Amy L. Miles

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Amy L. Miles is an associate at McCumber Daniels in the firm’s Tampa, Florida office, focusing her practice on appellate law, first party and insurance coverage, and heading the firm’s appellate practice group.

Prior to joining McCumber Daniels, Ms. Miles worked for a defense litigation firm in Tampa, Florida, as a member of the firm’s appellate and insurance coverage group. In 2005-2007, Ms. Miles clerked for the Honorable Douglas A. Wallace of the Second District Court of Appeal.  Ms. Miles completed the Florida Bar’s Successful Appellate Advocacy Workshop where Florida District Courts of Appeal judges and experienced Florida appellate practitioners teach the practical aspects of appellate practice.

Ms. Miles graduated cum laude from Stetson University College of Law.  During law school, she interned with the Honorable Mary S. Scriven of the Middle District, United States District Court of Florida.  Ms. Miles was on the Stetson Law Review and Stetson’s Moot Court Board.  She received several academic honors while in law school.

Ms. Miles is licensed in the State of Florida and admitted to all Florida State Courts, the U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida, and the 11^th Circuit Court of Appeals.  She is an active member of the Florida Bar’s appellate practice section and an associate editor of the section’s publication, The Record.  Ms. Miles is also active in Hillsborough County Bar Association’s appellate practice section, the Clearwater Bar Association and the Ferguson-White Inn of Court.  

Publications:

• Miles, Amy; Penchansky, Marc. " Recent Court Decisions Reaffirm the Validity of Nursing Home Arbitration Provisions." Pulse, FHCA  April, 2012.  p. 5;16. Print. (originally published on Clear and Convincing Evidence)
• Miles, Amy. "Supreme Court Considers its own Jurisdiction to Determine the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act." M.O.R.O.F. Newsletter (republish from Clear and Convincing Evidence)
• Miles, Amy. "The Amendments to Florida’s Mediation Procedures Rule." The Benchmark. First Quarter 2012. 
• Miles, Amy L. "Long Term Care Facilities' and Employees' Responsibilities Under the Elder Justice Act." LTC-SIR Advisor 14.1 (Feb. 2011) : 19-21. Print.
• Miles, Amy. "The Appellate Brief; Rules of Finality: Now that I have this Order, Can I Appeal It?"  The Benchmark, (Second Quarter 2011).
• Miles, Amy. "The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Cuts a Clear Passage in the Otherwise Murky Waters of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act." The Benchmark. Fourth Quarter 2010.
• Miles, Amy. “The Record on Appeal:  What do you do when there was no court reporter?” Florida Bar Association The Florida Bar Journal (November 2010): Pages 38-41. Print.
• Miles, Amy. Florida’s Supreme Court considers two arbitration cases from the Second District Court of Appeal. The Benchmark. Third Quarter 2010.
• Comments from Chief Justice Peggy A. Quince on Advocacy: for the Client, the Courts, and the Profession, The Record, Journal of the Appellate Practice Section of the Florida Bar (Summer 2009). 
• The Appellate Opinion is Out-Now What Do I Do? 82 Fla. B.J. 29 (Nov. 2008) (Co-written with Betsy Elwanger Gallagher).

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