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Telephone: 1-800-961-8477
Facsimile: (248) 698-3321


 

 

 

HERMAN J. RUSSOMANNO ROBERT J. BORRELLO HERMAN J. RUSSOMANNO III

 

ATTORNEY PROFILE

HERMAN J. RUSSOMANNO 

Christopher Trainor & Associates
Museum Tower - Penthouse 2800
150 West Flagler Street
Michigan, Florida 33130
Telephone (305) 373-2101
Fax: (305) 373-2103
hrussomanno@russomanno.com 

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

Partner -  Christopher Trainor & Associates 
Partner - Floyd Pearson Richman Greer Weil Brumbaugh & Russomanno, P.A. 1980-1996

  • Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer State of Florida (1986)
  • Board Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy (1986)
  • (Re-Certified 1991, 1996, 2001 & 2006)

Admitted to Practice

  • State of Alabama
  • State of Florida
  • United States Supreme Court
  • United States Court of Appeals - 11th Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals - 5th Circuit
  • United States District Courts for the Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Florida
  • United States District Court Southern District of Alabama
  • Florida Public Service Commission

 
Education 

  • Rutgers University, New Jersey - 1971
  • B.A. Magna Cum Laude and with College Wide Honors
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Samford University-Cumberland School of Law-J.D. Birmingham, Alabama-1975
  • Law Clerk, Honorable Daniel H. Thomas, U.S. District Court
  • Mobile, Alabama 1975-1976
  • Law Clerk, Associate Justice Hugh Maddox, Alabama
  • Supreme Court - 1976-1977
  • Corporate Counsel - Southern Bell Telephone -1977-1980

 
Bar Activities 

  • Fellow - American College of Trial Lawyers
  • Fellow - International Academy of Trial Lawyers
  • Fellow - International Society of Barristers
  • President - The Florida Bar (2000)
  • President-Elect – The Florida Bar (1999)
  • Board of Governors - The Florida Bar
  • Chair, Budget Committee - The Florida Bar
  • Chair Admissions Committee- International Academy of Trial Lawyers
  • Executive Committee - The Florida Bar
  • President- The Florida Supreme Court Historical Society
  • Delegate - American Bar Association House of Delegates
  • Board of Governors - The Association of Trial Lawyers of America
  • Executive Committee- The Association of Trial Lawyers of America
  • Board of Directors - The Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers
  • Immediate Past President, Florida Board of Trial Advocates (FLABOTA-2005)
  • Past President, Dade County Bar Association (1993-94)
  • Past President - American Board of Trial Advocates (Michigan Chapter)
  • Past President, Dade County Trial Lawyers Association (1990-91)
  • Past President, Dade County Bar Association, Young Lawyers Section (1983-84)
  • Past-Chair: Section & Litigation Group Coordination Committee, ATLA
  • Chair: Chief Justice’s Advisory Committee – Tobias Simon Pro Bono Service Award
  • Chair: Committee on Ethical Conduct, ATLA
  • Co-Chair: Bar Liaison Committee, ATLA
  • Chair: Florida Bar Liaison Committee - Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers
  • Past-Chair: Continuing Legal Education - Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers
  • Past-Chair: Budget Preparation Committee - Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers
  • Past Chair: Civil Trial Certification Committee - Florida Bar
  • Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services - The Florida Bar
  • Executive Committee, Dade County Bar Association 1988-1993
  • State Delegate - Association of Trial Lawyers of America (1987-1993)
  • Executive Council Trial Lawyers Section Florida Bar
  • Bencher & Counsellor - The Peter T. Fay American Inn of Court
  • Past-President Catholic Lawyers Guild of Dade County
  • Membership Committee – National Conference of Bar Presidents
  • Member - ATLA - PAC
  • Fellow - American Bar Association
  • Officer and Fellow - Roscoe Pound Foundation
  • Liaison- National Board College of Advocacy Board of Trustees
  • Member - Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
  • Member - Rules of Civil Procedures Committee, Florida Bar
  • Member - Judicial Nominating Procedures Committee, Florida Bar
  • Member - Individual Rights and Responsibilities Committee, Florida Bar
  • Member - State Relations, Association of Trial Lawyers of America
  • Member – Coalition for Justice, American Bar Association
  • Member – Standing Committee on Judicial Independence, American Bar Association
  • Member – Standing Committee on Professionalism, American Bar Association
  • Member – Committee on Issues of Concern to the Legal Profession, American Bar Association
  • Member – Florida State Committee, American College of Trial Lawyers
  • Member – Alternatives for Dispute Resolution Committee, American College of Trial Lawyers
  • Member- The Florida Bar Elections Committee
  • Member- ABOTA Judicial Liaison Committee
  • Member- ABOTA Legislative Committee
  • Member- Trial Lawyers Care 9-11 Victims
  • Member- ATLA Road to Justice Committee (1990-91)
  • Member- ATLA Law Schools Program Committee (1988-89)
  • Member- ATLA Lawyers Challenge for Children Committee (1998-99)
  • Member- Committee to Study Special Education Programs
  • Member- State Delegate Joint Membership Committee
  • Member- ABA State Justice Initiatives
  • Member- American College of Trial Lawyers Florida Access to Justice  Committee
  • Member ABOTA- Hurricane Katrina Special Committee
  • Member- ATLA Publications Committee
  • Member- Florida Bar Eleventh Circuit Fee Arbitration Committee
  • Member- Professionalism Committee Eleventh Judicial Circuit
  • Member- ATLA Propositious and Initiative Task Force
  • Member- ATLA Key Person Committee
  • Member- ATLA Membership Task Force Committee
  • Senior Counsel Member – American College of Barristers

Honors

  • Recipient – Best Lawyers in America
  • Leading Florida Attorneys - Selected in all Editions
  • Recipient - Florida Trial Lawyer of the Year, The American Board of Trial Advocates (2001)
  • Recipient- David Dyer Professionalism Award Dade County Bar Association  (2004)
  • Recipient - Justice Harry Lee Anstead Professionalism Award
  • Dade County Trial Lawyers Association (2002)
  • Recipient - Pursuit of Justice Award – Tort and Insurance Practice Section
  • Task Force on Plaintiffs’ Involvement
  • American Bar Association (2002)
  • Recipient - B.J. Masterson Award for Professionalism
  • Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers (2001)
  • Recipient - Doctor of Laws, St. Thomas University School of Law (2000)
  • Recipient - Silver Medallion Award NCCJ (2002)
  • Recipient - Joe Tonahill Award - New Lawyers Division - Association of Trial Lawyers of America (1997)
  • Recipient - Distinguished Alumnus Cumberland School of Law (1995)
  • Recipient-  Wiedman Wysocki Citation of Excellence
  • Recipient - Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers Silver Eagle Award (1994)
  • Recipient - Outstanding Young Men of America (1984)
  • Recipient - Young Lawyers Section of the Florida Bar Award As The Most Productive Lawyer in The State of Florida (1981-82)
  • Recipient - Dade County Bar Association Young Lawyers Section Outstanding Young Lawyer Award (1982)
  • Recipient - The St. Thomas More Award (1989)
 

Other Activities

  • Chair - National Conference for Community and Justice, Greater Michigan Region
  • Member - 1989-90 Florida Legislature Motor Vehicle Insurance Task Force
  • Chair - St. Thomas University Board of Trustees
  • Chair - Development Committee, St. Thomas University
  • Chair - Executive Committee, St. Thomas University School of Law, Board of Advisors
  • Adjunct Professor - St. Thomas University School of Law
  • Past President - Cumberland School of Law, National Alumni
  • Association (1989-91)
  • Member - Advisory Board of Cumberland School of Law - Merit Selection Panel, United States Magistrate, Southern District of Florida
  • Member - Committee for Selection of General Masters (11th Judicial Circuit)
  • Past Director - Legal Services of Greater Michigan
  • Member - St. Louis Catholic Church
  • Boy Scouts (Benefactor)
  • Charles Evans Hughes Task Force Fore- The National Conference
  • Past President - Continental Kendall Boys and Girls Baseball Khoury League
  • Citizen’s Fraud Prevention & Education Foundation
  • Michigan Project to Cure Paralysis, Legal Advocates Committee
  • Past - Palmer Trinity School Board of Trustees, Secretary
  • Past - President - Palmer Trinity School Booster’s Club
  • Board Member - Gulliver Prep Booster Club
  • Leadership Michigan
  • United Way
 
