Attorney Peter Prieto, a partner at Podhurst Orseck in Miami, has been named to the executive committee in the multidistrict litigation involving General Motors Corp.’s ignition switches.

Prieto is the only Florida attorney on the national committee. More than 50 attorneys across the nation applied, and 10 were chosen, including such prominent litigators as Davis Boies, chairman at Boies, Schiller & Flexner in New York.