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Biographies:
Robert L. Norton
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 1970, Florida; 1972, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida; 1982, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida; 1989, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida; 1996, U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit
LAW SCHOOL: University of Florida (J.D., 1970)
COLLEGE: University of Florida (B.S., 1967) TEXT: Phi Delta Phi (President, 1969).
MEMBER: Dade County Bar Association; The Florida Bar.
BORN: March 20, 1944, Ravenna, Ohio
James M. Blue
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 1967, Florida
LAW SCHOOL: Stetson University (J.D., with honors, 1967)
COLLEGE: Florida State University (B.A.)
MEMBER: The Florida Bar; the Service Contract Association; past-Chairman, Labor and Employment Law Section, The Florida Bar; 1987-2001 Editions of Best Lawyers in America
TEXT: Author of numerous articles on labor law and a lecturer on labor and employment law seminars at various locations throughout the country
BORN: October 6, 1941, St. Petersburg, Florida
Rodolfo Gomez
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 1989, Florida; 1990, U.S. District Court, Middle and Southern Districts of Florida; 1994, U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit
LAW SCHOOL: Florida State University (J.D., 1989)
COLLEGE: Florida International University (B.B.A., 1986) TEXT: Member, Florida State University Law Review, 1987-1989.
MEMBER: Dade County and American Bar Associations; The Florida Bar; Cuban-American Bar Association. LANGUAGES: Spanish
BORN: January 13, 1960, Havana, Cuba
Wayne L. Helsby
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 1983, Florida
LAW SCHOOL: Florida State University (J.D., 1981, Phi Delta Phi)
COLLEGE: Cornell University (B.S., 1977); Rutgers University (M.A., 1980) MEMBER: The Florida Bar; Orange County Bar Association; The Florida Bar Labor and Employment Law Section; The Order of Barristers
TEXT: "The Constitutionality of Legislatively Mandated Binding Interest Arbitration: A Guide for the Practitioner," Center for Employment Relations Review, Winter 1981; "Arbitrability of Individual Grievances in the Public Sector: Florida's Unique Approach," The Florida Bar Journal, December 1984; and "Drug Testing in the Workplace," The Florida Bar Journal, June 1986
BORN: January 1, 1955, Oswego, New York
Mark E. Levitt
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 1975, Florida
LAW SCHOOL: University of Florida (J.D., 1974)
COLLEGE: University of South Florida (B.A., 1972)
MEMBER: The Florida Bar, Labor and Employment Law Section; American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section
TEXT: Author of numerous articles on labor law and a lecturer on labor and employment law seminars at various locations throughout the country
BORN: December 9, 1949, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina
Michael Mattimore
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 1981, Florida
LAW SCHOOL: Florida State University (J.D., 1981)
COLLEGE: Florida International University (B.A.); University of Miami (M.A., 1976)
MEMBER: The Florida Bar; American Bar Association; Former Chairman of the Florida Public Employees Relations Commission from 1987-1991; Co-Chairman of Florida's Workforce 2000 Commission; Board Member, Florida Bar Law Related Education Committee; Executive Board, The Florida Bar Labor and Employment Law Section.
TEXT: Author of numerous articles on labor law and a frequent lecturer on topics concerning the field of labor and employment law seminars given at various locations throughout the state
BORN: August 16, 1954, New York, New York
Susan Potter Norton
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 1975, Florida
COLLEGE: Florida State University (M.B.A., 1975 and J.D., 1975)
MEMBER: The Florida Bar; Co-chair of the ABA’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee
TEXT: Co-Chief Editor (Management) for the ABA’s Model Jury Instructions Employment Litigation Section of Litigation (Second Edition 2005). Has written articles on a multitude of employment-related decisions.
Susan Potter Norton is a principal at Allen, Norton & Blue, P.A.’s Coral Gables office.
Allen, Norton & Blue limits its practice to the representation of management in labor and employment issues. Norton represents public sector, corporate and professional clients in all matters pertaining to labor and employment law, including sexual harassment, age, sex, and race discrimination, Title II and Title III public accommodation, Wage and Hour, Whistleblower and Retaliation; and matters before the National Labor Relations Board and Public Employees Relation Commission.
