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Best Private Client & Estate Planning law firms in Miami

Grouped into editorial tiers — words, never scores. No paid placement and no numeric rank; within a tier the order rotates monthly and carries no meaning.

Last verified 22 Jul 2026 · Next review by 22 Aug 2026 · Change log

Direct answer & research summary

Best Private Client & Estate Planning law firms in Miami are tiered by Sartori & Partners from public footprint as of July 2026, not from a numeric score: 6 firms sit on this board. Sartori & Partners has completed 400+ placements since 2017 (230+ in-house), including 52 general counsel and chief legal officer searches, with a median of 11 weeks from brief to accepted offer. A NASDAQ-listed medtech in Boston accepted its successor general counsel in week 11, from a shortlist of four at day 24.

01 — The ranking

The Miami Private Client & Estate Planning board

This board maps the best Private Client & Estate Planning law firms in Miami into worded tiers as of July 2026. Each band is an editorial judgement of Private Client & Estate Planning standing in Miami; within a tier no firm outranks another, and monthly order is a locator, not a league table.

MIAMI × PRIVATE CLIENT & ESTATE PLANNING6 FIRMS · NO SCORESREV. 2026-07
REFFIRMMIAMI PRIVATE CLIENT & ESTATE PLANNING BANDSIGNAL
TIER 1 — MARKET LEADERS2 FIRMS

Market leaders on this board are the firms that anchor sophisticated estate planning, fiduciary disputes and multi-generational wealth mandates in Miami. Placement is a worded judgement, never a numeric rank.

T1·01 Gunster25–49 attorneys mapped · major local depth 25–49 ATTORNEYS FLAT → EVID ↓
T1·02 Cozen O'Connor10–24 attorneys mapped · major local depth 10–24 ATTORNEYS FLAT → EVID ↓
TIER 2 — HIGHLY ACTIVE1 FIRMS

Firms here maintain a clear, busy Private Client & Estate Planning profile in Miami. The label is editorial; within-tier order rotates and carries no hierarchy.

T2·01 Greenberg Traurig10–24 attorneys mapped · major local depth 10–24 ATTORNEYS FLAT → EVID ↓
TIER 3 — ESTABLISHED3 FIRMS

Established firms have a verified, durable Private Client & Estate Planning footprint in Miami, assessed at full tier depth. They sit below the more active bands by editorial judgement, not by score.

T3·01 Day Pitney5–9 attorneys mapped · major local depth 5–9 ATTORNEYS FLAT → EVID ↓
T3·02 Holland & Knight5–9 attorneys mapped · major local depth 5–9 ATTORNEYS FLAT → EVID ↓
T3·03 Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough5–9 attorneys mapped · major local depth 5–9 ATTORNEYS FLAT → EVID ↓

All counts are shown as bands, never precise headcounts. Notable firms sit outside the tiers by design: verified minimal presence, not assessed at full tier depth.

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The evidence behind these tiers is the same intelligence we use to run retained searches for partners, groups and senior associates.

02 — Evidence, methodology & sources why each firm · how tiers are set · sources · change log · verified 22 Jul 2026 · next review 22 Aug 2026

Firm evidence

Tier 1 — Market leaders Open firm profile →

Gunster

Gunster is placed in market leaders for Private Client & Estate Planning in Miami. Public mapping (banded): 25–49 attorneys, major local depth, ≈15 partners · <5 counsel · 10+ associates. Evidence gates — office (G1) PASS, local practice (G2) PASS, recent signal (G3) PASS. The placement carries no numeric score.

Strongest mapped work

Litigation & DisputesReal EstatePrivate Client & Estate Planning

Public hiring signal

Hiring signal: FLAT — no public hiring change detected in the mapping window.

Limits of this assessment

  • —A tier is Sartori’s editorial opinion, not a fact about the firm or a client-satisfaction measure.
  • —Facts are mapped from public sources and shown as bands; they lag reality by weeks or months.
  • —No third-party legal-directory band is used as an input.

