NEWS
Harley Tropin is selected to be a member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers
November, 2008
Kozyak Tropin and Throckmorton Celebrates 25 years of litigation and bankruptcy practice.
August, 2008
Chris Cardillo, MIS Director of KTT is published in Biztech Magazine: 10 Ways to Speed Up Your Wan
August 7, 2008
Adam Moskowitz is quoted in law.com article
July, 2008
South Florida Legal Guide 2008 names John Kozyak, Tucker Ronzetti, Charles Throckmorton and Harley Tropin as Top Florida Attorneys. It names David Buckner, Detra Shaw-Wilder and David Rosendorf as Up-and-Comers.
July, 2008
Law Dragon Names John Kozyak as a leading finalist for its Top 500 Attorneys in America.
July, 2008
Florida Trend 2008 named Charles Throckmorton, Cori Lopez-Castro and John Kozyak as top attorneys in Bankruptcy/Workout and Harley Tropin and Tucker Ronzetti were named top Commercial Litigators. David Samole was recognized as an Up and Comer.
June, 2008
Florida Super Lawyers 2008 names Harley Tropin and Tucker Ronzetti as top Business Litigators. The publication also names David Rosendorf, Charles Throckmorton, Cori Lopez-Castro and John Kozyak as top Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights Attorneys.
June, 2008
Harley Topin is listed in the top 100 lawyers in Florida in SuperLawyers 2008.
June, 2008
Cori Lopez-Castro is listed in the top 50 women lawyers in Florida in SuperLawyers 2008.
June, 2008
John Kozyak, Harley Tropin, Charles Throckmorton, Cori Lopez-Castro and Janet Humphreys are listed in the Chambers and Partners guide for Top Attorneys in their field. The firm is ranked in Band 1 for bankruptcy and restructuring and in Band 2 for litigation
January, 2008
John Kozyak and David Rosendorf are selected as Top Lawyers in the American Registry Corporate Counsel 2008
December, 2007
John Kozyak is awarded the American Bar Association "Spirit of Excellence Award" for mentoring minority students and lawyers.
November, 2007
SuperLawyers Names Cori Lopez Castro as one of the Top 50 Florida Women Lawyers.
November, 2007
John Kozyak & Harley Tropin are listed as Bet-the-Company Lawyers by Best Lawyers, its highest honor.
November, 2007
SuperLawyers names Harley Tropin as one of 100 Top Florida Lawyers.
November, 2007
Tucker Ronzetti and Harley Tropin are ranked by Chambers as top Litigation Attorneys in Florida
November, 2007
Gail McQuilkin, John Kozyak, David Rosendorf, Cori Lopez-Castro, Charles Throckmorton and Harley Tropin are listed as Best Lawyers for 2007.
November, 2007
David Rosendorf, John Kozyak, Charles Throckmorton and Cori Lopez-Castro are named by Florida Trend as Legal Elite.
November, 2007
Janet Humphreys, Tucker Ronzetti and Harley Tropin are recognized by Superlawyers 2007 as top Litigation Attorneys in Florida.
November, 2007
Detra Shaw-Wilder, John Kozyak, Harley Tropin, Tucker Ronzetti, David Rosendorf and Charles Throckmorton are honored in the South Florida Legal Guide.
November, 2007
Chambers places the KTT Litigation Department in the Top 10 and the KTT Bankruptcy Practice in the Top 13 for Florida.
November, 2007
John Kozyak is Listed in the LawDragon Annual Guide to the nation's Top Lawyers.
November, 2007
SuperLawyers recognizes John Kozyak, Charles Throckmorton, Cori Lopez-Castro and David Rosendorf as top Bankruptcy/Restructuring attorneys in Florida
November, 2007
John Kozyak is listed in Who's Who in Legal Insolvency and Restructuring.
November, 2007
Chambers ranks John Kozyak, Charles Throckmorton and Cori Lopez-Castro as "exceptionally strong" Bankruptcy and Restructuring Attorneys in Florida
October, 2007
Adam Moskowitz was recently appointed co-lead counsel in federal court in Texas in a nationwide antitrust class action on behalf of direct purchasers of the herbicide Roundup against Monsanto. Adam is now completing his role as lead counsel on behalf of 12.3 million cell phone customers in federal court in Florida against various cellphone insurance providers.
