Miami ― the gateway to Latin America ― offers an eclectic economy, with its mix of tourism, service industries, domestic and foreign banking and financial institutions, large corporations, small businesses and health care facilities. Its international airport ranks among the busiest and its port is recognized as both the cruise capital of the world and the cargo gateway to the Americas.
Wilson Elser has operated an office in Miami for more than 20 years. We provide top-notch legal services in the areas of commercial and business litigation, general and professional liability, health care law, insurance coverage and product liability. Our team of attorneys has decades of experience and handle a wide variety of cases.
We deal with a host of professional liability cases, defending attorneys, accountants, architects, engineers, surveyors and insurance brokers. Our attorneys also give educational presentations in this area of law, including lectures on accountants' professional liability to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and to accounting groups throughout Florida.
Our fully integrated securities practice focuses on defense of class action and traditional litigation, broker/dealer litigation and arbitration. We also defend licensed individuals in investigations by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulatory agencies and provide representation before the National Association of Securities Dealers, the New York Stock Exchange and the state of Florida.
As with all our offices, litigation related to general liability insurance is a prime area. Our practice includes defense of claims involving residential and commercial buildings, educational institutions, supermarkets, recreational and sports facilities, malls and restaurants. We also are very involved in the defense of senior living facilities, including skilled nursing homes, assisted living facilities and independent living facilities. We have defended more than 100 cases affecting such facilities throughout Florida in recent years.
Given Miami's strategic location at the gateway to Latin America, our attorneys also serve very specific legal roles regarding international functions. Our Managing Partner acts as monitoring counsel for litigation brought in Central and South America and Puerto Rico against U.S.-based multinational corporations, and as supervising counsel and attorney of record in the United States for Mexican insurers and their insureds in hotel and product liability suits.