Associate
Tel:
407.423.4000
Fax:
407.843.6610
Carrie Ann Wozniak focuses her practice on appellate law and commercial litigation. A former Florida Supreme Court law clerk, Carrie Ann represents parties through the appellate process, including direct appeals, interlocutory appeals, and extraordinary writs. She also has experience prosecuting and defending cases in both federal and state trial courts on behalf of a diverse spectrum of clients, including financial institutions, commercial landlords and tenants, real estate developers and builders, and other commercial entities throughout the United States.
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Representation of a lender in an appeal over the admission of a deceased party's incomplete deposition and plea agreement and a bank's right to pierce the homestead exemption to impress a lien on real property that was purchased with funds embezzled from the bank by the husband real property owner.
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Representation of a lender in a petition for writ of mandamus to the Florida Supreme Court after the appeal was dismissed by the Fourth District Court of Appeal.
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Representation of a lender in an interlocutory appeal to the Fourth District Court of Appeal concerning the enforceability of a class waiver embedded within an arbitration clause.
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Representation of a commercial tenant in an appeal from a final summary judgment in a dispute concerning zoning issues.
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Representation of a national hotel chain in responding to a petition for writ of certiorari in the First District Court of Appeal.
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Representation of a lender in a petition for writ of certiorari to the Second District Court of Appeal concerning the discovery of confidential trade secret information.
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Representation of a commercial landlord against a Fortune 500 tenant in multi-million-dollar litigation involving issues of property maintenance and repair, property improvements, and holdover tenancy.
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Representation of commercial landlord in eviction action involving abandoned personalty and distress for rent issues.
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Representation of commercial landlord in landlord/tenant dispute involving the tenant's failure to pay rent and repair issues.
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Representation of lender in defense of numerous counterclaims alleged by a homebuilder concerning equitable liens on undisbursed construction loan proceeds.
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Representation of commercial lender in foreclosure of a franchise of a national hotel chain involving receivership and note sale issues.
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Winthrop v. Castellano, __ So. 3d __, 2013 WL 1687860 (Fla. 5th DCA Apr. 17, 2013)
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Bank of Montreal v. Estate of Antoine, 86 So. 3d 1262 (Fla. 4th DCA 2012)
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Wyndham Vacation Resorts, Inc. v. Ocean Walk Resort Condominium Ass'n, Inc., 86 So.3d 592 (Fla. 5th DCA 2012)
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1700 Rinehart, LLC v. Advance America, 51 So. 3d 535 (Fla. 5th DCA 2010)
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Super Lawyers Magazine 2009-2013, Listed in Florida as a "Rising Star" for Appellate and Business Litigation
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Burton Award for Legal Achievement in association with the Library of Congress, 2005 Winner
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Orange County Bar Association and Ninth Circuit Professionalism Committee CLE Seminar, Panelist, "Lessons from the Field," January 2013
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The Florida Bar Journal, Author, "Amicus Briefs: What Have They Done for Courts Lately?," June 2012
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Fifth District Court of Appeal and United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida CLE Seminar, Moderator, "Strategy and Diplomacy: The Importance and Distinctions of Trial and Appellate Professionalism," June 2011
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Orange County Bar Association Seminar, Panelist, "Professionalism in Motion Practice," March 2011
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Orange County Bar Association Seminar, Panelist, "Professionalism in the Law Firm Setting," October 2010
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Stetson Law Review, Author, "Difficult Problems Call for Unique Solutions: Are Guardians Proper for Viable Fetuses of Mentally Incompetent Women in State Custody?", Fall 2004
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American Bar Association, Member
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Orange County Bar Association, Apellate Committee, Member; Professionalism Committee, Member; Young Lawyers Section, Member
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The Florida Bar, Appellate Section, Member; Appellate Rules Committee, Member; Professionalism Committee, Member
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Central Florida Association for Women Lawyers, Member
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Junior League of Greater Orlando, Healthy, Informed, Playful Kids Committee for the Callahan Center, Assistant Chair
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Member
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Natasha Anne Gaziano Foundation for Cystic Fibrosis, Board Member
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Coalition for the Homeless, Development Committee Member
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Citrus Civitan Club, Member
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Florida Citrus Sports, Member
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Orange County Teen Court, Legal Advisor and Volunteer
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Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Teen Court, Advisory Board
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Justice Harry Lee Anstead, Supreme Court of Florida, Supervising Staff Attorney, 2005-2007
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Intern to the Honorable Elizabeth A. Kovachevich, Middle District of Florida, 2004
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Intern to Justice Barbara J. Pariente, Supreme Court of Florida, 2004
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J.D., Stetson University College of Law, 2004; cum laude, National Dean's List, Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, Stetson Law Review, Notes and Comments Editor
B.A., University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, 2002; class honors
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