Norton, who is Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law, is listed as a “Best Lawyer in America,” and a “Leading Florida Attorney,” in Chambers USA America’s Leading Business Lawyers and most recently contributed to the American Bar Association’s Family Legal Guide.” She is currently co-chair of the ABA’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and was co-chair of the ABA’s Labor and Employment Committee Section of Litigation and a frequent participant in the ABA’s CLE programs. At the 2002 ABA Annual Meeting she moderated the Section of Litigation’s presentation on “Juror’s Attitudes and Perceptions in a Time of Crisis; trying cases after September 11 and the Enron Collapse” and was a panelist for the “Advanced Techniques of Direct and Cross Examination” presented by the Advanced Trial Institute at the ABA’s 2003 Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
In addition to her law practice, Norton is involved in a wide variety of professional, civic and charitable activities. Norton served as president of the Orange Bowl Committee for the 2002 Orange Bowl game and was the first female to do so. She was a member of the Executive Committee for the 1995 & 1999 Super Bowl Host Committees, is past Chair of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and co-Chaired the 1998 United Way campaign for United Way of Miami-Dade. That Campaign resulted in a 23% increase from 1997 marking it the most successful in the country. She also chaired the Florida Chamber’s Human Resources Council and is a member of Dade County’s Miami Business Forum (Non-Group).
In addition to her law practice, Norton has written articles on a multitude of employment-related decisions that could result in legal entanglement. Her expertise in human resources, based upon more than 25 years of practice in labor and employment law, has earned her attention from national, regional and local media. Norton is frequently called upon to provide analysis on the complexity of the issues surrounding the workplace. She is regularly featured in The Miami Herald, Daily Business Review and South Florida Business Journal commenting on issues pertaining to human resources. She recently appeared in Business Week, Business Finance and Industry Week’s “IW Growing Companies,” a management resource for small manufacturers. Human resource executives are familiar with Norton’s periodic appearances in Practice’s in HR’s “Ask the Expert Column,” a nationally distributed newsletter in which she answers specific legal questions regarding human resources issues.
In 1999, she was selected by the Secretary of Defense to attend the Defense Department’s Joint Civilian Orientation Conference, one of 60 civic leaders chosen.
Norton is the recipient of the Cervera Real Estate Miami Ambassador Award, part of the 2001 Red Cross Spectrum Awards for Women. She was the 1995 recipient of the Anti-Defamation League’s Americanism Award, received a 1993 Woman of Distinction Award from South Florida Magazine, and in 1992 was presented with the William Colson Leadership Award.
A Florida native, Norton was raised in Jacksonville. She obtained both her MBA and juris doctorate cum laude in 1975, from Florida State University. She and her husband, Robert Norton, reside in Miami. Their 19 year-old son, Rush is a sophomore at the University of Florida.
Peter L. Sampo
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 1988, Florida; 1990, U.S. District Court, Middle and Southern District of Florida; 1992, Supreme Court of Florida and U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit
LAW SCHOOL: Boston University (J.D., 1988)
COLLEGE: Cardinal Newman College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1981)
MEMBER: Dade County and American Bar Associations; The Florida Bar.
BORN: July 31, 1958, Latrobe, Pennsylvania
David J. Stefany
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 1984, Florida; United States Supreme Court; Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals; Sixth Judicial Circuit Court; U.S. District Courts, Northern, Southern & Middle Districts of Florida
LAW SCHOOL: Stetson University (J.D., 1984)
COLLEGE: Wake Forest University (B.A., 1981)
MEMBER: Labor and Employment Law Sections of the American Bar Association, the Florida Bar Association, and the Hillsborough County Bar Association.
TEXT: Author of numerous articles on labor law and a frequent lecturer on topics concerning the field of labor and employment law seminars given at various locations throughout the state
BORN: June 20, 1958, Syracuse, New York
York Flik
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 1996, Florida and Supreme Court of Florida; 1998, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
LAW SCHOOL: University of Miami (J.D., 1996)
COLLEGE: University of Miami (M.A., 1993)
MEMBER: The Florida Bar
BORN: December 6, 1967, Waltham, Massachusetts
Brian W. Koji
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 1997, Florida; U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida (1998); U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida (1998); U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida (1998); Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals (2000)
LAW SCHOOL: Duke University (J.D., 1997)
COLLEGE: University of Central Florida (B.S.B.A., summa cum laude, honors, 1994)
MEMBER: The Florida Bar, Labor and Employment Law Section; the American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section; Hillsborough County Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section
TEXT: "Public Employers Are Not Obligated to Collectively Bargain Over the Decision to Subcontract," The Agenda, Volume XXIII, No. 3, April 2000
BORN: December 28, 1972, Hollywood, Florida
Robert Larkin
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 1996, Louisiana; 1999, Florida
LAW SCHOOL: Tulane University of Louisiana (J.D., cum laude, 1996)
COLLEGE: Florida State University (B.S., 1991; M.S., 1992)
MEMBER: The Louisiana Bar Association; The Florida Bar Association; Member, Executive Board, Labor Relations Committee of the Florida Bar
BORN: November 10, 1969, Miami, Florida
R. Wayne Evans
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: United States Supreme Court (10/19/87); USDC-ND (12/14/88); USDC-MD (9/19/88); USDC-SD (1/27/89); and Eleventh Circuit (12/27/90).
