Debbie Maken, ESQ

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Miami, FL
Boca Raton, FL

Office Address

1221 Brickell Avenue
19th Floor
Miami, FL 33131
2300 Glades Road
Suite 340W
Boca Raton, FL 33431

Debbie Maken, ESQ

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Professional Experience

Ms. Maken is a partner at Lydecker and has substantial experience in handling complex business litigation and appellate matters in both Florida and in Mississippi. Over her career, she has authored hundreds of briefs filed in the Florida Supreme Court, Florida’s District Courts of Appeal, the Eleventh Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. Her practice areas include banking-foreclosure law, commercial litigation, torts, insurance defense, employment law, parental rights, criminal law, and challenging unconstitutional state action.

Ms. Maken is a former Assistant United States Attorney with the Southern District of Florida. As Lydecker LLP’s lead counsel, she successfully represented the Florida Department of Financial Services as Receiver in its suit against the statutory auditors (a big 5 accounting firm) of a failed insurance company (whose insolvency exceeded a billion dollars).

She clerked at the Third District Court of Appeals and the Mississippi Supreme Court.

Education

1991-1994 The University Of Alabama Law School. Tuscaloosa, AL. Juris Doctor
1998-1991 Mississippi State University
B.A. in Political Science

Bar and Court Admissions

2019 Florida Bar
1994 Mississippi Bar

Leadership, Membership & Honors

Florida Federal Judicial Nominating Commission, Commissioner, 2015-2019
Honor Corps., Alliance Defending Freedom
United States Civil Rights Commission, Florida Advisory Committee: 2022+

Significant Representations & Experience

Debbie has been involved in various cases involving complex issues of law, resulting in leading authorities at both state and federal levels.

EXTRA:

FLORIDA BAR JOURNAL March-April 2024. “Aligning Appellate Standards of Review to Match the Constitutional Liberty Interests Implicated in a Termination of Parental Rights Proceeding.” https://www.floridabar.org/the-florida-bar-journal/aligning-appellate-standards-of-review-to-match-the-constitutional-liberty-interests-implicated-in-a-termination-of-parental-rights-proceeding/

UNITED STATES CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION, Florida Advisory Committee. Member. 2022+

FEDERAL JUDICIAL NOMINATING COMMISSION (2015-17 and 2017-19 Cong. Terms)

Appointed by Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson to be a Commissioner, Southern District Conference for Southern District of Florida

ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM. Allied Attorney Honor Corps (450+ pro bono hours).

Primarily draft briefs for ADF concerning Fourteenth Amendment parental rights liberty interest, and reciprocal liberty interest of child to maintain family integrity. Advised local churches concerning dis-associational rights.

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