Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Rosemary O'Shea is a general business lawyer with special concentration in labor relations, employment discrimination and real property transactions.

She represents and advises clients with respect to independent contractor issues, prepares employee policy manuals and employment contracts, defends equal employment opportunity and other types of discrimination charges including sexual harassment; creates and implements drug testing policies, reviews wage and hour issues and represents employers in connection with audits by the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor.

Ms. O'Shea has substantial experience in handling real estate acquisitions, development and financing transactions. She has also represented a variety of clients in matters related to title III and facilities access, under the Americans With Disabilities Act. She has advised retailers, office building owners and owners and operators in the hospitality industry on issues related to new construction and renovations of existing facilities.

Ms. O'Shea has written articles on the Americans With Disabilities Act for the Atlanta Small Business Monthly, Florida Banking, Central Florida Physician and the Business Review for Central Florida. She has spoken on a variety of employment issues at seminars presented by sponsors such as the Greater Orlando Area Chamber of Commerce and the Goldenrod Chamber of Commerce. She is a member of the Florida Bar Association and the American Bar Association sections on labor and employment law and real property law.

Ms. O'Shea is a member of the Central Florida Hotel/Motel Association, the American Resort Development Association, and the Board of Directors of the Orlando Ballet.

Areas of Practice

• Employment: Counseling & Compliance
• Employment: Litigation
• Real Estate: Hospitality
• Real Estate: Asset Program
• Real Estate: Development & Land Use
• Real Estate: Transactions
• Real Estate: Finance
• Hospitality

Bar Admissions

• Florida, 1981
• U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 1982

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Goldenrod Area Chamber of Commerce (Member)
• Industrial Development Commission of Mid-Florida, Inc. (Member)
• Greater Orlando Chamber of Commerce (Member, Goals 2000 Environmental Task Force)
• Orange County Bar Association (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member)
• Florida Bar (Member)

Honors and Awards

• "Best Lawyers in America"

Education

• Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982
  LL.M., Master of Law(s)
• Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee, Florida, 1981
  J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
  Honors: Order of the Coif
  Honors: Order of Barristers
  
  Law Review: Florida State Law Review, Member, 1980 - 1981
• Fordham University School of Law, New York, New York, 1981
  J.D.
• University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 1968
  B.A., Bachelor of Arts
• University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 1970
  M.Ed., Master of Education

Published Works

• Florida's Right to Die-A Question of Legislation or Litigation? Florida State Law Review, Winter, 1980
• Florida's Guns At Work Law, 06/10/2008
• New Florida Leave Law, 6/25/2007

Address

SunTrust Center, Suite 2300
200 South Orange Avenue
Orlando, FL 32801-3432

Phones

(407) 649-4006

Faxes

(407) 841-0168

Emails

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Websites

http://www.bakerlaw.com