Partners

Michael Correnti, a partner with the firm, concentrates his practice on defending manufacturers and other businesses in complex civil litigation matters, including products liability, trucking accidents, automotive collisions, trucking repairs, commercial litigation and other catastrophic personal injury claims. Michael has extensive experience in all phases of litigation and brings an understanding of his clients’ concerns to his work, addressing all details of their situation promptly and efficiently in order to reach a favorable solution. Michael serves as national counsel for a major truck servicing company and a major forklift manufacturer, including personal injury cases involving company vehicles. Michael also serves as regional and local counsel for a variety of clients including a major tire manufacturer, insurance companies and other product manufacturers.

In addition to his pursuits in the law, Michael enjoys playing sports and attending Florida Gator football games.

 

In the News

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Michael Correnti Obtains a Complete Defense Verdict in Favor of Crown Equipment Corporation
International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC)
May 9, 2023
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A perceptive and energetic problem solver, Philip Kegler prides himself on assisting clients with unique and complex legal issues. Philip maintains a diverse civil practice, but his work focuses primarily on representing Fortune 500 companies in product liability and personal injury litigation in state and federal courts across the United States.

While in law school, Philip represented the University of Florida in the Willem E. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot competition in Vienna, Austria, where the team received Honorable Mention recognition for its oral arguments. Philip also honed his writing skills as an editor on the Journal of Technology Law and Policy and the Florida Journal of International Law.

Jessica Kennedy defends manufacturers and companies in product and premises liability actions as well as creditors’ rights matters. Jessica has appeared on behalf of her clients throughout the country and has handled matters through the appellate stage.  She has worked extensively in defending corporate clients in complex discovery matters and undertaken electronically stored data collections, both domestically and abroad. Jessica currently serves as national discovery counsel for one of her manufacturing clients.

Prior to joining McDonald Toole Wiggins, Jessica worked in-house for LG Electronics Alabama, Inc. At LG she established nation-wide resolutions for consumer defective repair claims, developed risk management evaluations in conjunction with cost saving analysis, and was a member of the Customs Compliance Team, assisting logistics and sales in managing international trade while preserving Federal and internal compliance regulations.

Courtney King focuses her practice on products and premises liability litigation, primarily representing automobile and medical device manufacturers, as well as theme parks. With a strong interest in her clients’ concerns and objectives, she calls on her trial experience, as well as her observations of strengths and weaknesses in individual cases, to skillfully and efficiently represent her clients.

Select Experience

Examples of Ms. King’s representative experience include the following:

•  Co-Represented an automobile manufacturer to defense verdict at trial in Hillsborough County, Florida in a case involving a plaintiff who sustained burns to over seventy-five percent of his body in a vehicle fire;
•  Represented an automobile manufacturer in personal injury and wrongful death cases involving rollover events, ejected occupants and/or vehicle fires;
• Obtained summary judgment for an automobile manufacturer in a rollover case venued in Pinellas County, Florida;
• Represented multiple medical device manufacturers as local and national counsel in cases venued in Florida and Pennsylvania;
• Represented medical device manufacturers in multidistrict litigation in Alachua County;
• Represented a major theme park in multiple cases venued in Orange County involving negligence, failure to warn, and negligent mode of operation claims.

About Me

What do you enjoy most about the practice of law?

The most rewarding aspect of my job is the creativity involved at every stage of litigation, whether it is determining the most cost-efficient way to defend a case or strategizing as to the most advantageous manner of proceeding with discovery.

What are your favorite activities in your leisure time?

I enjoy family time, which consists mostly of keeping up with my daughter’s latest activities and interests. I also enjoy traveling and reading.

Bianca Graziela Liston handles all aspects of litigation, as well as coordination of discovery. She defends cases from soft tissue injuries to catastrophic injuries and wrongful death claims in Florida state and federal courts.  She has first and second chair trial experience.  Her practice area includes products liability, personal injury, premise liability, amusement park, DRAM shop, food/supplement, toxic tort, commercial and transportation litigation, as well as administrative actions.

Prior to admission to the Florida Bar in 2002, Ms. Liston worked in a law firm as a legal assistant and paralegal.  Because of her passion for the law, she obtained her Bachelor and Juris Doctorate Degrees from Nova Southeastern University during its night program while continuing full-time employment.   It is this commitment and determination that she brings to her clients.   Ms. Liston is committed to handling each file as if it is her only file.  Likewise, she is determined to search for and discover every fact about the Plaintiff and his/her/its claim to achieve a beneficial resolution for her client whether through dismissal, settlement or verdict.  She also understands that with many clients, especially corporate clients, there is a business aspect to each claim and that winning at trial may not be the best approach to prevailing on a claim.

Frank McDonald is a Florida Bar Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer, the highest recognition of competency, professionalism and expertise awarded by the Bar. Throughout his entire career as a trial lawyer in private practice, he has defended product manufacturers and other business entities in complex tort litigation in state and federal courts throughout the southeastern United States.

This practice has included the defense of motor vehicle companies in crashworthiness litigation as well as medical device companies, equipment manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, oil and gas companies and other makers of consumer products in products liability and toxic tort matters.

In 2008, he was invited to become a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers.

He has tried over 65 lengthy cases to verdict in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and South Carolina. Mr. McDonald started his legal career in Orlando after a clerkship at the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals with the Honorable Joseph W. Hatchett.

He has received numerous awards and honors for his legal accomplishments and has spoken at various seminars on topics that pertain to trial practice.