Patrick Montoya

Mark Goldfeder

CEO and Director, National Jewish Advocacy Center

Biography

Rabbi Dr. Mark Goldfeder, Esq. is the CEO and Director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, Inc. He has served as the founding Editor of the Cambridge University Press Series on Law and Judaism, a Trustee of the Center for Israel Education, and, by Presidential appointment, as a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council.

Goldfeder has taught law across the country and around the world as Senior Lecturer at Emory University School of Law, Spruill Family Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Director of the Restoring Religious Freedom Project, and as a visiting professor at Georgia State University School of Law, Florida Southern College, University of Padua (Italy), Scuola Galileana (Italy), IDC’s Radzyner Law School (Israel) and Bar Ilan Law School (Israel).

Goldfeder holds two rabbinic ordinations (yoreh yoreh; Yeshiva University and Rivavot Ephraim) and two judicial ordinations (yadin yadin; Rav Gedaliah Dov Schwartz, Av Beth Din, Rabbinical Council of America and Chicago Rabbinical Council, and Rav Dovid Schochet, President, Toronto Rabbinical Council).

Goldfeder’s work focuses on law and religion, constitutional law, and international law. He publishes widely in those areas, including both academically and in popular publications like CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Forbes, and other major media outlets. He is also co-author of the five-volume treatise Religious Organizations and the Law (Westlaw). Goldfeder handles cases involving antisemitism issues around the country, and lectures and writes widely on those topics. He has worked with local, state, and federal legislators on measures to support the Jewish community, and has defended students, professors, businesses, and nonprofits targeted for their support of the Jewish State. He has worked on cases at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, and has successfully represented clients including American and Israeli nonprofits in federal litigation.

In 2017, he received the Opher Aviran Stand with Israel Award from Hillel, and in 2018, the Jon Barkan Israel Advocacy Award from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in recognition of his work. He received his Doctorate and LLM degrees from Emory University and his Juris Doctor degree from NYU School of Law. He received his Bachelor of Arts at Yeshiva University in Journalism.

Gabriel Groisman

Founder, Groisman LLC

Biography

Gabriel Groisman is a nationally recognized attorney, policy strategist, public speaker, and advocate for the Jewish community. He is the Founder of Groisman, LLC, a boutique government affairs and consulting firm with offices in Miami and Washington, D.C., where he provides strategic advisory services, public affairs, and advocacy for select clients. He is also a practicing attorney and the principal of Groisman Law, where he handles select litigation and legal matters.

Gabe is a weekly columnist for JNS.org, where he writes on issues relating to antisemitism, U.S. and Israeli politics, and the future of the Jewish people. He is also the host of the political podcast Standpoint with Gabe Groisman, featuring high-level interviews with U.S. Senators, members of Congress, governors, mayors, and thought leaders from across the conservative and pro-Israel landscape.

Groisman is an internationally sought-after speaker and legal scholar on antisemitism and the BDS movement. He has addressed audiences at the United Nations, the Italian Parliament, and the Israeli Knesset, as well as conferences and institutions around the globe. He serves as a Senior Advisor to the Combat Antisemitism Movement and is a member of the Jewish National Fund’s Speakers Bureau.

Previously, Gabe served as Mayor of Bal Harbour, Florida, from 2016 to 2022, after first being elected to the Village Council. During his tenure, he authored and passed the nation’s first municipal ordinance banning BDS (December 2015) and became the first elected official in the U.S. to codify the IHRA definition of antisemitism (December 2017).

He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Children’s Tumor Foundation, and is a national board member of the Republican Jewish Coalition.

In recognition of his work, Gabe received the Pursuit of Justice Award from the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists in 2018 and the Voices of Iron Award from the Israeli Knesset in 2025 for his unwavering defense of Israel and the Jewish people.

Gabe earned his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his J.D. from American University’s Washington College of Law. He lives in Bal Harbour with his wife Lisa and their five daughters.

Patrick Montoya

Senior Partner, Millberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman

Biography

Partner Patrick Montoya is a lawyer with experience in complex and high-profile litigation. His career philosophy—his continued ambition— “Be the lawyer you want for yourself.”

Mr. Montoya remains committed to ardently defending his clients and protecting their rights while simultaneously prioritizing a one-on-one relationship with each person he represents. With over two decades of experience in practicing law, Mr. Montoya brings his skill and knowledge to Milberg’s team. Mr. Montoya’s expertise includes class action and commercial litigation, products liability, personal injury litigation, aviation law, construction law, and toxic torts.

In 2023, Mr. Montoya was appointed by the Florida Bar to the Standard Jury Instructions Committee. This committee of lawyers and judges is tasked to review and amend jury instructions used in civil cases. Furthermore, he served on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida’s Ad Hoc Committee on Rules and Procedures, helping to determine local rules in Federal Court.

