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Margaret "Amie" E. Kozan

Margaret E. Kozan, P.A.

28 years of experience
Appeals & Appellate, Business Law, Employment Law
Florida, Louisiana

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Biography

AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell, Ms. Kozan practices all types of appeals, including business, employment, family law, foreclosures, personal injury, and insurance coverage disputes. A former federal judicial clerk and law review editor, Ms. Kozan has excellent analytical and writing skills. In addition to representing litigants on appeal, Ms. Kozan provides litigation support to trial lawyers, including consultation on strategy and preservation of issues for appeal, as well as drafting of pleadings, motions, briefs, and petitions.

Practice Areas

Appeals & Appellate: Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals

Business Law: Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes

Employment Law: Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

Florida
Since 1999

Louisiana: Louisiana State Bar Association
Since 1995

11th Circuit
Since 2012

U.S. Supreme Court
Since 2013

Professional Experience

: Margaret E. Kozan, P.A.; 2011 - Current; An appellate law firm

Education

Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University: J.D.; 1992 - 1995; Honors: Law Review, Senior Editor; Order of the Coif.

Awards

Member: Order of the Coif; 1995

Professional Associations

Florida Bar Appellate Practice Section: Current

Central Florida Association for Women Lawyers: Member; Current

Federalist Society: Member; Current

Orange County Bar Association Appellate Practice Committee: Member and Former Chair; 2011 - Current

Publications

Articles & Publications

Preservation of Error for Appeal: Orange County Bar Association's The Briefs; April, 2012

Speaking Engagements

Discretionary Interlocutory Appeals under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b), Practicing in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Orange County Bar Association: November 16, 2018; Orange County Bar Association Appellate Practice Committee

Tips and Traps for Trial Lawyers, Federal Traps for State Court Practitioners, Orange County Bar Association: February 2, 2017; Orange County Bar Association Appellate Practice Committee

Moderator: Everything You Wanted to Know: Differences Operationally Between the Fourth, Fifth, and Second District Courts of Appeal, OCBA Bench Bar Conference, Universal Orlando: April 15, 2016; Orange County Bar Association Appellate Practice Committee

Appellate Review of Discovery Issues, OCBA Professionalism Committee Seminar on Discovery, Orange County Bar Association: May 27, 2015; Orange County Bar Association Appellate Practice Committee

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