About James Liebler

Mr. Liebler focuses his practice on the representation of large corporations, insurers and national banks in complex commercial litigation, class action litigation, consumer finance litigation, insurance defense litigation and litigation arising from enterprise risk. Mr. Liebler has led dozens of trial teams and final arbitration hearings that have resulted in favorable judgments for his clients.

Mr. Liebler leads one of the firm’s auto glass defense and automobile property damage defense groups.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Liebler was lead counsel for a National Bank in eighty-six federal lawsuits brought by severed class action Plaintiffs alleging common law fraud in connection with the servicing of their mortgage loans. Mr. Liebler’s client received multiple sanctions awards and eighty-six judgments disposing of all of the lawsuits in his client’s favor.
Mr. Liebler has successfully obtained numerous prejudgment remedies including prejudgment replevins for recovery of collateral and injunctive relief preventing the disposition of distressed collateral. Mr. Liebler has recovered hundreds of distressed vehicles in his career and obtained a final judgment in a highly contested commercial foreclosure of a $1.5MM commercial property in Miami, Florida. Mr. Liebler has also successfully defended wrongful replevin claims, priority disputes, lien challenges, defamation of credit and fraud claims resulting in final judgments for his clients.

In 2015, Mr. Liebler represented a start-up company in a two-week-long jury trial that won a $3.6 Million jury verdict involving a complex commercial transaction and a series of discovery issues that resulted in a favorable sanctions order for his client.

Mr. Liebler is also a member of the firm’s diversity committee and actively participates in various minority and diversity legal organizations. He assists in recruiting diverse candidates for all new positions at the firm.

Mr. Liebler co-chairs the firm’s continuing legal education committee by researching and producing innovative presentations for CLE credit on the most current and cutting-edge topics. Mr. Liebler has presented over a dozen CLEs to the firm’s clients and other participants across the country.