Dennis J. Eisinger

Dennis J. Eisinger is the founding member of Eisinger Law and serves as the firm’s managing partner. For the past four decades, he has represented the interests of numerous condominium and homeowners’ associations and co-ops in South Florida and statewide. In addition, he has built a successful real estate and corporate law practice, representing developers, financial institutions and private equity clubs. Mr. Eisinger began his law career with a boutique law firm in North Miami Beach. He rose to the level of partner in four years before leaving to open the South Florida office of a well-known national firm. He then started Eisinger Law in 1996.

Mr. Eisinger is Board Certified in Condominium and Planned Development Law by The Florida Bar.

Since 2005, he has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida’s School of Law, teaching a class on condominium and community development law to second- and third-year law students. He is also a frequent speaker on various issues affecting community associations and planned developments. He has been a lecturer for many organizations including The Florida Bar the University of Miami Institute on Condominiums and Cluster Development, Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Institute of Real Estate Management, and the Aventura Marketing Council, an organization he had been active in for years as a board member and officer. He has also appeared on national television as a recognized expert on various community association and real estate topics on multiple occasions.

Mr. Eisinger is certified by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation to provide continuing education programs to Community Association Managers, and is also licensed by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation as a certified education provider to teach a Community Association Board Certification course to new board members.

Mr. Eisinger received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration specializing in both Real Estate and Accounting (with High Honors) from the University of Florida. He then went on to study law at the University of Florida’s School of Law, earning his J.D. in 1980 and was admitted to the Florida Bar that year. Mr. Eisinger is a member of the Florida Bar’s Real Property and Probate and Trust Law Section. He is also AV rated by Martindale Hubbell, which is the highest ranking bestowed by the organization that evaluates lawyers and law firms.

Practice Areas:

• Community Association Law
• Planned Community Development Law
• Developer representation
• Real Estate
• Corporate/Partnership Law
• Finance

Awards and Recognitions:

• South Florida Best Lawyers Guide 2023 Best Real Estate Law Firm
• Fort Lauderdale Illustrated magazine 2022 Top Lawyer
• Fort Lauderdale Illustrated’s 2021 Top Real Estate Lawyer
• Daily Business Review 2020 Trailblazer
• AV Preeminent® rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell
• South Florida Legal Guide Top Lawyer 2010-2020
• South Florida Legal Guide recognized as a distinguished attorney in the Practice Focus of Community Association and Real Estate Law 2010-2020
• South Florida Business & Wealth Leaders in Law, Top Broward County Lawyer 2015
• Eisinger Law, winner of the Florida Community Association Journal’s Readers’ Choice Award 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015

Professional and Community Organizations:

• Long-time board member and former president of the Community Association Institute (Miami Chapter), a not-for-profit trade organization that serves the community association industry.
• Founding member of a key CAI committee called Florida Legislative Alliance which advocates for rules and laws that improve and support associations’ interests in legislative matters.
• Eisinger created and organized the first formal mediation program for resolution of community association disputes in 1991.
• Board member and Advocacy Chair of the American Lung Association (South Florida Chapter) since 2015.
• Active volunteer and coach for many years with the Cooper City Optimist Club Program, organizing the group’s first travel basketball program. He also coached numerous youth basketball teams at the David Posnack Jewish Community Center and established a youth mentoring/coaching program.
• Volunteer Assistant Basketball Coach at Pioneer Middle School.
• Eisinger was a volunteer member of the Cooper City Blue Ribbon Committee which was charged with making recommendations on capital improvements and expenditures in the City, and was an active participant in the “Cops and Kids” Campaign.
• Eisinger has organized several charity golf tournaments to benefit worthwhile charities in the area.

Published Articles:

• Miami Herald: Can you lose your home when you lose a court case? Why Miami’s Joe Carollo faces seizure of his
• El Nuevo Herald: ¿Puede perder su casa cuando pierde un juicio? Por qué Joe Carollo enfrenta un embargo hipotecario
• Are condo buyouts rising in Miami? What owners should know as developers make moves
• Florida law restricts foreigners’ real estate buying power. We explain who is most affected
• Real estate contracts tend to favor developers. What homebuyers should watch out for
• ‘You’re Going to Be a Great Lawyer One Day’: Here’s How This Dynamic Duo Started Off as Partners
• Condo Safety Bill Clears Legislature, heads to Gov. Desantis
• Take It to the Board: The Smoker’s Dilemma with Dennis Eisinger of Eisinger Law
• Miami Herald: ‘Don’t Know What To Do’: Edgewater Residents Face Losing Their Homes in Overheated Housing Market
• ‘People Are Concerned’: The Long-Term Effects of the Surfside Collapse on Real Estate Law
• Edgewater condo owners in the dark after timely offer | Miami Herald
• Some hope for stricter structural inspection legislation following Surfside collapse
• Sarasota Memorial Hospital officials funnel taxpayer money to PAC (heraldtribune.com)

Mr. Eisinger enjoys playing sports in his spare time and counts basketball, tennis, snow skiing, motorcycling and bicycling as his favorite activities.