Client-Recommended Attorneys, Adjusters and Experts
Client-Recommended Attorneys, Adjusters and Experts



Best's Recommended Insurance Attorneys - General Defense


2633 McCormick Drive, Suite 101, Clearwater, Florida 33759-1041

Practice Areas

  • Insurance Defense
  • Fire
  • Casualty
  • Automobile
  • Personal Injury
  • Subrogation
  • Environmental Law
  • Premises Liability
  • Product Liability
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Employment Discrimination
  • Construction Defect
  • Insurance Coverage
  • Extra-Contractual Litigation
  • Chemical and Asbestos Exposure


About Us

Katz, Siegel & Maple, P.L., a Tampa Bay area law firm servicing all of Florida, provides creative, efficient, and cost-effective representation to businesses and individuals in diverse legal matters. Our respected and practical team puts our legal knowledge, technological resources, and experience to work for you, providing solutions specific to your goals. The Firm is committed to providing high level, client-focused service.


Firm Highlights

Our well-rounded attorneys regularly represent contractors, subcontractors, design professionals, manufacturers, and owners in transactional and litigation matters in a variety of projects, from single- and multi-family home construction and remodeling to commercial work and governmental projects. When possible, our team works to avoid litigation through negotiation and the pre-suit process, and when litigation is required, our attorneys are ready to represent our clients having successfully represented clients through creative and successful mediation, dispositive motion practice, and trial.


How We Offer Value

Our attorneys collectively have represented clients in 100s of trials. Should trial be required and a resolution cannot be reached before trial, our attorneys are ready and able to represent clients at trial, including pre-trial motion practice, trial itself, and post-trial motions.


Client Information

Insurance Clients


Personnel Information

Shareholders


Jeffrey M. Katz

Clearwater, FL

Admitted
  • Florida, 1991
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Memberships:
  • American, Hillsborough County and Clearwater Bar Associations
  • The Florida Bar
  • West Coast Claims Association
  • Florida Defense Lawyers Association
Education:
  • University of Florida, B.S.B.A., 1988
  • Stetson University College of Law, J.D., 1991
  • Emory University School of Law, LL.M., 1992

Michael D. Siegel

Clearwater, FL

Admitted
  • Florida, 1984
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, 1985
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 1987
Memberships:
  • American, St. Petersburg and Clearwater Bar Associations
  • The Florida Bar
  • Pinellas County Trial Lawyers Association
Education:
  • University of South Florida, B.A., 1981
  • Stetson University College of Law, J.D., 1984

Haley R. Maple

Clearwater, FL

Admitted
  • Florida, 2003
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, 2008
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 2015
Additional Biographical Details:

Network of Executive Women, Past President; Alpha House of Tampa Board of Directors, Vice President; Florida Super Lawyers, 2014; Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2010-2014; Tampa Bay Business Journal Business Woman of the Year Finalist, 2010, 2011; Tampa Bay Business Journal Up & Comers Finalist, 2012

Memberships:
  • American Bar Association (Litigation Section)
  • Women's Construction Law Alliance
Education:
  • The University of Akron, B.A. (magna cum laude), 2000
  • American University, Washington College of Law, J.D. (cum laude), 2003
Honors:
Florida Super Lawyers, 2014-2021; Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2010-2014; Tampa Bay Business Journal Business Woman of the Year Finalist, 2010, 2011; Tampa Bay Business Journal Up & Comers Finalist, 2012

Partner


Brittany L. Kaufmann

Clearwater, FL

Admitted
  • Florida, 2015
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
Memberships:
  • American Bar Association
  • The Florida Bar (Young Lawyers)
Education:
  • University of Florida, B.A. (cum laude), 2012
  • Stetson University College of Law, J.D., 2015

Attorney


Anna Stein

Clearwater, FL

Admitted
  • Florida, 2014
  • U.S. District Court, Middle and Southern Districts of Florida
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Memberships:
  • The Florida Bar (Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Section)
Education:
  • The University of Alabama at Birmingham, B.S., 2009
  • University of Miami School of Law, J.D., 2013

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