Dale Morgado | Miami Employment Lawyer | Florida

Dale Morgado

Dale Morgado

Experience: 16 years
Language(s): English | Portuguese | Spanish

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About Dale

He began clerking for Phipps P.C. about twelve years ago, only to soon join one of Boston’s 50 largest law firms, Deutsch, William, Brooks, Derensis & Holland. After attending law school in Connecticut, he began practicing as an attorney at the Hartford office of the nationally recognized ERISA class action firm of Moukawsher & Walsh. Later he moved to Miami to join the 170-lawyer firm Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart, serving as associate counsel in its employee benefit practice group. Ready to lead, he helped found Feldman, Fox & Morgado in 2009 and remains with the firm today.

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Experience

Partner

Feldman & Morgado, P.A.

2009-Present

New York, Connecticut, Florida

Attorney

Gunster Yoakley & Stewart P.A.

2008-2009

Florida

Attorney

Moukawsher & Walsh LLC

2005-2008

Connecticut

Admission

Verified New York

2014

Verified Florida

2009

Verified Connecticut

2007

Education

University of Massachusetts

M.B.A. (Business)

Suffolk University

B.S.B.A. (Business Administration)

Recognitions & Achievements

Associations
  • American Bar Association
  • American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries
  • Connecticut Bar Association
  • Dade County Bar Association
  • District of Connecticut
  • Florida Bar Association
  • Greater Fort Lauderdale Tax Council
  • Hartford County Bar Association
  • Middle District of Florida
  • Southern District of Florida
  • United States Tax Court
Honors / Awards
  • Legal Elite Honors: In , Mr. Morgado was honored to be chosen as a member of Florida Trend’s “Up and Comer” in the yearly “Florida Legal Elite” rankings which nominates Florida’s top attorneys. The publication recognizes fewer than 1.8 percent of active Florida Bar members in the state who are nominated by their peers as “those attorneys who are held in the highest regard and whom they would recommend to others,” according to Florida Trend.
    2011
  • Seven Figure Lawyer: In , Mr. Morgado was inducted into “Seven Figure Lawyers” – a collective list of lawyers who have received verdicts or settlements of $1,000,000.00 dollars or more. Mr. Morgado obtained verdict for his clients to be invited into this organization.
    2013

Notable Work

Publications

Contributor, American Bar Associations Subcommittee (Fair Labor Standards Act) and Mid-Winter Reports

2013 / 2014


Contributor, American Bar Associations Subcommittee (Employment Retirement Investment Act) Mid-Winter Report

2007


Author, “Economic Consequences to Companies, States, and Municipalities Sponsoring Pension Plans from the Recent Market Losses and Potential ERISA Fiduciary Liability to Investment Advisers that Follow.” April Employee Benefit Plan Review

2009


Author, “The Death Tax – How Will Obama’s Tax Plan Affect Your Estate Plan.” Published in December LeMieux Report

2008


Co-Author, “Blessings Point to Cash Balance Prosperity for Interested Advisers.” Published in the September Employee Benefit Adviser

2008


Author, “Sell it But Don’t Overstate it Unless You Want to Get Sued: When Does ERISA Liability Attach.” Published in the July Employee Benefit Adviser

2008


Co-Author, “The Pension Protection Act Brings Sweeping Changes.” Published in the Connecticut Bar Association Employment Quarterly Vol. 13 Issue 2

2007


Co-Author, “A Federal Agency Says You Are Disabled…And A District Court Agrees, The Relevance of Social Security Disability Findings in ERISA Disability Insurance Benefit Litigation.” Published in the Connecticut Bar Association Employment Quarterly Vol. 13 Issue 3

2007


Speaker, ing “Privacy and Social Media in the Workplace “ for Sterling Education’s 6th Annual Fundamentals of Employment Law on October 1,

present / 2013


Interviewee, NPR’s Marketplace on privacy in the workplace, aired November 15,

2014