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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 27 <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach <br />RFP No. 19-02-01 <br />March 4, 2019 <br />Anastasia Protopapadakis <br />Shareholder <br />anastasia.protopapadakis@gray-robinson.com <br /> <br />333 S.E. 2nd Avenue <br />Suite 3200 <br />Miami, Florida 33131 <br />Phone: 305-416-6880 <br />Fax: 305-416-6887 <br />Direct: 305-913-6786 <br /> <br />401 East Las Olas Blvd. <br />Suite 1000 <br />Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301 <br />Phone: 954-761-8111 <br />Fax: 954-761-8112 <br /> <br />Experience <br /> <br />Anastasia is a shareholder in GrayRobinson's Miami and Fort Lauderdale law firm offices and currently <br />practices in the areas of commercial litigation, funeral and cemetery law, civil rights law, local <br />government/municipal defense, employment law, ADA/Title III defense, banking litigation and general tort <br />litigation/personal injury defense. Anastasia has state and federal court experience in both the trial and <br />appellate court levels. She is admitted to practice before the U.S. Appellate Court for the 11th Circuit; U.S. <br />District Courts for the Southern, Middle, and Northern Districts of Florida; and all Florida trial and ap pellate <br />courts. She is also admitted to practice in the District of Columbia. <br /> <br />For the first five years of her career, Anastasia’s practice concentrated solely on municipal defense, <br />defending cities and other municipalities in litigation matters in state, federal and appellate courts. She has <br />defended numerous employment litigation matters, assault and battery cases, defamation cases, section <br />1981 and 1983 cases, trip/slip and fall cases, eminent domain and inverse condemnation cases and other <br />general tort matters for municipalities. Anastasia has since expanded her practice to the private sector <br />where she defends these same litigation matters for corporate clients. Anastasia also assists many <br />corporate clients through the garnishment process, both in answering writs of garnishment and collecting <br />on judgments through the writ of garnishment process. <br /> <br />Regarding her employment litigation experience, Anastasia has defended cases with allegations of race, <br />age, gender, sex, pregnancy, religious and disability discrimination, harassment and/or retaliation claims <br />brought under Title VII and/or the Florida Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family <br />and Medical Leave Act and federal and state "whistleblower" statutes. She has also defended wage and <br />hour claims brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act, including collective actions and retaliation. <br /> <br />Regarding her experience in defending ADA cases, she has defended corporate and public entities <br />from both Title II and Title III claims. These cases include claims regarding barriers to physical access to <br />physical locations by disabled individuals as well as claims regarding the accessibility of websites and <br />mobile applications to visually impaired and hearing impaired individuals. Anastasia has written several <br />articles regarding website accessibility and has been quoted on the subject by the Wall Street Journal.