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Vanessa Merassaint
Of Counsel
Overview
Vanessa Merassaint regularly defends clients through all phases of complex toxic tort litigation, impressively protecting the value of products while preserving companies’ reputational and financial goals and objectives.
With extensive experience in talcum powder and asbestos-related matters as well as premises liability litigation, Vanessa’s concentrated practice and successful track record have secured her reputation as an insightful, dependable litigator in matters involving large liability risks. She drafts legal memoranda, dispositive motions, and discovery requests and responses while maintaining a high-volume case load.
Specifically, Vanessa has drafted pleadings and motions to strike, for summary judgment, for sanctions, and to dismiss. She also handles expert discoveries and has taken depositions with more than 40 parties.
Vanessa completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Central Florida and earned her Juris Doctor at the Florida Coastal School of Law, where she served as staff editor of the Florida Coastal Law Review and as president of the Caribbean Law Student Association in addition to other academic honors and organizational involvements.
Credentials
Education
- Florida Coastal School of Law, 2014 (J.D.), cum laude
- University of Central Florida, 2011 (B.A.)
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
- The Legal 500, Litigation: Product Liability Defense, Toxic Tort, 2023
- Florida Coastal School of Law, 2014
- Dean’s Scholar
- Governor’s Scholarship Recipient
- Florida Coastal Law Review, Staff Editor
- Caribbean Law Student Association, President, 2013-2014
- “Cosmetics: Luxury Brands – The Finer Points of Finer Products,” Perrin Talc Litigation Conference, June 2023
- “I Don’t Want to be Tide Down: Diversity Initiative: First Installment – A Deep Dive into the Journeys of Diverse Attorneys,” DRI Asbestos Medicine, November 2022