Frank Ramos is a partner in the Miami office of Goldberg Segalla, where he helps clients adopt artificial intelligence in a safe, effective, and legally sound way, advises them on the rules and regulations that govern its use, and litigates AI-related matters when disputes arise. He has served as Vice Chair of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel’s AI Committee and is a member of DRI’s AI Task Force. A civil defense trial lawyer and member of The Florida Bar since 1997, he has taken numerous trials and arbitrations to verdict or award.
Education & Credentials
Frank earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law in 1997 and his B.A., summa cum laude, from Florida International University in 1993. He is admitted to practice in Florida and before the U.S. District Courts for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, and he holds an AV Preeminent peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
Recognition & Leadership
Frank holds senior leadership in the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC), where he serves as Secretary-Treasurer for 2026 after terms on the Executive Committee (2023–25), as Senior Director (2022–25), and as Director (2020–22). Within the FDCC he has also served as AI Committee Vice Chair (2024–25), chaired the Diversity, Sponsorship, Virtual Programming, and Website and Social Media committees, and chaired the 2026 Winter Meeting Convention. He served on the DRI Board (2013–16) and as President of the Florida Defense Lawyers Association (2009).
The Florida Bar named him its 2025 Mentor of the Year. Best Lawyers in America named him Miami's "Lawyer of the Year" for Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants (2025) and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants (2020, 2023), and lists him in Commercial Litigation, Insurance Litigation, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, and Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants. He has been recognized by Florida Super Lawyers every year from 2013 through 2026, by Forbes among America's Best-in-State Lawyers (2025), and by Florida Trend's Florida Legal Elite. The FDCC has honored him with the Andrew C. Hecker Award (2024), the President's Award (2020, 2022), the Freddie Award (2022), the Strategic Plan Award (2018), and the Joseph R. Olshan Award (2015, 2017).
Professional Involvement
Frank writes and teaches extensively on AI risk in legal and insurance practice. His recent presentations include "Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product When Using AI" for the Florida Defense Lawyers Association (2026), "Artificial Intelligence and Legal Ethics: Risks, Responsibilities and Best Practices" at The Florida Bar Annual Technology Symposium (2026), and "The Risks of AI and How to Mitigate Them" for the Risk Management Society Greater Miami Chapter (2025). He has also presented for myLawCLE, including "Verifying the Machine: Catching AI Hallucinations in Your Briefs and Your Opponent's" (2026).
His AI writing includes "AI Discovery for the Defense: Finding the Inputs, Outputs, Logs, and Disclosures that Matter" (For The Defense, 2026), "Pitfalls of AI Use and Avoidance Strategies," "AI Agents in Law Firms," and "Checklist: Build Internal AI Tools" (Bloomberg Law, 2025), and "Build it Right Before You Build it Big: A 52 Week AI Adoption Plan for Law Firms" (Florida Bar News, 2026). In all, he has written more than 500 articles, given more than 400 presentations, and authored more than 20 books published by the FDCC, DRI, the American Bar Association, and The Florida Bar.
He is a member of The Florida Bar, the FDCC (since 2006), the Florida Defense Lawyers Association (since 1998), and the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys. He has served on the board of the Miami-Dade Defense Bar Association (2013–16) and chaired the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Historical Society (2010). In the community, he has served on the boards of Parent to Parent of Miami and Florida Christian School and has volunteered with Legal Services of Greater Miami.
Experience
Alongside his AI counseling and litigation work, Frank advises insurance industry clients on best practices for using their own data to improve efficiency and outcomes. His defense practice centers on retail, product liability, premises liability, trucking, insurance, and commercial disputes.
He counsels and defends retailers, developers, restaurants, fitness chains, hotels, resorts, and other hospitality businesses in claims involving negligent security, slip/trip and falls, catastrophic personal injury, trucking and motor vehicle accidents, and employment and construction matters. His commercial work spans intellectual property, breach of contract, bad faith, franchise agreements, and landlord-tenant disputes. In product liability, he represents manufacturers and distributors facing toxic exposure and personal injury claims in the pharmaceutical, medical, construction, asbestos and silica, machinery, household product, safety equipment, recreational vehicle, trucking, and automotive industries.
Known as the "Miami Mentor," Frank also trains and mentors lawyers through articles, podcasts, how-to videos, and one-on-one conversations, and has met with hundreds of young lawyers to offer guidance on the practice and life in the law.
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Frank Ramos
