Reflecting on the litigation that arose from one the deadliest structural engineering failures in history, an attorney who represented the victims of the Champlain Towers collapse said the experience had a profound impact on her.

In June 2021, the 12-story condominium in Surfside, Florida, suddenly collapsed, leaving 98 people dead, several others injured, and countless others with permanent trauma. Ricardo Martinez and Lea Bucciero of Podhurst Orseck in Miami were named lead counsel in the wrongful death lawsuit following the incident.