Law Office Moving in Jacksonville and St. Johns County

Downtown Jacksonville offices near the Duval County Courthouse, along Bay St and in the Riverside blocks, are mostly multi-tenant buildings with loading docks, freight elevators, and move hours set by the property manager. Those buildings usually push the move to a weekend and ask for our certificate of insurance with the owner listed; we issue it on request. Street loading on Bay St or Forsyth St needs the building’s guidance on where a truck may stand.

In St. Augustine, the St. Johns County courthouse area off US-1 and the historic district have narrow streets, tight parking, and heavy tourist traffic on weekends, so an early start makes sense there. Firms in Southside and Ponte Vedra Beach suites often have ground-level access and fewer rules, but shared lobbies still matter.

Confidentiality is the firm’s duty, and our crew’s part of it is simple: we handle closed, sealed cartons and locked cabinets, and nothing else. No one on the crew opens, reads, or re-boxes a file. If a carton splits in transit, we set it aside unopened and ask a member of your staff to repack it.

A file room is the heaviest part of a law office move. We ask your staff to fill standard file cartons rather than oversized boxes, so each can be carried down a hallway or up a ramp by one person, and we stack them by weight on the truck with the heaviest at the bottom. Lateral cabinets that travel full get their drawers secured before they tip onto a dolly. On a humid July day, cartons stay inside until the truck backs in, since damp cardboard softens and labels lift. Floors and door frames at both suites are protected before the first dolly rolls.