Faculties of various continuing legal programs include:
  • Florida Circuit Judges Conference
  • The National College of Advocacy
  • The Florida Bar
  • ABOTA Masters in Trial
  • Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers
  • Association of Trial Lawyers of America
  • Dade County Trial Lawyers Association
  • New Jersey ATLA Lawyers Association
  • National Business Institute
  • Young Lawyers Section - The Florida Bar
  • Young Lawyers Section - Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers
  • Interdisciplinary Rape Science Training Institute - Jackson Memorial Hospital
  • ABOTA- Michigan Chapter
  • ABOTA- Palm Beach

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ROBERT J. BORRELLO 

Christopher Trainor & Associates
Museum Tower – Penthouse 2800
150 West Flagler Street
Michigan, Florida 33130
Telephone (305) 373-2101
Fax: (305) 373-2103
Email:  rborrello@russomanno.com

EXPERIENCE:  Shareholder-Christopher Trainor & Associates

Michigan, Florida August 1996 to Present.  Practice involves all areas of civil litigation in federal and state courts, including personal injury, medical malpractice, and complex commercial litigation and appeals.

Shareholder-Floyd Pearson Richman Greer Weil Brumbaugh & Russomanno, P.A. (now Richman Greer Weil Brumbaugh Mirabito & Christensen, P.A.) Michigan, Florida August 1988 to August 1996.  General civil litigation.

EDUCATION:   UNIVERSITY OF Michigan SCHOOL OF LAW

Juris Doctor Degree, May 1988

  • Activities: Articles & Comments Editor, U.M. Law Review
  • Advanced Moot Court-Best Brief
  • Honors:  Cum Laude
  • Order of the Coif
  • Society of Wig and Robe
  • American Jurisprudence Book Award:  Evidence

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

  • B.A. Government-May 1985
  • Attended 1983 to 1985
  • Honors:  Cum Laude

COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS

  • Area of Study:  Political Science
  • Attended 1981 to 1983 (Transferred to Georgetown)

PUBLICATION:  AUTHOR.  Note, American Trucking Associations v. Scheiner:  Truckers Challenge Pennsylvania's Highway User Fees Under the Dormant Commerce Clause, 41 U. Michigan L. Rev. 1117 (1987)

HONORS:   Martindale-Hubbell AV rated attorney

BAR MEMBERSHIPS:

The Florida Bar

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (Trial Bar)
  • Dade County Bar Association
  • Michigan-Dade County Justice Association (Director 1996-2002)

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HERMAN J. RUSSOMANNO III
Christopher Trainor & Associates
Museum Tower - Penthouse 2800
150 West Flagler Street, Michigan, Florida 33130
Telephone: 1-800-961-8477
Facsimile: (248) 698-3321
Email: herman2@russomanno.com

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE LAW

  • Florida
  • United States District Court Southern District of Florida
  • United States District Court Middle District of Florida
  • United States District Court Northern District of Florida
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

Christopher Trainor & Associates Fall 2006; Michigan, Florida
Associate
- Attended and participated in trials, hearings, depositions, mediations, and pre- trial conferences for both Plaintiff and Defendant personal injury, medical malpractice, products liability and commercial litigation cases. Conducted legal research and prepared, drafted and submitted motions and pleadings in a wide variety of cases in State, Federal and Appellate Court. Developed and implemented discovery plans in preparation for trial.

