Leigh Esposito and Michael D. Sloan Join Carlton Fields’ South Florida Offices

Michael D. Sloan

Leigh Esposito

Miami, Fla. – June 18, 2012 – Carlton Fields is pleased to announce that two associates joined the firm’s South Florida offices — Leigh Esposito and Michael D. Sloan. Esposito practices in the firm’s Insurance practice group and works in the firm’s Miami office. Sloan works in the firm’s West Palm Beach office and practices in the firm’s Appellate and Trial Support Practice Group, which comprises 18 attorneys dedicated to full-time appellate litigation and trial support and 11 Florida Bar board certified appellate specialists — more than any other firm in Florida.

Esposito represents and advises insurers and corporations in various aspects of insurance litigation, including commercial-property coverage disputes, policy interpretation and defense of bad faith litigation. She also has experience in a wide variety of business litigation matters, from trade secret misappropriation and white collar defense to securities and antitrust class actions. She is a member of the California and Florida Bars and she is fluent in French. Esposito received her B.A., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.

As a former staff law clerk for the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia and summer associate at McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Sloan’s experience includes writing bench memoranda and drafting opinions for the Court in the areas of employment, civil rights, financial regulation, administrative law, criminal law, sentencing and habeas corpus; drafting memoranda for complex civil litigation matters; and drafting orders of protection for battered women. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Boston University School of Law and his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

About Carlton Fields: Carlton Fields is a leading provider of legal and consultative services to a broad spectrum of business clients ranging from multi-national Fortune 100 companies to start-ups. With locations in major business centers in the Southeast, Carlton Fields offers to its clients more than 300 attorneys and government consultants.