September, 2007
David Buckner is appointed Shareholder of Kozyak Tropin.
February, 2007
Gail McQuilkin has just been certified by The Florida Supreme Court as a Circuit and County Court mediator.
December, 2006
David Samole and (Former KTT attorney) Lisa Keyfetz publish "New Law, New Tools For Creditors. A Fresh Look at the Involuntary Bankruptcy Petition" in Business Law Today.Click here to read it.
November, 2006
Corali Lopez-Castro is featured in Hispanic Trends Magazine. Click here to read more.
September, 2006
John W. Kozyak, Harley Tropin, Chuck Throckmorton, and Corali Lopez-Castro
have been named 2007's Best Lawyers in America.
September, 2006
John W. Kozyak and the Minority Mentoring Program referenced in
Diversity
and the Bar Magazine. Click here to read it.
September, 2006
Minority Corporate Counsel Association praises John W. Kozyak for
his work mentoring minority law students. Click
here to read it.
June, 2006
Harley S. Tropin is reappointed to serve another two years on the
Florida Supreme Court Committee.
June, 2006
Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton is Named Tier 2 Litigation Firm
in Florida in 2006 Chambers USA. Read
More.
June, 2006
Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton is Named Tier 1 Bankruptcy Firm
in Florida in the 2006 Chambers USA Client’s Guide.
Read More.
May 15, 2006
Detra Shaw-Wilder will be recognized by the DCBA/Pro Bono
Annual Awards Luncheon for her service to the Association.
April, 2006
Serena Witter was announced as our Annual UM Scholarship winner.
Congratulations! Click
here for a picture.
April, 2006
David Buckner joins Kozyak, Tropin, & Throckmorton. Click
HERE for his profile.
May, 2006
Carnival Corporation agreed today to pay $6.25 million to settle
a class action case filed against the cruise line by its seafaring
workers who alleged that Carnival had failed to pay the workers’
full wages, including overtime. Click
HERE for the webpage.
April 1, 2006
National Conference For Community And Justice (Formerly National
Conference Of Christians & Jews) names John W. Kozyak Silver
Medallion Honoree
March 23, 2006
Miami Attorney John W. Kozyak Becomes Fellow Of American College
Of Trial Lawyers
February 20, 2006
Miami Attorney John W. Kozyak Receives Florida Bar President's Pro
Bono Award.
February 14, 2006
KT&T Attorney Laurel M. Isicoff Becomes Federal Bankruptcy Judge
In Southern District Of Florida. See her in The
Daily Business Review, CLICK HERE.
February 3, 2006
Miami Attorney Laurel M. Isicoff Selected To Become Fellow Of American
College Of Bankruptcy.
January 23, 2006
KT&T Attorney Corali Lopez-Castro Becomes President of Cuban
American Bar Association
January 25, 2006
Tucker Ronzetti leads Miami-Dade County to a 22.5 million dollar
settlement.
January 2006
American Bankruptcy Institute Journal publishes article composed
by David Rosendorf and David Samole entitled, “Homestead Exemption
No Longer Debtor's Paradise."
October 2005
Bankruptcy Reform: The Safety Net Weakens By Charles W. Throckmorton,
South Florida Business Journal
October 2005
"When Banks Look The Other Way" by Tucker Ronzetti, Business Law Today
July 7, 2005
Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton earns Top Rankings Among Chambers
USA's America's Leading Lawyers For Business.
May 9th, 2005
Harley Tropin was mentioned in the Daily Business Review regarding
the HMO case. Click
here to read more.
May 2005
The Bankruptcy Litigation Committee published an article by Charles
Throckmorton. For more info:Litigating
the "Ordinary Course" Defense Under the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention
and Consumer Protection Act of 2005
August 11, 2003
After only two days of trial in U.S. Federal Court in Ft. Lauderdale,
KT&T attorneys Harley Tropin and Tucker Ronzetti finalized a
$5 million settlement agreement with First Union National Bank (now
Wachovia). In the matter Smith, Estes, et al. v. First Union National
Bank, KT&T represented a class of investors defrauded by mutual
fund Cyprus Funds, which used First Union to handle its accounts.
