Vanessa focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state courts. She has assisted clients in high-stakes matters concerning commercial contract disputes, and complicated statutory interpretation issues of first impression.
Vanessa is the pro bono liaison, chair of the Associates Committee, and the co-director of the summer associate program for the Ft. Lauderdale office.
Prior to joining the firm, Vanessa served as a law clerk to the Hon. William P. Dimitrouleas of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, where she managed the civil docket in one of the busiest federal trial courts in the nation. Before law school, Vanessa taught elementary school in a Title 1 school where she was selected teacher of the year and awarded for achieving some of the highest learning gains in the district. Vanessa is co-founder of READ USA, Inc., an organization that has grown to a multimillion-dollar nonprofit serving more than 200,000 underserved children with programming, including high-quality books, one-on-one tutoring, and literacy resources.