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About Bernardo Pimentel II
Bernardo Pimentel II is a trial attorney with more than six years of litigation experience in criminal and civil matters, representing individuals seriously injured through negligence including automobile accidents, defective products, asbestos exposure, and other catastrophic incidents. Before joining Leesfield & Partners, he was a Partner at Cole, Scott & Kissane, where he spent over three years defending corporations and insurance interests statewide, having been promoted to partner after just over a year with the firm. He now brings that defense-side knowledge to exclusively representing injured plaintiffs. Prior to his defense practice, he served as an Assistant Public Defender for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in Miami-Dade County and previously worked as an associate attorney at the Law Offices of Pimentel & Castillo in criminal defense, family law, and civil litigation. He earned his J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law in 2017 and his B.S. from Florida International University.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Leesfield & Partners
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A Miami-Dade jury returned a $95 million verdict, among the largest motor-vehicle awards in the history of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, for the family of a young woman killed and her brother catastrophically injured when a drunk driver traveled the wrong way on I-95 in December 2015 after being overserved at a Miami bar.
A Seminole County jury awarded $24.1 million, the largest verdict in county history at the time, after an obstetrician's prolonged vacuum extraction and use of fundal pressure caused a uterine rupture that deprived a newborn girl of oxygen and left her with severe cerebral palsy.
Justin Shapiro of Leesfield and Partners secured a $16 million settlement for a 67-year-old woman who was beaten and sexually assaulted in the open hallway of a northwest Miami-Dade Rodeway Inn while hotel employees and the property's security guard stood by and did nothing.
A Broward County jury awarded $15.4 million to Dwight Grant, a 22-year-old backseat passenger who suffered skull fractures and permanent frontal-lobe brain damage when a drunk driver with a BAC of .21 rear-ended the stopped car at a drawbridge in Pompano Beach.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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