Mr. Montoya currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Cuban-American Bar Association, Legal Services of Greater Miami, and Florida Funding Legal Aid (“FFLA”). In the past, he served as the President of Spellman-Hoevler, Inns of Court and was on the Board of Directors of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) and the Miami-Dade Trial Lawyers.

He has been recognized as a “Top Up & Comer in South Florida” by South Florida Legal Guide (2009-2013), a Florida Rising Star by Super Lawyers (2010-2012), a Florida Super Lawyer (2013-2023), and one of the Top 40 Lawyers Under 40 by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (2009). He was recognized by Lawdragon in 2020 as one of the nation’s Top 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers.

Through his experience teaching at the University of Miami’s Paralegal Program, undergraduate business law courses, and as a legal research and writing instructor at the prestigious University of Miami School of Law, Mr. Montoya has helped shape the minds of the next generation of legal professionals. He is a frequent lecturer for CLEs and co-authored a book. Florida Evidence and Procedure, for ALM Publishing. Mr. Montoya also served as Co-Chair of the Davidson College Alumni Chapter representing the South Florida Region.

As a member of the Executive Committee for the National Conference of Community and Justice in Greater Miami, he has championed equality and justice while working to build bridges between diverse groups. He received the prestigious Honorable Ted Klein award from Miami-Dade’s chapter of the Florida Association of Women Lawyers for his work in promoting and assisting women’s advancement in the law. For his selfless volunteer contributions, he was granted the prestigious “Donor Next Door” Award by the Dade Community Foundation.

Mr. Montoya also uses his platform as host of the television program “NCCJ: Your Community and You” to engage and educate viewers on important community issues.

Mr. Montoya’s journey to becoming a lawyer uniquely demonstrates his unwavering pursuit of life’s passions. After completing his undergraduate degree, Mr. Montoya was awarded the coveted Thomas J. Watson Fellowship and chose to spend his time exploring his admiration for dancing. Mr. Montoya spent an entire year in Brazil and Spain, where he both studied and taught dance and martial arts.

With these life-changing experiences accomplished, Mr. Montoya returned to the United States and completed his law degree at the University of Miami School of Law, where he graduated with cum laude honors and as a member of the Inter-American Law Review and the University of Miami Moot Court Board. For over two decades, he’s been a practicing attorney in Florida, furthering his commitment to success and excellence in all that he does.

As a special note, Mr. Montoya is conversant in Spanish and Portuguese, allowing him to communicate with a variety of clients in their native language.

Notable Cases

Patrick has reached numerous multi-million dollar verdicts, winning settlements that not only repaid the clients for the wrong they experienced but also initiated strong changes to laws to more efficiently protect society:

Part of a team that obtained a $51.8 million verdict for an Ocala, Florida family involved in a catastrophic car accident
Part of a team that obtained an $8 million verdict in a wrongful death case for two Chinese nationals that were killed when they were hit by a car
Achieved multi-million dollar trial verdicts for the widow and family of a slain police officer (and in another case for a police officer who was seriously injured by a drunk driver)
Handled a multitude of wrongful death cases stemming from helicopter crashes in the Dominican Republic, parasailing accidents in the Bahamas, and multiple electrocution cases, including the death of a six-year-old boy in his family’s pool
Reached a million-dollar trial verdict for a group of hospital-based pathologists who sought damages from HMO’s for not paying their professional fees (following the verdict, the Supreme Court of Florida upheld the decision, enacting positive change to Florida law)
Recovered millions for diverse clients, from a Peruvian towel manufacturer, to homeowners who had defective Chinese drywall in their homes, to business owners who were harmed by the BP Oil Spill, to condominium associations with faulty fire sprinkler systems

Published Works

Florida Evidence and Procedure, ALM Publishing
Federal Court Tips, Daily Business Review, Miami
10 Tips Leading to Efficient and Effective E-discovery for the Small Law Firm, Florida Bar Journal
Personal Injury From A to Z, Damages: Part 2 [Pain, Suffering and Punitive Damages], National Business Institute, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Patrick Montoya

Senior Partner, Millberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman

Notable Cases

Published Works

Suing Terrorists and Their Supporters

Co-Sponsored by the Miami Lawyers Chapter, The Miami Jewish Legal Society, and Jewish National Fund - USA's Lawyers for Israel Group

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Notable Cases

Published Works

Suing Terrorists and Their Supporters

Co-Sponsored by the Miami Lawyers Chapter, The Miami Jewish Legal Society, and Jewish National Fund - USA's Lawyers for Israel Group