Florida Lawyers Fared Hurricane Safely

After Hurricane Andrew pummeled Florida in 1992, Greenberg Traurig shareholder Cesar Alvarez told himself he’d never again let himself be caught in the path of a Category 5 hurricane.

“I remember that being the first time ever in my life that I was really afraid for my life and my family’s life,” Alvarez, now senior chairman of the firm, told Big Law Business.

Of course, that wasn’t the last he’d see of the destructive power of hurricanes.

Thirteen years later, the firm’s Miami office on Brickell Avenue, South Florida’s equivalent of Wall Street, was destroyed after the winds of Hurricane ...