Nicole Kruegel - Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, Florida, 2012
    J.D.
    Honors: magna cum laude

• Non Legal Education

  • Florida International University, 2010
    B.A.
    Honors: magna cum laude

Current Employment Position(s)

• Partner

Classes and Seminars

• Lecturer: “Hospital Liability in Medical Malpractice Cases: Overcoming Summary Judgement on Apparent Agency Claims,” Palm Beach County Justice Association (2024)
  
• Moderator: AAJ Women’s Trial Lawyer Caucus Leadership Summit (2024)
  
• Lecturer: “Maximizing Audit Trails and EMR in Stroke Cases,” American Association for Justice Winter Convention (2024)
  
• Lecturer: “Overcoming Fear to Chart Your Own Course,” AAJ Women’s Trial Lawyer Caucus Leadership Summit (2022)
  
• Lecturer: “Technology and the Use of Exhibits in Remote Depositions,” Palm Beach County Justice Association Webinar (2020)
  
• Lecturer: “Tactics to Use in Virtual Mediation & Settlement,” AAJ Amped Up (2020)
  
• Lecturer: “Technology and Use of Exhibits in Remote Depositions,” Palm Beach County Justice Association (2020)
  
• Lecturer: “Audit Trails: Who Put What in The Record and When Did They Do It?” DCY Hospital Liability Seminar (2019)
  
• Lecturer: “Medical records retrieval and review,” Palm Beach County Justice Association Business of Law Seminar (2018)

Published Works

Articles

• “Making the Most of Virtual Mediations,” Trial Magazine Volume 59. No. 4 (April 2023)
  
• “Understaffing in Florida Nursing Homes: The Case for Punitive Damages,” Briefings, Vol. 17, Issue 2 (2015)
  

Bar Admissions

• Florida, 2013
• Tennessee, 2020
• Colorado, 2021
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida, 2013
• U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida, 2014
• U.S. Supreme Court, 2019

Other Affiliations

• The Florida Bar - Diversity Committee (2018)
• The Florida Bar - Admiralty Law Committee (2014)
• Florida Association for Women Lawyers - Sponsorship Director (2022-2023)
• Florida Association for Women Lawyers - Secretary, Palm Beach Chapter (2020-2021)
• Florida Association for Women Lawyers - Sponsorship Director (2018-2019)
• Florida Association for Women Lawyers - Chair, Mentoring Committee, Palm Beach Chapter (2017-2018)
• Florida Association for Women Lawyers - Legislative Committee and Informed Voters Project Committee (2016-2017)
• American Bar Association
• American Association for Justice - Diversity and Inclusion Committee (2023-2026)
• American Association for Justice - Exchange Advisory Committee (2023-2026)
• American Association for Justice - Voter Protection Committee (2021-2025)
• American Association for Justice - Public Affairs Committee (2022-2025)
• American Association for Justice - Public Education Committee (2022-2025)
• American Association for Justice - Convention Planning Committee (2023-2024)
• American Association for Justice - Committee on the Judiciary (2021-2024)
• American Association for Justice - Trial Lawyers Care (2021-2024)
• American Association for Justice - Law Schools Committee (2022-2024)
• American Association for Justice - Membership Co-Chair, Women Trial Lawyers Caucus (2021-2022)
• American Association for Justice - Litigating and Leading Through Crisis CLE Committee (2020)
• American Association for Justice - Women Trial Lawyers Caucus Leadership Summit Committee (2019-2020, 2023-2024)
• Florida Justice Association - Board of Director, Women’s Caucus (2020-2023)
• Florida Justice Association - At Large Director, Women’s Caucus (2018-2020)
• Palm Beach County Bar Association - Chair, Personal Injury & Wrongful Death CLE Committee (2020)
• Palm Beach County Justice Association