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Michael R. Gibbons

Partner

Practice Areas

• Construction Law

Education

• University of Miami School of Law, J.D., 1990 magna cum laude
• Order of the Coif
• University of Notre Dame, B.A., 1985 cum laude

Admitted

• The Florida Bar - 1990
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
• U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida

Recognition

• Martindale-Hubbell Rating: AV
• NCAA Midwest Academic All-American
• Listed in Best Lawyers in America 2007-2008
• Orlando's Best Lawyers 2008 Orlando Magazine

Professional Certification, Memberships and Activities

Professional Associations
American Bar Association, Sections on: Torts and Insurance Practice Section, Fidelity and Surety Committee, Litigation Section and Construction Law Committee
Orange County Bar Association
The Florida Bar

Community Activities

Orlando Opera Company, Executive Committee of the Board of Directors
Church in the Son, Building Committee
Executive Association of Greater Orlando
Leadership Winter Park, Class XV

Publications and Lectures

SEC proposed regulations: "After 25 Years of Drifting, a New Safe Harbor for Foreign Offerings" for 21:2 of the Inter-American Law Review
"Surety's Indemnity Rights," 1999, National Bond Claims Association Annual Meeting
Presented "Surety & Fidelity Bad Faith" to the 6th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Bond Claims Association in Chatam, New Jersey
"Construction Lien Law" presented to the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks members and clients.

Representative Client Experience

• As an Assistant State Attorney, tried over 65 cases to verdict ranging from petit theft and DUI to armed robbery and felony murder resulting in substantial jury trial experience.
• Successfully defended Developer over a two-week jury trial with 4000 exhibits in a construction delay case involving 450 apartment units.
• Successfully represented at trial various lienors including Contractors and Design Professionals seeking to enforce their contractual rights to receive payment for services, material and labor provided.
• Achieved a $1,500,000.00 settlement for a Developer in a lawsuit seeking recovery from multiple parties for construction and design defects resulting in water intrusion at an apartment project.
• Drafted and negotiated Development Agreement and related Developer-Contractor and Developer-Architect Agreements for the design and construction of a 1500 room hotel and convention project with contracts totaling over $420,000,000.00.
• Drafted and negotiated AIA and proprietary Owner-Contractor and Owner-Design Professional Agreements with cumulative contract values well in excess of $1,000,000,000.00.

Languages

Portuguese