Alyssa M. Reiter is our Latest Featured Speaker!
Our latest featured speaker is Alyssa M. Reiter of Wicker Smith!
Alyssa is speaking next week at our Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Boot Camp: The Nuts and Bolts program, which is set for September 17 and 19, 2024. You can sign up to attend live, or pre order OnDemand Streaming or the recorded package here. Alyssa is co-teaching 11th Circuit Motion Practice on September 17th.
This program is designed to teach the attorney new to appeals at the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Boot Camp everything – or most everything – they need to know to handle an appeal at the 11th Circuit. Attorneys looking for an Eleventh Circuit refresher will also benefit from the program. It is based on our very popular 9th Circuit program, held last year and in 2021.
Alyssa previously spoke at our Preserving the Trial Record for Appeal in Florida Civil Cases (FL) program last year. If you ever litigate, you will find this course invaluable – it is essential to know all the areas where you can accidentally mess up your potential appeal, regardless of how much experience you already have as a trial attorney. It’s a complicated, nuanced area that even expert trial attorneys get wrong sometimes. Alyssa was very popular with our attendees at this program. You can purchase the Recorded package here.
Alyssa Reiter is a partner at the Wicker Smith Fort Lauderdale office where she focuses her practice primarily on handling appeals, litigation support, and insurance coverage matters.
In a career spanning over 30 years, Alyssa has handled over 100 appeals and is counsel of record in dozens of reported opinions. She has represented clients in a wide range of cases, including products liability, professional malpractice, commercial litigation, insurance coverage and bad faith, vehicular accident, premises liability, and aviation. She has argued cases in the Florida Supreme Court, the Illinois Supreme Court, the 11th Circuit and the 7th Circuit, and numerous appellate courts throughout not only Florida and Illinois but the entire United States.
After the first 10 years of her practice in Florida, Alyssa moved to Chicago, Illinois. There, she headed the appellate department of a prominent litigation firm for many years. She achieved leadership roles in the Appellate Lawyers Association, being one of the only members to be asked to serve on the Board of Directors for three different terms. Alyssa was selected by her peers as a Leading Lawyer and a Super Lawyer in the field of civil appeals. In 2015, Alyssa was ranked #6 in the state of Illinois for women civil appellate lawyers. Alyssa also has earned an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating awarded by that organization.
Alyssa has been a speaker at numerous Continuing Legal Education seminars, primarily on legal writing. She co-authored a chapter of an Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education book on product liability. For several years she also was one of three civil appeals lawyers the Illinois State Bar Association selected to write summaries of Illinois Supreme Court opinions for an ISBA publication.
Alyssa earned her Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, from the University of South Florida in 1984 and then earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Florida in 1987, graduating cum laude and Order of the Coif.
We are so glad to have you back Alyssa!
