Steven E. Heintz is Managing Partner of Heintz & Becker, a personal injury plaintiff's law firm.

Heintz grew up in Bradenton and has degrees from Manatee Junior College and the University of South Florida. Before attending law school, he was a private investigator. He received his Juris Doctorate from Florida State University College of Law in 1980.

Admitted to the Florida Bar in 1980, Mr. Heintz worked in the Public Defender's office in Bradenton and the State Attorney's office in West Palm Beach. For the last 25 years, he's been exclusively representing catastrophic personal injury and accident victims.

Mr. Heintz is a board certified, civil trial specialist by both the Florida Bar and the National Board of Trial Advocacy and also has been selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers, an honor granted only to the state’s top attorneys.Mr.

Heintz also is AV-rated – the highest possible rating awarded by the prestigious Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. He is a member of the President's Club of the Florida Justice Institute, an active member of the American Association for Justice, and a supporter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

He authored a chapter in Florida Evidence that was published by Lawyers Cooperative in 1996.

He is also a Master in the American Inns of Court and has lectured at continuing education seminars attended by other attorneys.

Mr. Heintz is married to Dr. Joan Blackford-Heintz and has three sons.

In July 2017, Heintz' son Spencer Heintz and three other young men, Michael Wenzel, Bo Benac, and Nicholas Burns Easterling posted a video of themselves dragging a shark behind their speed boat. The incident caused outrage as an act of animal cruelty throughout the community.