Experience

Rating: 7.5 (Very Good)

Honors

2014

Rising Star, 40 Under 40, Daily Business Review

2014

Friends, Foundations & Boards Outstanding Member, Florida Library Association

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Work Experience

2004 - Present

Partner, Weiss Serota Helfman Cole Bierman & Popok, P.L.

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Associations

2011 - Present

Eleventh Judicial Circuit Historical Society

Vice Chair

2009 - Present

HistoryMiami

Treasurer

2009 - Present

Friends of the Miami-Dade Public Library

President

2013 - 2014

Miami Dade County Mayor's Blue Ribbon Task Force for the Miami-Dade Public Library System

Member

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Sample of Legal Cases

Flagler Retail Assoc., Ltd. v. Dep’t of Cmty. Affairs, 2010 WL 2948165 (Fla. Div. Admin Hrgs. July 23, 2010)

Addison v. City of Tampa, 33 So. 3d 742 (Fla. 2d DCA 2010)

United States v. Norwegian Cruise Line, Ltd., 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22585 (S.D. Fla. May 25, 2004)

Mancini Enterprises, Inc. v. American Express Co., 236 F.R.D. 695 (S.D. Fla. 2006)

Hames v. City of Miami, 479 F. Supp.2d 1279 (S.D. Fla. 2007)

Swerdlow v. Dep’t of Cmty. Affairs, 2007 WL 2253612 (Fla. Div. Admin. Hrgs. August 6, 2007)

Hames v. City of Miami Firefighters’ & Police Officers’ Trust, 980 So. 2d 1112 (Fla. 3d DCA 2008)

Hames v. City of Miami, 281 Fed. Appx. 853 (11th Cir. May 20, 2008)

Simcox v. City of Hollywood Police Officers’ Ret. Sys., 988 So. 2d 731 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008)

Companion v. City of Hollywood Police Officers’ Ret. Sys., 1 So. 3d 1283 (Fla. 4th DCA 2009)

Bloch-Mullen v. Bal Harbour Village, 23 So. 3d 725 (Fla. 3d DCA 2009)

City of Weston v. Crist, 2010 WL 4956375 (Fla. 2d Cir. Ct. Aug. 26, 2010)

Fernandez v. Bal Harbour Village, __ F. Supp. 3d __, 2014 WL 4824622 (S.D. Fla. Sept. 29, 2014)

Apothecary Dev. Corp. v. City of Marco Island, Fla., 2011 WL 1071448 (M.D. Fla. March 18, 2011)

Lobegeiger v. Celebrity Cruises, Inc., 2011 WL 3703329 (S.D. Fla. Aug. 23, 2011)

CMI, Inc. v. Ulloa, 73 So. 3d 787 (Fla. 5th DCA 2011)

Lasky v. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., 850 F. Supp. 2d 1309 (S.D. Fla. 2012)

Lobegeiger v. Celebrity Cruises Inc., 869 F. Supp. 2d 1350 (S.D. Fla. 2012)

Lobegeiger v. Celebrity Cruises Inc., 869 F. Supp. 2d 1356 (S.D. Fla. 2012)

Apothecary Development Corp. v. City of Marco Island, Fla., 517 Fed. Appx. 890 (11th Cir. 2013)

O'Boyle v. Bradshaw, 952 F. Supp. 2d 1310 (11th Cir. 2013)

Ulloa v. CMI, Inc., 133 So. 3d 914 (Fla. 2013)

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Education

2003

Boston University School of Law

Doctor of Jurisprudence/Juris Doctor

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Publications

2014

Miami Herald Preliminary Library Tax Rate Must Survive

2014

Biscayne Times How to Tell a World-Class City

2014

Miami Herald Opinion: Fund Libraries

2014

Miami Herald Opinion: Restore Miami-Dade's library budget to $64 million

2014

The Huffington Post Save Miami-Dade Libraries Because an Educated Community is Priceless

2007

University of Miami Business Law Review Controlling Pandora’s Box: The Need for Patent Protection in Transgenic Research

2005

Journal of BioLaw & Business Genetic Discrimination and the Need for Federal Legislation

2002

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Intellectual Property: Plants Patentable Under the Utility Patent Statute, PVA, and PVPA

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Languages

English

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