Kevin Kaplan
Kevin Kaplan joined the firm in 1992, and now serves as its President. He has extensive trial and appellate court experience in commercial litigation. As trial counsel for corporations and entrepreneurs, Mr. Kaplan has litigated matters ranging from aircraft finance, banking and partnership disputes, to trademark and copyright, construction defect and contract claims. He approaches his cases by seeking creative and cost-effective trial strategies for complicated problems.
Mr. Kaplan has been a regular speaker on litigation topics important to the aircraft and other industries at national conferences and American Bar Association committee meetings. Following law school, he served as law clerk to Chief Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He began his practice with a highly respected law firm in Los Angeles before moving to Miami.
Mr. Kaplan is also active in the local community, serving as Chair of the Commerce and Professions Division of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and as a board member of Summer Fun for Kids, a local charity sending foster children to summer camp.
EDUCATION
Duke University School of Law, high honors, 1989
Executive Editor, Duke Law Journal
Duke University, M.A. (English), 1989
University of Pennsylvania, B.A., cum laude, 1986
PROFESSIONAL/CIVIC AFFILIATIONS
The Florida Bar
State Bar of California
Greater Miami Jewish Federation
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
PERSONAL
Born in Buffalo, NY
Married, four children
Plays squash