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SOUTH FLORIDA’S LEADING LAWYERS 2017 BURLINGTON & ROCKENBACH, P.A. Civil and Appellate Litigation Leaders Also Inside: South Florida’s Verdicts and Settlements Paid Advertising Supplement to all data on SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION TO THE MIAMI HERALD SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION TO THE MIAMI HERALD Commercial Litigation, Insurance Litigation PRESENTS Sheehe & Associates, PA When preparing for trial, att orney Phillip J. Sheehe—founding partner of Sheehe & Associates, P.A.—spares no expense with his time or his money. Sheehe will spend months poring over SOUTH FLORIDA’S thousands of documents, interviewing scores of witnesses, and lining up experts from across the country. As the trial date approaches, Sheehe has been known to work 15 hours a day, seven days a week. “We don’t cut corners,” Sheehe says. “Our theory is that when we go into a courtroom we want to give our client the best opportunity to win, which means leaving no stone unturned.” LEADING LAWYERS Sheehe is AV® Preeminent™ rated by Martindale-Hubbell®—the organization’s highest rating Leaders In The Law presents South Florida’s Leading Lawyers, a special section featuring exceptional lawyers and law firms practicing for legal ability and professional ethics—and has handled complex litigation for more than three in the region. decades. He focuses his practice on commercial, products liability, and insurance cases that oft en Finding the right lawyer for any legal issue is a difficult but important decision. We invite you to use this publication as a resource to help require several weeks, if not months, to try. Indeed, one of Sheehe’s cases involved a six-month jury eliminate the guesswork of selecting legal counsel. Whether offering legal services in personal injury or medical malpractice, real estate or family trial in Miami that resulted in a favorable outcome against a national products company. law or in numerous other practice areas, these lawyers are available and ready to help you no matter how complex your legal issues may be. With offi ces in Miami, Lake Mary and Pensacola, Sheehe is able to represent major This year we have added a new feature that will help you find the right lawyer for major litigation cases. We have partnered with LexisNexis to corporations and individuals throughout the state of Florida. He also handles cases in federal provide you with the names of litigators who have won “big” for their clients in the last year. Starting at $500,000 and ascending to a whopping $236 million, these cases have been litigated by South Florida’s elite lawyers, many of whom are featured in these pages. court, and makes a point of taking on a range of cases so that he can remain skilled in multiple To learn more about these leading lawyers and law firms and Leaders In The Law, please visit leadersinthelaw.com. To send your thoughts or if areas. “Being in the courtroom and fi ghting for my clients brings mea lot of pleasure,” he says. you’d like to be included in the online edition and our listings, please contact us at [email protected]. “I enjoy winning, and I’m good at it.” Sincerely, South Florida Pensacola Central Florida One Biscayne Tower, Suite 2650 21 East Garden Street 735 Primera Boulevard 2 South Biscayne Boulevard Suite 204 Suite 225 Miami, FL 33131 Pensacola, FL 32501 Lake Mary, FL 32746 Ph: 305.379.3515 Ph: 850.438.3997 Ph: 407.804.9415 | Fx: 407.804.9419 Kevin Vermeulen Phillip J. Sheehe Fx: 305.379.5404 [email protected] CEO, Leaders In The Law Civil Litigation & Trial Practice www.sheeheandassociates.com Silvia Ros Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Commercial Law Civil and Criminal Litigation, Family Law, Appellate Ratzan Law Group Roberta Mandel For over 16 years, Ratzan Law Group has provided sophisticated trial During her 33 years of practice, Roberta Mandel has argued more than 1,000 appeals advocacy to patients and consumers in courts throughout the United States, going up against powerful insurance companies, hospitals, doctors, in every Florida appellate court, the Florida Supreme Court, the Eleventh District Court manufacturers, and corporations in the process. of Appeal, and the United States Supreme Court. With approximately 650 reported “By taking on cases involving devastating injuries, we’ve dedicated decisions, she off ers an unparalleled depth of experience. She has also been involved in ourselves to building a safer society,” says fi rm founder Stuart N. Ratzan, countless trials during her career. who has been AV Preeminent® rated by Martindale-Hubbell®, the Mandel is oft en involved from the inception of a case in the trial court through the organization’s highest honor for legal ability and ethical standards. “We appellate stage. She says. “It’s advantageous for trial att orneys to have experienced can’t undo the horror that affl icts our clients, but