Daniel Guarnieri was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1977 and grew up in Tampa, Florida.  He graduated from the University of Florida in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology, with a minor in Criminology.  Continuing at the University of Florida, he graduated cum laude from the Fredric G. Levin College of Law.

Mr. Guarnieri was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2004. 

Mr. Guarnieri worked for two years as a staff attorney for the Seventh Judicial Circuit Courts in St. Augustine.  In that capacity he had daily contact with numerous judges and magistrates, and frequent interaction with the Office of the State Attorney, the Office of the Public Defender, and various administrative and executive agencies.  He was directly responsible to the judges of the Circuit for the drafting of legal memoranda, proposed orders and final judgments on cases pending before them.  He also assisted the judges in the development and implementation of a criminal pretrial scheduling procedure.

Mr. Guarnieri joined NELSON HESSE, LLP in August 2006.  His current practice focuses on warranty defense litigation in federal and state courts, complex commercial litigation, real estate litigation, local government law disputes, debt collection and general civil litigation.  He is licensed to practice in all state courts in Florida, and has handled numerous appeals to various Florida District Courts of Appeal.  He is also admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Middle District of Florida, the Northern District of Florida, and the Southern District of Florida.

Mr. Guarnieri is a member of the Florida Bar’s Young Lawyers Division and the Sarasota County Bar Association.  He has Co-Chaired the Sarasota County Young Lawyers Division’s Mock Trial Committee from 2006-2008 and was the Chair of the Young Lawyers Division’s Law Week Review Committee for 2008.  He has sat on the Board of Directors for the Young Lawyer's Division since 2009.  He has also chaired a YLD Civics Committee that created a civics magazine and distributed it to over 30,000 local children in 2009.  For the past two years Mr. Guarnieri has volunteered with the Big Brothers Big Sisters Decisions to Win program.  He is a charter member of the Sarasota Southside Rotary Club, and served on the Board of Directors for the Rotary Club of Sarasota Southside Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization.

He has been a speaker for the Florida Yacht Brokers' Association and Sarasota Association of Realtors, and he is published in Docket Magazine.

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