Wilbur Brewton

Wilbur Brewton

Managing Partner

Areas of Emphasis

  • Administrative Law
  • Appellate Law
  • Corporate and Business Services
    • Transactional Law
    • Business Contract Litigation
  • Government Relations
    • Legislative Lobbying
    • Executive Branch Lobbying

Representative Matters

  • Emphasis on Administrative, Contract and Corporate Law, and state and local government
  • Appeared in numerous administrative and appellant cases involving business regulation and environmental law
  • Broad experience in all areas of state government, having represented clients before the Florida Legislature, the Governor and Cabinet, the Florida Department of Business Regulation, Florida Department of Transportation, Office of Insurance Regulation, and the Florida Department of Management Services, as well as extensive appearances before all District Courts of Appeal and the Florida Supreme Court

Accomplishments

  • Appointed by the Insurance Commissioner to become General Counsel to the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association from 1989 to 1995; and 2001 to 2010. His primary responsibility was for implementing the Association on behalf of the state
  • Joined the Governor’s staff in Tallahassee as assistant legal counsel to the Governor, and was later appointed assistant executive director and general counsel to the State Department of Business Regulation
  • Selected by the Governor to organize a quasi-governmental corporation, which privatized the state’s correctional work programs
  • AV preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
  • Selected for Florida Super Lawyers – 2010/2011

Professional Affiliations

  • The Florida Bar
  • Florida Association of Professional Lobbyists

Community Affiliations

  • Honorary, Florida Blue Key
  • Florida Economic Club
  • Board of Trustees, Florida House, Inc., Washington, D.C.
  • Friends of the Library
  • Tiger Bay Club
  • Who’s Who in the South

Bar Admissions

  • Florida
  • Supreme Court of Florida
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. Tax Court

Education

  • University of Florida (LL.M., Taxation, Top 10% of Class, 1981)
  • Stetson University College of Law (J.D., Top 10% of Class, 1968)
  • Jacksonville University (B.S., Economics, 1964)
    • Kappa Alpha Order
    • Student Legislative Council

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