PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Talley Kaleko is an AV rated member of the Florida Bar with more than 19 years’ experience as a practicing trial lawyer throughout the Florida State and Federal courts. Ms. Kaleko has been primarily engaged in civil trial and appellate practice with her practice areas comprised primarily of complex personal injury, products liability, civil rights, appellate practice, and business tort litigation. She has tried numerous cases to verdict and obtained verdicts in the millions. Recently, in 2018, she was awarded one of the top twenty auto jury verdicts in Florida.

In addition to her experience as a trial lawyer, Ms. Kaleko was a Senior Attorney with National Legal Research Group. During her time at NLRG, Ms. Kaleko helped run the Florida Legal Research office, supervising research attorneys and conducting complex research projects for attorneys throughout the State of Florida. Ms. Kaleko authored numerous appellate briefs and prepared legal pleadings and memoranda for cases at all stages of litigation.

During her time running Florida Legal Research, she learned the ins and outs of how a legal research firm can best meet the needs of trial lawyers. She is an excellent research and writer and can effectively produce winning work product for clients, in addition to overseeing the research work of other attorneys.

Talley Kaleko graduated Summa Cum Laude from Florida State University Law School in 2000. While in law school, Ms. Kaleko was a member of the Law Review, was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Transnational Law & Policy and was the recipient of both the University Fellowship and the Florida Bar Foundation Public Service Fellowship. She received Book Awards in numerous classes, including Legal Writing and Evidence Seminar. She was also inducted into the Order of the Coif and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Following law school, Ms. Kaleko clerked for Judge Robert Hinkle in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida. Ms. Kaleko was then engaged in private practice as an associate attorney at Cox & Burns, PA in Tallahassee, Florida, focusing primarily on personal injury and civil appellate law.

For past couple years Ms. Kaleko has been with the law firm of Brooks, LeBoeuf, where she still serves in an of-counsel position with the firm. Prior to that Ms. Kaleko was a shareholder and partner at the Law Offices of Robert Scott Cox, representing individual clients and small businesses in primarily personal injury, civil rights and business litigation matters. She has also served as of counsel to Parks and Crump, LLC and participated in many of that firm’s civil rights cases.

In her spare time, Ms. Kaleko enjoys spending time with her husband, Jed, who teaches at Florida State University’s Film School and their three children.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Ms. Seymore has a passion for utilizing new technology, especially as a means to advance the practice of law and trial advocacy. She managed and coordinated the technological components of the first Zoom jury trial conducted in North Florida that resulted in a verdict of over $411 million and she consults regularly on technology applications for the courtroom.

Ms. Seymore started her practice in defense of medical malpractice, nursing home, and personal injury claims, but now proudly represents injured people and consumers in their fight for justice. She focuses her current litigation practice in the area of medical/nursing home negligence claims, but has experience in civil rights, products liability, automobile negligence, and complex personal injury matters. Ms. Seymore is admitted to practice before the Florida Bar and the U.S. District Court for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida. She is a member of the Order of the Coif. Ms. Seymore is also an active member of the American Association for Justice, Florida Justice Association (Eagle Member), the Capital City Justice Association, Tallahassee Women Lawyers (serving on the board), Orange County Bar Association, Society of Women Trial Lawyers, Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, UF Law Alumni Council, and FSU World Affairs Program Alumni Council. She is an adjunct professor at UF Law for Pretrial Practice and Trial Team Coach helping students compete in mock trial competitions across the country both virtually and in person. She has recently been named a Top 40 Under 40 by the National Trial Lawyers.

