Speakers
As chair of Greenberg Traurig's Financial Services Litigation Practice, Michele L. Stocker is a commercial litigator with a broad range of experience representing clients in the financial services industry including regional and national banks, loan servicers, consumer finance companies, mortgage bankers, credit card issuers, debt buyers and third-party debt collectors. She also regularly advises clients in employment-related matters involving discrimination, harassment, severance agreements, restrictive covenants, and wage and hour issues. She is listed among The Best Lawyers in America, in commercial litigation from 2013 to 2015 and is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell. She is also listed as a “Top Lawyer” in the South Florida Legal Guide in 2014 and 2015.
Stocker is featured in The Diversity Journal among the “Annual Women Worth Watching in 2013” and Business Leader magazine among "South Florida's Women Extraordinaire in 2012." She was honored by the National Diversity Council with the "Glass Ceiling Award" at the Florida Women's Conference in 2012. Her community involvement includes serving on the boards of the NSU Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, the Crockett Foundation and the Children’s Home Society, Intercontinental Division.
Stocker holds a J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a B.A., cum laude, from Princeton University. Stocker is admitted to practice in Florida and New York.