Director/Officer Litigation & Partnership Disputes
Marianne Curtis
Partner
Marianne Curtis’ approach to client service is very simple—she treats her clients like family; and in her eyes, nothing is more important than client service. She has great relationships with her clients that have been cultivated through tireless work on their cases, zealous advocacy in the courtroom, and finding creative and efficient solutions to their problems. For Marianne, the feeling she gets when executing a well-developed legal strategy that delivers favorable results for her clients is unparalleled. From her perspective, one of the best parts about her work as an attorney is the ability to solve problems for people when they need you the most. Marianne’s ability to communicate with her clients in an honest, efficient, and transparent manner is one of the greatest skills used in her practice.
Marianne’s practice focuses on employment litigation, business disputes, complex commercial matters, and receivership litigation. She also has significant experience in corporate director/officer litigation, partnership disputes, internal and corporate investigations, and compliance.
As a former scholarship point guard for the University of Miami women’s basketball team, Marianne has learned the value of hard work, discipline, and achieving favorable results. Subsequently, she transferred those skills to her legal career. In the first ten years of practice, she has acquired robust litigation and trial experience as she has tried over 85 jury trials to verdict. She was also named to The Best Lawyers in America® “Ones to Watch” in 2022 and has been honored as a Florida Super Lawyers Rising Star every year since 2019. Additionally, in 2019, Marianne received the Rising Star Award from Women of Distinction Judicial Gala, the Rising Star Award from Miami-Dade Florida Association for Women Lawyers, and The Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Woman Lawyer Achievement Award. She sits on the Florida Bar Board of Governors Young Lawyers Division Executive Committee as well as the Miami-Dade Florida Association of Women Lawyer’s Board of Directors.
Representative Matters 
- Successfully defended a complaint and emergency temporary injunction for recruiter and capital investment executives in the medical device industry.
- Counsel to federal equity receiver in a $200+ million receivership in the Southern District of Florida and the Southern District of New York.
- Successfully defended high level executive in the finance industry regarding violations of restrictive covenants in a preliminary injunction hearing—leading to the dismissal of the case by former employer.
- Represented co-founder of a nutritional supplement company valued at seven figures to retain ownership of the company in a shareholder dispute that resulted in a dismissal of the lawsuit.
- Defended management-level employee within the call-center industry from enforcement of restrictive covenants resulting in dismissal of the lawsuit.
- Investigated and pursued claims against Fortune 500 company in a commercial contract dispute resulting in a pre-lawsuit settlement.
- Represented nationwide information technology company in enforcing restrictive covenants by obtaining a temporary injunction, thereafter made final.
- Representation of maintenance and infrastructure company in enforcing restrictive covenants and pursuing claims of tortious interference by former business owners and employees.
- Defended physicians from enforcement of restrictive covenants through negotiation of pre-lawsuit settlement.
- Represented a Florida company in pursuing claims for theft of trade secrets and tortuous interference following the resignations of top executives who left to work for a competing company.
- Defended employer in medical industry involved in wage dispute resulting in dismissal of case.
- Represented founder of one of the leading companies in the agricultural industry against a Fortune 500 company in federal court in the Southern District of New York that resulted in a denial of a preliminary injunction.
- Represented one of the leaders in the industrial diamond industry against former high level employee and new employer resulting in the enforcement of restrictive covenants and ensuring protection of trade secrets.
