Diana L. Martin handles appeals for the firm in a wide variety of practice areas, including tort liability, product liability, managed care liability, and consumer class actions. She also provides litigation support to the firm's attorneys by drafting and arguing complex and case dispositive motions and providing legal assistance at trial by handling motions for directed verdicts, complex evidentiary issues, and charge conferences. Ms. Martin is admitted to practice in the Florida State Courts; the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Florida; the U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit; and the United States Supreme Court.
Before joining the firm, Ms. Martin served for three years as Staff Attorney to the Honorable Martha C. Warner in the Fourth District Court of Appeal of Florida. She is a 2002 High Honors graduate from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Ms. Martin received her Bachelor's Degree from Flagler College after graduating summa cum laude, being awarded Departmental Honors in Philosophy/Religion, and being inducted into the Alpha Chi and Omicron Delta Kappa honor societies.
Ms. Martin was appointed by the Florida Bar to sit on the Board of Directors of Florida Legal Services and she serves as Audit Committee Chair of Families First of Palm Beach County. She is also a co-author of Florida Insurance Law and Practice, an annual publication by Thomson/West.
Areas of Practice
- Appellate Practice
- Managed Care Negligence
- Automotive Crashworthiness
- Civil Trial Practice
- Class Action Litigation
- Mass Torts
Representative Cases
- Betts v. Fastfunding, 60 So. 3d 1079 (Fla. 5th DCA 2011)
- McKenzie v. Betts, 55 So. 3d 615 (Fla. 4th DCA 2011)
- Bueno v. Workman, 20 So. 3d 993 (Fla. 4th DCA 2009)
- McKenzie v. Reuter, 9 So. 3d 770 (Fla. 4th DCA 2009)
- Curcio v. Sovereign Healthcare of Boynton Beach L.L.C., 8 So. 3d 449 (Fla. 4th DCA 2009)