Chalon T. Allen focuses her practice in international litigation and arbitration. She represents foreign and U.S. corporate clients in complex commercial litigation, including recent actions involving contractual liability, trademark infringement and franchise disputes. Allen has also litigated complex products liability and tort matters for several Fortune 500 companies, including numerous cases involving claims of fraud and unfair and deceptive trade practices involving substantive issues of Costa Rican law. Recent highlights of her practice include defeating a jurisdictional challenge under Florida’s Long Arm Statute and a constitutional due process analysis in Lady of America Franchise Corp. v. Advecor, Inc., Case No. 07-60156, 2007 WL 1489799, (S.D. Fla. May 18, 2007) (denying defendant’s motion to dismiss based upon personal jurisdiction and venue in a contract dispute involving franchise advertising). Additionally, Allen has experience prosecuting and defending against claims of discovery misconduct, including claims of spoliation involving both physical evidence and electronic information.

  She earned her juris doctor from the University of Miami School of Law where she graduated magna cum laude and as a member of the Order of the Coif. She also received several awards for academic excellence. While a law student, Allen was a member of the Business Law Review and served as a Dean’s Fellow for Contracts, U.S. Constitutional Law and the Introduction to U.S. Constitutional Law course designed for foreign LL.M students. Originally from Lahaina, Hawaii, Allen earned her B.A. in broadcast journalism from the University of Southern California where she graduated, cum laude, in the top five percent of her class.

  Allen is member of the Litigation Section of the Florida Bar as well as the Dade-County Bar Association. Allen is also a member of the American Bar Association and authored “Navigating the Anti-Injunction Act in Complex Litigation,” which appeared in the ABA Litigation Section’s Products Liability Newsletter in 2005.

  She is admitted to practice before all Florida state courts, the courts of the District of Columbia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Florida.