Joseph V. Camerlengo Jr.

Joe Camerlengo is a founding partner of El bufete de abogados de accidentes de camiones where he maintains a nationwide trial practice specializing in the areas of serious personal injury and wrongful death caused by trucking, bus and commercial motor vehicle crashes.   He is extremely hardworking and a relentless advocate for his clients.   Joe is board certified in truck accident law by the Consejo Nacional de Abogados Litigantes and board certified in civil trial law by both the Florida Bar and the National Board of Trial Advocates.   Joe is a member of ABOTA, has achieved a preeminent AV rating by Martindale Hubbell and has been voted a Florida Super Lawyer in Civil Trial and Personally Injury Law every year since 2008.  He has also been selected as a National Trial Lawyer Top 10 Trucking attorney. 

Joe is passionate about making our roads safer by pursuing, and helping other attorneys pursue, brokers, shippers, bad trucking companies and dangerous truck drivers.  Joe dedicates time to spreading highway safety messages in hopes of preventing crashes.  He uses his podcast called Joe Knows Trucks and the firm’s YouTube channel to educate anyone willing to listen about safe driving, advanced safety measures, autonomous vehicles, and other safety related messages. Joe and the firm have sponsored and participated in side underride demonstrations to raise awareness that large CMVs must have side underride guards.  Joe has spoken on equipping commercial motor vehicles with driver and forward facing dash cameras, automatic emergency braking, and higher insurance limits.  He is keeping up and speaking an autonomous commercial vehicles, smart roads, and the use of artificial intelligence in vehicles.

Joe remains actively involved in the leading trucking litigation attorney organizations.  Joe is a past President of the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys, Past Chair of the Florida Justice Association’s Trucking and CMV Crash Section, and Past Chair of the American Association for Justice Bus Litigation Group.  Currently Joe serves as an officer and executive board member for the American Association for Justice Trucking Litigation Group, on the Board of Regents for the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys, and serves on the board of the National Board of Trial Advocates and the National Board of Trucking Trial Advocates.  Joe speaks all over the country on issues relating to handling trucking crash cases and advanced trial techniques.  He has been a repeat speaker for the American Association for Justice, the Florida Justice Association, the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys, the 360 Advocacy programs, Trial Lawyers University, Trial School, Case Analysis, Trial Lawyer Nation, and many other trial lawyer organizations.  

Joe began his legal career defending insurance companies and corporations for 7 years before founding the Camerlengo Law Group in 2001 to focus on civil justice.  He has been representing plaintiffs in serious injury and death cases since then and enjoys the challenge of taking on large corporations and insurance companies. In 2014, Joe and his team joined Coker, Shickel, Sorenson, Posgay, Camerlengo & Iracki.  In 2017, Joe left that firm and joined forces with leading trucking trial attorneys Michael Leizerman and Joe Fried to form The Truck Accident Law Firm, handling trucking crash cases all over the country with their main office in Jacksonville, Florida. 

Joe is a double Gator, having received his B.S.B.A. in Finance in 1991 and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 1994, both with honors. Joe has been a member of the Florida Bar since 1994 and is also admitted to the United States District Court, for the Southern, Middle, and Northern Districts of Florida and the United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.  He has handled high profile cases throughout the country via pro hac admissions, including California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, Nevada, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, and more. 

Joe is actively involved in the Florida and Jacksonville Bar and his community.  He is a recognized leader on diversity and inclusion issues.  Joe served on the Florida Bar’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee for years, serving as chairman in 2011-2012.  He is a Past President of the Jacksonville Bar Association. Joe also supports several charitable and community organizations such as the Institute for Safer Trucking, the Tim Tebow Foundation, the Tom Coughlin Jay Fund, the St. Augustine Catholic Diocese, and Leadership Jacksonville.  Joe has served for years on the Jacksonville Host Committee for Florida’s Children First.  He enjoys coaching kids’ sports, playing golf, working out, surfing and, most importantly, spending time with his wife and their daughters.