Associate General Counsel – Insurance Defense - Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company - Fort Lauderdale, FL
(2024-10 - 2025-08)
Reduced employees and staff – effectively shutting down the intake department
- Managed over 100 cases in litigation with a focus on insurance coverage defense.
- Independently handled first-party insurance lawsuits from inception through settlement and dispositive motion in the intake department.
- Drafted responsive substantive pleadings, motions, briefs, and discovery.
- Represented the client in court for hearings, such as a hearing on a motion to dismiss.
- Maintained a leadership role in collaboration with litigation adjusters, administrative personnel and claims personnel in providing guidance of the litigation progress and strategic direction
Associate Attorney – Employment Law - Coane & Associates PLLC - Hallandale Beach, FL
(2024-01 - 2024-12)
Shutdown of employment law department - exodus of all attorneys in that department
- Managed discrimination cases based on gender, race, age, Fair and Labor Standards Act litigation proceedings in Southern District Court of Texas and Southern District Court of Florida
- Settled case based in the Fair and Labor Standards Act
- Composed responsive briefs to motions for summary judgment
- Interacted with clients regarding cases concerning age, gender, and race discrimination based cases.
- Reviewed charge files from EEOC investigations
- Composed complaints for employment discrimination based cases on behalf of employees.
Associate Attorney - Maritime and Admiralty Law - Davant Law Firm - Fort Lauderdale, FL
(2023-01 - 2024-12)
Extensive travel for boat inspections
- Managed a diverse caseload spanning maritime litigation, and coverage defense.
- Communicated effectively with clients and opposing counsel.
- Provided legal support in the maritime practice area, including drafting legal documents, memos, pleadings, conducting file and underwriting review, legal analysis, research, and participating in various vessel inspections.
In-House Counsel - Commercial Litigation - MSP Recovery Law Firm - Coral Gables, FL
(2015-01 - 2023-12)
- Managed over 20 attorneys including outside co-counsel regarding the organization, production, responses to the various discovery requests, drafting and responses to motion practice, and legal strategy of healthcare regulations and statutes involving Medicare and personal injury law.
- Reviewed, analyzed, edited and negotiated vendor agreements, service agreements, and settlement agreements for publicly traded data technology company.
- Successfully settled more than 300 Medicare Advantage Organization health claims.
- Managed over 30 nationwide putative class action lawsuits of pre-trial, motion practice, discovery, settlement negotiations, and hearing preparations.
- Assessed hundreds of healthcare claims through data evaluation to identify claim viability.
- Conducted legal research surrounding healthcare regulations and interplay with personal injury statutes, and composed appellate briefs for the Third District Court of Appeal, in the appellate division of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, in and for Miami-Dade County, Florida, the Third District Court of Appeals of Florida, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
- Received favorable rulings from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit court of first impression that permits Medicare Advantage Organizations the right to assign ownership of their claims for recovery to assignees.
- Drafted and conducted motion practice in state and federal courts, as well as state and federal appellate courts regarding various motions, including motions for summary judgment.
- Conducted trial, mediations, and depositions preparations for class action litigation that successfully achieved certification and class action settlement.
- Advised on various documents including, but not limited to, recovery assignment agreements involving Medicare Advantage Organizations, operating agreements and their amendments thereto, non-disclosure agreements, master service agreements, series agreements, entity formation documents, and purchase and sale of claims contracts.
- Managed investor relations for data technology company regarding legal strategy and business operations.
Internship/Associate Attorney - Andrew C. Demos, P.A. Law Firm - Hollywood, FL
(2015-01 - 2015-12)
- Conducted case law research and analysis in Commercial Real Estate for Homeowners' Associations
- Prepared requests for production, interrogatories, and requests for admissions on behalf of Homeowners' Associations.
Judicial Internship - The Honorable Judge Abby Cynamon, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Civil Division - Miami, FL
(2014-01 - 2014-12)
- Spear-headed analytical research dealing in insurance law and business law facilitating Judge Cynamon's legal review of the case.
- Composed detailed and clear memorandums of law with definitive answers of law.
- Participated in the case overview and discussed legal outcomes with the Judge.
