Karen J. Haas
Member

Practice Areas: Civil Appellate Law and Trial Practice; Personal Injury and Wrongful Death; Bad Faith and Insurance Law; Medical, Legal and Professional Malpractice; Products Liability, FELA, Aviation; Commercial Litigation; Complex Marital; Consumer Protection

Admitted: 1986, Florida; 1988, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida; 1993, U.S. Supreme Court; 2007, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida

Law School: University of Miami, J.D., Magna Cum Laude, 1986

College: University of Michigan, B.A., Political Philosophy with high distinction, Magna Cum Laude, 1983

Member: Dade County Bar (Member, Appellate Court Committee, 1988-1994) and American Bar Ass'ns; The Florida Bar; The Ass'n of Trial Lawyers of America/American Ass'n for Justice; Dade County Trial Lawyers Ass'n (Member, Board of Directors, 1993,1994); Florida Ass'n of Women Lawyers (Member, Amicus Briefs Committee, 1990-1996); Defense Research Institute; Trial Lawyers Ass'n; Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers/Florida Justice Ass'n (Member, Amicus Briefs Committee, 1990-1996); Author's Guild.

Biography: Order of the Coif. Member, University of Miami Law Review, 1984-1986. Listed in: Who's Who in American Law, 6th and 7th Editions; Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America, 3rd Ed.; Who's Who Among Rising Young Americans, 1992. Adjunct Professor, University of Miami School of Law, 1988.

Honors: Rated by Fellow Attorneys, "AV" in Martindale-Hubbell (Very High to Preeminent Legal Ability & Very High General Recommendation Rating), and Outstanding Practitioner in the Area of Civil Appellate Law, and a Leading Florida Attorney.

Languages: Spanish, German.

Reported Cases: Young v. Hector, 884 So. 2d 1025 (Fla. 3d DCA 2004); Young v. Hector, 851 So. 2d 762 (Fla. 3d DCA 2003); Prio v. Barouh, 834 So. 2d 263 (Fla. 3d DCA 2002); Auster v. Strax Breast Cancer Institute, 649 So. 2d 883 (Fla. 4th DCA 1995); Protective National Insurance Company of Omaha v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co., 631 So.2d 305 (Fla. 3d DCA 1993); Mishler vs. Zakheim, M.D., et Al., 625 So.2d 81 (Fla. 3d DCA 1993); Cornette vs. Spalding & Evenflo Companies, Inc., 608 So.2d 144 (Fla. 4th DCA 1992); Mishael vs. Ferrell, Cardenas, Fertel, Rodriguez and Mishael, P.A., 606 So.2d 651 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992); Larson vs. Grossman, 604 So.2d 1274 (Fla. 4th DCA 1992); Ruiz vs. Steiner, M.D., 559 So.2d 196 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992); Principal Mutual Life Ins. vs. Martin, 585 So.2d 474 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991); Phares v. Froehlich, 582 So.2d 683 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991); Scott vs. Seaboard System Railroad, 578 So.2d 499 (Fla. 2dDCA 1991).

Born: Detroit, Michigan, May 7, 1952

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