Practice Experience

• Alina Alonso is Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Appellate Practice.
• She handles appeals in state and federal court, including brief writing and oral argument.
• Ms. Alonso provides litigation support, including drafting and arguing case dispositive motions, pre-trial motions, and post-trial motions. She also provides legal assistance at trial, including handling motions for directed verdicts, complex evidentiary issues, and charge conferences. 
• Her substantive areas of concentration include products liability, personal injury defense, and complex commercial litigation. She also has significant experience handling matters involving injuries or damages occurring in foreign countries, including Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Venezuela. In this respect, Ms. Alonso has extensively briefed issues involving forum non conveniens and choice of law.

Professional and Civic Activities

• American Bar Association
   Litigations Section
    Products Liability Cmt., Young Lawyers Subcommittee Co-Chair (2007-2009)
    Appellate Practice Cmt.
  Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section
    Products General Liability & Consumer Law Cmt. (2009-present)
    Emerging Issues in Motor Vehicle Product Liability Litigation
    Program, Co-Chair (2009-2010)
    Appellate Advocacy Committee
  Council of Appellate Lawyers
• The Florida Bar
  The Record - Journal of the Appellate Practice Section, Editor-in-Chief (2009-present)
  Appellate Section, Publications Cmt. (2005-present); Assistant Editor (2005-2009)
  Law Related Education Cmt. (2002-2005)
• Third District Court of Appeal Historical Society, Treasurer (2009-present)
• Dade County Bar Association
• Cuban American Bar Association
• Leadership Miami, Graduate (2004)
• United Way of Miami-Dade, Co-Coordinator of Firm's Campaign (2004-2005)
• Hands on Miami Day
  Firm Team Leader (2006)
  Firm Team Co-Leader (2005)
  Firm Team Leader (2004)
• University of Miami Hispanic Law Students Association, President (1998-1999)

Professional Recognition

• AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell 
• Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Appellate Practice
• Selected by Florida Super Lawyers as a 2009 and 2010 Florida Rising Star
• Listed in South Florida Legal Guide - Up & Comer (2008-2010)
• Selected for inclusion in Florida Trend's 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2008 Florida Legal Elite
• Dean's Honor Scholarship & Minority Participation in Legal Education Scholarship
• Marco A. Vazquez Memorial Scholarship (Litigation)
• Robert Orseck Moot Court Appellate Competition, Semi-Finalist & Best Brief Award
• Advanced Moot Court Appellate Competition, Finalist & Best Brief Book Award
• Corpus Juris Secundum Book Award, Contracts
• CALI Excellence for the Future Book Award, Contracts
• CALI Excellence for the Future Book Award, Legal Research & Writing
• Honorary Society of Bar & Gavel
• Phi Delta Phi - Honorary International Legal Fraternity
• Omicron Delta Kappa - National Leadership Honor Society

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Florida

COURT ADMISSIONS

• Florida State Courts
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida
• U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida

Background

• Law Clerk to The Honorable R. Fred Lewis, Florida Supreme Court (1999-2001)
• Certified Legal Intern, Office of the State Attorney - Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami
  Dade County, Florida (Spring 1999)
• Judicial Intern for The Honorable Robert L. Shevin, Third District Court of Appeal (Summer 1997)

Education

• University of Miami (J.D., cum laude, 1999)
  University of Miami Entertainment & Sports Law Review, Associate Editor
  Moot Court Board
• Florida International University (B.S., summa cum laude, 1996)

LANGUAGES

• Spanish