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Martin J. Alexander , one of the founding partners of Holland & Knight’s West Palm Beach office, practices general commercial and corporate litigation in state and federal courts. His practice includes the representation of corporate and individual clients of the firm in wide-ranging contractual and business disputes. Mr. Alexander handles matters concerning the sale and transfer of stock ownership, securities law violations, minority shareholder rights, non-compete agreements, and ...
Harsh concentrates in the areas of domestic and international corporate transactions and related business dispute resolution. He counsels public and privately held companies as a boardroom advisor and a courtroom advocate in high-stakes corporate matters. Harsh serves as general counsel for businesses with a prominent national or international presence. His general counsel practice focuses on preventative counseling and business structuring. Harsh advises clients on mergers, acquisitions, con...
Rudwin Ayaia is a Florida attorney and a named partner at Cohen, Blostein & Ayala, P.A. , focusing his practice in Plaintiff Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice. He received his Bachelors from Quinnipiac University Magna Cum Laude in 2007 and his Juris Doctor as a Goodwin Scholar from Nova Southeastern University in 2010. His experience and professionalism have earned him recognition as a Super Lawyers Rising Star and Best Lawyers in America© for Personal Injury – Plaintiff...
Scott J. Bakal , co-chair of Neal Gerber Eisenberg’s Taxation practice group, finds tax-sensitive solutions to complex financial situations, business transactions, and estate planning matters. Scott works primarily with entrepreneurial companies and high net worth individuals, often focusing on international families and companies with cross-border operations. Scott strives to find the most elegant but simple solutions for the problems faced by sophisticated high net worth individuals a...
Donn A. Beloff's practice is focused on public and private securities offerings, private equity and venture capital transactions, public and private securities offerings (as both issuer's and underwriter's counsel), mergers and acquisitions and counseling boards and senior management on strategic business, corporate governance, financial and transactional matters. Donn's specific industry experience includes health care services, computer hardware and software, information technology, telecom...
Eyal Berger focuses his practice on bankruptcy law, creditors’ rights, and insolvency problems. He protects the interests of financial institutions and lessors as secured and unsecured creditors in bankruptcy proceedings, assisting them in preserving and/or repossessing their collateral. Eyal has served as counsel in well-known bankruptcy proceedings, including the representation of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors for the Estate of Rothstein, Rosenfeldt & Adler, P.A., ...
Kristin E. Bianculli is an experienced trial attorney at Kelley / Uustal who handles a wide range of personal injury and wrongful death cases, including those involving auto accidents, dangerous and unsafe consumer products, and premises liability, among others. Ms. Bianculli is a graduate of Saint Joseph’s University and Nova Southeastern University. She is a passionate advocate for clients and has earned a positive reputation for her abilities and trial skills. She has been named to t...
David Birke serves as co-chair of Akerman’s M&A and Private Equity Practice Group. David’s practice focuses on representing private equity funds, family offices and their portfolio companies in complex acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, restructurings, growth capital investments, and debt and equity financings. David’s wide ranging practice also encompasses representing other private and public companies with corporate governance, joint ventures, executive co...
Suzanne Bogdan is the managing partner in the Fort Lauderdale office. She handles all types of employment-related matters, including claims for age, race, sex, disability, religious, and national origin discrimination arising under the various civil rights laws, as well as claims involving family leave issues, wage hour matters, and breach of contract. Suzanne's practice includes preventive counseling, training, audits, policy reviews, drafting of contracts, defense of claims in the administr...
Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Construction Law and a LEED® Accredited Professional, Stacy Bercun Bohm represents developers, contractors, subcontractors, and design professionals in complex construction contract, project administration, and litigation matters. She is one of the first lawyers in Florida to achieve both Board Certification and LEED accreditation. Chambers USA states, “She understands the industry and brings that knowledge to negotiations.” Stacy structur...
Michael Bittman is board certified as a specialist in Health Law. He has experience representing clients in the healthcare industry, including hospitals, nursing homes, managed care companies, pharmacies, medical equipment suppliers, home health agencies, and physicians. He has been lead trial counsel in a number of federal, state, and administrative health law cases and represents clients in healthcare fraud investigations, qui tam or whistleblower cases, contract disputes, health insurance ...
Renee L. Brant is a partner in Wicker Smith’s Fort Lauderdale office handling cases concerning medical malpractice and general negligence matters. Mrs. Brant graduated from Baylor University in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration and environmental sciences. She then continued her education at Stetson College of Law, where she earned a Juris Doctor cum laude in 2000. She has been practicing medical malpractice for approximately 15 years, including local and regional f...
