Lars O. Bodnieks

Lars O. Bodnieks is a partner in the Miami office of Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A. Mr. Bodnieks has been a civil trial lawyer with an extensive appellate practice since 1991. His practice is focused in the areas of commercial litigation, automobile negligence, property and casualty law, admiralty and maritime, aviation, medical malpractice, product liability, negligence, wrongful death and insurance defense. He is a Martindale Hubbell AV/Preeminent rated lawyer. Mr. Bodnieks is the author of Synoptics & Algorithms in Law, and lectures in the areas of law and medical malpractice at Florida International University, pre-med program honor's class, Bio-Medical Ethics.

Mr. Bodnieks has extensive trial experience in state and federal courts having tried over 50 jury trials to verdict involving serious injury, wrongful death, negligent security, product liability and medical malpractice, and has successfully represented clients in over 27 appellate cases.

Throughout his career, Mr. Bodnieks has represented clients in many industries and in a wide range of legal matters and areas including:

Aerospace and automotive accident reconstruction and safety; Daubert/Kumho Tire and Frye hearings; DNA; economics; emergency medicine; engineering (aerospace, chemical, construction, electrical, mechanical, naval, power plant (turbine and reciprocating), structural failure analysis; fluid dynamics; human factors; infectious disease (ID); gas diffusion/infiltration of CO (carbon monoxide) including Navier-Stokes, Bernoulli's, zeroth, first and second laws of thermodynamics, Joules-Thompson throttling effects, Buoyancy Driven Force/Convective Stack effects, Graham's & Ficks's laws; internal medicine (IM); metallurgy; neurosurgery and neurology; orthopaedics; pathology (forensic and surgical); pharmacology (pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics); rotorcraft-helicopter operations; ship handling and safety; and toxicology.

Previously, he was a civil trial attorney with Restani, Dittmar & Hauser, P.A. in Coral Gables, Florida; and prior, an appellate attorney at the Office of the Public Defender 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida; he was also a court appointed special prosecutor.

Mr. Bodnieks is licensed to practice law in Florida and is a member of The Florida Bar. He is admitted in the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Northern and Middle Districts of Florida; Trial Bar of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida; U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is also a member of the Florida Medical Malpractice Claims Counsel, Inc.

Mr. Bodnieks received his Juris Doctor from St. Thomas University School of Law in 1990, which he attended on a Fellowship Scholarship and graduated with Dean's List distinction, and a Bachelor of Arts in economics and mathematics from Florida International University in 1987, also with a Dean's List distinction. He was a contributing editor and columnist of the St. Thomas Law School newspaper, Opinio Juris. Mr. Bodnieks also served as law clerk to attorney R. Fred Lewis, prior to Justice Lewis' appointment to the Florida Supreme Court.

Mr. Bodnieks has represented several major aerospace manufacturers, both rotor wing and fixed wing aircraft, along with powerplant manufacturers, overhaul and repair facilities, and has previously served as an instructor.

Mr. Bodnieks is native fluent in Latvian, and educated in German and Latin