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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 2008-2010
• Orlando's Best Lawyers 2008-2010 Orlando Magazine
• Listed in the 2009 Florida Super Lawyers
• Florida's Top Lawyers 2008, Florida Monthly 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, Member of Green Building Subcommittee of the Construction Law Committee
Special Certifications
LEED Green Associate

Community Activities

Florida Childrens Hospital, Trustee
NAIOP, Green Committee
Executive Association of Greater Orlando
Leadership Winter Park, Class XV
Architectural Review Committee of Baldwin Park, Chairman

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.
Managing Green Building Risk, NAIOP Green Summit
"Building Green Without Losing Green: Managing Risks In Sustainable Design And Construction Contracts" Winter 2010 issue of The Real Estate Finance Journal
Lorman Enterprises Seminar: Managing Green Building Risks

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.
• Obtained a $1,000,000.00 settlement for a developer on a vigorously contested claim for professional negligence brought against an environmental engineering company arising out of the development of a former shooting range site contaminated with arsenic and lead in the soil and groundwater.
• 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.
• Drafted and negotiated a $41,000,000.00 design-build agreement for the design and construction of a 235,000 sq. ft. LEED Silver manufacturing plant. The project was funded in part by federal stimulus monies payable by the Department of Energy pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act legislation. Additionally, the local municipality pledged a portion of the project funding which was tied to job creation within set time periods.
  

Languages

Portuguese