Gabriela Espaillat
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About Gabriela Espaillat
Gabriela Espaillat is a Personal Injury Attorney at Rubenstein Law, based in Fort Lauderdale. Born in New York City and raised between Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and South Florida, she earned her B.A. in International Studies from the University of Miami in 2014 and her J.D. from St. Thomas University College of Law in 2019. While in law school, she served as Vice President of Finance for the Trial Team and earned the Best Advocate title in the 2018 Intramural Competition.
She has coached the St. Thomas Trial Team since 2019 and serves as an Associate Faculty Advisor since 2024. Before joining Rubenstein Law she served as a public defender handling thousands of cases and worked in insurance defense litigation. She represents clients in both English and Spanish, focusing on traumatic brain injuries, catastrophic injuries, wrongful death, motor vehicle and trucking accidents, premises liability, and negligent security cases.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Rubenstein Law Personal Injury Lawyers
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A Massachusetts jury returned a $1 billion punitive verdict against Philip Morris in 2022 over the lung cancer death of Barbara Fontaine, a case handled in part by Rubenstein Law attorney Kevin Donovan; the punitive award was later reduced to $56 million, a figure the state Supreme Judicial Court upheld in April 2026.
A Middlesex County jury awarded Joseph Reppucci and his wife $20.7 million after finding that R.J. Reynolds and Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. bore responsibility for the oropharyngeal cancer he developed following decades of smoking their cigarettes.
A Miami-Dade jury awarded $6 million to the widow of Oscar Cabrera, a construction worker killed in February 2017 when a remotely operated Metromover train struck a boom lift near the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. station while he was working on the Brightline terminal project.
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