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Alyssa Reiter


Alyssa Reiter
Office: Fort Lauderdale  
Direct: (954) 847-4838
areiter@wickersmith.com

Practice Areas:
  • Retail
  • Professional Liability
  • Products Liability
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Transportation
  • Aviation

  • Admitted to Practice:
    • 1987, Florida
    • 1997, Illinois
    Education:
    • University of South Florida (B.A., honors, 1984)
    • University of Florida (J.D., cum laude, 1987)
    Born:  

    Brooklyn, NY


    Alyssa Reiter

    Alyssa Reiter

    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.

    Professional & Civic Affiliations
    • Broward County Bar Association
    • Appellate Lawyers Association
    Honors
    • AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell
    • Ranked No. 6 in Illinois for Women Civil Appellate Lawyers
    Publications

    We’re Being Sued Where? Personal Jurisdiction In The Electronic Age, USLAW NETWORK Magazine (Spring 2019)

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    Alyssa Reiter

    Partner

    Email: areiter@wickersmith.com

    Direct: (954) 847-4838

    Fax: None

    Offices: Fort Lauderdale  

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    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.

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    Education

    • University of South Florida (B.A., honors, 1984)
    • University of Florida (J.D., cum laude, 1987)

    Practices

    • Aviation
    • Commercial Litigation
    • Products Liability
    • Professional Liability
    • Retail
    • Transportation

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    Admitted to Bar

    • 1987, Florida
    • 1997, Illinois

    Honors

    • AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell
    • Ranked No. 6 in Illinois for Women Civil Appellate Lawyers

    Professional Affiliations

    • Broward County Bar Association
    • Appellate Lawyers Association

    Publications

    We’re Being Sued Where? Personal Jurisdiction In The Electronic Age, USLAW NETWORK Magazine (Spring 2019)

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