Susan Petersen’s career has always been based on telling people’s stories – first, as a broadcast journalist at several Ohio television news stations, and then, as an esteemed civil trial lawyer in Ohio’s courtrooms. She worked in the trenches as a reporter at WEWS-TV5 in Cleveland while attending law school, developing a knack for digging deep to uncover the truth behind every story. It was these journalistic and investigative skills that launched a legal career in which she has always represented everyday people in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. Since starting her own law firm in 2004, she has recovered over $50 million in verdicts and settlements for her clients in courtrooms across Ohio.

From the very beginning, Susan has been an advocate for women in law, writing and producing CSU Law’s 2000 Documentary “’Remember the Ladies’ – A Salute to Cleveland-Marshall College of Law’s First Female Graduates,” and working her way up the ranks to President of the Ohio Women’s Bar Association in 2007. In 2008, Crain’s Cleveland Business Magazine selected her to its class of “Forty under 40” – a salute to Northeast Ohio’s most influential people under the age of 40. Since then, she has continued to lead, serving for more than a decade on the boards of the Ohio Association for Justice, the Cleveland Academy of Trial Lawyers, and the CSU Law Visiting Committee, now a member of its Executive Committee.

Her trial skills have earned her numerous recognitions, including induction as a member of both the American Board of Trial Advocates in 2013 and the International Society of Barristers in London, England in 2019. During 2019, the International Barristers Society elected Susan to serve on its Foundation Board and, in 2022, to its Board of Governors. Susan has been honored as an “Ohio Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics Magazine in every edition since 2013. She continues to tirelessly advocate for her clients and to pay it forward to the practice as a frequent lecturer on trial practice in Ohio.

Susan has been part of the O’Mara Law Group legal team since 2008. She studied at Valencia and Seminole State Colleges and was on the President’s List. She has been a nationally Certified Paralegal since 2008 as well as Registered Paralegal with the State of Florida. She has worked as family law paralegal since 1997 and is now the Mass Torts Coordinator at O’Mara Law Group.

Susan is a member of the MTMP Paralegal College Faculty and a speaker at the MTMP paralegal tracks in Vegas. She is also involved in the National Trial Lawyer paralegal project to offer paralegal tracks at the NTL Summit. Susan served as the Administrator for the Central Florida Family Law Inn for 11 ½ years where she worked alongside with the finest family law attorneys and judiciary in Central Florida. Susan has lived in Central Florida since 1983 and enjoy spending time with her husband of over 30 years, two wonderful sons, equally talented paralegal daughter-in-law and three awesome grandchildren.

Leigh Ebrom is the Director of Compliance & Content at LaFleur Marketing, a digital marketing agency that specializes in highly regulated industries. She earned her J.D. in 2003 from Valparaiso University School of Law and now uses her experience to connect firms and consumers nationwide. Leigh co-authored Digital Marketing for Law Firms: The Secrets to Getting More Clients and Better Cases with Chip LaFleur in 2020.

As a Palm Beach County native, Ms. Latour graduated from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, with a Bachelor of Business Administration. She then attended Barry University School of Law in Orlando, Florida, where she graduated early with her Juris Doctor degree in December 2013.

Prior to joining Romano Law Group, Ms. Latour served as an Assistant State Attorney where she gained invaluable trial and litigation experience. She then joined the private sector, working for a prominent civil litigation defense firm handling complex litigation matters. Currently, Ms. Latour focuses her practice on representing plaintiffs in catastrophic injury matters, including wrongful death, auto negligence, medical malpractice, premises liability, and product liability.

Outside of her litigation practice, Ms. Latour serves as Chair for the Palm Beach County Bar Association’s Lawyers for Literacy committee. She also serves as a Director for the Palm Beach County Chapter of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers’ programming committee. Additionally, Ms. Latour serves as President of the Lake Worth High School Alumni Foundation and sits on the Board of the Lake Worth High School Dollars for Scholars, a nonprofit foundation that supports academic success in the community.