As a result of an elaborate Ponzi scheme created by Cyprus Funds
manager Eric Bartoli, 531 investors--primarily retirees from Ohio
and Latin American business people--lost over $34 million. Transactions
which went through First Union included Bartoli's purchases of a
farm, livestock, and jewelry, all accomplished using investors'
money. First Union was accused by the class of aiding and abetting
Bartoli's fraud.
EVENTS
David L. Rosendorf will moderate the "View from the Bench" program at the American Bankruptcy Institute's Caribbean Insolvency Symposium.
January 25, 2008
Tucker Ronzetti is speaking at the Class Actions Conference on "Coordinating the Complex Case: Receivers, Trustees and Class"
HONORS AND AWARDS
December, 2007
John Kozyak is awarded the American Bar Association "Spirit of Excellence Award" for mentoring minority students and lawyers.
January, 2007
Corali Lopez-Castro
The University of Miami Law Alumni Association has awarded Cori with their first ever Leadership Award.
June 23, 2006
John Kozyak
received the G. Kirk Haas Award for promoting diversity in the legal
profession at The Florida Bar’s Annual Convention in Boca Raton.
Read the Press Release Here.
April 1, 2006
John Kozyak
will be receiving an award at the National Conference for Community
and Justice for helping to reduce prejudice based upon religion,
race, and ethnicity.
February 16, 2006
John Kozyak
received the Florida Bar Presidents Pro Bono Award in a ceremony
in the Florida Supreme Court Building in Tallahassee for his community
work. He was the only lawyer in Miami-Dade County, which has more
than 36,000 lawyers, to receive this award.
January 2006
John Kozyak, Charles Throckmorton, and
Corali ("Cori") Lopez-Castro
have been selected as 2006 Florida Super Lawyers by the Florida
Super Lawyers magazine.
February 18, 2005
John Kozyak
received the South Florida Business Journals 2005 Diversity Works
Award for his mentoring of black law school students and promotion
of diversity through Florida. Last year, John was one of threefinalists.
January 20, 2005
Corali ("Cori") Lopez-Castro
was installed as President of the Cuban-American Bar Association
which has 1300 members. Cori is the second woman to be selected
as President in the organizations thirty-two year history.
January, 2005
John Kozyak
was inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers
in October 2005.
November, 2004
John Kozyak, Harley Tropin, Charles Throckmorton,
and Laurel M. Isicoff
were named Best Lawyers in America
November, 2004
John Kozyak
was tapped for the Iron Arrow at the University of Miami School
of Law. This is the highest honor that can be given by the University
of Miami. He joins fellow KT&T partners, Harley Tropin, Laurel
Isicoff, and Tucker Ronzetti, who previously received this recognition.
August, 2004
"Top Lawyers in South Florida"
the following KT&T Partners were named "Top Lawyers in South
Florida" in the 2005 South Florida Legal Guide : John W. Kozyak,
Harley S. Tropin, Chuck Throckmorton, Laurel M. Isicoff, and Detra
P. Shaw-Wilder (Up-and-Comer). With just 250 lawyers listed, out
of a total pool of approximately 36,000 members of the Florida Bar
in South Florida, the South Florida Legal Guide publishes roughly
the top one percent of the areas attorneys. The South Florida Legal
Guide employs a ballot research method from which they cull the
lists. The determination begins with the lawyers they ballot. The
ballots are then scrutinized to collect a first draft of names,
following which trusted sources in the legal community are consulted
to provide further insight. Up-and-Comers are nominated by Top Lawyers
once the Top Lawyer list has been finalized. The Guide also named
Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton as one of the Top 100 Law Firms
in South Florida.
July, 2004
“Florida Legal Elite”
the premier edition of Florida Trends “Florida Legal Elite” named
the following KT&T Partners as Top Lawyers in Florida: John
Kozyak, Harley Tropin, Chuck Throckmorton, Cori Lopez-Castro, Tucker
Ronzetti, and Adam Moskowitz (Up-and-Comer). Selected for inclusion
on this list by their peers in the legal field, the 2004 “Florida
Legal Elite” names the top 846 lawyers who have earned the trust
and confidence of those who know their work the best. This prestigious
group represents the top 1.6% of the 54,135 Florida Bar members
who practice in the state.
