Tal J. Lifshitz is a partner in Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton’s complex litigation department, and an experienced litigator and trial lawyer ranked by Forbes as one of America’s Top 200 Lawyers.

A former federal judicial law clerk, Tal is part of the team at KTT that handles “bet the company” cases, class actions, and multidistrict litigation (MDLs) across the country.

Tal has represented a wide range of sophisticated corporate, municipal, and individual clients – both as plaintiffs and defendants – in major disputes involving complex fraud, RICO, antitrust, and consumer protection matters.

Representative Cases

Some of the most high impact cases Tal has worked on include managing the litigation stemming from the tragic Champlain Towers South building collapse in Surfside, Fla., as part of KTT’s court appointment as Co-Chair Lead Counsel in the In re: Champlain Towers South Collapse Litigation. In less than 15 months, the KTT-led plaintiffs secured over $1.1 billion dollars in relief for the Surfside victims.

Tal is also actively involved in the In re: Insulin Pricing Litigation, consolidated as an MDL in the District of New Jersey. As part of KTT’s court appointment as Co-Lead Counsel for the Self-Funded Payer Track, KTT and its clients have sued the three largest insulin manufacturers and three largest pharmacy benefit managers in the United States for a conspiracy to artificially inflate the price of diabetes medications in the United States.

Tal also recently served as lead trial counsel in defense of one of the largest global law firms in the world, alleging that the firm — through one of its partners — aided a fraudulent Venezuelan foreign currency exchange transaction with losses exceeding $50 million. After a three-week jury trial, KTT secured a full defense verdict for its client.

In 2023, Tal served as lead defense trial counsel on behalf of a globally respected expert on risk management and restructuring in a film financing dispute over the 2015 Natalie Portman film “Jane Got a Gun,” brought by the Boies Schiller Film Group. After a three-week trial, Tal and his team successfully secured a full defense verdict in their client’s favor.

Tal also played a leading role in securing a $150 million settlement against Raymond James on behalf of EB-5 immigrant investors in the Jay Peak financial fraud scheme that misappropriated more than $350 million in investor funds; and Tal represented 70% of victims of the $1.2 billion Scott Rothstein South Florida Ponzi scheme, leading to a nearly 100% recovery of these victims’ hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.

Awards, Recognition, and Community Impact

Tal J. Lifshitz named one of America's Top 200 Lawyers in 2024 by Forbes

Tal J. Lifshitz named one of America’s Top 200 Lawyers

Further evidencing his achievements, at 38 years old Tal was named last year to the 2024 Forbes Top 200 Lawyers List. Forbes announced that it selected the recipients of this first-annual award through a rigorous, multi-stage process of researching, evaluating and rating thousands of candidates, conducted by an editorial team with broad experience in law practice and the legal marketplace.

Tal has also been recognized by Chambers USA since 2024 as Up and Coming in Litigation. Additionally, he was recognized by the Daily Business Review’s 2024 Florida Legal Awards, in the “On The Rise” category for lawyers under 40 years of age.

Since 2019, Tal has been recognized by Super Lawyers in the area of Class Actions/Mass Torts, and has been recognized by Best Lawyers since 2023. He has served as a Faculty Member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), teaching multi-day trial and deposition technique programs using NITA’s hands-on, “learn-by-doing” method, and recently concluded his term as President for the South Florida Chapter of the Federal Bar Association.

In December 2023, he was featured in a Daily Business Review profile for his impact and influence at a young age, among other media placements.

In December 2024, the Florida Bar Board of Governors appointed Tal to the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Conference to represent the Southern District of Florida.

Education and Judicial Clerkship

Tal received his Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from the University of Central Florida and his Juris Doctor from the University of Miami Law School, summa cum laude. While in law school, he was a member of the Charles C. Papy Jr. Moot Court Board and served as the Eleventh Circuit Editor of the University of Miami Law Review. During law school, Tal received the Soia Mentschikoff Award for Excellence in Scholarly Writing for his publication, “Arguable Probable Cause:” An Unwarranted Approach to Qualified Immunity, 65 U. Miami. L. Rev. 1159 (2011).  After law school, Tal served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Kenneth A. Marra, Southern District of Florida, from September 2012 to September 2013.