Primary Office

225 Water Street
Suite 1750

Jacksonville, Florida
32202-5185

P: (904) 350-7171

F: (904) 350-5955

mcavendish@gunster.com

Michael Cavendish is a corporate trial lawyer. Mr. Cavendish practices from the firm’s Jacksonville office.

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Practice Areas[ - ]

• Complex Commercial Litigation

Education[ - ]

• University of Florida, J.D., 1998
• University of Florida, M.A., 1995
• Florida State University, B.Sci., 1993

Reported Cases[ - ]

Mr. Cavendish is featured as lead counsel in a number of reported cases. The most widely-reported judicial opinion deriving from his legal work is Goebert v. Lee County, FL, 510 F.3d 1312 (11th Cir. 2007).

Honors[ - ]

• The Best Lawyers in America, 2012
• Chambers & Partners, new listing, 2011
• The Lawdragon 3000, 2006, 2010
• Florida Trend, Legal Elite, 2005-11
• AV Rated as independently determined by Martindale-Hubbell
• Florida Bar Excellence in Law Practice Management [Crumbley] Award, 2010
• Florida Bar Journal Excellence in Legal Writing [Sanders] Award, 2000

Seminars & Presentations[ - ]

• “Infrastructure 2011,” Urban Land Institute (ULI) at University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, panel moderator, June 8, 2011
• “Aspects of state and local agencies,” Florida Coastal School of Law,  Jacksonville, FL, panelist, April 25, 2011

Publications[ - ]

Mr. Cavendish has written original, scholarly legal essays, articles, and journalism for The National Law Journal, The Bencher, The Banking Law Journal, Florida Coastal Law Review, The Florida Bar Journal, and various other peer-edited publications. He has acted as a contributing writer and editor on each of the four major civil litigation practice guides published triennially by the Florida Bar and Lexis-Nexis. Mr. Cavendish has two anthologies of legal essays in print, and his writing on law has been selected for the permanent law library collections at Yale and the College of William and Mary, among other libraries.

Professional Associations & Memberships[ - ]

• American Bar Foundation, Fellow
• Society for Applied Anthropology, Fellow
• PEN American Center, Member
• Order of the Coif, Florida Chapter
• Florida Bar Foundation, Fellow
• Florida Bar

Bar Admissions[ - ]

• Florida
• U.S.C.A. Eleventh Circuit
• U.S.C.A. Fifth Circuit
• U.S.C.A. Seventh Circuit
• U.S. Court of International Trade
• U.S.D.C. M.D. Fla.
• U.S.D.C. S.D. Fla.
• U.S.D.C. N.D. Fla.
• U.S.D.C. N.D. Tex
• U.S.D.C. S.D. Tex.
• U.S.D.C. D. Colo.
• U.S.D.C. S.D. Ind.
• U.S.D.C. E.D. Wis.
• U.S.D.C. N.D. Ill.

Civic & Community Service[ - ]

• Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA),
  Chairman, 2011
  Director, 2007- 11
• Northeast Florida Regional Transportation Study Commission
  Chairman, 2011
• Community Connections of Jacksonville, Inc.,
  Director, 2003-06

Representative Matters[ - ]

Mr. Cavendish maintains areas of focus in complex banking disputes, complex commercial real estate disputes, environmental contamination, water and wetlands problems, manufacturing and distribution law, and general corporate governance and contracting problems.