Linda is an associate in the Tampa office with a practice concentration in media and communications law, including defamation and invasion of privacy. She also focuses on business litigation and intellectual property matters. She graduated with honors from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2017.
I became a lawyer for one purpose: to be an advocate for those who face being silenced. Professionally, there is nothing that gives me more joy than being able to bring to light the importance of freedom of expression.
Prior to joining the firm, Linda worked as a legal fellow at the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information, a nonprofit organization charged with informing lawmakers and the public on the importance of an open and transparent government. She also previously taught media law courses to undergraduate students at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, and she has served as a contributing editor of an Internet law textbook.
She received her Bachelor of Science in Telecommunication from the University of Florida in 2011, when she fell in love with the First Amendment and communication law. She subsequently received a Master of Arts in Mass Communication Law in 2013.
While in law school, Linda interned at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida and in the Business and Legal Affairs Department of NBC Universal’s Telemundo. She also worked as a summer associate at the firm.
While pursuing her master’s and law degrees, Linda published several law review articles focused on the First Amendment and communications law, now found in the California Law Review, William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law, and the Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal.
Linda is a first-generation American. She speaks fluent Spanish and is conversant in French and Italian.