Awards & Honors
- Florida Association For Women Lawyers, 'Leader In The Law' (2022)
- The Best Lawyers in America®, "Ones to Watch" 2022-2025
- Florida Super Lawyers, 'Rising Star' (2019-2024)
- Daily Business Review's Attorney “On the Rise” (2021)
- Women of Distinction Judicial Gala, Rising Star Award, (2019)
- Miami-Dade Florida Association for Women Lawyers, Rising Star Award, (2019)
- The Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Woman Lawyer Achievement Award (2019)
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation 40 Under 40 Outstanding Lawyers of South Florida Award (2015)
Community Activities / Associations
- Board of Directors, MDFAWL
- Advisory Board, The Runner's Box
- Leadership Florida - Connect Class 13
- Board of Directors, DIBIA Dream
- Board of Directors, Miami-Dade Florida Association for Women Lawyers
In the News
Fifty-Six Berger Singerman Attorneys Recognized in the 2025 Edition of Best Lawyers In America
August 15, 2024
Forty-Three Berger Singerman Attorneys Recognized in the 2023 Edition of Best Lawyers In America
August 18, 2022
Marianne Curtis Receives 2022 ‘Leader in the Law’ Award from Florida Association for Women Lawyers
June 23, 2022
June 15, 2022
Thrity-nine Berger Singerman Attorneys Recognized in the 2022 Edition of Best Lawyers In America
August 19, 2021
Nineteen Berger Singerman Attorneys Recognized in 2021 Edition of Florida Super Lawyers
June 24, 2021
Business.com features Marianne Curtis in, "Employment and Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Workplace"
April 13, 2021
April 5, 2021
March 22, 2021
Client Alert: COVID-19 - Vaccination Policies in the Workplace
February 5, 2021
Twenty-Seven Berger Singerman Attorneys Recognized in 2020 Edition of Florida Super Lawyers
June 8, 2020
Berger Singerman Elevates Stephanie M. Chaissan and Marianne Curtis to Partner
January 1, 2020
Berger Singerman's Marianne Curtis Receives 2019 Outstanding Woman Lawyer of Achievement Award
June 23, 2019
Twenty-Eight Berger Singerman Attorneys Recognized in 2019 Edition of Florida Super Lawyers
May 29, 2019
Events & Speaking Engagements
February 20, 2025
February 10, 2025
July 24, 2024
June 27, 2024
February 22, 2024
Marianne Curtis, Speaker, “Effective Advocacy,” The Blueprints Season 3, Episode 4
October 20, 2023
October 13, 2023
Marianne Curtis, Instructor, NITA (National Institute for Trial Advocacy) Deposition Program
October 9 – 10, 2023
July 21, 2023
July 17, 2023
May 18, 2023
March 29, 2023
February 22, 2023
January 10, 2023
Marianne Curtis, Speaker, "Writing to Win," The Blueprints, Season 2, Episode 5
November 18, 2022
September 20, 2022
July 20, 2022
May 25, 2022
April 28, 2022
Marianne Curtis, Speaker, "How to Actually Negotiate," The Blueprints, Season 2 Episode 1
March 31, 2022
February 21, 2022
January 12, 2022
December 29, 2021
November 16, 2021
October 19, 2021
Marianne Curtis, Speaker, "No Elevator to Success, The Blueprint CLE Webinar Series"
September 22, 2021
September 15, 2021
Marianne Curtis, Speaker, "Not Your Law School Evidence," The Blueprints CLE Webinar Series
July 21, 2021
Marianne Curtis, Speaker, "Oral Advocacy in State Court," The Blueprint CLE Webinar Series
May 18, 2021
March 25, 2021
February 25, 2021
Marianne Curtis, Presenter, "Civil Litigation Skills for New Lawyers," University of Florida
January 12, 2021
November 11, 2020
October 21, 2020
August 26, 2020
July 29, 2020
June 24, 2020
Marianne Curtis, Speaker, 2020 Miami-Dade FAWL Trial Skills Workshop: Closing Arguments
February 6, 2020
Marianne Curtis, Co-Moderator, "Evidence CLE," The Florida Bar
November 7, 2019
October 16, 2019
April 8, 2019
Marianne Curtis, Panelist, "Voir Dire," 2019 Dade County Bar Association Annual Bench & Bar
April 4, 2019
March 26, 2019
October 24, 2018
September 26, 2018
Doing Business in Florida Blog
Employee or Independent Contractor? The Debate Continues
June 21, 2023
Eleventh Circuit on Arbitration Agreements: Contracting Parties Must “Live With The Results”
September 28, 2020
Certain Physician Non-Competes Are Now Void and Unenforceable in Florida
June 30, 2019
Employees or Contractors? A Potential Shift in Policy & Its Consequences
April 30, 2019