Administrative Law
- Addressing agency action
- Administrative Procedures Act law and litigation, both State and Federal,
- Formal and informal administrative hearings under Chapter 120, Florida Statutes
- Rule-making, rule development, rule challenges, permit challenges
- Federal record cases
- Open Government and Freedom of Information Act cases
- Licensing and Conduct cases
American Indian Law/Native American Law
- Sovereignty, sovereign immunity
- Indian lands, tribal and tribal court jurisdiction
- Federal recognition as a tribe
- Treatment as a state for Clean Water Act and other purposes
- Tribal Section 17 Corporations
- Tribal Business forms and formations
- Gaming
- Indian Gaming Regulatory Act
- Regulation of the conduct of gaming, games of chance and gaming devices
- Bingo & other games of chance
- Land to trust applications
- Cultural and natural resource protection
- Tribal Education, Head Start, and Daycare
- Laws of tribes and the laws applied to tribes
- Indian Child Welfare Act (“ICWA”) compliance and Family Law
- Tribal Governance
- Tribal Government to Government Consultation Law
- Tribal status as it relates to employment, housing and discrimination
Business Law
Civil Rights Law
Commercial Litigation
Contract Law
- Commercial Contracts and Contract Enforcement
- Drafted or supervised the drafting of thousands of contracts, contract enforcement, dispute management and litigation based on contract and other commercial causes of action
- Contract and other Commercial Litigation
Construction Law
- Construction and structure maintenance management
- Oversight and litigation
- Construction contracts
- Construction Permitting
Corporate Law
- General Counsel representation
- Representation of organizations; reporting to officers, councils and/or boards of directors
- Corporate/organizational governance and compliance
- Outside counsel management and coordination
- Litigation management
- Risk management
- Policy and procedure development and compliance
- Monitoring of legal and policy issues and monitoring for new issue development
- Document management
Criminal
- Criminal law policy
- Long active with the National Criminal Justice Association (“NCJA”), a national advocacy organization dedicated to criminal justice issues; and police department supervision
- Police Force representation
Education Law
- Education policy advocacy
- No Child Left Behind Act
- Daycare
- Head Start
Entertainment
- Entertainment law and litigation
- Entertainment/performer contracts and contract enforcement
- Hotel, restaurant and gaming facilities
- Counsel to concert, festival, conference and other event matters
- Entertainment Venue development
Environmental
- Complex environmental law
- Land use and commercial litigation
- Appeals, regulation and compliance
- National Environmental Policy (“NEPA”) matters and litigation
- Environmental Impact Statements
- Environmental Assessment development and comment.
- Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) matters and litigation
- Critical habitat and incidental take issues
- Clean Water Act (“CWA”) and state water quality matters and litigation
- Water Quality Standards (“WQ Standards”) compliance
- WQ Standard adoption
- Certification of compliance with WQ Standards.
- NPDES permitting
- United States Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) permitting.
- State permitting
- Environmental permitting in general, including litigation and appeals
- Gas station regulation and maintenance.
- Above ground and underground storage tanks
- Monitoring of tanks and replacement of tanks
- Conservation Law
Equine Law
- Equine Law
- Equine Business Law
- Equine Liability Issues
Family Law
- Indian Child Welfare Act Cases
- Notice
- Compliance
- Dissolution of Marriage
- Child Custody
- Child Support
- Adoption
Gaming Law
Lobbying and Government Affairs
- Governmental affairs and relations
- Department of the Army
- United States Army Corps of Engineers
- Department of the Interior
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
- Florida Department of Environmental Protection
- Florida Department of Transportation
- South Florida Water Management District
- Governor and Cabinet
- Local Government
- State of South Carolina
- State of South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation
- South Carolina Department of Social Services
- Government in the Sunshine, open government, open meetings and public records law and litigation
- Jurisdiction, subpoena and other service of process management and litigation
- Legislative and Executive lobbying and Governor and Cabinet affairs
- Federal, State, administrative and tribal court litigation and appeals
- Civil conduct representation before regulators
- Defense of complaints to the Florida Commission on Ethics, the Florida Elections Commission, Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation
- Military discharge modification
- Election compliance and monitoring
- Lobbyist registration and reporting compliance
- South Carolina Human Affairs Commission
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- South Carolina Department of Labor Licensing and Regulations
- Unemployment Compensation Claims
Land Use
Non-Profit Law
- Non-Profit Incorporation
- 501(c)(3) formation and operation
- Application for Exemption
- Federal funding and other grant issues
- Award disputes
- Annual Reports
- Charitable organizations
Public Interest Law
Transportation Law
- Growth Management and Transportation law and litigation
- Levels of service, safety, rate of growth, and hurricane evacuation issues
- Environmental Law as applied to transportation projects
Admitted: Florida Bar, Federal S.D. of Florida, Federal M.D. of Florida, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, United States Supreme Court, South Carolina Bar, Federal District of South Carolina, and North Carolina Bar