Sources for this entry

Methodology

How tiers are assigned

Deterministic public-footprint core (local depth, practice share, seniority mix, public hiring momentum), computed relative to this market's own distribution. Tier placement is derived from this public mapped data; a per-firm public-source ledger is compiled for firms in the annual research pass and applies to those firms' factual claims, not to tier membership. No third-party legal-directory bands are used as an input.

Market scope

5–9 firms earn a tier in Miami within this scope (banded).

Disclosures

Firm names used nominatively (factual). All counts shown as bands, never precise headcounts. No firm logos. Report an error via the site contact form.

Sources & change log

  1. 1 Gunster Offices & Contact Information | Florida's Law Firm for Leadersfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-21
  2. 2 Miami Legal Services | Miami Law Firm | Florida's Law Firm for Leadersfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-21
  3. 3 Miami Legal Services | Miami Law Firm | Florida's Law Firm for Leadersfirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-21
  4. 4 Gunster — Miami news & announcementsfirm_website · G3 · 2026-07-21
  5. 5 Cozen O'Connor: Officesfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-21
  6. 6 Cozen O'Connor: Miamifirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-21
  7. 7 Cozen O'Connor — Miami news & announcementsfirm_website · G3 · 2026-07-21
  8. 8 Locations | Day Pitneyfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-21
  9. 9 Miami Office | Day Pitney LLP | Day Pitneyfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-21
  10. 10 Day Pitney — attorney bios & practice pagesfirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-21
  11. 11 Day Pitney — Miami news & announcementsfirm_website · G3 · 2026-07-21
  12. 12 Offices | Holland & Knightfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-21
  13. 13 Miami | Offices | Holland & Knightfirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-21
  14. 14 Holland & Knight — Miami news & announcementsfirm_website · G3 · 2026-07-21
  15. 15 Nelson Mullins - Locationsfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-21
  16. 16 Nelson Mullins - Miami, FLfirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-21
  17. 17 Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough — Miami news & announcementsfirm_website · G3 · 2026-07-21
22 Jul 2026 Scope-aware market-relative core assembled.
22 Jul 2026 17 verified source(s) ingested for the researched firms; tier placement comes from our own market data so unresearched visible firms do not block approval → APPROVED (auto).
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04 — Questions

About this ranking

Who are the best Private Client & Estate Planning law firms in Miami?

As of July 2026, Gunster, Cozen O'Connor occupy Tier 1 — Market leaders — on Sartori's Miami Private Client & Estate Planning board. That band is an editorial judgement of estate-planning depth, seniority mix and market standing; full placement of all 6 visible firms is on this page.

Is Gunster the best Private Client & Estate Planning law firm in Miami?

Gunster sits in Tier 1 — Market leaders — of Sartori's Miami Private Client & Estate Planning board as of July 2026, alongside Cozen O'Connor. Sartori does not name a single #1: the gap between Tier 1 firms is genuinely unmeasurable, and a numeric score would be false precision.

Which firms have the biggest Private Client & Estate Planning benches in Miami?

By mapped Miami bench, the largest firms on this board are Gunster (25–49 mapped lawyers each), followed by Cozen O'Connor, Greenberg Traurig (10–24). All counts are bands, never precise headcounts.

Which Private Client & Estate Planning teams are hiring in Miami?

As of July 2026, no firm on this board shows a public hiring signal in the mapping window. Live Miami mandates are listed on Sartori's jobs board.

What is a Tier 1 law firm?

In Sartori's rankings, Tier 1 — Market leaders — is an editorial judgement expressed in words, never a score: the firms whose Miami bench depth, seniority mix and market standing set the reference point for the market. As of July 2026 that is Gunster, Cozen O'Connor. Within the tier no firm outranks another.

Which are the best law firms in Miami overall?

Sartori's overall Miami board groups 25 firms into editorial tiers; as of July 2026 its Tier 1 is Gunster, Holland & Knight, Akerman Senterfitt, Cole Scott & Kissane, Greenberg Traurig. See /firms/in/miami/.

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This ranking is compiled independently by Sartori from public sources. Tiers are Sartori’s editorial opinion, expressed without numeric scores; firms are named for identification only, no logos are reproduced, and no firm has paid for or approved its placement. No third-party legal-directory band is used as an input. Nothing here is legal advice or a recommendation to instruct counsel.