Zuckerman, Lisa

Diane J. Zelmer represents client’s in general commercial litigation matters, with a concentration in construction and surety law. Prior to founding Zelmer Law, Ms. Zelmer practiced with a large Florida firm and a mid-sized construction litigation firm, concentrating in representing sureties, owners, public and private contractors in both trial and appellate proceedings. Ms. Zelmer has experience in construction lien claims and contractual disputes, involving construction and latent defects, design defects, time delays, and additional work and change orders, guaranteed maximum pricing, unforeseen site conditions, wrongful termination and enforceability of no damage for delay and liquidated delay damage clauses. She also has experience with payment and performance bond actions, involving equitable subrogation, setoff priorities to contract balances, conditional payment bonds, and timely compliance along with bid protests.

In addition, Ms. Zelmer’s diverse background allows her to provide a practical business industry perspective to her construction clients, who are necessarily impacted by inter-related practice areas. In addition to her construction and surety practice, Ms. Zelmer has a broad range of experience at both the litigation and transactional level, representing clients in accounting, international law, taxation, asset protection, securities law and corporate law. During summer 2005, the Ms. Zelmer was selected for the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission Summer Honors Program in Miami, Florida, and during spring 2006, she interned as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge James I. Cohn in the Southern District of Florida. While at the University of Florida, College of Law, Ms. Zelmer served as a member of the Florida Law Review, where she received the Best Research Award and served on the Publication Committee. In April 2005, The Florida Law Review selected Ms. Zelmer’s case comment for publication. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Zelmer obtained experience as an accountant, concentrating in foreign payroll taxation as well as U.S. corporate and individual taxation. Ms. Zelmer also has eight years of experience as a paralegal in corporate law, estate planning, probate, taxation, foreign trusts, and asset protection.