Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, President
• Claims and Litigation Management Alliance
• Nova Law Review
• Representative to the National Counsel for Law Reviews
• Florida Bar Association
• Florida Association of Women Lawyers (past member)
• Gay and Lesbian Lawyers Association, past President and a founding member
• Safeguarding American Values for Everyone (SAVE) and SAVE-DADE, past co-chair and founding member
• Dade Human Rights Foundation, former Board Member
• Trial Advocate Quarterly, past Member of the Editorial Board

Awards and Honors

• AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• Selected to author introduction to Memorial Text honoring the Honorable Gavin P. Letts of the Fourth District Court of Appeal, West Palm Beach, Florida 
• Inducted into Barry University Alumni Hall of Fame, 1999 
• Nominated as Outstanding Pro Bono Guardian Ad Litem Attorney for the Twentieth Judicial Circuit, 2000

Publications

• Appeals have been the subject of approximately a dozen law review articles, as well as multiple citations in American Law Reports.
• Appeals cited in numerous articles, Bar Journals, and in such publications as Florida Jurisprudence and Florida Practice Series
• Authored numerous articles for the Trial Advocate Quarterly (publication of Florida Defense Lawyers Association) and the National Journal of Paralegals 
• Editorial Board, Trial Advocate Quarterly, 1994-1998

Published Florida Supreme Court Decisions

• Martina v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 908 So.2d 342 (Fla. 2005)
• Ivey v. Allstate Ins. Co., 774 So.2d 679 (Fla. 2000)
• Allstate Ins. Co. v. Rudnick, 761 So.2d 289 (Fla. 2000)
• Allstate Ins. Co. v. Boecher,  733 So.2d 993 (Fla. 1999)
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Coker, 714 So.2d 423 (Fla. 1998)
• Merrill Crossings Associates v. McDonald, 705 So.2d 560 (Fla. 1997)
• Allstate Ins. Co. v. Langston, 655 So.2d 91 (Fla. 1995)
• Charley Toppino & Sons Inc. v. Sea Watch at Marathon Condominium Association, Inc., 658 So.2d 922 (Fla. 1994)
• State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Petersen, 638 So.2d 938 (Fla. 1994)
• Samuel Friedland Family Enterprises v. Amroroso, 630 So.2d 1067 (Fla. 1994)
• Dauksis v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 623 So.2d 455 (Fla. 1993)
• Ed Ricke & Sons Inc. v. Green, 609 So.2d 504 (Fla. 1992)
• State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. K.A.W., 575 So.2d 630 (Fla. 1991)
• State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Marshall, 555 So.2d 504 (Fla. 1989)
• Higley v. Florida Patients Compensation Fund, 524 So.2d 865 (Fla. 1988)
• AIU Ins. Co. v. Block Marina Inv. Inc., 544 So.2d 998 (Fla. 1989)