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Mayra's practice focuses on wage and hour and employment matters as well as issues relating to non-profit organizations.  Mayra also has substantial experience in appellate matters.  Mayra received her B.A. from Brown University Magna Cum Laude in 1980 and her J.D. from the University of Florida with honors in 1983.  At the University of Florida, she served on the Moot Court Board, was a legal research and writing fellow, and won Best Oral Advocate at the Justice Campbell Thornall Moot Court Competition.  Following graduation, Mayra served as a litigation associate at Shutts & Bowen and thereafter as an associate at Sandler & Travis, where she advised clients on a variety of litigation and international business law matters.  Mayra worked as an Assistant United States Attorney for five years in the Miami office, where she served with distinction in the appellate division, where she briefed and argued many cases involving a variety of constitutional, criminal and civil issues before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and advised and consulted in numerous civil and criminal trials and bail hearings.  Mayra helped established David Lichter & Associates, P.A., and worked primarily in the area of software piracy before joining Lichter Law Firm.After her father passed away from a rare and then largely unknown brain disease, Mayra co-founded the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation, http://www.cjdfoundation.org/ a  registered section 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization which she ran and served as President for approximately ten years. During this time, the Foundation gained national and international recognition when Mad Cow Disease (the bovine form of this prion disease) became worldwide news.  Mayra worked with scientists, health care professionals, government agencies, professional associations, the media and family members of patients to obtain, produce and disseminate information on Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and other related prion diseases.  She has advocated numerous times on Capitol Hill to members of Congress for more surveillance, reporting and research funding, and hosted the first international conference of scientists, media and families. Mayra has also co-presented a lecture with the Center For Disease Control (CDC") at the Mayo Clinic. Mayra remains very active in the Foundation as the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors. The  Foundation works with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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