Education

Barry University School of Law, JD, December 2013
Bar Admissions
Florida – 2014
Northern, Middle and Southern District Courts of Florida – 2021

Memberships and Professional Associations

Palm Beach County Bar Association, Chair – Lawyers for Literacy
Palm Beach County Association for Women Lawyers, Director – Programming committee
American Association for Justice
Florida Justice Association
Palm Beach County Justice Association
National Trial Lawyers – Top 40 Under 40

Community Involvement

Lake Worth High School Alumni Foundation, President
Lake Worth Dollars for Scholars, Board Member
Meet Other Attorneys

Dan is a member of the American Society of Trial Consultants. For the past 10 years as National Director of APITLA, Dan has provided informal trial consulting to hundreds of lawyers.

Through his work as a litigation and trial consultant at Ramsdell Consulting Services, LLC, and as a way of “giving back”, Dan is carving out a segment of time separate and apart from his time available to practice law as co-counsel, to also provide litigation and trial consulting services so he can help more lawyers help their deserving clients.

Ramsdell Consulting does not practice law. We only enhance the skills of the legal practitioner to effectively identify and communicate all critical liability facts. Just one overlooked area of liability can easily make the difference in millions of extra dollars.

When he was just 17 years old, Dan and his mother were both nearly killed in a crash with a big truck. Dan later attended law school, and is now nationally recognized by plaintiff and defense attorneys alike as one of the most knowledgeable and passionate persons in America regarding the identification of, and effective presentation and communication of, all aspects of the multiple areas of violations of trucking industry safety rules, regulations, standards, practices and procedures.

Michael Hill has been described as a generational attorney with numerous 7 figure trial verdicts and settlements. Michael has met the stringent Super Lawyers standard, voted by his peers as one of the top 2.5% of attorneys in 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.

Michael has been rated by the National Trial Lawyers Association as a Top 40 Under 40 trial lawyer in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 and one of the Top 100 lawyers overall in 2023, his first year of eligibility. The National Trial Lawyers Association has also rated Michael as one of the Top 25 Medical Malpractice Lawyers and Top 10 Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Lawyers.

Michael was selected as one of the “10 Best Attorneys” for the state of Ohio by the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys and was given the “Top 10 Under 40 Attorney Award” by The National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys (NAOPIA).

Recently, the international organization AI Legal honored Michael as the “Most Dedicated Nursing Home Prosecution Trial Attorney (Midwest USA).” The Midwest region includes such major metropolitan areas as Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland.

He is a member of the exclusive Million Dollar Advocates Forum and Multimillion Dollar Advocates Forum for consistently reaching multimillion dollar settlements and verdicts. Best Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Trial Lawyer Michael Hill from Eadie Hill Trial Lawyers at trial.

Michael is an in invited lecturer across the country on trial tactics and has been published numerous times in peer reviewed academic journals and publications.

Michael represents families across the country in wrongful death cases caused by severe neglect and abuse that occurs at nursing homes. Born in Flint, Michigan, Michael attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio where he was a running back on the football team and graduated with a degree in Philosophy. He attended law school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and was published multiple times in national peer reviewed academic journals.

Michael is the co-founder of Eadie Hill Trial Lawyers. Michael lives in Peninsula, Ohio. When not in trial, Michael spends the bulk of his time traveling, particularly in Central and South America.

He has a very simple motto that he tries to live by, “always be kind and never be afraid.” If he can look back on his life and know in his heart that that’s how he lived, he will be pretty happy.

Like the song says, Sergio was “Born and raised in SOUTH Detroit,” which is really Windsor, Ontario, Canada. His father worked in a car parts factory and his mother in various Italian restaurants. His family’s work ethic is the underpinning for everything, as he admits to not being the sharpest knife in the drawer. His grandfather, who left his home at 11 years old to make roads by hand (only for his parents to walk 8 hours on Saturday and take his meager salary and walk 8 hours home on Sunday) would say “go to work with a tie and a briefcase, not a hat and a lunch box.”

When he was young, he wanted to be Magic Johnson. Then Pat Riley. Then Magnum P.I. Then he developed 3 dreams – live on a tropical island, drive a Ferrari and have Wednesdays off. He has one out of three and suspects he is done, but he is still working on the other two. After watching My Cousin Vinny he went to law school in both Windsor and Detroit at the same time to obtain an American and a Canadian law degree. He then moved to Guam sight unseen and did insurance/medmal defense. After a stint in Jamaica, he moved to Honolulu, where he was still stuck doing defense work. After a few years, he said screw this and started his own firm, with the support of many local Plaintiff attorneys. He had three jury trials in 12 months and his practice evolved to where now he only takes a handful of medmal/death cases and works them up for trial. He rarely misses a chance to attend fun and educational conferences where he can further develop his still raw trial skills by learning from the best in the country.

