FBA Annual Meeting & Convention Miami 2021 | Federal Bar Association | 23 September 2021 | Hilton Miami Downtown, 1601 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132, USA

We invite you to join us online or in-person. Several CLE sessions and business meetings will be streaming virtually. We look forward to “seeing” you in September!

2021 Speakers

W. West Allen
FBA President

Oliver Alan Ruiz
South Florida Chapter Planning Committee Chair

Wifredo “Willy” A. Ferrer
Partner, Holland & Knight LLP, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida

Rachel Godsil
Co-Founder and Co-Director of Perception Institute, Perception Institute

David Howard
Criminal Defense Attorney, David A. Howard P.A.

Hon. Rodolfo “Rudy” Ruiz II
District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Jon Jay Lieberman
Partner, Sottile & Barile LLC (Moderator)

Hon. Elizabeth A. Gunn
Bankruptcy Judge, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia

Christopher Sullivan
Partner, Diamond McCarthy

Aimee Ferrer
Assistant Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Southern District of Florida (Moderator)

Rosana Arteaga-Gomez
Partner, AXS LAW Group PLLC

Chris Lomax
Managing Attorney, Lomax Legal PLLC

Jonathan Osborne
Shareholder, Gunster

Don Hayden
Partner, Mark Migdal & Hayden (Moderator)

Cristina Cardenas
Partner, Reed Smith

José Ferrer
Partner, Mark Migdal & Hayden

David Orta
Partner, Quinn Emanuel

Evelyn Sheehan
Partner, Kobre & Kim (Moderator)

Theodore (Ted) Bromund
Senior Research Fellow in Anglo-American Relations, The Heritage Foundation

Michelle Estlund
Founder & Principal Attorney, Estlund Law, P.A.

Sandra Grossman
Partner, Grossman Young & Hammond

Fernando Tamayo
Partner, Coffey Burlington Attorneys at Law

Ana Maria Martinez
Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property AUSA, U.S. Attorney’s Office (Moderator)

Patricia Hernandez
Managing Partner, Avila Law

Esteban Farao
Director of IT Security Consulting, ERMProtect

Mick Stawasz
Deputy Chief, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS), U.S. Department of Justice

Hon. Joshua David Wolson
District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Stephanie Casey
Partner, Colson Hicks Eidson (Moderator)

Joe Jacquot
Partner, Gunster Law Firm

Hon. Raag Singhal
District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Hon. Lisa Walsh
Circuit Court Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Miami-Dade, Florida

Tal J. Lifshitz
Partner, Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton, LLP (Moderator)

Hon. Roy K. Altman
District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Constantine Economides
Counsel, Roche Freedman LLP

Danielle Cohen Higgins
Commissioner, District 8, Miami-Dade County

Francis X. Suarez
Mayor, City of Miami

Vanessa Singh Johannes
Attorney, Carlton Fields PA (Moderator)

Russell D. Feingold
President, American Constitution Society

Hon. Darrin P. Gayles
District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Hon. Adalberto J. Jordan
Circuit Court Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Brett A. Barfield
Partner, PAG.law PLLC (Moderator)

Hon. Beth Bloom
District Judge, U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Florida

Stephen J. Cullen
Partner, Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Hon. Adalberto J. Jordan
Circuit Court Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (invited)

Kelly A. Powers
Partner, Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Kyle Kaiser
Assistant Attorney General, Utah Attorney General Office (Moderator)

Frank LoMonte
Director, Brechner Center for Freedom Information

Sara Rose
Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Pennsylvania

Mary Beth Tinker
Speaker and Activist

Larry Dougherty
Shareholder, Guerra King P.A. (Moderator)

Benjamin G. Greenberg
Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Miami

Hon. Lauren F. Louis
Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Robert A. Stines
Partner, Freeborn & Peters LLP

Katrin Marquez
Law Clerk, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida (Moderator)

Hon. Roy K. Altman
District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Eugene Meyer
President, The Federalist Society

2021 Sponsors

• Baker Hostetler
• Liskow & Lewis
• Thomson Reuters
• Ogletree Deakins