AREAS OF PRACTICE

• Complex Commercial Litigation
• General Civil Litigation
• Insurance Litigation
• Medical Malpractice
• Premises Liability
• Automobile Negligence
• Corporate Litigation
  

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

• Martindale-Hubbell "AV" Rated
• Florida Trend, Florida Legal Elite, 2007-Present
• Florida Super Lawyers, 2007-Present
• Haitian Lawyers Association Significant Contribution Award, 2006
• South Florida Business Journal’s Diversity Works Award Nominee, 2005
• Florida Bar, G. Kirk Haas Award, 2005
• Cuban American Bar Association – Passing on the Leadership Award, 2009
• South Florida Legal Guide's "Top Lawyers in South Florida 2011"

BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS

• Florida Bar
• Massachusetts Bar
• United States District Court, Southern District of Florida
• United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit 
• Supreme Court of the United States

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• The Florida Bar

  - Vice-Chairman, Grievance Committee, 1998-1999; and Member, 1996-1999

  - Executive Council of the Equal Opportunity Law Section, 2005

  - Chairman of the Annual Diversity Symposium, 2005

  - Annual Diversity Symposium Committee, 2005 – present

  - Judicial Nominating Commission Procedures Committee, 2008 – present

  - Member Outreach Committee, 2005-2007

• The Florida Bar Board of Governors, 2006-2009

; 2010-2012; 2012-2013

- Communications Committee (Chairman), 2008 - 2009

- Rules Committee (Chairman), 2009

- Legislation Committee (Co-Chairman), 2011-2012; (Vice Chairman), 2007 - 2008; member 2009, (Chair-elect) 2010-2011

- Audit Committee, 2007 - 2008

- Executive Committee, 2008-2009; 2010-2011; 2011-2012; 2012-2013

- Strategic Planning Committee, 2007 – 2009; 2010-2011; 2011-2012; 2012-2013

- Standing Committee Liaison for LOMAS and Professionalism, 2007, 2008, 2009

- Section Liaison for Council of Sections, 2009

- Program Evaluation Committee, 2009; 2010-2011; 2011-2012; 2012-2013

- Liaison for Judicial Nominating Procedures Committee, 2010-2011; 2011-2012; 2012-2013

- Section Liaison to General Practice, 2010-2011; 2011-2012

- Liaison for Professionalism, 2010-2011 

- Special Committee on Court Funding, 2010-2011

- Special Committee on Diversity & Inclusion, 2010-2011; 2011-2012

• Lifetime Fellow, Florida Bar Foundation
• Florida Supreme Court District Court of Appeal Workload & Jurisdiction Assessment Committee, 2006 - 2008
• Florida Supreme Court Commissions

  - Standing Committee on Fairness and Diversity in the Court, 2006 – 2008

  - Commission on Professionalism, 2006 – 2009

• President, Cuban American Bar Association (CABA), 2004; and Director, CABA, 1997-2000; 2001-2003; and current member
• President, Cuban-American Bar Foundation, 2005
• Judicial Nominating Commission for Third District Court of Appeals, Member, 2004-2008; Chairman, 2005-2006
• Florida International University School of Law Dean’s Advisory Council, 2005 - present
• Board member, Florida Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company (FLMIC), 2004 - present
• Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel Member, 2008 – present
• Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
• American Bar Association Commission on Diversity, 2009 - 2010
• American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, 2010-2013
• Eleventh Judicial Circuit Business Court Committee 
• Dade County Bar Association
• Hispanic National Bar Association
• Defense Research Institute