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About Kathy Ortega
Kathy Ortega is a Miami native with deep roots in the Hispanic community. She graduated from Saint Brendan High School in 2005 and earned a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Biological Sciences, cum laude, from Florida International University, where she was a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Academic Honor Society and the Delta Epsilon Iota Academic Honor Society. After working at Goldberg & Rosen for several years, she attended the University of Miami School of Law, then returned to the firm as an associate handling complex litigation including catastrophic injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice, and products liability. She is an active member of the Cuban American Bar Association and the American Bar Association. In December 2017, she passed the United States Patent and Trademark Office Bar Exam and now heads the firm's Intellectual Property practice.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Goldberg & Rosen
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The families of 98 people killed in the June 2021 Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside, Florida, recovered over $1 billion through a class settlement run by a court-appointed Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, with final approval reached in under a year.
Goldberg & Rosen attorneys Judd and Brett Rosen secured a $35 million jury verdict against drunk driver Thomas Cypress, whose blood-alcohol level was three times the legal limit when he killed retired Maryland couple Robert and Paulette Kirkpatrick on Tamiami Trail in 2009, producing what was at the time the largest damages award for surviving adult children in Florida history.
Goldberg and Rosen secured a $13 million jury verdict on behalf of a man left near death after a nightclub bouncer's felony battery, but a Miami judge vacated the award in 2024 and ordered a new trial after finding the defendants were wrongly barred from presenting certain defenses.
A Miami-Dade jury awarded $10,577,853.93 to plaintiff David Brown after a 2015 T-bone collision left him with a traumatic brain injury, a stroke, and two years during which he could not speak, eat, or drink.
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