Government
Llopiz Wizel has a long-standing commitment to serving government clients with integrity, precision, and discretion. Our attorneys are deeply familiar with the legal landscape governing public entities and officials, and we bring decades of experience advising and defending federal, state, and local government bodies, as well as the individuals who serve them. Whether in litigation, investigations, or policy consultation, we deliver legal solutions that are strategic, practical, and effective.
Federal Agencies & Employees
Our Attorneys have extensive experience representing the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC) in financial recovery actions, director and officer liability actions, and pursuing errors and omissions as well as fraud by professionals. Our firm is poised to be in a position to thoroughly investigate the existence of potential claims, locate assets, and litigate such claims through trial and any necessary appeals.
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Our attorneys have also been requested from time to time to represent federal employees alongside the Department of Justice, and to represent federal employees within administrative actions.
Public Charter Schools
Charter schools play an important role in our public education system, introducing an element of parental choice, competition, and versatility that is not always possible with traditional public schools. Our attorneys have represented charter schools for decades with notable success. We have performed investigations, crisis management, and have litigated cases from inception through appeals. We have drafted legislation that was successfully enacted to add further clarity to statutes affecting charter school liability. We have a strong commitment to public charter schools in Florida.
Public School Districts and Universities
Our attorneys have represented school districts, school boards, and public charter schools for decades. We regularly conduct investigations, pre-litigation advice and counsel, and also handle litigation across the State involving these entities. We have represented schools with respect to claims involving Title IX, torts, sovereign immunity, education law claims, contractual disputes, claims brought under 42 USC s.1983, and other constitutional claims.
Public Officials & First Responders
Our attorneys have had the pleasure of representing mayors, city managers, state attorneys and assistant state attorneys, public board members, numerous other public officials, police officers, and other employees of municipalities, and federal public officials. Our representation regularly includes constitutional law, sovereign immunity, civil rights, torts, employment law violations, and common law claims. We have defended public officials against alleged violations under 42 USC s. 1983, Fourth Amendment violations, Fourteenth Amendment violations, First Amendment violations, Title VII, Title IX, Bivens actions, Whistleblower claims, gender discrimination, gender harassment, retaliation, and defamation claims.
State, Municipalities & Other Government Entities
For decades, our attorneys have represented numerous state agencies, municipalities, water management districts, state attorneys, special taxing districts, mosquito control districts, and drainage districts, including its elected public officials, public officers, and other employees in courts across the State, federal court, administrative proceedings, arbitrations, and in all courts of appeal in Florida and within the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Our attorneys have represented dozens of cities, towns, and villages throughout the State of Florida, from the beaches of the northern Atlantic to the Florida Keys and across the breadth of the State.
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Our representation has involved all manner of federal and state claims, including employment claims, public records litigation, Department of Justice civil rights investigations, EEOC investigations, tort litigation, civil rights violations, and constitutional violations.