Elizabeth A. Izquierdo
Partner
Elizabeth A. Izquierdo is a partner with the firm focusing her practice on legal malpractice defense. Prior to joining Keller Landsberg PA, she was a partner at Gilbride, Heller & Brown, P.A. in Miami, where her practice was concentrated in the areas of complex commercial litigation, securities fraud, and professional liability with a focus on accounting malpractice defense. She also previously practiced in the appellate department at Conroy Simberg, P.A.
Ms. Izquierdo attended the University of Central Florida where she earned her B.A. in English, summa cum laude. Ms. Izquierdo earned her J.D. with honors from the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law in 2002. During law school, Ms. Izquierdo was a member of the Florida Law Review where she served as Senior Research Editor.
Ms. Izquierdo is admitted to The Florida Bar and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
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REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
- Successful Petition for Writ of Certiorari – Elizabeth Izquierdo and D. David Keller prevailed in protecting the attorney-client privilege on behalf of an AmLaw100 firm, where the firm was served with and properly responded to a Subpoena for documents. District Court reversed decision of Circuit Court, where firm properly invoked and protected the attorney-client privilege to prevent improper production and disclosure of privileged materials without proper preliminary protocols, required in camera review, and defeated claims for attorneys’ fees by parties seeking discovery. Akerman LLP v. Cohen, 352 So. 3d 331 (Fla. 4th DCA 2022)
- Raymond Robin and Elizabeth Izquierdo recently successfully defended the trial court’s entry of Final Summary for the defendant in a class-action suit in an appeal to the Fourth District Court of Appeal in Colombo v. Robertson Anschutz & Schneid, P.L.See the Fourth DCA May 4, 2022 decision, at 2022 WL 1397564. See the video of the Oral Argument at https://lnkd.in/g3Cer3Pg.
- Raymond Robin and Elizabeth Izquierdo recently successfully defended the trial court’s entry of Final Summary for the defendant in a class action suit in an appeal to the Fourth District Court of Appeal in Colombo v. Robertson Anschutz & Schneid, P.L.See the Fourth DCA May 4, 2022 decision, at 2022 WL 1397564. See the video of the Oral Argument at https://lnkd.in/g3Cer3Pg.
- Jury Trial, July 2018, Broward County Circuit Court – In a challenging seven-year-old case which Keller took over from prior counsel after a number of adverse rulings, including Orders Granting Leave to pursue punitive damage claims against a major law firm and one of its lawyers, Keller, and partners Raymond Robin and Elizabeth Izquierdo prevailed in a two-week jury trial on claims for conspiracy/usurpation of corporate opportunity, negligent misrepresentation, aiding and abetting fraud/theft of corporate opportunity, civil theft and breach of escrow agreement. The Court granted a directed verdict on the claims for civil theft, and for punitive damages against the law firm, and the jury rendered a complete defense verdict on all remaining claims.
- After Keller Landsberg took over defense of a case from other counsel following adverse rulings permitting the addition of punitive damage claims, Ms. Izquierdo, along with partners David Keller and Raymond Robin, successfully defended a major law firm and one of its former lawyers against claims for conspiracy, negligent misrepresentation, aiding and abetting fraud and civil theft in a two-week jury trial. After obtaining directed verdicts as to the individual plaintiff’s claims, and on the claims for civil theft and punitive damages against the law firm, the Keller Landsberg defense team obtained a defense verdict as to all of the remaining claims.