Admitted: 1977, Florida; 1978, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida; 1979, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; 1986, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1987, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas; 1988, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh and District of Columbia Circuits and U.S. Supreme Court
Law School: Georgetown University, J.D.
Member: The Florida Bar; American Bar Association (Member, Section of Criminal Justice White Collar Crime Committee; Florida Regional Subcommittee White Collar Crime Committee; Chairman, Advocacy Sub-Committee); Cuban-American Bar Association; New Jersey Criminal Defense Lawyers Association; Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (Affiliate Member, 1981-1982); National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Inter-American Bar Association.
Biography: Instructor, Pilot Court Program, Harvard Law School Center for Criminal Justice, Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1990. Member: Office of the Public Defender, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1980-1982; Office of the Public Defender, Miami, Florida, 1982-1984. President, Eugene P. Spellman American Inn of Court, University of Miami Law School. Clerk, Dade County Circuit Court Attorney Advisory Committee (Member, Steering Committee, Chairman, Criminal Law Committee). Lecturer and Recipient, Best Paper Award for presentation XXX Conference of the Inter-American Bar Association in Santiago de Chile, "Sovereign Act or Commercial Activity: The Contraction of Governmental Immunity Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act," 1993. Lecturer, XXXI Conference of the Inter-American Bar Association of San Juan de Puerto Rico, "U.S. Inter-Company Pricing Requirements & The Latin-American Exporter: Criminal & Civil Liabilities." Member, The Spain-U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Host, "Legalmente Hablando," Public Service Radio Legal Program, 1999-2004.
Born: Havana, Cuba, November 21, 1952
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese