With diverse legal experience and a practical business outlook, Glennys Ortega Rubin counsels companies on ways to protect themselves from the costly disruptions of litigation. She focuses on business and commercial disputes with an emphasis on labor and employment law. Based in Shutts & Bowen's Orlando office, she is an attorney in the Labor & Employment Practice Group.
Experience
While she primarily deals with labor and employment disputes, with a focus on complex civil litigation, Ms. Rubin has wide-ranging litigation experience in many areas, including commercial litigation, insurance defense and consumer collections. She works with employers of all types, and in various industries throughout the State of Florida, on workforce issues. Ms. Rubin has also appeared before Florida's appellate courts.
Ms. Rubin's work as a former in-house counsel also adds a deeper understanding of effective employment practices. She provides advice and counsel to her clients and regularly drafts documents such as employment and independent contractor agreements, separation agreements, restrictive covenants related to employment, and employment policies and manuals. She also helps prepare and present legal seminars on a variety of topics.
Recognition
- Florida Super Lawyers, selected for inclusion as a Rising Star, 2010, 2011
Education
- University of Florida, J.D.
- Stetson University, B.A., cum laude, English
- University of Paris, Sorbonne
- Keble College, Oxford University
Bar Admissions
- The Florida Bar
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Florida
Affiliations
- Broward County Hispanic Bar Association, Former Board Member
- Broward County Bar Association, Former Member of the Judicial Select and Tenure Committee
- Junior League of Greater Fort Lauderdale
- Florida's Children First!
Practice areas
Languages
- Spanish