BACKGROUND

Ms. Seymore grew up in Pennsylvania and Florida, but she speaks fluent Italian after many years of living in Florence, Italy. Jennifer has competed in various debate, mock trial, moot court, model UN, and forensics competitions since she was in elementary school. Ms. Seymore graduated cum laude from the University of Florida Levin College of Law with her juris doctorate and cum laude from Florida State University with a bachelor’s in History and minors in Psychology, Italian Studies, and Political Science. In law school, she was President of the UF Law Trial Team, Articles Editor for the Journal of Law and Public Policy, a member of Jessup Moot Court, President of the Association of Public Interest Law, and was an executive board member of eleven organizations. Ms. Seymore is driven to contribute to her community and gives back to charities throughout the state of Florida. She and her husband enjoy strategy games, escape rooms, and playing cards. Jennifer loves to travel with her friends and family and she loves a challenge.

Lauren D. Fraser dedicates her practice to helping seriously injured people and their families when they have been affected by an accident through no fault of their own. As a nationally recognized trial attorney, she has successfully resolved cases for clients injured in auto and truck crashes or in slip and fall incidents, having obtained some of the largest jury verdicts and settlements in NJ.

Lauren is an active member of the American Association for Justice and serves as the Co-Chair of the Jury Bias Litigation Group. She serves on the Board of Governors for the New Jersey Association for Justice and is a former Trustee to the New Jersey Bar Association (2015-2021). She is also a Fellow of the Melvin M. Belli Society and has been listed as a NJ Super Lawyer in Personal Injury consistently since 2008. Lauren is a frequent lecturer for the New Jersey Association for Justice and American Association for Justice on topics such as effective trial presentation, handling spine Injury cases, attorney marketing and focus groups. When not working on her own cases, Lauren consults with attorneys across the country, assisting with their trial preparation and presentation and conducts focus groups.

In her spare time, Lauren is the Director of a performing arts school, Trinity Studios where she teaches theater arts, vocal performance and dance. She is the author of the best-selling young adult fantasy series, Trinity of Kirana – Trinity (2012), Queen Makers (2016) and Rose of the Field (coming soon in 2022). Lauren is an avid trail runner and is mom to Anna Elizabeth.

Randall L. Rozek focuses his practice on the representation of victims of serious, life-changing injuries including those who have been harmed by large corporations and insurance companies.

Mr. Rozek is routinely asked to speak to lawyers and doctors in order to educate them on such issues, particularly in the area of representing victims of traumatic brain injuries. Mr. Rozek is the immediate past-Chair of AAJ’s Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group. In 2016, Randy was honored to receive the Wisconsin Trial Lawyer of the Year Award.

Raynard Struck is a native bilingual New Mexican from Taos who received his J.D. degree, from the University Of New Mexico School Of Law in 1999. Raynard first career was as an insurance adjuster for Allstate in Southern California. One of the main reasons he left the insurance industry and went to law school was the insurance industry’s lack of “fairness” towards people who make claims for damages due to the fault of others.

At the law firm of Medrano Struck, P.C., Raynard practices in the areas of Personal Injury law, Insurance Law, Guardian ad Litem (GAL) for personal injury, Slip/Trip and Fall, Dog Bite, Insurance Bad Faith and other civil matters. Raynard is bilingual in Spanish and loves representing people who have been wronged by others and do not speak English.

Raynard is currently an LLM candidate in Mediation at Pepperdine Straus Dispute Institute with graduation set for fall of 2019. The top-ranked Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution has led the nation in law-school-based conflict resolution for over a decade and has been ranked # 1 in the U.S. News and World Report law school rankings for 13 of the last 15 years. Straus is also world renown for being a leader in Alternative Dispute Resolution. Raynard has also completed the Straus 42-hour training on “Mediating the Litigated Case” in August of 2016.

Raynard received a B.A. from Pitzer College (Claremont Colleges, CA) in Organizational Management with minors in Economics and Sociology. Raynard is a member New Mexico State Bar, as well as a member of the New Mexico Trial Lawyer Association (NMTLA), UNM Law Alumni Board, the Hispanic Bar Association. Raynard has served as Board of Bar Commissioner for the 2nd Judicial District for 10 years and currently sits on the New Mexico Bowl Board of Directors.

My name is Aimee Martuccio Whitsell and I am an attorney with Parnall Law Firm. I come from a big Italian family and was raised in Western Pennsylvania with my four sisters. My dad continued the paving company his dad started after immigrating to the United States, and he was able to put all of his daughters through college.

I graduated from Westminster College cum laude with a double major in Philosophy and History in 2001. For some reason, I have been fascinated by the history of the “Old West” since childhood…especially Billy the Kid. As a self-proclaimed Billy the Kid aficionado, I eagerly moved to New Mexico for law school in 2004. While in law school, I served as an officer for the Veteran’s Association, completed an internship with the Second Judicial District Attorney’s Office and worked in the Southwest Indian Law Clinic.

After graduation from law school in 2004, I started my career as a Children’s Court prosecutor for the Thirteenth Judicial District Attorney for three years. While a prosecutor, I obtained valuable trial experience, including lead chair in jury trials of high-profile felonies.

I began my civil law practice in 2008 with a focus in medical malpractice defense, and I also worked for a large national medical malpractice insurance company. In 2017, I changed my path and now I represent individuals injured by negligence. I have now been on almost every side of a case – defense attorney, insurance representative, and now plaintiff advocate. I use my unique background and skills to even the playing field for individuals battling for their rights against big corporations and insurance companies. I have insight into the motives behind opposing counsel’s strategies and can anticipate their arguments and tactics.

My family has always been my greatest joy and motivator. Parnall Law is like my second home. We have the values, compassion and skills necessary to truly help our community. I am proud of the work we do every day.

“All of my clients’ cases are important, big or small. We can’t undo the injury or trauma they have gone through, but we can help them get back on their feet and obtain a sense of justice. Helping clients obtain just compensation is the best and only form of justice when they are wrongly harmed by another’s negligence.”

In 1984 at the age of 20 years old, Darrell Siggers was convicted of first degree murder and sent to prison for a crime he did not commit. While in prison Darrell educated himself and began to learn the law. Darrell maintained his innocence from the beginning.

After filing numerous appeals in 2017, Prosecutor Kym Worthy created the Wayne County Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) and appointed attorney Valerie Newman as the CIU Director. Ms. Newman and the CIU team headed by Prosecutor Worthy began investigating numerous cases, including Darrell’s. After 6 months, with the recommendation of Director Newman, Prosecutor Worthy vacated Darrell’s conviction and dismissed all charges based on new evidence of his innocence and police misconduct.

Since coming home from prison at the age of 55, Darrell has had the honor of speaking at every major university in the State of Michigan about wrongful convictions and is working with students and faculty on criminal justice reforms. He has written a book called, “What you Need To Know Before Hiring A Lawyer And What You Need To Know Before Filing An Appeal.”

He has created a business called Legal Access Plus to help incarcerated men and women obtain documents and evidence needed to challenge their convictions. Darrell believes in giving back to our community and those incarcerated (“the least of these”) as stated in our Bible.

As a nurse and lawyer Chris brings a wealth of experience and a unique background to life care planning. She is a former litigator with extensive experience in medical malpractice. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law.

She has chosen to work in a supportive role to litigators and this has led her to filling the request to “put together future medicals for this client.” She calls upon her very relevant experience providing nursing care to home bound patients and her in depth understanding of spinal injuries and treatment.

As a nurse she has actually cared for spinal cord injury patients in their home and helped them face the challenges of immobility, chronic wound care and sourcing expensive medications and as a lawyer she has been in the operating room with a spinal surgeon.

David Selby represents individuals who have been injured by defective firearms, medical devices, and pharmaceutical drugs. David currently serves in leadership and steering committee roles in several medical device MDLs.

Awards & Accolades

Elite Trial Lawyer Finalist for The National Law Journal’s Award (2018)

AV® Preeminent™ rating from Martindale-Hubbell®, the highest possible rating for legal ability and ethical standards.

The National Trial Lawyers Top 100

The National Trial Lawyers Top 25 Class Action Trial Lawyers

National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys’ Alabama Top 10