Gary Brown is a Partner in Kelley Kronenberg's Fort Lauderdale office and is the Head of the firm’s Construction Practice Group. Gary focuses his practice on complex commercial and general business litigation. He is Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Construction Law. Overseeing the firm’s construction practice, Gary assists businesses in both complex and routine matters with substantial experience in construction-related issues. He has tremendous experience handling constructi...
Martin Burkett serves as co-chair of Akerman’s M&A and Private Equity Practice. Martin represents public and private companies and private equity funds in a variety of corporate transactions, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions. Martin’s practice includes structuring and negotiating complex business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, going private transactions, venture and growth capital investments, debt and equity fi...
Christopher Carver supervises and conducts all aspects of federal and state civil litigation at trial and appellate levels, including case management, motions and pleadings, oral argument, depositions and written discovery, mediation, and trial. Areas of practice include arbitration, admiralty and maritime, antitrust, civil rights and electoral law, class actions, contracts, covenants not to compete, general commercial litigation, insurance law, injunctive proceedings, internet issues, intell...
Charles Caulkins is a partner in the Fort Lauderdale office and a member of the firm's Management Committee. Since 1977, he has represented employers nationally in labor and employment law matters. He advises employers on the development and implementation of preventive labor relations programs, including management education and training, to avoid charges and lawsuits, protect trade secrets, and resolve disputes. He regularly counsels employers on union-related matters. He also handles emplo...
Florida attorney, Jay Cohen focuses his practice in Plaintiff Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice. As a senior partner at Cohen, Blostein & Ayala, P.A. , he represents individuals and families who have suffered catastrophic loss due to the negligence of others. His experience and professionalism have earned him membership in the American Board of Trial Advocates, peer recognition from Super Lawyers, Florida’s Legal Elite and The Best Lawyers® in America, and an AV Preeminent...
Jordan Cohen joined Wicker Smith in 2003 and is a partner in the Fort Lauderdale office. He received his Juris Doctor cum laude from Duke University in 2001 and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Philosophy from Tulane University, graduating cum laude in 1997. Prior to joining Wicker Smith, he worked for two years as a law clerk for Fourth District Court of Appeal Chief Judge Mark E. Polen. Mr. Cohen’s practice is devoted to 100% litigation. Mr. Cohen has extensive experience in...
Attorney Todd R. Falzone is an experienced South Florida personal injury lawyer who has secured dozens of multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts for personal injury and wrongful death victims. Mr. Falzone has helped secure hundreds of millions in compensation on behalf of clients at Kelley/Uustal, particularly in the areas of product liability, auto accidents, premises liability, medical negligence, maritime accidents, and discrimination. He has been named one of the most effective law...
Irwin J. Fayne practices in the area of real estate law with an emphasis on retail, office and industrial leasing, and shopping center acquisition and development. His office and industrial leasing practice involves representing landlords of downtown/urban office and industrial developments. His retail practice involves representing landlords of regional malls, street retail and community shopping centers on transactions with big box and national retailers. He also represents national retaile...
Jonathan S. Gelman counsels developers, investors and institutions in a wide variety of real estate and general business matters. In his 17 years of practice, Jon has structured and closed hundreds of real estate transactions, including many notable local and national projects.
Irwin Gilbert is a senior partner at Conrad & Scherer’s Fort Lauderdale office with a practice concentrating primarily on complex commercial litigation, general business litigation, construction defect litigation, class actions and professional liability. Practicing in State and Federal Courts in Florida and across the Country, Irwin represents fortune 100 companies in high stakes litigation. He has been selected as lead counsel for the defense in mass shooting cases. Irwin believes...
Andrew Gold has extensive experience litigating cases in and outside of Florida. He focuses on complex commercial litigation with particular emphasis on private equity, corporate governance, post-merger & acquisition disputes, and bankruptcy adversary proceedings. Andrew’s corporate client base is comprised of private equity groups, including one of the most prestigious private equity companies in Florida, as well as manufacturers, software developers, database hosters, restaurants,...
A Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, Michael Goldberg chairs Akerman’s Fraud and Recovery Practice, an experienced team of lawyers focused on unraveling high-profile investor fraud, including Ponzi schemes, receiverships, and EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program wrongdoing. Michael has managed some of the largest Ponzi scheme liquidation recoveries in U.S. history. More recently he has developed a reputation for his work unraveling EB-5 fraud schemes. As noted in Chambers USA...
Peter Goldman litigates complex business cases, including class action and mass tort cases, of an extremely wide variety before judges and juries in state and federal court and arbitration panels. A considerable segment of his practice is concentrated in the representation of various healthcare corporate entities relating to corporate structure and defense of upstream professional liability claims made against parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, and directors.Mr. Goldman has extensiv...
