Florida Trend Recognizes Andrea DeField and Cary Steklof As Legal Elite

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that Miami-based partner, Andrea DeField, and counsel, Cary Steklof, were recently named to Florida Trend magazine’s 2022 Legal Elite Up & Comers.

All in-state members of the Florida Bar were invited to participate in acknowledging their peers, recommending lawyers across varying practice areas, including government and non-profit. DeField and Steklof were included in a special category for attorneys under the age of 40 who have exhibited leadership in the law and in their community.

As co-lead of the firm’s cyber insurance practice group, DeField counsels policyholder clients on all types of insurance policies and coverage issues, with a focus on insurance for cyber risks such as ransomware, large scale data breach and social engineering claims. She also has experience advising clients on professional liability insurance issues, hurricane claims and commercial general liability insurance disputes, including those arising out of construction defect claims, wrongful death and pollution incidents. In all those areas combined, she recovered over $120 million for policyholder clients in 2021 alone.

Steklof represents individual, corporate and municipal policyholders in all types of first- and third-party insurance coverage and bad faith disputes. With experience in the areas of insurance litigation, insurer bad faith and unfair insurance practices, he concentrates his practice on advising policyholders in connection with director and officer, error and omission, cyber, commercial general liability and commercial property insurance policies. Steklof assisted clients in recovering insurance proceeds extending into the eight figures in 2021 and continues to lead multiple litigations and claims collectively approaching $100 million.

Honorees will be recognized in the July 2022 issue of Florida Trend.

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