Raoul G Cantero III

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Litigation

Clients entrust us with their must-win matters – disputes in which huge sums, invaluable patents and brands, closely guarded market strategies, and even out-and-out company survival are at stake. With over 560 lawyers, our global Litigation and Arbitration group is ready to respond. Operating in a closely knit network of 37 offices in 25 countries worldwide, we are prepared to do whatever it takes – strategically and decisively – to assure that your best business interests are served. We do not just “litigate.” We regularly try and arbitrate cases to conclusion.

When You Need Global Depth and Local Insight
Few firms have the mix of local savvy and global reach that we do. We can assemble the right team you need, and we can join you anywhere in the world to meet the challenges you face. We have top-tier litigation and arbitration talent in each of our offices. When litigation threatens to sprawl across continents, we have the resources that can make all the difference – in results and savings. While other firms cobble together a team by drawing on local firms or loosely affiliated foreign offices, our worldwide group offers you a single, unified, and efficient force.

When You Need a Litigation Powerhouse
Where do you turn when you’re faced with a high-dollar, multi-jurisdiction class action? What about when you’re embroiled in a complex and costly commercial case that can drain a company’s resources and divert it from its business mission? That’s when we are at our best. We have the credentials and the resources to tackle the largest, most challenging cases on your litigation docket.

When You Need an Industry Insider
Because we are active in so many industries, you will not need to spend time educating us. We can dive in that much sooner – and that much more effectively. Simply put, we know our clients’ businesses. We’ve won major trials and appeals for world-class companies in an array of industries – financial services, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecommunications, sports media and entertainment, consumer products, and more.

When You Need to Keep Costs Under Control
“As law firms grow, their efficiency suffers.” That’s a bromide we prove wrong every day. We consistently deliver big-firm firepower with the efficiency of a boutique thanks to our investment in a worldwide state-of-the-art litigation support infrastructure. We know the pressure your business is under to manage costs. Our goal is to provide the unfiltered and frictionless information you need to meet your cost objectives.

Benefit from the Breadth of Our Capabilities
It’s no longer unusual for a single dispute to implicate multiple legal specialties – a consumer complaint leads to an agency investigation which becomes a federal criminal action which spins out multiple multi-district securities and fraud class actions. Your ability to meet such a challenge with a single, high-performance team is critical to your success.

Our global group brings and defends cases arising in virtually every topical legal area. We are as comfortable with a price-fixing case as a securities class action. We are just as adept in a battle between banks over an exotic international financial instrument as in a battle over the molecular structure underlying the chemical compound at the heart of an infringed patent. We are equally at home in an action for human rights abuses under the Alien Tort Claims Act as in a white-collar criminal investigation implicating the new regulatory regimen of Sarbanes-Oxley.

Such diversity of experience, backed by the reach and resources of a 2,000-lawyer firm, sets apart White & Case as a worldwide litigation and arbitration leader.

Appellate Practice Certified Attorney - Florida Bar

Raoul G Cantero III
Wachovia Financial Center
200 S Biscayne Blvd #4900
Miami FL 33131-2346
Tel: 305 371-2700
Fax: 305 358-5744/5766
E-mail: raoul.cantero@whitecase.com

Practices:
Litigation

Former Justice Raoul G. Cantero, III is a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Practice. Mr. Cantero leads the Miami Appellate Practice, in addition to focusing on cross-border disputes relating to Latin America.

Appointed to the Florida Supreme Court in 2002 by then-Governor Jeb Bush, Mr. Cantero was the first justice of Hispanic descent and one of the youngest ever to sit on the Court. In his six years as a justice, he heard hundreds of appeals and authored well over 100 majority, concurring and dissenting opinions, by definition involving precedent-setting and evolving areas of law. For example, Mr. Cantero authored the Court's opinion invalidating the gaming compact executed by Governor Charlie Crist with the Seminole Tribe of Florida and its unanimous opinion holding that the waiver of the Florida homestead exemption in an unsecured agreement is unenforceable. Mr. Cantero was also the sole dissenter in a decision of the Court holding that under the Federal Arbitration Act, a party may avoid arbitration by arguing that the contract in which the arbitration clause is contained is illegal — a decision the United States Supreme Court later reversed, thus adopting Mr. Cantero’s position.

Mr. Cantero chaired the Florida Supreme Court’s Commission on Professionalism for six years. He also has been an adjunct professor at Florida State University College of Law.

Before his Court appointment, Mr. Cantero was in private practice for 14 years in South Florida, specializing in civil and criminal appeals, during which he handled more than 250 appeals and more than 100 oral arguments in all five District Courts of Appeal of Florida, the Florida Supreme Court and several US Courts of Appeals. He also chaired the City of Coral Gables Planning and Zoning Board for four years.

In 2007, Mr. Cantero was honored by the Cuban American Bar Association (CABA) with the creation of an endowment in his name. The Justice Raoul G. Cantero, III Diversity Enhancement Scholarship at Florida State University was created to financially assist those who share in CABA’s mission to promote equality of its members and increase diversity in the judiciary and in the legal community.