Nestor E. Menendez
Focusing on complex commercial litigation and business disputes, as well as, white-collar criminal matters, encompassing a number of substantive areas, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other anticorruption regimes, anti-money laundering, and internal investigations.
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Nestor E. Menendez focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation and business disputes, as well as white-collar criminal matters, encompassing a number of substantive areas, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other anticorruption regimes, anti-money laundering, and internal investigations. Nestor represents clients at both the state and federal levels.
Prior to joining Stumphauzer Foslid Sloman Ross & Kolaya, Nestor worked at Podhurst Orseck, P.A., one of the nation’s leading plaintiff firms, focusing on class action and multi district litigation, personal injury/wrongful death, complex commercial business litigation and aviation tort law.
Nestor is fluent in Spanish, conversational in Portuguese, and introductory level in Italian.
- Part of team that secured a successful confidential settlement in an Anti-Terrorism Act MDL. (In re Chiquita).
- Member of team that initiated the products liability MDL against the manufacturers of Zantac. (In re Zantac).
- Successfully defended a commercial dispute involving the disassociation of several doctors from a South Florida Pulmonary practice group. (SFPCC).
- Assisted in securing not-guilty verdict in federal court for an indigent client accused of minor drug charges but charged as a career criminal. (U.S. v. Simmons).
- J.D., University of Miami School of Law
- B.A., Florida International University, Political Science and Criminal Justice.
- Charles C. Papy Moot Court Board, Member
- Federal Court Observer Program, Participant
- Honorable Jacqueline Becerra, Magistrate Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of Florida
- Autism Speaks
- Cane2Cane mentor program
- Florida Bar
- District of Colombia Bar
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
- Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
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Prior to joining Stumphauzer Foslid Sloman Ross & Kolaya, Nestor worked at Podhurst Orseck, P.A., one of the nation’s leading plaintiff firms, focusing on class action and multi district litigation, personal injury/wrongful death, complex commercial business litigation and aviation tort law.
