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Raquel Rodriguez

 
Partner - McDermott Will & Emery LLP
 
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Company Name : McDermott Will & Emery LLP
 
Company Website : www.mwe.com
 
Company Address : 28 State St.
, Boston, MA,
United States,
 
Raquel Rodriguez Profile :
Partner - McDermott Will & Emery LLP
 
Raquel Rodriguez Biography :

Raquel ("Rocky") Rodriguez is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm's Miami office. She is a member of the Trial Department.

Rocky's practice focuses on commercial, international, real estate, constitutional and election litigation, dispute resolution and strategy; crisis and risk management and avoidance; government ethics advice and investigation; economic development and incentives; in-bound and out-bound transactions and inter-governmental relations.

Prior to joining McDermott, Rocky served as General Counsel to Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Earlier, she had been a shareholder in the Miami and Washington, D.C. offices of a major international law firm. She has also served as executive director of a London-based multinational association of independent law firms.

Rocky has published articles in numerous legal publications, and she is a frequent speaker and panelist on a wide range of legal topics at seminars and continuing legal education events. She has also been an adjunct professor of law at the University of Miami School of Law.

Rocky is AV-rated in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory and has been listed in Florida Trend's Legal Elite (government lawyers) in 2005 and 2006. In July 2000, she was profiled in the Miami Today article, "The Achiever." She received the Dade County Bar Association and Eleventh Judicial Circuit "Put Something Back" Exceptional Participation Pro Bono Service Award for representing Cuban refugees at Guantanamo Naval Base in litigation against United States Attorney General Janet Reno in 1996.

In law school, Rocky was a member of the University of Miami Law Review and the Order of the Coif, and she was class valedictorian.

Rocky is admitted to practice in Florida, as well as before the United States Supreme Court; United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; United States District Court, Southern District of Florida. For many years, Rocky was active in the American Bar Association and held many leadership positions, including Chair of the Young Lawyers Division, Executive Council member of the Section of International Law and Practice and the House of Delegates. Since 2003, she has been a member of the Florida Bar Judicial Nomination Procedures Committee.

Rocky is fluent in Spanish and speaks French.

Education

University of Miami School of Law, J.D. (summa cum laude), 1985

University of Miami, B.A. (summa cum laude), 1982

Languages Spoken

French

Spanish

 
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