Pett Furman, PL

Attorneys

History

Wendy L. Furman concentrates her practice in life, health and disability insurance, ERISA, commercial, and employment litigation. Ms. Furman has extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution and has written on issues relating to ERISA and insurance litigation. Ms. Furman has spoken on ERISA issues at the Annual Meeting of the Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association and on disability issues at the American Conference Institute's Seminar "Litigating Disability Insurance Claims". She has trial and appellate experience in federal and state courts and is an AV®-rated attorney.

Ms. Furman is a 1994 graduate, magna cum laude, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and received her Bachelor's Degree, magna cum laude, from Franklin and Marshall College. Upon graduation from law school, she worked in the Pittsburgh office of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP, acting as outside litigation counsel to Alcoa. Before becoming a founding member of Pett, Furman & Jacobson PL, Ms. Furman worked in the Boca Raton office of Proskauer Rose LLP after moving to Florida in 1996. Ms. Furman is a member of the Florida Bar and is admitted to practice in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Southern, Middle, and Northern Districts of Florida. She is a member of the Life, Health & Disability Committee of the Defense Research Institute, the Labor and Employment Section of the Florida Bar, the Labor and Employment Committee of the South Palm Beach County Bar Association and the Labor and Employment Law Committee of the American Bar Association. She is also a graduate of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy Program. In 2007, Ms. Furman participated in the Boca Leadership program of the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce.