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150 West Flagler Street
26th Floor
Miami, FL 33130
Biography
Janine Menendez-Aponte, Esq., is the firm’s Strategic Mentoring and Training Partner and Co-Chair of the Reptile and Deposition Strategies practice group. She is also a member of the firm leadership committee focused on developing diversity and inclusion policies and strategies to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce.
Prior to joining the firm, Janine was in-house counsel for a national insurance carrier. In this capacity, she gained invaluable trial experience defending numerous cases to jury verdict.
As Strategic Mentoring and Training Partner, Janine develops and implements innovative programs to train, mentor, develop, and retain the firm’s talented and diverse litigators. Janine stays abreast of the tactical shifts used by the Plaintiff’s bar and delivers on-time education so our attorneys can be more agile, quickly adapting to the evolving legal environment. She oversees the firm’s in-house CLE program, providing training on fundamental principles of practice such as discovery, expert depositions, motion practice, time limit demands, and trial practice and procedure. Janine is also implementing the firm’s formal mentoring program, aligning partners with associates to further advance the firm’s culture of learning. One example is she will oversee and develop strategic templates for our Surgical SIU and LOP teams to combat the growing overuse and overbilling committed by surgeons and surgical facilities on personal injury claims. Another example is she will continue to train, develop and help oversee our Time and Policy Limits Demands and Tenders teams.
Janine brings to her role over a decade of experience working as a trial attorney, devoting over half of her career to advising and representing a national Fortune 100 Insurance Company and its insureds in claims related litigation. In that role, Janine handled auto liability, general liability, personal injury protection, uninsured/underinsured motorist, property damage, time and policy limit demands and tenders, and aggressively worked to combat excessive billing practices of medical providers and surgical centers. She has obtained numerous defense verdicts at jury trial. Janine has also litigated sophisticated insurance coverage disputes in state and federal courts serving individuals, major corporations, and small and mid-sized businesses operating across various industries.
Janine received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Central Florida graduating cum laude (2005). She obtained her Juris Doctor from the University of Miami graduating magna cum laude in the top 10% of her class (2010). While in law school Janine was elected to the Order of the Coif. She also served as a staff editor for the school’s International and Comparative Law Review and was President of the Federalist Society.
Janine is admitted to practice in the State of Florida (2010), including the United States District Court for the Southern (2013) and Northern Districts of Florida.
Practice Areas
Practice Areas
- Auto & Fleet Liability
- Federal Practice
- General Liability
- Insurance Coverage
- Medical | Healthcare
- PIP | PD | MedPay
- Premises Liability
- Reptile and Deposition Strategies
- Surgical LOP Abuse
- Time & Policy Limit Demands and Tenders
Experience
Awards & Honors
- President’s Honor Roll
- Golden Key International Honor Society
- Psi-Chi Psychological Honor Society
- Florida Bright Futures Scholar
- Order of the Coif
- Dean’s Certificate of Achievement Award in Torts
- Recipient of the C.A.L.I. Excellence for the Future Award (“Book Award”) for the Children and Youth Law ClinicPhi Delta Phi Honor Fraternity
Bar/Court Admission
- 2010, State of Florida
- 2013, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida
Education
- University of Central Florida, B.S., cum laude, 2005
- University of Miami School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2010
Professional/Civil Memberships
- Safespace Foundation, Inc. – Executive Board Member (2014-2019)
Industries Represented
- Insurance Companies
- Pharmaceutical Companies
- Homeowners
- Food Distributors
- Financial Services Companies
- Non Profit Organizations
- Third Party Administrators
- Rental Car Companies
Languages
- Spanish, Conversational
Publications
Articles
- Legal Update, October 2023
- LAW ALERT: SB 7052 Insurer Accountability Act Passes Requiring Additional Claims Handling Oversight
- Legal Update, May, 2023
- FLORIDA TORT REFORM FAQ
- LAW ALERT: The Florida Legislature Enacts Tort Reform Bringing Long Overdue Balance and Transparency to the Sunshine State
- Transparency in Damages and House Bill 837 / Senate Bill 236
- Legal Update November, 2022