Attorneys & Staff

Bob White is a shareholder who joined the firm in 2005.

Practice Areas

• Business & Corporate Law
• Technology Law
• Emerging Growth & Entrepreneurial Companies
• Private Equity & Venture Capital Law
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Corporate Finance Law
• Corporate Governance
• Technology Committee

Education

• University of Miami, J.D., 1986
• Emory University, M.B.A., 1980
• Emory University, B.S., 1976

Bar Admissions

• The Florida Bar, 1986

Community Service

• Muscular Dystrophy Association's 2010 "Fort Lauderdale Lock-Up" event, participant and fund raiser, April 2010 
• Florida Atlantic University College of Business and Adams Center for Entrepreneurship, Final Round Judge in Business Plan Competition, April 2010
• Florida Atlantic University Business School MBA Program's Student Venture Capital Competition, Judge, December 2009
• Enterprise Development Corporation, Member, Board of Directors
• Emory University
  Goizueta Business School Alumni Mentor Program,
  Business Student eMentor

Honors

• University of Miami Law Review
• The Best Lawyers in America, Technology Law, 2007-10
• Florida Trend's Legal Elite

Representative Seminars & Presentations

• Boardroom Brief, "Regional Transformation - Can Silicon Beach Come Back?"
• University of San Francisco Internet Marketing Online Program, member of faculty. Give lectures as part of University's online technology training program. Lectures have included legal aspects of Internet marketing, including affiliate marketing risks and challenges, search engine optimization techniques, CAN-SPAM and other laws and regulations, database security, international Internet marketing and e-commerce issues, spamming issues, net neutrality, FCC and FTC issues, mobile marketing and advertising issues, mobile marketing privacy issues and website protection (most recently: June 2010)
• Panelist, "Why Business Plans Don't Get Funded," Gold Coast Venture Capital Association, May 2010
• Presented Continuing Legal Education lecture (with Kevin Dornan, Esq.) on "Think Before You Type - Some Ethical Pitfalls of Marketing Through Social Networks" to Gunster attorneys and personnel, May 2010
• Presented lecture on "Use of Social Media in Attorney Marketing" to Gunster Tax Practice Group, May 2010
• Presented lecture on "Technology Licensing - Issues and Considerations" to MBA class at Florida Atlantic University Business School, March 2010
• Podcast interview with legal marketer Adrian Dayton on Twitter use in attorney marketing: "Think Twitter's for Kids? Think again", February 2010
• Speaker, "LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter - Use of Social Media by Lawyers", Broward County Bar Association Bench-Bar Conference, October 2009
• "Are you Ready for IPO? – Strategies and Steps For How and When to Take Your Company Public,” Gold Coast Venture Capital Association, panelist, May 2008
• “Term Sheets for Angel and Venture Capital Investors,” Gold Coast Venture Capital Association, panelist, December 2006
• “The State of Venture Capital Investment in Florida,” Broward Alliance Technology, Science and Research Committee, 2006
• “Why Not To Go Public,” Gold Coast Venture Capital Association, 2005
• “Financing an Early Stage Company,” Gold Coast Venture Capital Association, 2004
• “Financing of Emerging Technology Companies,” Enterprise Development Corporation Emerging Technology Business Showcase, panelist, 2003
• “E-Commerce Survey—Business, Legal and Financial Issues,” seminar, Hodgson Russ LLP, 2001, 2002, and 2003
• “Doing Business in Florida,” Enterprise Florida, 2002
• “Surviving an Economic Downturn,” presentation, Hodgson Russ LLP, 2002

Publications

• Co-authored the Appraisal Rights chapter of the Florida Corporate Practice Manual, Fifth Edition, published by the Florida Bar, 2008
• “Public to Private—A Way Out?", The Hodgson Russ Edge, 2003
• “Surviving an Economic Downturn,” The Hodgson Russ Edge, 2003, and Boca News, 2003

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