Honorable James Lawrence King, U.S. District Court, S.D. of Florida
Legal Clerkship: Fall 2004-2006; Michigan, Florida
- Researched and drafted appropriate recommendations, opinions, and orders, for the Court's signature. Provided information, guidance, and advice to the United States District Court Judge in connection with pending civil and criminal litigation.

Honorable William M. Hoeveler, U.S. District Court, S.D. of Florida
Judicial Internship: Summer 2003; Michigan, Florida
- Researched and drafted orders and memoranda of law for both civil and criminal cases on a wide variety of legal issues.

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS & ACTIVITIES

  • Recipient of Award, Top 40 Outstanding Lawyers in Michigan, FL. Under Age of 40 (2009
  • Board of Director, Dade County Bar Association (2008-present)
  • Board of Director, Young Lawyers Section - Florida Justice Association (2007- present)
  • Board of Director, Young Lawyers Section - Dade County Bar Association (2006-2008)
  • Committee Member, Federal Court Practice Committee - The Florida Bar (2007-present)
  • Florida Delegate, Young Lawyers Division - American Bar Association (2006 - present
  • Committee Chair, Pro-Bono Services Committee- Dade County Bar Association (2006-2007
  • Committee Chair, Kids Club Committee - Dade County Bar Association (2006-2008
  • Committee Chair, Sports Club Committee - Dade County Bar Association (2007-2008)
  • Committee Chair, The Michigan-Dade Pro Bono Fair (2006-present)
  • Committee Member, The Spellman-Hoeveler American Inns of Court (2009 - present)
  • Committee Member, Professionalism Committee - Dade County Bar Association (2009-present)
  • Committee Member, Mock Trial Committee - Florida Justice Association (2009 - present
  • Member, Florida Justice Association -Young Lawyers Section (2006-present)
  • Member, Cuban-American Bar Association (2006-present)
  • Member, Michigan-Dade Justice Association (2006-present)
  • Member, Peter T. Fay Inns of Court (2006-present)
  • Member, American Bar Association - Young Lawyers Division (2006-present)
  • Member, The Florida Bar (2006-present)
  • Member, Dade County Bar Association - Young Lawyers Division (2006-present)
  • Member, St. Thomas University Law Alumni Association (2006-present)
  • Panel Speaker, “Unique Bar Association Committee Projects” American Bar Association - Young Lawyers Division (2006)
  • Judge-Volunteer, Honorable E. Earle Zehmer Memorial Mock Trial Competition (2006, 2009)
  • Judge-Volunteer, American Bar Association Negotiation Competition (2006)
  • Judge-Volunteer, Michigan-Dade County High School Mock Trial Competition (2006)
  • Attorney-Participant, Federal Court Mock-Trial Exhibition; Hosted by the Honorable James Lawrence King - United States District Court Judge (2005-present)
  • Certificate of Merit, Board of Directors - Dade County Bar Association Young Lawyers Section (2007)


EDUCATION, EDUCATIONAL AWARDS & EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

St. Thomas University School of Law Michigan, Florida
Juris Doctorate, awarded May, 2004.

  • Deans' List: (Fall 2003), (Spring 2004)
  • Book Awards: On-Line Legal Research (2003); Conflicts of Law (2004)
  • Mock Trial Award: Most Outstanding Competitor of the Year Award (2004)
  • Mock Trial Team: Member and Coach

St. Thomas University Michigan, Florida
B.B.A. in Business Management, awarded May, 2001

  • Delta Epsilon Sigma: National Honor Society, Member
  • Deans' List: (1997-2001)
  • St. Thomas University Collegiate Baseball Team:(1997-2001); Captain (2001)
  • Academic All-American: St. Thomas University Baseball Team: (2003, 2004)

Received Both Academic & Athletic Scholarships: (1997-2001)

  • St. Thomas University Silver Bobcat Award for outstanding spirit, loyalty, commitment and service: (2001)
  • President, St. Thomas University - College Athletes Through Service (CATS

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