Attorney Profile

Zach Vosseler practices in the office's Labor & Employment Section. As part of that practice, he advises County Departments and Constitutional Officers in matters involving allegations of discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Florida Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and other related statutes. He represents the County and the Constitutional Officers in civil service grievance appeals and arbitrations, before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Florida Commission on Human Rights, and in all levels of state and federal court.

During his first seven years at the County Attorney's Office, Zach was a member of the Federal Litigation and Appeals Sections. There, he represented the County and its officers and employees in civil rights cases in federal court involving qualified immunity, municipal liability, and issues arising under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. He has tried cases to verdict, argued and won appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and authored a petition for writ of certiorari in the Supreme Court of the United States. Zach was also an integral member of the team that represented the County and the Public Health Trust of Miami-Dade County in securing termination of a twelve-year-long federal consent decree that oversaw the County's jails.

Before joining the office, Zach had the honor of clerking for three federal judges: the Honorable Wendy Beetlestone of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Honorable Darrin P. Gayles of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and the Honorable James E. Graves, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.