Nationality American Name Frank Shooster | Education BA and JD Parents Herman Shooster | |
Occupation Civil rights attorney and Business executive Relatives Stephen Shooster (brother) Alma mater University of Chicago, Antioch College, University of Miami School of Law | ||
Frank Shooster is a Florida attorney known for his work in civil rights cases. He is currently the Chief Legal Officer of Global Response.
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Career
Shooster eventually founded and served as managing partner of Shooster & Kleinman, a labor law firm. Between 1994 and 1995 Shooster was named President of the Florida National Employment Lawyers Association. He has also served as Chairman of Global Response Corp., a customer service firm founded by his father Herman Shooster. He also serves as Chief Legal Officer for the company. As CLO, Shooster was interviewed as an expert during the fight over the National Do Not Call Registry both upon the legislation's passing and eventual legal appeals.
Cases
Between 1981 and 1987, Shooster represented a man who had been unlawfully arrested and placed face first into a fire ant nest on the ground in the process. After being cleared of any wrongdoing, Shooster helped the man sue the Miami police department. The jury in the case debated only five minutes before deciding in favor of Shooster's client. In 1983 Shooster represented home-owners in Lauderdale Isles in Southwest Broward in a suit against the building of a privately funded marina they stated would harm local wildlife. The residents were specifically concerned about the deaths of local manatees. The suit caused the developer of the marina to double the size of the potential feeding area for the manatees in exchange for residents dropping the suit.
Between 1986 and 1988 Shooster represented a Catholic congregation in Florida in a lawsuit against a second congregation over their purchased right to use the Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in Inverness, Florida. Alternatively, Shooster began representing a client in 1987 after he was refused over 50 police jobs because he had previously settled against North Miami Beach's police department over a wrist injury the city had caused. Shooster stated that the police forces had essentially blacklisted his client solely for winning a civil suit against the city for negligence.
1993 Shooster represented three Chinese immigrants against a fraudulent immigration services provided by a consortium of individuals doing business in Florida. After Shooster joined the case, the consortium quickly settled in order for the suit to not go forward. In 1994 Shooster represented two Jewish employees in a religious discrimination case against the State of Florida, who claimed that their supervisors harassed and then terminated the employees due to their Jewish faith. The number of employees of complaints in the suit soon grew to four.