Glenn E. Goldstein is the Managing Shareholder of Greenberg Traurig's Fort Lauderdale office. As a trial attorney for nearly 30 years, Glenn has experience in handling commercial, financial institution, real estate, land use, construction and product liability litigation matters, including class actions. Glenn has represented corporate, financial and real estate institutional clients, along with entrepreneurs and governmental entities in complex and high-profile cases throughout Florida and t...
As a Florida Bar Board Certified Specialist in Marital and Family Law, Kenneth A. Gordon serves as the Head of Brinkley Morgan’s Family Law Department. With 20 years of legal experience, he focuses his practice on handling complex family law matters, including dissolutions of marriage, alimony, parental responsibility and timesharing disputes, business valuations, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, equitable distribution, adoption, domestic partnership agreements, appeals and all ot...
Justin D. Grosz is a Partner and Co-Business Unit Leader of the Justice for Kids® Division, the firm’s national practice dedicated to providing legal services to protect abused, disabled, and catastrophically injured children harmed at home, by the acts of others, in child welfare and foster care settings, and in group home settings and residential treatment centers. Justin focuses his practice on: Catastrophic injury Child safety Civil rights Injured, abused and neglected children ...
Fred Haddad has been practicing criminal law at both the trial and appellate level for some thirty eight years, and has tried over five hundred cases in more than 25 jurisdictions. Mr. Haddad has been admitted to the United States Supreme Court as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits as well as the United States District Courts for the Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Florida, the Western District of Tenne...
Adam F. Haimo is a Partner in the Fort Lauderdale office of Smith, Currie & Hancock LLP. He is Board Certified in Construction Law by the Florida Bar. Prior to joining the firm, Adam practiced in the civil litigation group in the Miami office of a well respected South Florida law firm. Mr. Haimo practices in all areas of civil litigation with a focus on the construction and real estate investment industry. His extensive litigation experience includes complex commercial litigation, real es...
James S. Haliczer , co-founder and the firm’s managing partner, has been involved in dozens of trials involving numerous substantive areas of the law including medical and legal malpractice, personal injury, wrongful death, commercial and construction litigation. He concentrates his practice at this time in the trial of complex cases involving medical malpractice, personal injury/wrongful death, and business disputes. Mr. Haliczer has the unique experience of having successfully represe...
Barbara A. Hall concentrates her practice in the area of land use and environmental law. She has 21 years of experience in development law first representing local governments as an Assistant City Attorney and as Assistant County Attorney, and then representing private property owners and developers. Barbara has wide-ranging experience in comprehensive planning, developments of regional impact, zoning, site plan approvals, platting, environmental permitting, variances, annexation, due diligen...
Ross has focused his law practice on bankruptcy and insolvency since 1998. He represents parties in all aspects of the bankruptcy process including trustees, assignees for the benefit of creditors, receivers, creditors, debtors, committees, and purchasers of assets. Ross is a member of the Panel of Bankruptcy Trustees for the Southern District of Florida where he is routinely appointed as a chapter 7 and chapter 11 trustee. He also serves as a receiver and assignee for the benefit of creditor...
Bill Heller founded and chairs Akerman’s Consumer Financial Services Practice Group, among the largest national legal teams supporting consumer financial service providers. Bill leads a team of more than 100 lawyers—some former in-house and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau attorneys—with a platform for big stakes and high volume national litigation, federal and state examination, investigation and enforcement support, as well as regulatory compliance in all 50 states. A ...
Jeffrey Allan Hirsch offers more than three decades of experience in resolving disputes through general civil litigation and arbitration. Jeffrey represents high-net-worth individuals and companies in matters involving a wide range of business related problems. Throughout his career, Jeffrey has represented his clients in disputes involving contracts, estates, trusts, title insurance, insurance coverage, real estate transactions, financial institutions, fraud, lender liability, and business t...
Ms. Hoffman is a member of the firm’s Trademark and Intellectual Property Litigation practice groups. She brings to the firm her vast experience in managing global intellectual property portfolios for foreign and domestic clients. Ms. Hoffman’s approach to protecting intellectual property for her clients focuses on achieving a proper balance on return on investment of the client and managing the client’s risk tolerance. Upon graduation from Emory University's Goizueta Busine...
Tom Hunker is a Board Certified, AV Rated appellate attorney with many years of experience at the trial and appellate levels. Tom has effectively briefed and argued numerous appeals in state and federal courts in a broad range of practice areas. Throughout his career, clients and other lawyers and law firms have relied on Tom's knowledge and expertise in formulating litigation strategies and presenting strong arguments. Tom received designations as a SuperLawyer and one of Florida Trend&rsquo...
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