John Crabtree Email & Phone Number

John Crabtree is the managing partner of Crabtree, Auslander & Tackenberg—a Miami-based appellate law firm with a national practice. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and board certified in appellate practice by The Florida Bar. He currently serves as one of two U.S. representatives on the Class Action Committee for the International Bar Association. His cases have been featured in the national media, including The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and The National Law Journal. He has received Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating and is named in the current editions of Best Lawyers in America and Florida Super Lawyers.John has handled over 200 civil appeals before state and federal appellate courts--including oral argument before the Supreme Court of the United States. He has also represented various amici curiae, and wrote an amicus brief in the landmark age discrimination case Smith v. City of Jackson, presenting a novel textual argument that the Supreme Court used in its decision. John has represented both plaintiffs and corporate defendants in dozens of class actions over the past 30 years. He was lead counsel for the drivers in the only class action Uber has ever lost on the merits. He served on the ALI’s Members Consultative Group for the class action treatise, “Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation.”By appointment of successive presidents of The Florida Bar, John served two terms as chair of Florida’s Appellate Court Rules Committee—the committee that drafts the rules governing Florida’s appellate courts. By appointment, he also chaired the Appellate Certification Committee—the Bar committee that evaluates, tests, and board-certifies lawyers as appellate specialists in Florida. By election of his peers, John chaired the Bar’s 1400-member Appellate Practice Section.John has lectured and written on a range of appellate and class action topics, and he has served as a consultant and as an expert witness in the area of appellate practice. He is the author of The Material Difference in Florida Contract Law, Fla. B.J., March 2016, an article on Florida’s anomalous breach-of-contract law. He is also the continuing author of both "Civil Appeals" and “The Record on Appeal – Civil Appeals,” two chapters in the Bar’s Florida Appellate Practice treatise. Apart from his law practice, John co-founded VaxCare, the leading provider of vaccine dispensing technology in the U.S.  He is also the U.S. patent holder for a LIDAR-based biometric technology that matches consumers with best-fitting products.

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