About Michelle

Michelle advises high-profile athletes, celebrities, and executives, as well as businesses in the sports, entertainment, and finance industries in complex disputes that involve the intersection of business and family law matters. Known as a ”fixer“ across several legal disciplines, Michelle handles highly delicate matters protecting her clients from serious financial and reputational harm. For select professional athletes and executives, Michelle helps them handle a variety of family law matters and also assists her clients and their businesses with other risk management issues affecting their brand, their company, and their professional legacy. With deep experience in complex commercial litigation, as well as world class client service that goes above and beyond for her clients, Michelle is the lawyer to call when you need a holistic solution to a complex and delicate legal problem. Michelle frequently handles: Sports, Entertainment, & Matrimonial Law collaborative and litigate dissolutions of marriage and domestic violence, paternity, custody, support, and modifications pre-nuptial, post-nuptial and cohabitation agreements international kidnapping, jurisdictional disputes, sexually transmitted diseases, interpersonal torts and relocation Commercial Litigation/Business Law contract negotiation and litigation, breach of fiduciary duty, violations of Fair Labor Standards Act, and Florida Whistleblower Act commercial, dissolutions, fraud, misrepresentation, and civil conspiracy violation of non-competes, trade secrets contract negotiation/litigation, insurance disputes, violation of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Acts represents financial institutions in contested foreclosures, quiet title, TILA, RESPA, FDUTPA, FCCPA, TCPA, title and lien priority disputes, and eminent domain In other words, Michelle is a "fixer"...She brings folks and businesses together when they are happy and assists with splitting them apart when their personal or business relationship no longer works while handling everything else along the way. Michelle provides her clients outstanding client service and is always proactive in protecting her clients and keeping them out of trouble.

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Education

• University of Miami School of Law, J.D., graduated 1999

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