Trial Lawyers Enforcing the Medical Standard of Care
Elizabeth Hawthorne Faiella is an experienced medical malpractice attorney, as well as a noted lecturer and author. She has been practicing law since 1976, when she received her Juris Doctor from Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia. Ms. Faiella is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, the most prestigious and selective attorney organization in America. Membership is limited to the top 100 plaintiff’s trial attorneys in the entire Nation.
In addition, Ms. Faiella is board-certified in Civil Trial Law by The Florida Bar, an accomplishment that only 7% of eligible attorneys achieve. Since 1983, Elizabeth has kept her certification current, and was awarded a 25-year certificate for her efforts in 2008.
Elizabeth has represented plaintiffs in numerous jury trials. These cases involved claims of medical negligence, automobile accidents, premises liability, defamation, amusement park device failures, negligent supervision in amusement parks, assault and battery, paternity, excessive force by police officers, fraud, malicious prosecution, tortious interference with business relations, intentional infliction of emotional distress, constitutional deprivation of due process by a private corporation, defective road maintenance, and more.
Throughout her distinguished 40-year career, Ms. Faiella has won multiple verdicts and settlements of $1 million or higher, but has also devoted her time to her fellow professionals, teaching and lecturing on legal topics nearly 60 times, and serving on the Florida Bar Board of Civil Trial Certification Committee. She also wrote Women Trial Lawyers: How They Succeed in Practice and in the Courtroom, Chapter 4 "Voir Dire in the Medical Negligence Case: Key Factors in Choosing and Conditioning Jurors" in 1978, and co-authored "Battling Ageism in Cancer Negligence Cases" for Trial Magazine in 2007. Elizabeth now devotes her practice entirely to medical malpractice claims, because she passionately believes that medical care should improve health, not hinder it.
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Elizabeth is fluent in Spanish and Italian.
Education:
Juris Doctor, Emory University School of Law, Georgia, 1976
Bachelor of Arts, Trinity University, Texas; major in Foreign Language, 1969
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