LAW SCHOOL: Cumberland School of Law in (J.D. 1975)
COLLEGE: University of Central Florida (1972); Florida State University (M.A. 1980)
MEMBER: Florida Bar Text: Past president of the Florida Association of Police Attorneys. Taught at Florida State University and Tallahassee Community College in the areas of business and commercial law, and has published numerous articles in The Florida Bar Journal and CLE publications
BORN: June 22, 1950 - Toronto, Canada
Zascha Blanco Abbott
ADMITTED: 2002, Florida; 2003, U.S. District Court, Middle and Southern Districts of Florida; 2003, U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit
LAW SCHOOL: Nova Southeastern University (J.D., magna cum laude, 2001); Nova Southeastern University Law Review, Associate Editor
COLLEGE: Florida International University (B.B.A., 1996)
MEMBER: Dade County and American Bar Associations; The Florida Bar; Cuban-American Bar Association.
LANGUAGES: Spanish
Christina J. Hudson
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 2005, Florida; Florida State Courts; Florida Supreme Court
LAW SCHOOL: University of Miami (J.D., 2005)
COLLEGE: University of Washington (B.A., cum laude, 2001)
MEMBER: American Bar Association, the Florida Bar, Florida Association of Women Lawyers, Dade County Bar Association
Jessica Travers
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 2005, Florida; U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
LAW SCHOOL: Tulane University (J.D., cum laude, 2005)
COLLEGE: University of Florida (B.S., 2002)
MEMBER: The Florida Bar Association, Dade County Bar Association
BORN: (September 27, 1980, Bethpage New York)
Richard M. Pierro
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 2000, Florida; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida; U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia; U.S. District Court of the Middle District of Georgia; U.S. Court of Appeals of Georgia
LAW SCHOOL: Texas Tech University (M.B.A., J.D., cum laude, 2000)
COLLEGE: Eckerd College (B.A., 1995)
MEMBER: The Florida Bar Association, Georgia Bar Association
Elaine Keyser
POSITION: Associate
ADMITTED: 2005, Florida; U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
LAW SCHOOL: University of Texas (J.D., 2005)
COLLEGE: Tulane University (B.A., 2001; M.A., 2002)
MEMBER: American Bar Association, Florida Bar Association, Hillsborough County Bar Association
Robert Blanchfield
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 1997, Florida; U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Eleventh Circuit; U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida; all Florida State Courts; all New Jersey State Courts
LAW SCHOOL: Rutgers University (J.D., 1997)
COLLEGE: University of Alabama (B.S., 1984); University of Virginia (M.A., 1992)
MEMBER: American Bar Association, the Florida Bar Association, New Jersey Bar Association, Orange County Bar Association, Defense Research Institute
Bona M. Kim
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 2005, Florida; U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida; all Florida State Courts
LAW SCHOOL: University of Florida, cum laude (J.D., 2005)
COLLEGE: Cornell University School of Hotel Administration (B.S., 2001)
MEMBER: American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division of American Bar Association, Orange County Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division of Florida Bar
BORN: June 16, 1979, Seoul, Korea
Avery D. McKnight
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 1992, Florida; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida; All Florida State Courts
LAW SCHOOL: Florida State University (J.D., 1992)
COLLEGE: Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (B.S., magna cum laude,1987)
MEMBER: Tallahassee Barristers Association BORN: October 27, 1965, Gainesville, Florida
Mark L. Bonfanti
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: Florida; U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida; All Florida State Courts
LAW SCHOOL: Florida State University (J.D., 2003)
COLLEGE: University of New Hampshire (B.A., cum laude, 2001)
MEMBER: The Florida Bar Association, American Bar Association
BORN: February 4, 1979 Methuen, Massachusetts
Jason Vail
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 2005, Florida; U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida; All Florida State Courts
LAW SCHOOL: Florida State University (J.D., Cum Laude, 2005)
COLLEGE: University of Central Florida (B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 2001)
MEMBER: The Florida Bar Association, American Bar Association
BORN: April 3, 1980, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
William E. Powers, III
POSITION: Member
ADMITTED: 1968, Florida; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. District Court, Northern and Middle Districts of Florida; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuit
LAW SCHOOL: Cleveland State University (J.D., 1968); New York University (1969)
COLLEGE: University of Dayton (B.S., B.A., 1963)
MEMBER: The Florida Bar Association; American Bar Association; Chairman, Florida Public Employees Relations Commission; Supervisor Attorney and Trial Specialist, National Labor Relations Board; Chairman of the Eleventh Circuit Credentials Committee, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers; Former Management Chairman of the State and Local Government; Collective Bargaining and Employment Law Committee of the American Bar Association
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