Areas of Practice:

Real Estate; Real Estate Development; Title Insurance; Environmental Law; Banks and Banking; Corporate Law; Business Law

Admitted:

1985, Florida; 1987, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida

Law School:

University of Florida, J.D., with honors, 1985

University of South Florida, B.A., finance, 1982

Professional Memberships:

The Florida Bar; Hillsborough County Bar Association (Past Chairman, Corporation, Banking and Business Law Committee, 1989-1990); Tampa Bay Real Estate Investment Counsel

Civic Memberships

& Activities:

The Tampa Connection, Inc., Director 1993-2002, Chairman 1997-1998; Leadership Tampa Alumni Association, Inc.; Leadership Brandon Alumni Association, Inc. Tampa Connection Alumni Association; Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA, Inc., Past Director, 1994-2003, and Past Brandon Director 2002-2003, Brandon/Campo Advisory Board, member 1994-2003, 2007 - Present,  Chairman, 1996-1997; Optimist Club of Tampa, Inc., Director 1993 to Present, Past President 1994-1995

Biographical

Information:

Editor-in-Chief, University of Florida Law Review, 1985; Law Clerk to Chief Justice Parker Lee McDonald, Florida Supreme Court, 1985-1987; Co-Author: "A Tale of Two Theories: The Expanding Dimensions of Mail, Wire, and Securities Fraud Liability," The Florida Bar Journal, October 1988. Author: "Silencing The Name Droppers: The Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982," 36 University of Florida Law Review 841, 1984; "Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Courts," 42 The Arbitration Journal 58, 1987; "Keys to Success in a Real Estate Transaction," National Business Institute, 1994; "Advanced Principals of Title Insurance in Florida," National Business Institute, 2001

Born:

Clearwater, Florida, October 27, 1960, attended Dunedin High School, Dunedin, Florida, class of 1978