we can help prevent it appellate att orneys involved in trial court litigation so all viable arguments are from happening to someone else, thereby enforcing the safety rules that preserved for appellate court review.” protect all of us from harm, chaos, and mayhem.” Mandel is AV Preeminent® rated by Martindale-Hubbell®, and has been designated Stuart N. Ratzan, Stuart J. Weissman, and Evan Gilead bring extensive a Legal Leader by the Miami Herald and a Florida Super Lawyer for many years. She trial experience to their practice, which focuses on medical malpractice, began her career working on high-profi le criminal cases. Starting in 2004, she went on Attorneys pictured from left: Stuart J. Weissman, product liability, personal injury, and commercial trials. Th is experience to head the appellate departments of two law fi rms. Among her more notable cases Stuart N. Ratzan, Evan Gilead has allowed Ratzan Law Group to win successful judgments for countless was litigation stemming from Anna Nicole Smith’s death in Florida, which garnered clients, including such notable results as a $23 million medical malpractice Roberta Mandel worldwide media coverage. verdict that is believed to be the largest civil jury verdict in Charlott e County, Fla., history. In 2010, Mandel founded her own full-service trial and appellate litigation fi rm, the Most recently, the fi rm secured a $46.5 million verdict in El Dorado, Arkansas, (the largest medical malpractice verdict in Arkansas history) for 3-year-old Kara Smalls, who suff ered profound brain damage due to untreated newborn jaundice. Mandel Law Group. Th ere, she represents Fortune 500 companies as well as small businesses and individuals in civil and criminal matt ers. She was one of the fi rst “Kara will require 24-hour care for the remainder of her life, all because patient safety guidelines were ignored,” Weissman notes. “And while this verdict doesn’t att orneys to eff ectively argue that trial att orneys who successfully represent homeowners in foreclosure actions are entitled to fee multipliers. Mandel also handles change what happened,” adds Ratzan, “it ensures that Kara will be cared for and that the doctor and hospital are held accountable—a positive outcome for the complex as well as simple divorce cases in both the trial and appellate court arenas. community as a whole.” Mandel Law Group, P.A. 1450 Brickell Avenue, Suite 2600, Miami, Florida 33131 8925 S.W. 148th Street, Suite 200, Miami, FL 33176 Toll Free: 855.754.5291 | Ph: 305.374.6366 | Fax: 305.374.6755 Ph: 305.233.5041 | Fax: 305.233.5042 | [email protected] | [email protected] www.ratzanlawgroup.com www.MandelLawGroup.com 2 WWW.LEADERSINTHELAW.COM WWW.LEADERSINTHELAW.COM 3 SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION TO THE MIAMI HERALD SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION TO THE MIAMI HERALD South Florida’s Verdicts Civil Appellate Law and Trial Support Services all data on Verdicts reported from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. # Date Case Type Of Action Plaintiff's Counsel Award Amount Burlington & Rockenbach, P.A. is a full-service civil appellate law fi rm, Securities and Exchange representing clients in a wide variety of appellate and trial matt ers. Th e Firm Commission - Foreign Corrupt Securities and Exchange Commission v. Teva Jenny Trotman and Russell Koonin of the Securities 1 December 29, 2016 Practices Act - Alleged $236,101,824 Pharmaceutical Industries LTD and Exchange Commission (SEC) has successfully appealed hundreds of cases for its clients over the years, Pharmaceutical Company From left to right: Andrew A. Harris, Nichole J. Segal, which include cases pertaining to tort, medical negligence, insurer bad faith, Bribery of Foreign Officials Bard D. Rockenbach, Adam J. Richardson, and Philip M. Burlington. Jason Linder, John-Alex Romano of the U.S. family law, commercial disputes, insurance coverage, and Engle progeny Fraud - Bribery - Alleged 2 October 24, 2016 United States of America v. Embraer S.A. Department of Justice - Criminal Division, Washington, $83,800,000 Violation of FCPA D.C.; Kara Brockmeyer of the SEC in Miami, FL cigarett e liability claims. Th e Firm has also successfully assisted trial counsel in litigation matt ers that have resulted in a positive result to the client. Th e Firm’s fi ve att orneys, four of whom are board certifi ed, and four paralegals have the experience in appellate law and procedures to handle all aspects of a client’s case, taking Federal Trade Commission and the State of Florida v. Alleged Violation of TSR & J. Ronald Brooke, Jr. and Russell Deitch of the Federal 3 February 12, 2016 $37,000,000 Boost Software, Inc. UTPA Trade Commission (FTC), Washington, D.C. it from trial support to the Florida Supreme Court. Trial att orneys from around the state have come to rely on the Firm’s experience to create a winning strategy Alan Konzelman and Eleanor Konzelman v.