Frank is a partner in the firm’s Global Product Liability Group and International Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice. Focusing on complex commercial and products liability litigation, Frank represents numerous clients in the pharmaceutical, medical device and tobacco industries. He also defends foreign and domestic corporations in litigation and arbitration, acting as international counsel for several private companies doing business throughout the world and advising on all facets of business transactions and risk management.

A litigator with extensive experience, Frank has represented diet drug and contact lens solution manufacturers in Florida state courts, as well as defended a firm client in federal litigation involving a hip replacement system. He has also served as lead counsel for a major chemical company in international commercial arbitration under the rules of the International Center for Dispute Resolution and obtained summary judgment on behalf of an infrastructure management company engaged in a contract dispute presenting an issue of first impression under state law. Frank has also handled second-hand smoke and direct smoking claims in tobacco litigation throughout Florida.

Frank has been selected as a "Rising Star" by Florida Super Lawyers since 2009. He was also honored in 2011 by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s Florida Chapter as among the "40 Under 40 Outstanding Lawyers of Miami-Dade County."Frank has also been included in the 2013 South Florida Legal Guide’s listings of “Top Up and Comers.”

Frank Cruz-Alvarez & Talia M. Zucker, Will ‘Sea Change’ in Florida Class Action Standards Unleash a Flood of Suits?, The Legal Pulse (Washington Legal Foundation), Feb. 19, 2013 View

Frank Cruz-Alvarez & Talia M. Zucker, The Food Court Stays Open: Preemption Defense in Food Labeling Class Action Rejected, The Legal Pulse (Washington Legal Foundation), Dec. 12, 2012 View

Frank Cruz-Alvarez & Jared Sherr, Courts Reject States’ Drug Pricing "Regulation Through Litigation," The Legal Pulse (Washington Legal Foundation), Aug. 14, 2012 View

Frank Cruz-Alvarez & Talia Zucker, Kentucky’s Use of Contingent-Fee Counsel in Vioxx Suit Questioned in Court, The Legal Pulse (Washington Legal Foundation), Apr. 16, 2012 View

Frank Cruz-Alvarez & Talia Storch, "No Injury" Class Action Plaintiffs Found to Lack Legal Standing, Washington Legal Foundation Legal Opinion Letter, Sept. 9, 2011 View

Frank Cruz-Alvarez & Laura E. Wade, Second Circuit Correctly Interprets the Alien Tort Statute: Kiobel v. Royal Dutch, 65 U. Miami L. Rev. 1109 (2011)

Frank Cruz-Alvarez & Alexandra Bach Lagos, Court Ruling Offers Case Study In Proper Proximate Cause Analysis, Washington Legal Foundation Legal Opinion Letter, Jan. 14, 2011

Luis Perez & Frank Cruz-Alvarez: 28 U.S.C. § 1782: The Most Powerful Discovery Weapon In The Hands Of a Foreign Litigant, 5 FIU L. REV. 177 (2010)

Luis Perez, Frank Cruz-Alvarez, Salo Kozolchyk & Mark Schweikert, Collecting on Your Winnings: Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, 24:2 International Law Quarterly (The Florida Bar), Winter/Spring 2009, at 8, 45 View

Mark A. Behrens & Frank Cruz-Alvarez, Rhode Island Supreme Court Joins Other State Courts in Rejecting Product-Based Public Nuisance Claims, Class Action Watch (Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies), Oct. 2008, at 5 View

Luis A. Perez, Frank Cruz-Alvarez & C. Ryan Jones, North Meets South: Figuring out the Discovery Puzzle in International Commercial Arbitrations, 23:2 International Law Quarterly (The Florida Bar), Winter 2008, at 4, 24 View

Kenneth J. Reilly & Frank Cruz-Alvarez, Has the Eleventh Circuit Set a New Standard for Federal Diversity Jurisdiction?, Class Action Watch (Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies), Sept. 2007, at 5 View

Mark A. Behrens & Frank Cruz-Alvarez, Premises Owner Liability for Secondhand Asbestos Exposure: The Next Wave?, 7:2 Engage – The J. of the Federalist Society’s Prac. Groups, Oct. 2006, at 145 View

Mark Behrens & Frank Cruz-Alvarez, State-Based Medical Criteria Legislation Is Making a Difference, Washington Legal Foundation Legal Opinion Letter, Aug. 4, 2006

Mark Behrens & Frank Cruz-Alvarez, A Potential New Frontier in Asbestos Litigation: Premises Owner Liability for “Take Home” Exposure Claims, Mealy's Litigation Report: Asbestos, July 5, 2006

Florida Bar
Cuban-American Bar Association
Florida Defense Lawyers Association
Miami-Dade County Lawyers Association
International Bar Association
Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
American Society of Legal Writers (SCRIBES)

Frank is admitted to practice before the state courts of Florida and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Florida.

2001   J.D., with honors, University of Florida Frederic G. Levin College of Law

1998    B.A., with honors, University of Florida

Board Member, Family Resource Center of South Florida (2011- )

Board Member, City of Miami, Orange Bowl Advisory Board (2004-2006)

Board Member, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Diversity, Equity and Excellence Advisory Board (2004-2006)

Board Member, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Attendance Boundary Advisory Board (2004-2005)