Side-by-Side Comparison

Compare Divorce Lawyers

Pick any two Pinellas County divorce attorneys and see their track records side by side — objective counts from public court records, 2020–2026. No reviews, no star ratings, no scores.

Track Records Compared

Objective counts from Pinellas County dissolution-of-marriage court records, 2020–2026. Em dashes mean the value is not available in public records. Neither column is “better” — these are facts, not scores.

MetricPeter N. MerosMeros, Brennan & Brennan, P.A.Kelli Hanley CrabbWeber, Crabb & Wein, P.A.
Years licensedFlorida Bar5442
Pinellas dissolutions of recordAll-years dissolution-of-marriage cases354291
Active last 12 monthsCases filed in the last year128
Final judgmentsCases ending with a signed final judgment5110
DismissedCases closed without a final judgment20
Settlement rate *See caveat below — not a win rate56.9%20.0%
Cases with childrenCustody and timesharing involved3022
Expert-witness casesCases with experts in the docket346
Motions per caseAverage filings per case4.11.4
HearingsDocketed hearings across cases
BadgesDeterministic, threshold-based — hover for criteriaVeteranHigh volumeVery activeHigh settlementHandles complexVeteran

* Settlement rate: Share of final judgments with a settlement agreement in the docket. Dismissals are not counted as settlements, and most private settlements never appear in dockets.

How They Match Up

Every sentence below is generated from the same fixed count templates for every pair of attorneys — filled in from public court records, with the data source and time window labeled on each block. Higher counts are facts of record, not recommendations, and nothing here measures skill or predicts outcomes.

Experience

Pinellas: Clerk portal-verified dissolutions of record (all years) · Hillsborough: derived from 13th Circuit clerk case records (not portal-verified) · Florida Bar years licensed · filings in the last 12 months

  • Peter N. Meros has 354 Pinellas dissolution cases of record vs Kelli Hanley Crabb's 291 — 63 more cases of record for Peter N. Meros. A larger count means more documented Pinellas dissolutions, nothing more.
  • In Hillsborough County, Peter N. Meros has 6 dissolution cases of record vs Kelli Hanley Crabb's 2.
  • Peter N. Meros has been licensed 54 years vs Kelli Hanley Crabb's 42 — a 12-year difference in time licensed, not a measure of ability.
  • In the last 12 months, Peter N. Meros appeared in 12 newly filed cases vs Kelli Hanley Crabb's 8 — 4 more recent filings for Peter N. Meros.

Filing Style

Analyzed 2020–2026 Pinellas docket sample

  • Peter N. Meros files an average of 4.1 motions per case vs Kelli Hanley Crabb's 1.4 — a higher-motion litigation pattern for Peter N. Meros (2.6 more motions per case on average). Motion volume is a docket count, not a quality measure.

Documented Tendencies

Analyzed 2020–2026 Pinellas docket sample

  • 29 of Peter N. Meros's 51 sampled final judgments had a settlement agreement visible in the docket (56.9%).
  • 2 of Kelli Hanley Crabb's 10 sampled final judgments had a settlement agreement visible in the docket (20.0%).
  • Peter N. Meros's sampled cases: 51 ended in final judgments, 2 closed without one (dismissed).
  • Kelli Hanley Crabb's sampled cases: 10 ended in final judgments, 0 closed without one (dismissed).

Settlement figures count only settlement agreements visible in the docket — dismissals are not counted as settlements, and most private settlements never appear in dockets. This is a docket-visibility measure, not a win rate.

Judge Overlap

Case assignments in the analyzed 2020–2026 Pinellas docket sample — appearance counts, not outcomes

Both attorneys have appeared before 9 of the same judges in the analyzed sample. Appearance counts say how often each attorney has worked in that courtroom — nothing about results there.

JudgePeter N. MerosKelli Hanley Crabb
Steve D. Berlin16 cases9 cases
Jack Helinger11 cases8 cases
Elizabeth Jack9 cases7 cases
Rebecca Hamilton5 cases6 cases
Benjamin Thomas8 cases2 cases
Frederick L. Pollack4 cases1 case
Brian Gnage2 cases2 cases
Linda R. Allan2 cases2 cases

+ 1 more shared judge with smaller appearance counts

Head-to-Head

These attorneys have faced each other in 2 cases.

1 final judgment · 1 dismissed

In those shared cases, Peter N. Meros was on the petitioner side 1 time and the respondent side 1 time — Kelli Hanley Crabb the reverse.

50% FJ, 50% dismissed across 2 cases. No dominant pattern.

Most recent shared case filed 2025-10-24

Most Experience Against

Attorneys with the most documented cases opposite each of these two — useful if you are interviewing counsel and the other side has already retained one of them. Appearance counts are from public court records.

Opposite Peter N. Meros

Deduped head-to-head case counts, 2020–2026 docket sample

Opposite Kelli Hanley Crabb

Deduped head-to-head case counts, 2020–2026 docket sample

Based on public court records covering 143 Pinellas County divorce attorneys, 2020–2026 · Data updated May 8, 2026 · How these rankings work