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Mike Cavendish is a shareholder and a member of the firm’s Business Litigation practice.  Mr. Cavendish represents corporations as trial counsel before federal and state trial courts. He practices from the firm’s Jacksonville office.

Practice Areas

• Complex Commercial Litigation

Representative Matter(s)

• Class action trial counsel to publicly traded bank holding company
• Trial and appellate counsel to division of Fortune 100 bank
• Trial counsel to software development corporation
• Trial counsel to marine construction corporation
• Trial counsel to food supplement manufacturing corporation
• Trial counsel to large retailer corporation
• Trial counsel to real property development corporation
• Trial counsel to commercial real estate holding company

Reported Case(s)

• Jones v. ABN-AMRO Mortgage Group, 551 F.Supp.2d 400 (E.D. Pa. 2008)
• Goebert v. Lee County, 510 F.3d 1312 (11th Cir. 2007)
• Washington Mut. Bank v. Crest Mortg. Co., 418 F.Supp.2d 860 (N.D. Tex. 2006)
• Washington Mut. Bank, FA v. American Financial Network, 414 F.Supp.2d 1155 (S.D. Fla. 2006)
• Bullard v. Capital One, F.S.B., 288 F.Supp.2d 1256 (N.D. Fla. 2003)
• Cytodyne Technologies, Inc. v. Biogenic Technologies, Inc., 216 F.R.D. 533 (M.D. Fla. 2003)

Education

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

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.

Professional Associations & Memberships

• Florida Bar
  Rules of Civil Procedure Committee, 2003-07
• Jacksonville Bar Association
• American Inns of Court Alumni Association
• American Anthropological Association, Member-at-Large

Honors

• Florida Trend, Legal Elite, 2005-10
• AV Rated as independently determined by Martindale Hubbell
• Law Dragon 500, Finalist, 2006, 2010
• Million Dollar Advocates Forum, 2005
• Excellence in Legal Writing Award, The Florida Bar Journal, 2000
• Order of the Coif, Florida Chapter
• Ralph R. Bailey Scholar, 1996-98

Seminars & Presentations

• Much Ado About Books, Featured Guest Author/Panelist, Jacksonville, FL, February 27, 2010
• "Managing Passive Law," Mortgage Banker's Association of America, at Jacksonville, FL, January 15, 2010
• Marion County Bar Association Law Day Keynote Address, Ocala, FL, May 1, 2009
• "Aspects of AAA Arbitration," Florida Coastal School of Law, Jacksonville, FL, panelist, April 21, 2009
• "Lawyer: The 360 Degree Citizen," Florida Justice Teaching/Law Week Address, at Jacksonville, FL, April 13, 2009

Publications

• "Corporate Warfare Has To Make Business Sense These Days," National Law Journal, July 7, 2009
• “The Ius and the Lex,” The Bencher, Jan./Feb. 2009
• “The Parol Evidence Rule,” Evidence in Florida, 7th ed., Lexis Pub., 2008
• “The Concept of Arbitrability Under the Florida Arbitration Code,” The Florida Bar Journal, vol. 82, no. 10, November 2008
• “Toward a ‘zero litigation’ theory,” National Law Journal, July 7, 2008
• Coeur du Feu/Fireheart, Aventine Press 2008
• Orange Blossom Jurisprudence, Dragon Pub. 2007
• “Chaining Bellerophon,” The Federal Lawyer, June 2007
• “Foundations of the Procuring Cause Doctrine,” The Florida Bar Journal, vol. 8, no. 5, May 2007
• “Ducks & Drakes,” National Law Journal, Mar. 23, 2007
• “Florida Common Law Jurisprudence,” The Florida Bar Journal, vol. 81, no. 1, Jan. 2007 (with Blake J. Hood)
• “Diagonal Authority,” Florida Coastal Law Review, Fall 2006
• “The Iconoclast Ethic,” The Bencher, Nov./Dec. 2006
• “The College Point Principle,” Florida Coastal Law Review, Summer 2006
• “Ad Fontes, Ad Astra, Ad Clementia,” The Bencher, Jul./Aug. 2006
• “Fortress Arbitration,” The Florida Bar Journal, vol. 80, no. 2, Feb. 2006
• “Renovating Azam,” The Florida Bar Journal, vol. 79, no. 11, Dec. 2005
• “Understanding the First-to-File,” The Florida Bar Journal, vol. 75, no. 7, Jul./Aug. 2001
• "International Payments,” The Florida Bar Journal, Books, vol. 73, no. 9, Oct. 1999
• “Rules for International Business,” Jacksonville Business Journal, vol. 14, no. 45, Aug. 13, 1999
• “Drafting the International Sales Contract,” The Florida Bar Journal, Books, vol. 73, no. 7, Jul./Aug. 1999

Civic & Community Service

• Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA)
  Vice-chair, 2009
  Director, 2007
• Community Connections of Jacksonville, Inc.,
  Director, 2003-06
• Riverside Presbyterian Church

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