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Andrés Rivero is a commercial litigator who, for 20-plus years, has focused on business controversies. Mr. Rivero is a skilled trial lawyer who has tried many cases to jury verdict during his career, including as one of the lead lawyers in U.S. v. GDC, et al., among the longest trials in the history of the Southern District of Florida. He has also argued numerous times before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and Florida appellate courts. His background as a litigation partner at Greenberg Traurig, a federal prosecutor, and a partner in entrepreneurial litigation boutiques over the last nine years adds both breadth and depth to his business litigation practice.
Mr. Rivero has substantial experience in representing corporations and entrepreneurs in intellectual property disputes, antitrust and securities claims, and partnership and shareholder controversies. Along with nearly all members of the firm, Mr. Rivero is fluent in Spanish, and has conducted litigations and arbitrations, including to an arbitration victory, in Spanish.
Mr. Rivero is a past-adjunct professor in the LLM program at University of Miami Law School, where he taught U.S. litigation practice, and a past-instructor at the Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute. He currently serves as a commissioner on the Judicial Nominating Commission for the 11th Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Florida. AV-rated by Martindale Hubbell, he has been voted one of Florida’s Legal Elite commercial litigators in a Florida Trend survey of Florida lawyers.
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PAST PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE |
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• Litigation Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, Miami, Florida (1996-1998)
• Litigation Attorney, Greenberg Traurig, Miami, Florida (1994-1996)
• Assistant United States Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Miami,
1989-1994
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1992-1994 Public Corruption Section
1989-1992 Economic Crimes Section
1989 Appeals and Major Crimes Section |
• Litigation Attorney, Greenberg Traurig, Miami,
Florida (1986-1989)
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EDUCATION
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• Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, J.D., 1986 |
Finalist, McBaine Moot Court Competition, 1986. |
• Harvard College: A.B., magna cum laude, 1982
(concentration in Social Studies)
• Miami Killian Senior High School, 1978
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ASSOCIATIONS
AND ACTIVITIES |
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• Florida Bar, 1986
• United States District Court, Southern District of Florida
• United States District Court, Middle District of Florida
• United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Judicial Circuit
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• Commissioner, Miami-Dade County Circuit Court
Judicial Nominating Commission (2006-present)
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• President, Assistant U.S. Attorney Association
(2002) |
• Coach, Coral Gables Elementary School County
Champion Geography Club (2001-2003 and 2005 -2007)
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• Treasurer,
Assistant U.S. Attorney Association (2001-2002)
• City of
Coral Gables Retirement System Board (1996-2000)
• Volunteer
Reader, WLRN Radio Reading Service, Miami, Florida (1993-1996) |
• Adjunct
Professor/Advisor, Comparative Trial Practice
Program, University of Miami Law School (1990-1996) |
• Faculty
member, Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute
(1993)
• Advisory
Committee, Carol City High School, Pre-Law
Magnet Program (1990-1993)
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PUBLICATIONS |
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• Deposing Nonhumans:
Corporate Representative Depositions in Florida,
The Florida Bar Journal, Volume 79, No.
1, January 2005 |
• A Comity of Errors: Understanding the
International Abstention Doctrine, University of Florida Journal of International Law, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2005
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