Mediation Specialties
Admiralty, Auto, Bodily Injury, Business, Commercial, Death, Construction, Insurance Disputes, Landlord-Tenant Disputes, Legal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice, Maritime Liens, Personal Injury, Premises, Probate Disputes, Professional Malpractice, Real Property Disputes and Tort.

Education

University of Virginia, B.A. 1968

Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville, J. D. December, 1974

Accomplishments

Admitted, The Florida Bar 1975

Admitted, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, 1976, including Trial Bar, 1983

Admitted, United States Courts of Appeals, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits, 1981

Certified Civil Circuit Mediator, 2007

Certified Civil Circuit and County Arbitrator, 2003

AV rated Martindale-Hubbell

Experience

Active litigator for 31 years, prosecuting and defending actions in state and federal courts involving real property, personal injury and wrongful death, including medical malpractice, commercial tort and contract claims, appeals to District Courts of Appeal and the Florida Supreme Court, preferred ship mortgage and maritime lien foreclosures, insurance coverage, and probate disputes

Michael D. Stewart, P. A., March 1982 to present

Zeiher & Schroeder, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, November 1980-March 1982

Fleming, O'Bryan & Fleming, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, June 1975-November 1980

United States Marine Corps, Captain, 1968-1972

Member of the Florida Academy of Professional Mediators

Member of the Florida Justice Association