Kevin Vannatta is a partner in the Fort Lauderdale and Miami offices of Lewis Brisbois. He is a senior trial attorney who defends clients throughout Florida in both state and federal courts. His practice focuses primarily on professional liability litigation, including cases of legal and medical malpractice, and general liability, including transportation-related claims. Mr. Vannatta has represented lawyers, architects, and engineers in professional liability litigation in Florida courts. He also defends healthcare workers like doctors and nurses and healthcare institutions such as hospitals, nursing homes, and ambulatory surgery centers in lawsuits alleging faulty care and elder abuse, among other claims. He also represents a large prison healthcare company in the defense of professional liability claims against its providers. Mr. Vannatta’s general liability litigation experience includes representing corporations, property owners, transportation companies, and construction companies in personal injury, liquor liability, and motor vehicle accident cases. Many of these matters involve traumatic brain injuries and deaths. Mr. Vannatta also has experience with toxic tort and asbestos litigation. A courtroom veteran, Mr. Vannatta has successfully prepared and tried multi-million-dollar cases in several venues, achieving defense verdicts. He aims to provide proactive solutions to his clients to reduce liability, costs, and exposure.

Patti Vannoy is a partner with Mattson Ricketts, where she focuses her practice on investors’ rights and insurance issues. She has represented more than 400 clients with claims involving private placements, real estate investment trusts, variable annuities, life insurance, and all manner of securities, including cases against broker-dealers, registered investment advisers, insurers, and clearing firms. She has also led work on bad faith claims related to the financial services industry, against both errors and omissions and directors and officers insurers, and has represented several whistleblowers seeking protection under the Dodd-Frank Act and Sarbanes-Oxley. Before practicing law, Patti worked as a reporter and editor with major newspapers in the Midwest. ? Patti also enjoys a general civil practice, which includes labor law, civil litigation, contract negotiation, real estate, estate planning, and advising startup and small businesses. She currently serves as a Commissioner on the Nebraska Commission of Industrial Relations.

Lilit Vardanian joined Hurrell Cantrall LLP as an associate in 2022. She focuses her practices in civil rights defense, employment disputes, general liability, and products liability matters. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Vardanian was an associate with an AM100 law firm, where she represented individuals and private entities in a variety of employment and business related disputes in state and federal courts, arbitration, and administrative proceedings. During her professional experience, Ms. Vardanian has assisted in the successful defense of civil, arbitration, and administrative matters throughout all stages of pretrial civil litigation, including pleading disputes, discovery and depositions, law and motion practice, dispute resolution efforts, and trial preparation. MS. Vardanian earned her law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law. While in law school, she also served as the Moot Court Board Chair, Literary Citations & Symposium Editor for the Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship and the Law, and earned several awards throughout her participation with the Moot Court Team. Ms. Vardanian also attended the University of California, San Diego, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. Ms. Vardanian is admitted to practice in all California State Courts, the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Sam Varsalona is a member of the Litigation Practice in Greenberg Traurig's New Jersey office. Prior to private practice, Sam clerked for the Honorable Jack M. Sabatino, Presiding Judge of the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division. The attorney is providing legal services through and affiliated with Greenberg Traurig, LLP, a New York Limited Liability Partnership. Results may vary depending on your particular facts and circumstances.