Jacksonville

As an integral part of a national firm, our Jacksonville office addresses the spectrum of legal needs, with a strong focus in the following areas:

Commercial Transactions and Business Counseling: We provide comprehensive services, 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. And when you need it, our employment attorneys travel throughout the nation to conduct training sessions and to try cases.

Real Estate: We 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 also represent public and private real estate investment trusts in all aspects of their business.

Public Finance: Our attorneys 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.

Estates and Trusts: We provide comprehensive estate planning and administration services for select high-net-worth individuals and succession planning for business owners. In addition to preparing wills and creating trusts in sophisticated estate-planning transactions, we probate significant estates and litigate will and trust disputes.

Litigation: Our attorneys handle trials and appeals in state and federal courts as well as arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution for businesses and individual clients.

Information Technology and Outsourcing: We counsel local and national clients on a variety of technology-related matters, including software licensing, IT systems acquisition, IT and business process outsourcing, and Internet/online terms and contracts.

Data Privacy and Security: Our attorneys represent local and national clients on privacy and security matters, including regulatory compliance (e.g., Gramm-Leach-Bliley, HIPAA, and FTC), privacy and security policies, and FTC enforcement actions.

• In 2013, Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers ranked our Jacksonville attorneys for excellence in banking and finance, bankruptcy and restructuring, construction, corporate/M&A and private equity, health care, insurance, Latin American investment, real estate, and real estate: zoning and land use, and four attorneys received individual local recognition
• Four Jacksonville attorneys were recognized in The Legal 500 guide for the United States in 2012
• Jacksonville received a first-tier ranking on the 2013 U.S. News – Best Lawyers^® "Best Law Firms" list in the areas of banking and finance, commercial litigation, construction litigation, employment — management, labor and employment litigation, labor — management, mergers and acquisitions, public finance, real estate, real estate litigation, and tax
• Ten Jacksonville attorneys were named in The Best Lawyers in America^® 2013, including two attorneys recognized as "Lawyers of the Year" (Copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, South Carolina)
• Six Jacksonville attorneys were named to the 2012 Florida Super Lawyers^® list, published by Law & Politics magazine