Holland “Holly” Howanitz is the Southeast Regional Managing Partner for Tyson & Mendes’ Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Tampa, and Atlanta offices and a Partner in the Nashville office. Her practice focuses on premises liability, transportation, construction defect, general and automobile negligence, professional malpractice, and products liability. She also helps clients with issues related to the retail…
Ashley L. Hollingsworth is a Partner in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Her practice focuses on general liability, transportation, automobile negligence, wrongful death, premise liability, and construction defect matters. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Ms. Hollingsworth…
BeJae Roberts is a Partner at Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Roberts tried over 20 jury cases while practicing criminal law. She is admitted to practice in Florida State Courts and the Middle District of Florida…
Stefani Norrbin Cogsdale is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Her practice focuses on defending clients in personal auto, trucking and transportation, dramshop and rideshare cases, premises liability, and defense of entity defendants where sexual torts are alleged…
Rachel Delgado is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Her practice focuses on defending clients in matters alleging auto negligence, medical malpractice, products liability, premises liability, and commercial litigation matters. With extensive experience representing corporate clients, healthcare providers, and businesses, Mrs. Delgado is known for her strategic approach to both litigation and risk…
Samantha Epstein is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville and Atlanta offices. Her practice focuses on appeal-related work, including appellate motions, appellate briefs, oral argument, trial support to ensure that all appealable issues are properly preserved, and post-trial litigation. Ms. Epstein has extensive experience in litigation and appellate work. Her creative approach to the law..
Tara Floyd is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Her practice focuses on transportation, professional malpractice, nursing home and assisted living, medical malpractice, general and automobile negligence, and products liability…
Scott M. Rensch is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. His practice focuses on personal injury defense, including automobile, premises, and general liability claims. Mr. Rensch has a broad variety of litigation experience, having previously represented both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of cases and claims throughout Florida, including bodily injury/uninsured motorist, premises liability…
Kendall Rigdon is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Throughout his career, Mr. Rigdon has only defended insurance carriers, self-insureds, governmental entities and private companies for more than three decades against bodily injury and wrongful death claims in 58 of the 67 counties in Florida…
Xavier T. Saunders is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. His primary areas of practice focus on appellate law, complex motions, and as trial support to preserve issues for appeal and for strategic advocacy. Mr. Saunders has extensive experience as an insurance defense attorney in bodily injury, construction defects, business litigation, homeowners/condominium association and…
Farah Shirah is Senior Counsel in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. Her practice focuses on insurance defense and personal injury. Ms. Shirah has successfully managed high-volume caseloads, represented major insurance carriers, and advocated for clients through all stages of litigation—from pre-suit demands to trial. She is a seasoned litigation attorney with over eight years of experience in insurance defense…
Edison Li is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office, where he focuses on premises liability—including slip-and-fall matters—and automobile negligence defense. Before joining the firm as an attorney, Mr. Li served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Jeffrey R. Levenson in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit of Florida and later returned to Tyson & Mendes as a law clerk…
Kurt McDavid is an Associate Attorney in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville Office. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Mr. McDavid worked as a Public Defender, presiding over 3,000 cases and 12 jury trials. He subsequently practiced at a boutique firm representing community associations, where he obtained numerous trial wins, including a directed verdict on behalf of his client. Mr. McDavid has been a been a member…
Ana Reyes is an Associate Attorney in Tyson & Mendes’ Florida office, where her practice focuses on personal injury defense, property damage litigation, and condominium and association disputes. She represents associations, businesses, and individuals in matters involving negligence, premises liability, and breach of contract…
Matthew T. Rhodes is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. His practice focuses on personal injury, medical malpractice, construction defect, and specializing in multi-party complex litigation. Mr. Rhodes takes a trial-centric approach to litigation strategy and works to position cases for efficient and favorable resolution through motion practice, targeted discovery, and focused case evaluation. He has…
Nick Walls is an Associate in Tyson & Mendes’ Jacksonville office. His practice focuses on representing insurers in general and automobile negligence and premises liability claims. Mr. Walls has successfully defended clients in state and federal courts. He has extensive experience handling first- and third-party cases including car/truck accidents, slip/trip and falls, homeowners and commercial property insurance…