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Aleida Lanza Joins The Downs Law Group as Chief Information Officer

| SFBW Staff

Aleida Lanza has joined The Downs Law Group as chief information officer to help lead the firm’s growth in leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI). She brings 35 years of experience in complex business, medical malpractice, premises liability, wrongful death, class action and mass tort to the law firm. Lanza also has 30 years of experience in forensic data analytics, electronic discovery, information management, information security, fraud detection, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics. 

Her decades of experience in class action litigation and e-discovery support include support for the Ford, Firestone, SCI/Menorah Gardens, Chinese Drywall class action and mass tort litigation. She has also worked for well-known industry giants, including Thomas MacAliley, Don Russo, Thomas Culmo, J.B. Spence, Scott Leeds, Jonathan Colby, Deborah Gander, and the late Ervin A. Gonzales. Lanza also served as a senior executive at the Association for E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS). 

Her unique contributions include research and writing the initial theory of liability for Civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) against the FBI (Greco v. FBI), which later caused the imprisonment of FBI agent John Conolly for perjury, obstruction of justice, and racketeering. A pioneer in federal court filing, she helped beta test Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) in DOS.

Her investigation of the first witness in the Department of Justice (DOJ) witness protection program (Whitey Bulger’s hitman) contributed to freeing three innocent men from prison after serving 20 years for wrongful murder convictions, with a Massachusetts court later awarding $101 million upon their release. 

Congress has also cited her research in vetting a Supreme Court Justice regarding a prior refusal to recognize third-party Relators of the False Claims Act in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Qui Tam litigation.

“The true first responders of justice are attorneys and paralegals because they curate truth to its arbiters,” Lanza says. “I want to leverage artificial intelligence to objectively scale the Department for Local Government’s best practices to everyone in need.”

The Downs Law Group was founded by Craig T. Downs and practices in the areas of Commercial Litigation, Mass Tort and Class Action Lawsuits, Personal Injury, Auto Accidents, Wrongful Death, Slip and Fall and First Party Property Damage.

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Drew Limsky joined Lifestyle Media Group in August 2020 as Editor-in-Chief of South Florida Business & Wealth. His first issue of SFBW, October 2020, heralded a reimagined structure, with new content categories and a slew of fresh visual themes. “As sort of a cross between Forbes and Robb Report, with a dash of GQ and Vogue,” Limsky says, “SFBW reflects South Florida’s increasingly sophisticated and dynamic business and cultural landscape.”

Limsky, an avid traveler, swimmer and film buff who holds a law degree and Ph.D. from New York University, likes to say, “I’m a doctor, but I can’t operate—except on your brand.” He wrote his dissertation on the nonfiction work of Joan Didion. Prior to that, Limsky received his B.A. in English, summa cum laude, from Emory University and earned his M.A. in literature at American University in connection with a Masters Scholar Award fellowship.

Limsky came to SFBW at the apex of a storied career in journalism and publishing that includes six previous lead editorial roles, including for some of the world’s best-known brands. He served as global editor-in-chief of Lexus magazine, founding editor-in-chief of custom lifestyle magazines for Cadillac and Holland America Line, and was the founding editor-in-chief of Modern Luxury Interiors South Florida. He also was the executive editor for B2B magazines for Acura and Honda Financial Services, and he served as travel editor for Conde Nast. Magazines under Limsky’s editorship have garnered more than 75 industry awards.

He has also written for many of the country’s top newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Boston Globe, USA Today, Worth, Robb Report, Afar, Time Out New York, National Geographic Traveler, Men’s Journal, Ritz-Carlton, Elite Traveler, Florida Design, Metropolis and Architectural Digest Mexico. His other clients have included Four Seasons, Acqualina Resort & Residences, Yahoo!, American Airlines, Wynn, Douglas Elliman and Corcoran. As an adjunct assistant professor, Limsky has taught journalism, film and creative writing at the City University of New York, Pace University, American University and other colleges.