Education

• J.D., University of Miami School of Law, 1999

  • Amicus Curiae, Staff Writer

  • Res Ipsa Loquitor, Staff Writer

• B.A., magna cum laude, Sociology with Economics Minor, Union College, 1996

  • Intercollegiate Varsity Football

  • Delta Upsilon

  • Omicron Delta Epsilon (International Economic Honor Society)

  • Alpha Kappa Delta (International Sociology Honor Society)

  • Roger Thayer Stone Award winner, 1996

  • Rhodes Scholar candidate, 1995

Bar Admissions

• Florida, 2000

Honors, Appointments, and Distinctions

• America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators®, 2020

• AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®

• “Rising Star” selection by Super Lawyers magazine, 2009

• “Legal Elite” selection by Florida Trend magazine, 2010

• “Tampa’s Top Rated Lawyers” ™ selection by Legal Leaders™, 2013

• Life Member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum

• Officer, Board of Directors, Hillsborough County Bar Association, 2013–2014

• President, YLD Board, Hillsborough County Bar Association, 2009–2010

• Officer and Director, YLD Board, Hillsborough County Bar Association, 2007–2009

• Member and Chair, The Florida Bar Grievance Committee (13D), 2006–2009

• Member, 13th Judicial Circuit Bench/Bar Committee, 2011–2014

• Master Mason, PTF United Masonic Lodge #153

• Master Member, The Wm. Reese Smith, Jr. Litigation Inn of Court

• Member, National Italian American Bar Association

Representative Past Experience

• Fowler White Boggs Banker, P.A., Associate

  • Represented numerous Fortune 500 companies for various types of casualty claims, including commercial accidents, truck crashes, MVAs, aviation torts, premises liability, wrongful death, and professional liability matters. Representation of individual healthcare and legal providers in cases of professional negligence or liability.

• Shutts & Bowen, LLP, Partner

  • Commercial litigation and transactional support for a number of Fortune 500 companies, including service as deputy national counsel for a multinational healthcare corporation.