's in the DNA - A Primer on Paternity Law in Florida
- Temporary Orders, Final Judgments, Hearings, Trial
- YLD Government Symposium
- Florida Bar Discipline System
- Domestic Violence Strangulation and Related Issues
- Ethics: The Movie
- Practicing With Professionalism
- Domestic Violence
- Ethics is Foreclosure
- Westlaw Research
- Trial With Style
