Practice
Dispute Resolution & Litigation
Every path a dispute can take — pre-suit strategy and negotiation, mediation and arbitration, and litigation through trial and appeal in Florida's state and federal courts.
Most disputes should end before a courtroom, and the firm resolves them there when it can: demand strategy, structured negotiation, mediation, and arbitration. Recent pre-suit resolutions include securing the correct product and a fee award for a new-home buyer after a builder's bait-and-switch, and a favorable insurance-carrier resolution for a dental-practice owner — both without a lawsuit. When they can't, the firm litigates — from emergency injunctions to dispositive motions to trial and appeal. Recent work includes winning summary judgment on liability against a law firm in a legal-malpractice action; earlier in his career, the principal's trial team used digital forensics to prove a bad-faith scheme — the court struck the opposing papers and granted partial summary judgment as a sanction. National-firm training, boutique speed.
We litigate with the endgame in view — every deadline, deposition, and motion is chosen because of where it points.
Typical Matters
- Pre-suit demands & negotiation
- Mediation & arbitration (ADR)
- Breach of contract
- Partnership & shareholder disputes
- Business torts (fraud, fiduciary duty)
- Trials & appeals
How We Approach It
- 01Preserve evidence and calendar the deadlines that harden first
- 02Weigh the leverage: demand, mediation, arbitration, or suit
- 03Push toward finality — settlement, dispositive motion, or trial
More Than Litigation
Counsel for the whole business — the everyday contracts and the decisions that keep disputes from starting.
Problem Solving & Strategy
“It depends” is a diagnosis, not an answer. Every engagement ends with a position — what we would do, and why — and a strategy built to advance it.
Trained at national firms, seasoned as a general counsel with an MBA, and tested in public office, the firm's principal reads a problem the way an owner does — in dollars and quarters, not just doctrine. Clients bring the situations that don't fit a label: a partner turning adversarial, a regulator circling, a decision with legal exposure on every fork. The firm maps the leverage, prices the paths honestly, and gives you a position you can act on.
We read every problem the way an owner does — in dollars and quarters, not just doctrine.
Typical Matters
- Pre-dispute risk assessment
- Leverage & exposure analysis
- Exit & unwind strategies
- Board & owner counseling
- Settlement architecture
- Ongoing outside general counsel
How We Approach It
- 01Understand the business stakes before the legal ones
- 02Map every path and price it honestly
- 03Commit to a position — and a plan to pursue it
Contracts: Negotiating & Drafting
Contracts negotiated, drafted, and revised by a trial lawyer — built for the day something goes wrong.
The firm's principal has negotiated with global consumer brands as an in-house general counsel and litigated the contracts other lawyers drafted. That double vision shapes every document: purchase and sale agreements, vendor and customer contracts, operating and shareholder agreements, employment agreements, NDAs, and settlements. The documents decide — so we write them the way a trial lawyer reads them.
The documents decide. We write them the way a trial lawyer reads them.
Typical Matters
- Purchase & sale agreements
- Vendor & customer contracts
- Operating & shareholder agreements
- Employment agreements & NDAs
- Leases & commercial terms
- Settlement agreements
How We Approach It
- 01Pressure-test the terms against the ways deals actually fail
- 02Negotiate from leverage, not habit
- 03Paper the resolution so it holds
HR & Employment Advisory
Employment agreements, restrictive covenants, handbooks and policies, and the hard conversations — hiring, discipline, separation — handled before they become lawsuits.
The firm advises employers across the employment arc: offer letters and employment agreements, non-competes and trade-secret protection, handbooks and policies, and the discipline and separation decisions that generate lawsuits when handled badly. The principal built these systems from scratch as a general counsel, and the firm has defended an employer through a harassment complaint — advisory work informed by where the litigation actually comes from.
Most employment lawsuits are HR decisions that never got a lawyer's ten minutes. We are the ten minutes.
Typical Matters
- Employment agreements & offer letters
- Non-competes & trade secrets
- Handbooks & policies
- Discipline & separation counsel
- Harassment-complaint response
- Workforce restructuring
How We Approach It
- 01Get the facts and the file in order
- 02Make the decision defensible before it is made
- 03Paper it — and prepare for the response
Crisis Management
Regulators, recalls, emergency filings, partners gone rogue — counsel for the week everything happens at once, from a lawyer who has managed crises from inside the company.
Before founding the firm, the principal served as the first-ever general counsel of an international consumer-products manufacturer — standing up compliance across five countries, managing FDA inspections and recalls, and negotiating with global consumer brands. The firm has defended post-Surfside whistleblowers against retaliatory claims and has moved for — and against — emergency relief. When a crisis lands, the first hours shape the next year.
We have sat in the seat you are in when the FDA letter arrives. That changes the advice.
Typical Matters
- Regulatory investigations & FDA response
- Product recalls
- Emergency injunctions & TROs
- Whistleblower & retaliation defense
- Reputation-sensitive disputes
- Board & stakeholder crisis counsel
How We Approach It
- 01Stabilize: preserve the record, stop the bleeding
- 02Sequence the regulators, courts, and counterparties
- 03Convert the emergency into a managed matter
Past results are reported accurately but do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter. Every case depends on its own facts and circumstances.