Florina Altshiler

Florina Altshiler recently relocated to Anchorage, Alaska, where she is an assistant district attorney for the State of Alaska handling the prosecution of all levels of crime through jury trial. She has served as an adjunct professor of trial advocacy, both civil and criminal, at St. John's School of Law, where she was a Rosenberg Scholar and an Institutional Merit Scholar. She has received the Dr. Thomas C. Beneventano Award for Legal Medicine and an Excellence for the Future Award in Criminal Trial Advocacy as well as the U.S. President's Student Service Award for Outstanding Service to America and United Hospital Fund's Student Achievement Award. Her experience includes over seven years of defense litigation of complex medical malpractice cases and all aspects of insurance claims, including premises liability and automobile and construction accident litigation. She has worked at the Kings and Queens County District Attorney’s Office; has served as a judge at national and state level mock trial competitions for high schools, colleges, and law schools; and has served as an arbitrator for the Civil Court of the City of New York.