KVL | Leah B. Storie

Practice Areas

Leah B. Storie
Of Counsel

Email: lstorie@kvllaw.com
Phone: (954) 527-1115
Fax: (954) 527-1116

Leah Brooke Storie focuses her practice on international arbitration and litigation matters. Leah’s main areas of experience include assisting individual and institutional clients with the resolution of shareholder disputes, international corporate matters and international real estate transactions. Leah has extensive experience with international discovery and frequently works to assist clients in gathering evidence for use abroad.

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Representative Experience

Represented an agency of the government of El Salvador in an arbitration proceeding involving ownership interests in geothermal generation facilities and defects in the related generation equipment.
Represented Ecuadorian soft drink bottling company in ICDR arbitration regarding shareholder dispute.
Represent multi-national telecommunications company in business tort case alleging federal RICO and telecommunications fraud claims.
Represented a cruise line in an ICC proceeding over exclusive rights to use a port of call in the Dominican Republic.
Represented US-based, international food distributor in domestic courts against multinational manufacturing conglomerate regarding trademark infringement claims and validity of foreign distribution embargo enforcement.
Represented a tortured journalist from Haiti against the Republic of Haiti before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Represented an Ecuador-based airline in New York state court against US-based aircraft sub-lessors.
Represented a respondent in an ICC proceeding in Jamaica arising from a corporate dispute.
Represented international clients in US courts regarding foreign trust and estate claims.
Represented multinational companies in federal and state proceedings seeking to domesticate and enforce out-of-country judgments.
Represented several foreign companies seeking discovery in the US for aid in foreign proceedings.
Securing landmark US$27.5 million judgment against the Republic of Cuba and the Cuban Communist Party on behalf of a relative of a living political prisoner based upon the Tortured Victim Protection Act, the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (Saludes v. Republica de Cuba, et al., 655 F. Supp. 2d 1290 (S.D. Fla. 2009)).

Professional & Community Activities

The Florida Bar
- International Litigation and Arbitration Section, Annual Conference Steering Committee
- Vis Pre-Competition Moot Volunteer Arbitrator, 2009
American Bar Association, International Law Section, Annual Meeting Host Committee, Fall 2009
University of Miami School of Law Young Alumni, Board Member

Education

University of Miami School of Law, J.D., 2007
- Editor in Chief, International and Comparative Law Review
- Executive Secretary, International Moot Court Board
- Dean’s List (Fall 2004, Fall 2005)
- Phi Delta Phi, Legal Honors Fraternity (Treasurer, 2005-6)
- Priscilla Jewett Schneller Scholarship
- J. Donald and Agnes E. Schoecraft Law Scholarship
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., 2003

Bar Admissions

All Florida state courts
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
United States District Court, Southern District of Florida

Professional Background

Kim Vaughan Lerner LLP, Of Counsel
Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP (now Squire Patton Boggs), Attorney
Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge, & Rice LLP, Summer Associate
North Carolina Legal Aid, Legal Intern