April 22, 2004
John Kozyak
John Kozyak was part of a team of Assistant U.S. Attorneys, FBI
and IRS agents, which was presented the National Crime Victims Service
Award by Attorney General Ashcroft on April 22, 2004, during the
federal commemoration of National Crime Victims Rights Week. John
served as restitution receiver in the U.S. v. Brandau et al. case,
where Mr. Brandau was sentenced to 55 years in prison. He was also
the bankruptcy trustee for Financial Federated, the company used
to promote a large Ponzi Scheme, involving viatical contracts, resulting
in 3400 victims losing $134 million. John Kozyak, KT&T and the
government helped the victims recover approximately 20% of their
investments and kept them informed of developments in this complicated
case, through frequent, comprehensive status reports and a website.
More information concerning the Financial Federated case may be
found at FinFedInfo
2004-2005
KT&T and its named partners
Were recognized in the 2004-2005 edition of Americas Leading Business
Lawyers published by Chambers & Partners. KT&Ts bankruptcy
practice was identified as a "powerful boutique" fielding "attorneys
of the highest ethics." Its litigators were described as "a killer
group" which "has reached a level of national success that none
of the top firms has." Harley Tropin is identified as one of "the
most respected plaintiffs lawyers in the state," and John Kozyak
and Chuck Throckmorton are listed in the top tier of bankruptcy
attorneys. The Chambers rankings are based upon independent interviews
with lawyers and clients in the relevant markets. For more information,
consult our firm and individual profiles at Chambers
and Partners
December 5, 2003
John Kozyak
was named an Honorary Alumnus by the University of Miami Alumni
Association. John was honored at the Associations Holiday Reception
at Casa Bacardi, in Coral Gables, marking International Volunteer
Day.
December 2003
John Kozyak, Harley Tropin, Chuck Throckmorton
and Laurel Isicoff
were once again named Best Lawyers in America.
November 15, 2003
John Kozyak
became an Honorary Alumnus of the University of Miami School of
Law during the 55th Annual Homecoming Breakfast.
November 15, 2003
John Kozyak
received the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. Bar Association Community Service
Award. This award was given in recognition of Johns ongoing commitment
to developing and fostering minority mentoring programs for law
students, as well as his leadership in many other community service
efforts. The presentation was held at the Bar Associations 26th
Annual Scholarship Banquet at the Eden Roc Resort & Spa on Miami
Beach.
November 2003
Harley Tropin
was inducted into Iron Arrow at the University of Miami Law Schools
55th Homecoming festivities. This is the highest honor that can
be attained at the University of Miami, and Harley joins fellow
KT&T Partners Laurel Isicoff and Tucker Ronzetti who were previously
tapped for this distinction.
MINORITY MENTORING
The minority mentoring programs at the University of Miami School of Law and St. Thomas University School of Law are now named after founding partner and diversity advocate, John Kozyak. At the beginning of each school year, John attends the Black Law Student Association's initial meetings and encourages all students to take advantage of the numerous lawyers and judges who have volunteered to serve as mentors. Students complete a simple application and send John their resumes. He then personally matches them with a mentor who usually practices in the field most interesting to the student. However, some of the best matches result from being introduced by John at bar functions.
Mentors and students are expected to communicate regularly and John regularly e-mails them to invite them to meetings, receptions, and other functions.
KT&T also actively supports mentoring for all minority students. Partner, Corali Lopez-Castro, is President of the Cuban-American Bar Association, which provides mentors for students throughout the state. Detra Shaw-Wilder is the immediate past President of the Gwen S. Cherry Black Women's Association, which mentors students. Other lawyers serve as mentors through programs sponsored by the Florida Association of Women Lawyers.
The highlight of the minority mentoring program for the past two years is the Minority Mentoring Picnic, which has been organized by John Kozyak and the firm. Every conceivable bar association supported last year's picnic, which attracted approximately one thousand students, judges, and lawyers including Florida Supreme Court Justice Peggy Quince and former Attorney General Janet Reno. A video clip from the 2nd picnic can be accessed by clicking HERE.
Please contact John Kozyak if you want to be a mentor, want to volunteer as a mentor or want more information about upcoming events. Click Here for the Minority Mentoring Program Website.