Law Firm Overview

DAN H. HONEYWELL was an active trial lawyer from 1970 through 2008. Although his career encompassed a pre-dominantly injured party-practice with emphasis on complex issues, Mr. Honeywell also was called upon over his career to represent defendants and potential defendants with varying and often unique issues. And although his long-career included record verdicts and catastrophic injuries cases, he was just at home representing his neighbor or a friend in a small matter or any stranger who had an unusual need or a just cause but found difficulty finding representation.

In addition to being certified by the Florida Supreme Court as a Circuit Civil Mediator in 2009, Dan has been an attorney since 1970 and a board-certified civil trial lawyer since 1983. Mr. Honeywell has also been repeatedly granted an A-V rating in his law practice by Martindale-Hubbell since 1978.

In 2008, while in semi-retirement from trial practice, Dan was encouraged by fellow attorneys to begin a new career in Mediation. They suggested that although Florida offered many qualified mediators in some areas of the state that his personal and professional skills were also unique enough to offer a valuable alternative or supplemental resource to those who most needed quality mediators throughout the state.

Accordingly, in 2009, Mr. Honeywell completed the extensive additional training process required of professional mediators in Florida and became certified as a Circuit Civil Mediator by the Florida Supreme Court. Thereafter, he formed Honeywell Mediation to be able to offer the full-time, full range of professional services that he wished to offer for his new career.

Mr. Honeywell was then honored to be invited to be the first Central Florida-based panel member of Mediation, Inc., and to be instrumental in their efforts to re-establish their presence in Central Florida.

MEDIATION, INC.. is the oldest and largest group practice of attorney mediators in Florida. With main administrative and mediation offices in Ft. Lauderdale, and neutral facilities also available in Stuart, West Palm Beach, Miami, and now Orlando-Central Florida. Mediation, Inc. offers over 40 attorney-mediators, experienced and qualified as panel members and residing across the state from Tallahassee to Miami, to serve coast to coast, border to border and nationally, as well.

Dan Honeywell is a second-generation Floridian, born and raised in Vero Beach, Indian River County, Florida and the grandson of Vero pioneers who moved to the area just after the turn of the century.

Growing up in the small Vero community through graduation from Vero Beach High School in 1960, Mr. Honeywell was a well-recognized student-scholar, athlete, and leader. After graduation, he selected the University of Florida for his entire remaining formal education.

Dan initially graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a major in accounting in 1964, intending to become a certified public accountant after he returned from his pending military service.

However, after serving as an Army Aviation officer from 1964 to 1967, including as a decorated helicopter pilot with the First Cavalry Division in Viet Nam in 1966, Dan returned to attend law school at the University of Florida on the GI Bill.

Areas of Practice

• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• General Personal Injury Claims and Litigation
• Catastrophic Injury Claims
• Wrongful Death Claims and Litigation
• Complex, Multi-party Litigation
• Medical, Dental, Legal, Nursing Home and Other Professional Negligence
• Products Liability
• First and Third-Party Insurance Claims and Litigation
• Bad Faith Claims and Litigation
• General Business and Commercial Disputes
• Real Property and Taxation Disputes
• Conflict of Parties Litigation
• Probate and Estate Conflicts
• Federal Multi-District Litigation
• Federal Tort Claims
• ERISA and Other Lien Disputes

West Practice Categories

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Business & Commercial Law, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) -- Employee, Health & Health Care Law, Bad Faith, Litigation & Appeals, Personal Injury -- Plaintiff, Products Liability Law, Professional Malpractice Law, Real Estate Law