Mr. Albert “Al” Frevola is a seasoned trial attorney with significant trial experience as lead or co-lead counsel in multi-week trials in federal and state courts and administrative hearings. 
 

• Was co-lead counsel in multi-million dollar claim on behalf of a developer against a large national bank. The developers lost their large-scale development project because of the bank’s misconduct.  The jury awarded Mr. Frevola’s clients over $66 million in damages and interest.

 

• Represented diverse group of plaintiffs seeking recovery of over $225 million in investor losses resulting from a billion dollar structure settlement Ponzi scheme. This nationally publicized case focused on several banks’ roles in facilitating this criminal enterprise asserting novel claims that the Banks willfully aided and abetted the Ponzi fraud.  After years of litigation, the matters were resolved through settlements resulting in clients receiving the highest percentage recovery for victims entangled in a Ponzi scheme ever.

 

• Represented a large corporate client in a garnishment action involving efforts to collect on a $400 million judgment against Cuba arising out of the torture and murder of a U.S. Citizen in the 1960s. The case involved complex issues under the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act and Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

 

• Represented large corporate client in dispute with the Florida Turnpike related to the location of telecommunications facilities. A successful resolution of the matter avoided the relocation of a key fiber optic facility that would have cost the company millions to relocate elsewhere.

 

• Represented the wife and children of a well-known missing entrepreneur and philanthropist in a dispute with other family members. This Broward County Probate Court case involved legal issues of the highest complexity involving the absentee’s estate, including property rights related to the absentee’s extensive personal property and real estate holdings across the globe.

 

• Defended large corporate client in class action dispute involving Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. Case involved complex financial and regulatory accounting issues including the proper allocation of direct and indirect costs.

 

• Represented telecommunications client in claim against the U.S. Government involving over $1 million in damage to a transatlantic fiber optic cable damaged by a deep sea NOAA weather buoy at a depth of over 10,000 feet. The case involved claims under the Suits in Admiralty Act and the Public Vessels Act as well as complex issues of maritime law, causation, and discretionary function immunity.

 

• Represented wireless carrier in dispute involving interference to the company’s wireless services caused by bi-directional amplifiers. That dispute lead to ongoing representation of the client on a nationwide basis to assist in resolving interference with the carrier’s wireless services caused by multiple sources.

 

• Defended a client against a third-party government agency’s interference with Broward County’s public bid process, which put at risk an existing five year janitorial services contract for the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport totaling approximately $69 million and the potential for the award of a newly proposed contract. Successfully asserted constitutional due process violations challenging the third-party agency’s involvement in the process and deviation from the County Code and Charter.  Prepared to file a bid protest and to seek judicial relief for the constitutional violations if a successful political resolution was not reached.

 

• Defended one of the largest mega-yacht marina and shipyards in the Country in a dispute with a local fire marshal and was able to resolve the matter favorably through the political process and without litigation. The fire marshal had attempted to regulate the shipyard’s spray painting of mega-yachts/large vessels within temporary enclosures – an industry-wide practice already regulated under OSHA.  Resolution required multi-government lobbying of the Florida CFO in his capacity as the State Fire Marshal, Broward County Commission, the Broward Board of Rules and Appeals (“BORA”), the City of Fort Lauderdale, and the local Fire Prevention Bureau.  If the fire marshal was successful, the impacts to South Florida’s multi-billion dollar marine industry would have been devastating.  In addition to the government relations aspect of this matter, prepared to seek judicial relief for the constitutional violations if a successful political resolution was not reached.

 

• Represented a number of shareholders in claims against a large medical company for stock fraud. Was co-lead counsel in multi-week trial, handled multiple witnesses including the cross examination of the defense economic expert.  The jury trial resulted in a multi-million dollar damage verdict in favor of Mr. Frevola’s clients.