Jordan S. Kosches Attorney At Law

Jordan is a shareholder in the firm’s Miami office and is a member of the appellate and litigation practice groups. He focuses on appeals and litigation in a variety of areas, including business disputes, insurance coverage, maritime, product liability, toxic tort, and wrongful death.

Jordan is admitted in Florida and Connecticut and practiced for several years at the Miami office of a national firm. He has represented insurance carriers, banks, Fortune 500 companies and individuals in cases where the stakes ranged between the tens of thousands to tens of millions of dollars.

Jordan has experience throughout Florida's trial courts and has handled cases in all five of Florida's District Courts of Appeal, the 3rd and 11th U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, the Florida Supreme Court and various courts throughout the country as pro hac vice.

He is a member of the American Bar Association Tort Trial and Insurance Practice section, The Florida Bar's Appellate Practice and Trial Lawyers sections, the Defense Research Institute, the Dade County Bar Association’s Appellate Practice section and, in 2010, was a member of an appellate team nominated for the Daily Business Review’s Most Effective Appellate Lawyer of the Year award for having reversed the largest compensatory damage verdict in Florida’s history against a single asbestos manufacturer.

• Background

  Born in New York, Jordan received his bachelor’s in criminal justice from the State University of New York College at Brockport in 2004, and his juris doctor from Quinnipiac University in 2007. While in law school, he received his mediation certificate from the University of Connecticut and interned as a mediator with the Family Services Division of the Connecticut Superior Court.

• Education
  • State University of New York College at Brockport, B.S. (2004)
  • University of Connecticut, Mediation Certificate (2006)
  • Quinnipiac University School of Law, J.D. (2007)
• Admissions
  • Florida
  • Connecticut
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
• Professional Associations & Memberships
  • The Florida Bar
    • Appellate Practice Section, Member
    • Trial Lawyers Section, Member
  • Miami-Dade County Bar Association
    • Appellate Practice Section, Member
  • American Bar Association
    • Tort Trial and Insurance Section, Member
  • Third District Court of Appeal Historical Society, Member
  • Defense Research Institute
    • Member
• Awards & Recognitions
  • AV Preeminent® rated by Martindale-Hubbell
  • Daily Business Review, member of an appellate team nominated for the Most Effective Appellate Lawyer of the Year award, 2010
• Articles & Publications
  • “Welcoming Judge Juan Ramirez, Jr. as Chief Judge of the Third District Court of Appeal,” The Record - Journal of the Appellate Practice Section of the Florida Bar, pg. 22, Vol. XVI, No. 9, Fall 2009