Representative Client Experience

• Represents entertainment companies and content creators, including recording artists (e.g., Creed, 1999 – 2004), authors, producers, and songwriters, in all areas, including contract negotiations, litigation, and business.
• Represented clients in entertainment law litigation in state and federal courts in Florida. Has appeared twice in amicus briefs on entertainment litigation before the Supreme Court of Florida.
• Represents copyright and trademark owners in filing and defense of intellectual property matters, primarily in federal courts and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
• Represents individuals, businesses, and associations in Americans with Disability Act litigation in federal court.
• Represents businesses and business owners in business formation and operations, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial litigation.
• Represents individuals, businesses, and associations before appellate courts throughout Florida, including multiple appearances before the Florida Supreme Court.
• Represents clients in state administrative matters before the Division of Administrative Hearings.

Admitted

• The Florida Bar, 1995
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida
• U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida

Public Service

• Florida Commission on Responsible Fatherhood, 1996-2002
• Volunteer Coach of Youth Sports, 1997-2006
• Lead Coordinator, Manna on Meridian (volunteer-operated food & clothing ministry), 2017-2019

Publications and Lectures

• Frequent Panelist and guest speaker on entertainment industry and contracts, intellectual property and licensing, and related trends at forums throughout Florida, nationally, and internationally.
• Adjunct Professor, teaching a highly popular class on Entertainment Law at The Florida State University College of Law, 2004-present.
• Author of chapter on “Parental Responsibility” for eight years (four separate editions), in The Florida Bar CLE Publications’ primary work on family law, Florida Dissolution of Marriage.
• Primary author of chapter titled, “Hopelessly Defective: An Examination of the Economic Assumptions Underlying Child Support Guidelines,” published in The Law and Economics of Child Support Payments (Edward Elgar Pub. 2004).