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MDM Legal, a prominent boutique law firm in West Palm Beach, FL founded by Denise A. Mutamba, Esq., and Special Counsel, Masimba M. Mutamba, Esq., specializing in Employment, Housing, Immigration, and Estate Planning law. Denise brings extensive expertise in the areas of employment, housing, and estate planning matters, offering strategic counsel and representation to diverse clients. With a background in labor and employment law, she advises on HR issues, negotiations, and compliance. Masimba adds over a decade of civil rights and immigration law experience to MDM Legal, advocating nationwide and handling visa applications and complex appeals for individuals and businesses alike. Committed to client success, MDM Legal is dedicated to providing exceptional legal.
Denise A. Mutamba Founder & Managing Partner
Ms. Mutamba focuses her practice on representing clients with respect to human resources matters, representing landlords and tenants in housing-related matters, filing immigrant petitions and visa and adjustments of status, and assisting families plan for the future by drafting advanced directives and last wills and testaments and creating trusts.
As a labor and employment lawyer, she counsels and advises her clients regarding discipline, wages, and compliance with federal, state, and local labor law. She also represents clients’ interests in collective bargaining negotiations, arbitration, and claims of unfair labor practices. Finally, she represents clients with respect to discrimination and retaliation claims.
Ms. Mutamba was born and raised in Canton, OH, the home of the NFL’s Football Hall of Fame. She received a Bachelor of Science in Human Resources from the University of Akron. Before beginning her legal career, she worked for a fortune 500 company in its human resources department where she advised hiring managers in the areas of training, recruitment, selection, and termination.
Ms. Mutamba is an alumna of the University of Miami School of Law. During her time at the University of Miami School of Law, she earned a CALI Award for Excellence in Human Rights Law, was recognized on the Dean’s List for academic excellence, and tapped into the Society of Bar and Gavel, an organization that recognizes students who demonstrate exemplary character, service to others, positive attitude, and leadership. In addition, she represented the law school dring mock trial competitions as a member of the Mock Trial Team. Finally, Ms. Mutamba served as a committee chairperson for the Black Law Students Association.
Before founding MDM Legal, PLLC, Ms. Mutamba worked at a boutique law firm advising municipalities and private businesses on matters related to labor and employment. In addition, she worked as an Assistant City Attorney where she practiced labor and employment and workers’ compensation law. There she gained valuable experience drafting a variety of human resource policies and procedures, ordinances, and resolutions. Prior to gaining legal experience in labor and employment matters, Ms. Mutamba litigated housing discrimination and landlord-tenant matters, as well as drafted estate planning documents.
Ms. Mutamba is very active in the legal community. She is a past president of the F. Malcolm Cunningham Sr. Bar Association, a former 15th Judicial Circuit Representative of the Young Lawyers Division of the Florida Bar Board of Governors, a former Associate Member and Pupilage Leader of the Craig S. Barnard American Inn of Court, a former co-chair of the Palm Beach County Bar Association’s Committee for Diversity and Inclusion. She currently chairs the Employment Law CLE Committee of the Palm Beach County Bar Association and an Investigating Member for Grievance Committee E for the Florida Bar, and an active member of the Judicial Nominating Procedures Committee for the Florida Bar.
She is a proud member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. and a proud foster parent. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family, watching movies, playing taboo, and mentoring.
Ms. Mutamba is admitted to practice law in all county and circuit courts in the State of Florida, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 2016 Daily Business Review Magazine’s Most Effective Lawyer Award Finalist
- 2017 F. Malcolm Cunningham, Sr. Bar Association’s Member of the Year
- 2019 Florida Trend Magazine’s Legal Elite
- 2020 Florida Trend Magazine’s Legal Elite
- 2023 Palm Beach County Bar Member Spotlight
Masimba M. Mutamba Special Counsel
Mr. Mutamba is a seasoned civil rights and immigration attorney with over a decade’s worth of experience handling complex issues for individuals and businesses alike.
Prior to being Special Counsel for the firm, Masimba was the Human Rights Defense Center (“HRDC”)’s inaugural William A. Trine Fellow. In that role, he litigated civil rights cases all over the country, including filing petitions with the U.S. Supreme Court. Masimba advanced the civil rights of media organizations, individuals, and classes of individuals imprisoned in the nation’s jails, prisons, and federal immigration detention centers. He filed First Amendment lawsuits around the country challenging censorship policies that greatly curtailed the rights of book and newspaper publishers and family members to contact people in custody. He also brought federal and state consumer class action claims, and appealed lower court decisions, to fight against the predatory schemes of some private companies targeting prisoners or the families who sought to maintain contact with them. Furthermore, Masimba litigated Eighth Amendment lawsuits against corrections and medical staff who subjected prisoners to cruel and unusual punishment that resulted in their catastrophic injury or death. Masimba now employs his extensive expertise on these issues as a civil rights consultant around the country.
Masimba has also represented clients across the country and beyond U.S. borders in obtaining a wide array of non-immigrant and immigrant visas, including but not limited to: student (F) visas; cultural exchange (J) visas; religious worker (R) visas; crewmember (D) visas; exceptional talent (O) visas; performing athlete, artist, entertainer (P) visas; specialty occupation (H-1B) visas; intracompany transferee (L) visas; and treaty trader/treaty investor (E) visas.
In addition to assisting clients with visa applications, Mr. Mutamba has also filed administrative appeals with the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) and, when necessary, filed federal district court lawsuits and Circuit Courts of Appeals Petitions for Review against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its subordinate agencies, including the USCIS and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He is also experienced in advancing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and lawsuits in furtherance of his client’s immigration cases.
Mr. Mutamba is currently a representative of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit on the Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division’s Board of Governors, and is member of the Florida Bar’s standing Committee on Media & Communications Law. In his local community, Masimba is actively involved in the F. Malcolm Cunningham, Sr. Bar Association, the Palm Beach County Bar Association’s standing Committee for Diversity and Inclusion, and that Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section.
Masimba graduated magna cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law, where he was an associate editor of the University of Miami International & Comparative Law Review. Masimba also obtained a Master of Laws (LLM) degree in International Law, with distinction, from the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. He is licensed to practice law in the state of Florida, as well as several federal courts around the country, and is also admitted in the United States Supreme Court. As an immigrant to the United States, Mr. Mutamba is passionate about helping individuals, families, and business navigate their way through the immigration system.
Mr. Mutamba is admitted to practice law in all county and circuit courts in the State of Florida, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 2023 President’s Award, Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors
- 2022 President’s Award, Florida Bar COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery Task Force
- 2022 President’s Award, Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors
- 2021 President’s Award, Florida Bar COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery Task Force
- 2021 President’s Award, Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors
- 2020 President’s Award, Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors
- 2020 Florida Trend Legal Elite, Government and Non-Profit Attorneys
