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Ronald V. Miller, Jr.

Baltimore, MD

Ronald V. Miller, Jr. is a trial lawyer for injury victims at Miller & Zois, specializing in cases against pharmaceutical companies and insurance carriers. He is regularly listed in SuperLawyers and Best Lawyers in America, a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and was recognized as one of the forty elite attorneys in Maryland by SmartCEO. He holds a perfect ranking on Avvo. Miller has been a law professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law for 21 years, teaching insurance law, and has lectured nationally on maximizing personal injury case value. He authored a two-volume treatise on personal injury cases and has served as an expert witness.

Diana Santa Maria

Davie, FL

Diana Santa Maria is the Founding/Managing Attorney. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Miami, graduating Cum Laude and inducted into the Order of Barristers. Since 1985, she has focused on representing individuals injured due to negligence, specializing in Plaintiff’s Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, and Wrongful Death. She is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (past President of Fort Lauderdale Chapter), a Sustaining Member of the American Justice Association, and a member of the National Trial Lawyers Association (Executive Board Member). She has served on the Florida Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission and the Florida Bar Board of Governors for the 17th Judicial Circuit. She is also a Florida Supreme Court Certified Civil Mediator and founder of Bilingual Mediators, Inc. She is recognized in Best Lawyers in America, Florida Super Lawyers, and is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

H. Philip Grossman

Louisville, KY

Philip Grossman has over 35 years of experience in the practice of law and is currently a senior partner in the Louisville Law Firm of Grossman Green PLLC. His passion is handling personal injury cases for clients who suffer serious and catastrophic injuries. In particular, he most frequently works with victims and families who have suffered the effects of brain injuries, paralysis, fractures, spine injuries and wrongful death.

Philip C. Federico

Wilmington, DE

Phil Federico is a partner at Brockstedt Mandalas Federico, leading the Mass Tort / Class Action and Environmental Law practices. He has led historic litigation with verdicts and settlements exceeding one billion dollars, including a $205 million settlement in an environmental case against Mountaire Corporation and a $103 million settlement for air and water emissions from New-Indy Catawba paper mill. He also has extensive experience in personal injury, sexual abuse and misconduct, and healthcare litigation, including a $123 million settlement in the Earl Bradley case and a $190 million class action settlement with The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

JOHN MORRISON

Helena, MT

John Morrison has served as a lawyer and public leader for 35 years. He received the highest possible rating for legal ability and ethics (AV Preeminent) and is Board Certified in Civil Trial Law. He was President of the Montana Trial Lawyers Association and served as Montana State Auditor. His practice areas include insurance litigation, product liability, class actions, personal injuries, business disputes, and constitutional issues. He has received numerous awards and distinctions for his legal work and public service.

Ralph G. Patino

Coral Gables, FL

Ralph G. Patino is a nationally recognized corporate and civil trial lawyer and businessman with more than three decades of courtroom and professional experience. He is managing shareholder, President and Chief Operating Officer of Patino & Associates, P.A., the Coral Gables law firm he founded in 1992. His firm has since grown to include offices and affiliates throughout the U.S. and in Latin America and the Caribbean. Mr. Patino has been recognized for his work involving corporate counsel, products liability, automotive negligence, premises liability, police misconduct and banking fraud. The secret to his success is both his fearlessness and his compassion. In the late 1990s, Mr. Patino was among the first U.S. attorneys to make a connection between defective Firestone tires and SUV rollover accidents that were causing catastrophic injuries and deaths on South Florida roadways, as well as in other American cities and foreign countries. His tenacity and determination led Patino & Associates to successfully sue corporate giants Firestone and Ford on behalf of 30 victims and their families. In each case, Mr. Patino won substantial settlements for his clients and a personal apology for each from the manufacturers. His efforts led to making the roads safer for the public at large. Mr. Patino is credited as one of the U.S. attorneys who prompted the historic recall of 6.5 million defective Firestone ATX Wilderness tires that were proven to have caused widespread death, injury and destruction. During this landmark case, Mr. Patino was chosen by his legal peers to co-chair the Ford Firestone Multi-District Litigation Financial Committee with oversight for approximately 300 consolidated personal injury or wrongful death lawsuits against Ford and Firestone. His work on behalf of tire tread separation victims earned him the prestigious American Justice Association’s James L. Shard Award for the Pursuit of Public Justice. Today, Mr. Patino is widely regarded as a champion of consumers rights and protections against defective products, corporate negligence, online banking fraud and other areas of the law. Under his leadership, Patino & Associates has won more than one hundred multimillion dollar jury awards and settlements and, as a result, Mr. Patino is a member of the prestigious Million Dollar Verdict Club. Mr. Patino is also a civic and community leader, philanthropist, patron of the arts and baseball enthusiast. He is frequently asked to share his opinion and expertise in the media. He is a member of the South Florida 100, a group of influential community leaders whose weekly opinions appear in Sun Sentinel’s Editorial Page, digital and print version. He has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today, and has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, Despierta America and other media outlets. On the world stage, Mr. Patino has played a vital role in helping improve U.S.-Cuba relations. As a founding member of Cuba Now and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s U.S.-Cuba Business Council, Mr. Patino helped the Obama administration restore diplomatic relations with Cuba and was among the White House’s special guests at the July 2015 reopening of the U.S Embassy in Havana. Mr. Patino continues to travel frequently to Cuba where he helps U.S. corporations establish and maintain commercial ties with Cuba. He is a firm believer that normalized relations between the two countries is in the best interest of both the American and the Cuban people. Mr. Patino’s work in the region extends beyond Cuba. He is a member of the prominent Brookings Institution Americas Council whose goal is to create greater relations and policy changes toward the Caribbean and Latin America. On the home front, Mr. Patino has long been active in national politics. Together with Eva Longoria, Henry Muñoz and other prominent Hispanics, he founded the Futuro Fund, which in 2012 raised $36 million for the Democratic National Committee. In 2014, he co-founded the Latino Victory Project, a bi-partisan initiative that supports Hispanic candidates for national office throughout the United States. At the community level, Mr. Patino is committed to helping South Florida on numerous social and cultural issues. For more than a decade, he has led the fight to save Miami’s historic Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for Performing Arts and currently serves as chairman of the non-profit that runs the theater. He’s a board member and former acting director of the Mourning Foundation, a charity that helps inner-city children. He’s actively involved in other charities and community initiatives.