Extensive Experience Handling
- ADA Disability
- Land Use/Planning
- Product Liability
- Admiralty
- Landlord/Tenant
- Professional Fees
- Aviation
- Legal Malpractice
- Professional Liability
- Banking & Finance
- Business Dissolution
- Commercial/Business Consumer Fraud
- Contract Disputes
- Debt Collections
- Employment
- Health Care Insurance
- Medical Malpractice
- Military
- Nursing Homes
- Personal Injury
- Police
- Premises Liability
- Professional Malpractice
- Professional Negligence
- Property Damage
- Unfair Competition
- Workers’ Compensation
- Wrongful Death
BACKGROUND
Circuit Judge, Hillsborough County, 1997-2023
Administrative Judge, Circuit Civil Division, 13th Circuit, 2014 to 2023
AV Rating from Martindale-Hubbel
Board Certified, Civil Trial (concentrations in medical malpractice and construction litigation)
Floridian Supreme Court Certified Mediator
Florida Supreme Court Qualified Arbitrator
Tampa City Council Recognition for Public Service
Florida Bar & Hillsborough County Bar Association Member 1975 – present
Faculty Member, College for Advanced Judicial Studies 2000 to present. Associate Dean 2012-2019
WHO’S WHO IN AMERICAN LAW, 1992-1993 Ed.
WHO’S WHO IN THE WORLD, 1997 Ed.
EDUCATION
Jesuit High School, 1969
Loyola University B.A. 1972; J.D. 1975 (Top 9%)
Law Review
Research Assistant to the Dean of the Law School