Practice Experience

• Nancy Faggianelli represents business clients, financial institutions, and insurance companies in class actions and complex litigation in state and federal courts. She has substantial experience defending and prosecuting a wide variety of claims, including:
  • Shareholders’ derivative claims
  • contractual disputes
  • securities claims
  • insurance claims
  • product liability
  • infringement of intellectual property rights
  • misappropriation of trade secrets
  • professional liability
  • non-competition agreements
  • intentional tort claims against workers’ compensation carriers
  • business torts
• Ms. Faggianelli has tried cases in the areas of breach of contract, insurance, infringement of intellectual property rights, defamation, employment discrimination, and products liability, and she has won injunctions in cases involving intellectual property rights, non-competition agreements, and tortious interference with business relationships.
• She also has extensive experience in products liability cases, having tried two smoking and health cases for a major tobacco company, one of which was featured as the “Verdict of the Week” in the National Law Journal, and having defended over twenty other cases that were dismissed or resolved on summary judgment.
• Ms. Faggianelli is a member of the firm’s Board of Directors, Co-Chair of the firm's Diversity Committee, and a Member of the Carlton Fields Chinese Drywall Team.

Professional and Civic Activities

• The American Bar Association
  Litigation Section
  Minority Trial Lawyer Committee
• The Florida Bar
  Civil Procedure Rules Committee (Electronic Discovery Subcommittee, and Chair of Subcommittee on Rule 1.351)
  Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Grievance Committee (Chair, 1998-1999, 2005-2006)
  Business Law Section (Business Litigation Committee)
• Master, Ferguson-White American Inn of Court (1999-2003)
• Hillsborough County Bar Association
• Tampa Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, Board of Directors
• Hillsborough Association for Women Lawyers (Treasurer, 2001-2002)
• Equality Florida 

Professional Recognition

• AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• Recipient, Diversity Best Practices' 2008 Diversity Officer Leadership Award

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Florida

COURT ADMISSIONS

• Florida State Courts
• United States Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida

Education

• University of Florida College of Law (J.D., with honors, 1982)
  Editor, Florida Law Review
  Order of the Coif
• University of Florida (B.A., 1976)