Overview
Audrey Pumariega represents clients in high-stakes commercial, healthcare, and employment litigation.
Her clients include financial institutions, technology and telecommunications companies, accounting firms, hospitals, physician groups, health insurers, and managed services organizations. She regularly appears in federal and state courts, arbitration tribunals, and administrative proceedings, including before the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration and the Florida Board of Medicine.
Audrey rejoined the firm after serving as an assistant county attorney in the Miami-Dade County Attorney’s Office, where she handled a high volume of civil litigation in state and federal court.
Audrey leverages her courtroom skills in an active pro bono practice. Past pro bono advocacy includes securing relief for a pregnant foster teen facing involuntary psychiatric placement, representing a detained immigrant in asylum proceedings, obtaining extended state benefits for a disabled young adult in foster care, assisting a family in foreclosure in securing funds for future housing, and securing a payout to a small nonprofit defendant in a copyright lawsuit where the plaintiff anticipated an easy victory.
Results
- Defended a major financial institution in high-stakes civil actions relating to one of the largest Ponzi schemes in the United States
- Defended a putative class action seeking to block a large health insurer’s reorganization and force a multibillion-dollar transfer to policyholders
- Obtained dismissal and prevailed on appeal for an international accounting firm in a lawsuit brought by the firm’s former CEO seeking attorneys’ fees following a criminal acquittal
- Obtained a federal injunction enforcing a noncompete against a former Verizon executive
- Obtained an injunction for the world’s largest dental implant company against a former sales representative for soliciting the company’s customers in violation of his employment agreement and unfair trade practices law
- Defeated and favorably resolved lawsuits against globally famous rapper and music producer in actions alleging violation of the right of publicity, business torts, and personal injury
- Represented a national wealth management firm in an unfair competition lawsuit against former employees, prevailing on multiple rounds of summary judgment
- Obtained dismissal and defeated a preliminary injunction in lawsuits brought by physicians challenging the loss of hospital privileges arising from exclusive provider arrangements, and prevailed on appeal on a precedent-setting legal issue
- Obtained declaratory judgment nullifying an overbroad portion of a physician’s noncompete agreement that interfered with patient choice
- Defeated a motion to dismiss in a civil trade secrets action involving complex issues of first impression under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and Stored Communications Act
Recognitions
- Super Lawyers, Rising Star in business litigation and health care litigation, 2013 – 2022
- Lawyers for Children America, John Edward Smith Child Advocacy Award
Credentials
Education
University of Miami School of Law, JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2010
University of Southern California, 2006
Admissions
Florida
Courts / Agencies
US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
US District Court for the Southern District of Florida
US District Court for the Middle District of Florida
Languages
English
Spanish
