Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

David Oliver has a national trial practice and has handled litigation in state and federal courts throughout Florida, as well as having been admitted pro hac vice to serve as lead counsel in cases pending in California, New York, Maryland, Indiana, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Georgia, Delaware and Nevada. Mr. Oliver typically tries several cases to verdict each year.

Focusing primarily in commercial litigation, Mr. Oliver's practice includes work in the areas of business tort litigation, commercial fraud, contract litigation, class action litigation, Lanham Act and right of publicity litigation, partnership and joint venture litigation, shareholders derivative litigation and real estate-related disputes.

In July 2004, Mr. Oliver was selected for inclusion in the inaugural edition of Florida Trend's “Legal Elite,” a peer-ranked survey of the top 1.6 percent of all lawyers in the state of Florida. He was one of approximately 50 percent of the first-year nominees to repeat the honor in 2005 and was again listed in 2009. Mr. Oliver was selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 editions of The Best Lawyers in America, was honored by being included in the 2006, 2008 and 2009 editions of Florida Super Lawyers and was named by Orlando Magazine as one of the “Best Lawyers in Orlando” in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Mr. Oliver was additionally voted by his peers as a member of the 2008 "Best of the Bar" survey by the Orlando Business Journal. Mr. Oliver has retained an “AV” rating for the last ten years—the highest rating available—from Martindale-Hubbell, the authoritative resource on the legal profession.

Areas of Practice

• Litigation: Commercial

Representative Clients

• M.A. Mortenson Co.
• Orix Credit Alliance Corp.
• Tenneco Inc.
• Travelers Companies
• Travelers Insurance Company

Bar Admissions

• Florida, 1985
• U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 1985
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Florida, 1985
• U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida, 1985
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida, 1985

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Arbitration Association (Member, Panel of Arbitrators)
• Florida Bar (Member)
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Member)

Honors and Awards

• "Super Lawyers"
• "Best Lawyers in America"
• "Best Lawyers in America"

Past Employment Positions

• Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, P.A., Orlando, 1985 - 1993
• Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, Partner

Education

• Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee, Florida, 1985
  J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
  Honors: With Honors
  
  Law Review: Florida State University Law Review, Article and Notes Editor, 1984 - 1985
• The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1982
  B.A., Bachelor of Arts
  Major: English

Address

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

Phones

(407) 649-4025

Faxes

(407) 841-0168

Emails

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Websites

http://www.bakerlaw.com