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)
