Background

Personal Injury

Criminal Defense

Martindale-Hubbell AV Peer Review Rating

Practice Areas: Litigation; Personal Injury;
Automobile Accidents; Professional Malpractice;
Insurance Law; Criminal Defense; Felonies;
Misdemeanors; Driving While Intoxicated; Civil
Rights; Civil Appeals; Legal Malpractice Defense.

Admitted: 1985, Florida; 1995, U.S. Supreme
Court; 1986, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh
Circuit; 1987, U.S. District Court, Middle District
of Florida

Law School: University of Tennessee College of
Law, J.D., 1985

College: Western Carolina University, B.A., 1979

Member: The Florida Council of Bar Association
Presidents (President, 1997-1998); Brevard
County Bar Association (President, 1994-1995;
Recipient: First Annual Professionalism Award,
1999); The Florida Bar (Chair, Eighteenth Judicial
Grievance Committee C); National Association of
Criminal Defense Lawyers (Life Member); Florida
Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (First
Class of Life Members); American Association for Justice
(formerly Association of Trial
Lawyers of America) (Sustaining Member);
Florida Justice Association
(formerly Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers);
American Bar Association.

Biography: Assistant Editor and Staff Member,
Tennessee Law Review, 1984-1985. Editor and
Associate Editor, The Forum, 1983-1984.
Recipient, Dean's Citation for Extraordinary
Contributions to the University of Tennessee
College of Law, 1984. Certified Mediator, Florida
Supreme Court. Assistant State Attorney
(Prosecutor), Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, 1985-
1988. Member and Staff, Parrish Relations
Committee, First United Methodist Church.
 

• Investigations
• Felonies
• Misdemeanors
• DUIs
• Domestic Violence
• Juveniles

• Auto and Other
  Conveyance Accidents
• Nursing Home Negligence
• Wrongful Death
• Insurance Disputes
• Premises Liability