Profilo
Kayli D. Smendec is a member of the Litigation Practice in Greenberg Traurig's Tampa office. She concentrates her practice on complex commercial litigation, environmental, and white collar matters in both federal and state courts, representing clients in matters including business tort and contract claims.
Competenze
Esperienze Professionali - Attività Accademiche
- Confidential Client. Representing an international exporter in actions seeking payment of more than $75 million owed to it for goods delivered.
- Confidential Client. Defending a real estate developer in a multimillion-dollar dispute against claims of a breached promissory note, breach of implied duty of good faith and fair dealing, and fraudulent transfer of assets pursuant to Florida’s Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act (FUFTA).
- Confidential Client. a financial institution’s directors and officers in three actions alleging they engaged in a plan to improve their equity position at the expense of the plaintiffs and to sell the institution for a large profit.
- Confidential Client. Representing manufacturer in toxic tort claims relating to hazardous substance exposures.
- Confidential Client. Represented manufacturer in toxic tort claims in multidistrict litigation relating to PFAS liabilities.
- Confidential Client. Representing an institution in a civil action to obtain repayment from the defendants for $13 million embezzlement.
- Confidential Client. Assisting with an international war crimes and crimes against humanity case before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers at The Hague.
- Confidential Client. Represented an international real estate firm in a class action lawsuit regarding the alleged embezzlement of tenant funds from a tenant-in-common structure.
- Confidential Client. Represented an international real estate firm in a class action lawsuit regarding the embezzlement of tenant funds from a tenant-in-common structure by the executives who owned the properties. Our client was hired for property management and demonstrated and presented documentary support that they neither participated nor knew about the owner’s criminal actions.
- Confidential Client. Assisted a 501-(c) (3) national organization in advising on legal matters, including corporate governance, transactional, and intellectual property matters.
- Confidential Client. Assisted legal team in patent enforcement action involving an array of patents relating to some of its most high-margin energy-related products against multiple foreign copycat manufacturers who have engaged in repeated acts of infringement and are selling their aftermarket infringing products to some of the client’s own customers, resulting in potential passing off and trademark infringement.
- Confidential Client. Represented a software development company in a Declaratory Judgment action filed by a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools entity in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The matter relates to the unauthorized over-deployment and infringement of our client’s copyrighted software in light of a license agreement between the parties limiting the deployment. Given the strength of our case, defendant pushed for settlement after the summary judgment phase of the case and right before trial, and the case was settled.
- Represented an Afghan refugee family in humanitarian parole application process.
- Honors Program Legal Intern, Department of Defense, Office of General Counsel, 2017
Riconoscimenti e Premi
- Team Member, a Law360 “Environmental Practice Group of the Year,” 2022
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, “Ones to Watch,” Commercial Litigation, 2024
- Hillsborough County Bar Association
- Member, Young Lawyers Division Long Range Planning Committee, 2020-2021
- Co-Chair, Young Lawyers Division Member Services Committee, 2021-2023
- Tampa Connection
- Member, Class of 2021-2022
- Member, Alumni Committee, 2022-2023
- Member, J. Clifford Cheatwood American Inn of Court
- Member, National Association of Women Lawyers
- Member, Florida Association for Women Lawyers
- Member, Hillsborough Association for Women Lawyers
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay, School-to-Work Mentor, 2022-Present
Formazione
Formazione
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Laurea magistrale in Giurisprudenza, Vanderbilt University Law School
- Articles Editor, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
- Diploma di maturità, summa cum laude, University of Florida
Tirocinio presso una Corte
- Hon. Mary S. Scriven, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, 2023
Abilitazioni
- Florida
- District of Columbia