Practice Experience

• Wendy Lumish is certified as a specialist in Appellate Law by The Florida Bar. She is also a Fellow in the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, an organization whose membership is limited to 500 members and is by invitation only.
• Her primary focus is products liability, commercial litigation and personal injury defense. She represents manufacturers of many different products including automobiles, chemicals, medical and pharmaceutical products and various types of equipment. In that capacity, Ms. Lumish has extensive experience working on legal issues of national significance including the crashworthiness doctrine, design defect, comparative fault, the use and scope of expert testimony, the seat belt defense, warnings, punitive damages and class actions.
• In addition to traditional appellate work in state and federal courts, Ms. Lumish’s practice includes extensive participation at the trial court level. Her role includes general trial strategy, preparation of dispositive motions, motions in limine and jury instructions. Ms. Lumish routinely attends trials to argue these motions and jury charges. She also handles the post trial briefing and argument.
• Ms. Lumish chairs the firm's Appellate and Trial Support Practice Group, Florida’s largest group of lawyers devoted exclusively to an appellate and trial support practice.

Professional and Civic Activities

• The Florida Bar
  Appellate Section
• Florida Standard Jury Instructions Committee (2001-2009)
• Product Liability Advisory Council
• American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, Fellow (membership limited to 500 appellate lawyers, by invitation only)
• Defense Research Institute
• American Bar Association
  Litigation Section
  TIPS
• Dade County Bar Association
• The Florida Third District Court of Appeal Historical Society
• The Eleventh Circuit Historical Society

Professional Recognition

• AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• 2006 Distinguish Service Award, presented by the Product Liability Advisory Council
• 2006 Most Effective Lawyer, Appellate, presented by the Miami Daily Business Review
• Listed in Florida Trend magazine's 2004-2007 Florida Legal Elite issues
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2005-2010 editions
• Listed in Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers (Appellate, Products Liability) 2007-2009 editions
• Selected for inclusion in Florida Super Lawyers 2006-2009 editions, also named on Top 50 Female Lawyers list
• Listed in the Top 100 in South Florida by the South Florida Legal Guide (2009)
• Phi Beta Kappa

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Florida
• Minnesota

COURT ADMISSIONS

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

Background

• Senior Research Aide to The Honorable Joseph Nesbitt, Third District Court of Appeal for the State of Florida (1981-1984)

Education

• University of Miami School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1981)
• Lehigh University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1978)