Law Firm Overview

The Jacksonville office provides a broad spectrum of services to business clients, government agencies, and individuals in the Jacksonville area and beyond. We offer a full range of transactional and litigation experience to large and small clients, ranging from emerging e-commerce businesses to large public companies.

Our Commercial Transactions & Business Counseling Practice is comprehensive, encompassing all forms of business formation, mergers and acquisitions, commercial finance, tax planning, initial public offerings and other securities matters, labor and employment, and all types of commercial litigation. Our employment lawyers travel throughout the nation to conduct training sessions for national clients and to try cases.

Lawyers in our Information Technology & Outsourcing Practice counsel local and national clients on a variety of technology-related matters, including Web site development agreements and licensing.

Real Estate lawyers in the Jacksonville office represent clients in the development, acquisition, and sale of commercial, industrial, and residential properties throughout Florida. We routinely handle construction, land use, environmental, zoning, and tax issues for developers of a wide variety of commercial projects, ranging from regional malls to multi-family, time-share, and resort developments. We represent public and private real estate investment trusts in all aspects of their business.

Our Public Finance lawyers act as bond counsel and counsel to underwriters, purchasers, credit enhancers, issuers, borrowers, trustees, and other parties in connection with all types of tax-exempt and taxable governmental and private activity financings throughout Florida. We routinely handle financings for governmental capital improvements, utilities, solid waste disposal facilities, airports, seaports, hospitals and other health care facilities, housing, retirement communities, educational and other 501(c)(3) facilities, and manufacturing facilities.

Our Litigation Department handles trials and appeals in state and federal courts and arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution for businesses and individual clients. Our sophisticated General Commercial Litigation Practice includes complex construction litigation, contract disputes, bankruptcy, and tax.

Our Estates & Trusts lawyers provide comprehensive estate planning and administration services for individuals and succession planning for business owners. In addition to preparing wills and creating trusts in sophisticated estate-planning transactions, we probate estates, and litigate will and trust disputes.

Areas of Practice

• Industry Teams
• Business Law
• Government & Public Affairs
• Intellectual Property
• International
• Litigation