In his spare time, he enjoys playing hockey at the Ice Palace, Lawyer’s League softball and basketball and playing bartender and karaoke MC at parties.

Thomas D. Graham has recovered millions for his clients and their families. He is known for taking on challenging and unique cases and getting results for those who need it most. Tom’s practice areas include catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, defective products, negligent security, sexual assault, medical malpractice and maritime injury and death matters.

He has a special background with admiralty and maritime cases, including the representation of injured passengers, crew members, and maritime workers sailing from Florida’s shores and internationally. Tom is highly experienced in maritime medical malpractice cases where sick and injured individuals are not adequately diagnosed, treated, or evacuated from cruise ships and other vessels traveling around the world. He has handled legal proceedings in Europe and Asia, and regularly represents injured foreign crewmembers in international arbitrations. Tom’s tenacious representation and legal skill has created beneficial developments in the field of maritime law for injured cruise passengers and maritime crew.Tom routinely represents individuals who are injured or die because of inadequate medical care, treatment, and missed diagnosis at land-based hospitals and healthcare treatment centers located in Florida and throughout the United States.

He has successfully handled multiple cases involving the wrongful administration of medication resulting in death, as well as cases involving the wrongful or negligent discharge of individuals from substance abuse treatment centers. Tom has a wide range of experience in products liability matters, including cases involving defective bicycles, windows, and electrical components. Within the last few years alone Tom has recovered many millions for his clients injured in automobile, trucking, and commercial vehicle collisions, and against automobile repair shops for negligent repairs and the negligent installation of tires.

Before founding Mausner Graham Injury Law, Tom had the opportunity to try civil cases in nearly
every Florida Circuit Court. He began his career as a prosecutor with the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office where he was responsible for the prosecution of felony criminal cases. It was at the prosecutor’s office that Tom and Eric met, and they have handled cases together ever since. During his service as a prosecutor, Tom tried over 25 jury trials, over 100 bench trials, and served as the Assistant Chief of County Court.

Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Tom is licensed to practice law in Florida and Pennsylvania. He was honored to receive a top score on the February 2011 Florida Bar Exam. Tom is very passionate about serving and advancing the profession, and holds leadership positions in local, state, and national bar organizations. He regularly writes and lectures on personal injury and maritime law.

Brett K. Findler, Senior Attorney/Co-Head Underwriting

Brett K. Findler had been the Managing Partner of Findler & Findler, P.A. in Boca Raton, FL (previously located in West Palm Beach, FL) since 1989. He currently allocates 100% of his professional life to Priority Responsible Funding, LLC. Mr. Findler received his B.A. degree from City University of New York in 1979 and his Juris Doctorate degree from Nova Southeastern University in 1983. He worked for the Miami labor law firm of Kaplan, Sicking, Hessen, et al for several years before becoming partner at the law firm of Rosenthal & Findler, P.A. in West Palm Beach, FL. Mr. Findler has been a member of the Florida Bar since 1984 and is a two time recipient of the Silver Eagle Award from the Florida Academy of Trial Lawyers for going above and beyond in the preservation of civil justice.

As of July 2018, Brett K. Findler is President/Founder of Priority Responsible Funding, LLC – a non-recourse legal and medical funding company designed to help trial lawyers and their injured clients. Mr. Findler identified a need in the non-recourse funding industry, offering programs and distinguishing Priority Responsible Funding from the competition. He works hand-in-hand with law firms, their clients and medical providers to address the pitfalls he has seen during his 35+ years’ experience as a trial attorney.

Mr. Findler currently educates law firms and medical groups across the country in the area of non-recourse medical, catastrophic care and litigation funding, and how same can help them help their clients/patients. He has also sponsored numerous events for the Florida Justice Association (FJA) in his capacity as President/Founder of Priority Responsible Funding.