Orlando trial attorney
When the stakes rise, counsel matters.
Eben C. Self brings more than three decades at The Florida Bar to serious criminal matters, selected injury claims, business conflicts, and consequential planning decisions.
Hard facts demand clear judgment.
Defense without flinching
One standard across the practice
Trial-tested counsel for serious cases and consequential decisions.
Legal problems are not abstract when freedom, family, health, livelihood, or a business is at risk. Every matter begins with the same questions: What actually happened? What can the evidence prove? What decision will best serve the client over time?
The strategy is then built deliberately—without false promises, unnecessary drama, or avoiding the difficult facts.
See how the practice is organizedThe practice
A focused range. One experienced lawyer.
Criminal defense leads a practice built around disputes, transitions, and decisions where the consequences deserve more than routine advice.
Criminal Defense
Serious felony, homicide, self-defense, and selected appellate matters.
02Serious Injury
Selected injury and wrongful-death claims prepared with trial in view.
03Wills & Planning
Practical, will-centered planning for important personal decisions.
04Business Law
Advice and advocacy for contracts, disputes, and business decisions.
The defense philosophy
The whole case. The whole person.
A serious defense does not pretend the difficult facts are not there. It confronts them, tests them, and insists that the case be decided through evidence, law, and due process—not revulsion or public pressure.
Representation is not approval. It is the difficult, essential work of ensuring that accusation does not replace proof and that a person is not reduced to the worst thing alleged about them.
Explore serious criminal defense
A broader trial perspective
Experience on the criminal, civil, trial, and appellate record.
Mr. Self’s practice history includes plaintiffs’ personal-injury work at Morgan, Colling & Gilbert, the predecessor firm to Morgan & Morgan, as well as criminal defense, civil litigation, and published appellate appearances.
- 01Practicing in Florida since 1993
A current member in good standing of The Florida Bar.
- 02Selected for court-appointed matters
Listed for Orange and Osceola counties in the Ninth Circuit.
- 03Trial and appellate perspective
State and federal practice with reported appellate work.
Media & analysis
A clear voice on difficult legal questions.
Plea agreement and prosecutorial judgment in a College Park case
Interviewed as an Orlando attorney and longtime neighborhood resident
↗News 6 · November 14, 2025Charging analysis after a police pursuit led to a bystander’s death
Independent trial-attorney analysis; not involved in the matter
↗News 6 · July 21, 2025Potential pleas and strategy in a death-penalty prosecution
Independent legal analysis; not involved in the matter
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The privacy notice explains how website inquiries, calls, technical logs, and third-party services are handled—and what not to send before the firm completes a conflict review.
A direct conversation
Start with the problem as it is.
Tell us what happened, what deadline or court date is approaching, and what concerns you most. The first conversation is about whether the firm is the right fit.