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Boutique litigation firm in Coral Gables, Florida USA focusing on Civil Rights, Employment, Catastrophic Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice matters.

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I have been an Equity Partner at Remer & Georges-Pierre, PLLC for several years practicing Civil Rights litigation in the sub-specialty of Labor and Employment law. In addition to joining the Labor and Employment section of the Florida Bar, I am a member of the Entertainment Law, Criminal Defense, Trial and Appellate sections of the Florida Bar. I am a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association. I have represented institutional clients in my former role as a defense attorney. I use that experience today in representing clients with diverse histories. Every client has a story. It is my job to tell their story, to advocate for justice, and fight for their rights.

Equity Partner in high volume labor and employment practice, with subspecialties in entertainment law, criminal defense, commercial, civil, and transactional matters. Negotiate and draft contracts. Litigate commercial matters for business clientele; prosecuted civil matters and defended criminal cases. Consult and act as agent for music producers and entertainers regarding event promotion, booking, and marketing.

Senior Litigation Attorney in active defense trial practice, focusing on high exposure claims in construction litigation, premises liability, negligent security, wrongful death, corporate errors and omissions claims; directors and officers liability, property and condominium law.

Senior Associate in Miami office of New York law firm focusing on professional liability legal malpractice, and FINRA Arbitrations. Successfully defended accountants in $1.4 million class action shareholders’ derivative lawsuit.

General solo practice focused on criminal defense, commercial, civil, and transactional matters. Negotiate and draft contracts. Litigate commercial matters for business clientele; prosecuted civil matters and defended criminal cases.

Litigation attorney in construction litigation firm focused on significant federal motion practice. Successfully prosecuted three separate CGL insurance coverage claims against three carriers in federal court to obtain award of attorneys’ fees.

Litigation Attorney - Managed litigation caseload for boutique practice representing diverse clientele on variety of matters from inception through trial. Second-chaired federal Civil RICO jury trial and drafted jury instructions successfully resulting in a $13.8 million jury verdict. Handled supplemental proceedings on state & federal judgments. Successfully argued dispositive motions before magistrate on alleged Securities and Exchange Commission violations as a Ponzi scheme in a federal class action lawsuit.

Senior Associate and first hire for “start-up” commercial litigation and insurance defense practice. Successfully recruited and managed attorneys and staff for rapidly expanding law firm. Attorney of Record for two reported appellate decisions, Elite Protection v. Florida Insurance Guaranty Association, 874 So. 2d 615 (Fla. 4th DCA 2004), and Cartan Tours v. ESA Services, Inc., 833 So. 2d 873 (Fla. 4th DCA 2003).

Litigation Associate in active plaintiff’s personal injury law practice. Managed workers’ compensation department. Attend and take depositions and conduct discovery for civil litigation matters.

Litigation Associate in high volume residential foreclosure practice. Managed foreclosure caseload of over 300 files through summary judgment for Chase and Citibank.

Litigation Associate in a mixed plaintiff’s personal injury and defense practice. Successfully prosecuted plaintiff’s personal injury claims. Acted as General Counsel for Underwriter’s Guarantee Insurance Company for defense of personal injury and class action claims.

Law Clerk in an automobile negligence defense firm. Conducted discover on behalf of insured defendants in automobile accident cases for State Farm and Allstate Insurance Company.

Conducted discovery and performed legal research on civil rights matters. Drafted memoranda of law on legal aspects of litigated civil rights matters as part of the University of Miami Litigation Skills curriculum.

Solved customer service issues for credit cards and related technology systems for national merchant service provider.

Manager of corporate service center for quality assurance. Attended to customer complaints and improved general customer relations for nationally established food franchisor.

Customer Service Representative handling consumer issues with Sears catalog purchase and delivery matters.

Summer Quality Analyst testing Sears Craftsman hardware and lawn and garden maintenance machinery against other manufacturer's products.

Summer Quality Analyst testing Sears Craftsman hardware and lawn and garden maintenance machinery against other manufacturer's products.

Pull and stock merchandise in Alcoa's warehouse for customer orders. Operate fork lift to load and unload tractor trailers at loading dock.