Bradley H. Trushin is a co-founder of Chepenik Trushin LLP and leads the litigation department of the firm. Mr. Trushin is a Martindale-Hubbell AV preeminent rated attorney and has focused exclusively on litigation for over three decades. Mr. Trushin is admitted to practice in all Florida state courts, as well as the United States District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida, the District of Puerto Rico, and the First, Third and Eleventh United States Circuit Courts of Appeals. He has headed the appellate, litigation, and E&O departments in several law firms; authors CLE materials and articles, lectures, moderates and participates in panel discussions; and serves as a testifying expert witness on attorney's fees, professional malpractice and insurance issues in Florida state court, federal court and before the American Arbitration Association. He also serves as an attorney's fees consultant for attorneys, insurance carriers and private corporations, reviewing fee applications and advising clients on the handling of fee issues, including litigation concerning fees. Mr. Trushin has served as general litigation counsel for a company in which he managed over twenty law firms in the United States, including analysis of billing practices.
Mr. Trushin has maintained a diverse litigation practice for over three decades including business and commercial litigation, professional liability, products liability, appellate practice, and insurance litigation, including property and casualty (first-party and third-party), errors and omissions (legal, medical, insurance agents, real estate brokers, etc.), and insurance coverage. He has tried over ten jury trials and over thirty non-jury trials, and he has handled over fifty appeals. He expanded his practice over twenty years ago to include probate, guardianship and trust litigation, which is now his principal focus. Mr. Trushin litigates adversary claims in probate courts throughout the State of Florida, including will contests, will and trust construction, trust modification and trust reformation, trust termination, claims of undue influence, fiduciary claims on behalf of and against personal representatives and trustees, actions for accounting, lack of capacity, fraud, civil theft, abuse of the elderly, and guardianship controversies. Mr. Trushin represents personal representatives, trustees, guardians, beneficiaries and creditors in probate, trust and guardianship matters.
Mr. Trushin has handled complex litigation cases before state and federal courts and arbitrators. He has litigated a wide variety of complex commercial claims in such areas as fraud and conspiracy, civil theft, Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, securities registration and Florida Blue Sky Laws, commercial leases and corporate governance. For over two decades, Mr. Trushin has both obtained injunctive relief on behalf of employers, including emergency relief for breaches of non- compete and non-solicitation agreements, and he has successfully defended such claims on behalf of doctors, lawyers and business professionals. Furthermore, Mr. Trushin has litigated securities cases, including but not limited to, shareholder derivative actions, corporate control contests and partnership and shareholder disputes. He has represented both non-resident domestic corporations and foreign corporations in complex business litigation matters in state and federal courts. Mr. Trushin has extensive experience in all facets of insurance law, including insurance coverage disputes, and first party and third party claims in such lines as commercial general liability, property and casualty, homeowners, and E&O (legal, medical and accounting). He has handled numerous bad faith claims on behalf of carriers and has successfully defended claims in excess of $20 million.
In 2010, Brad founded Chepenik Trushin LLP with Bart Homans Chepenik.
In addition to his law practice, Mr. Trushin has extensive experience addressing attorney ethics issues working with the Florida Bar through his membership with Florida Bar Grievance Committee 11N, where he served as Committee Chair during two terms. His interest in attorney professionalism issues led to his involvement in the Dade County Bar Association Professionalism Committee, on whose behalf he has written articles and participated in forums addressing professionalism issues. He was appointed to the Eleventh Judicial Circuit's Professionalism and Civility Committee by the Chief Judge in 2015. Mr. Trushin was elected to the Board of Directors of the Dade County Bar Association in 2016, and also served on the DCBA Probate & Guardianship Committee and Bulletin Committee. In 2016, Mr. Trushin was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism for a four year term. His appointment was made by the Florida Bar Board of Governors Executive Committee. In 2018, Mr. Trushin was recognized by the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of The Florida Bar as the recipient of an "Excellence in Professionalism Award". Mr. Trushin has also been recognized by his legal peers and awarded Florida Super Lawyers for Estate and Trust Litigation for over 15 years.
In 2017, Brad was published in the Florida Bar Journal for his article "Fitting Professionalism into the Profession: Do You Know the Rules?". He also became a State of Florida Certified CE (Continuing Education) Units Instructor and Presenter within the Florida Department of Finance and Insurance Regulation.
Mr. Trushin has given numerous educational seminars in the South Florida region for CPA's, CFP's, life/long term care/health insurance professionals, trust bankers, local business owners, senior care managers, peer attorneys and Judges on topics including guardianship litigation, capacity and incapacity standards, lack of testamentary capacity (undue influence), elder exploitation, sequestering and parroting, CURA and restoration of rights, trust bankers and their fiduciary roles, forensics and evaluation in probate litigation, intestacy and probate and attorneys fees disputes, He is a selected speaker for The Law Council - Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce, BNI, The Florida Bar, FICPA, Suntrust bank, Tri-County Elder Resources Network, Who's Who In America TV, NAIFA, the Dade County Bar Association and the Florida Statewide Guardianship Association.
