Member at the firm Payton & Associates, LLC
Areas of Practice
Complex Commercial Litigation
Admitted
1966, Florida, U.S. District Court, Southern and Middle Districts of Florida and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits
Law School
Georgetown Law Center, LL.B., 1966
College
Florida State University, B.S., cum laude, 1961
Membership
Dade County and American (Vice Chair 1994-1997, Co-Chair, 1998-2004, Subcommittee on Billing and Budgeting, Corporate Counsel Committee, Section on Litigation) Bar Associations; The Florida Bar (Member: Grievance Committee, 1976-1979; Judicial Administration and Qualification Committee, 2008; Member, 1997-2002, Vice Chair, 1999-2000 and Chair, 2000-2001, Business Litigation Certification Committee; Member, 2000-2008, Vice Chair, 2004-2005 and Chair, 2004-2005, Board of Legal Specialization and Education, 2005-2006); Florida Justice Association; American Association for Justice.
Biography
Listed in: Florida Super Lawyers, 2006-2009; Best Litigators, South Florida Legal Guide, 2005-2009. Author: "Task-Based Billing Overcoming Fear," Florida Bar Journal, January 1998; "Task-Based Billing Management Control Over the Litigation Process In House and Outside," Corporate Counsel Newsletter, Section of Litigation, American Bar Association, Vol. 43, August 1995. Co-Author, with Greg Nguyen, "The Corporate Provisional Director: Has Due Process Been Overlooked?" Florida Bar Journal, October 1998. Member, Advisory Board, Law Department Consortium, 2008. Faculty Member, "Managing Litigation as a Business," Law Department Consortium: Chicago, Illinois, October 29, 2008 and Washington, D.C., March 31, 2009; "Managing Litigation as a Business," Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto, Ontario. Speaker: "The Litigation Management Scorecard-What Law Firms Will Buy Into," Litigation Management Scorecard Symposium, Chicago, Illinois, October 24, 2004; "Marketing Your Skills to Attorneys in Civil Litigation," Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants, August 16, 1995; "The Agreement for Deed from Hell," Attorney's Title Insurance Fund Assembly, May 17, 1995; "Current Trends in Accounting Liability," The CPA Club of Greater Miami, June 17, 1994; "Lender Liability-The Small Practitioner's Viewpoint," American Trial Lawyers Association, Orlando, Florida, January 22, 1990. Panelist, "Advice from the Experts: Successful Strategies for Winning Commercial Cases in Federal Courts," Florida Bar Business Law Section Seminar, Miami, September 27, 2002. CLE Lecturer, "Traps for the Unwary, Lost Profits and Valuation of Closely Held Corporations," St. Thomas University School of Law, June 17, 1993. Moderator, "The Rise and Fall and Future of Special Billing Arrangements Including Task Based Billing," American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, Corporate Counsel Committee.
Military
Honorable Discharge, National Guard
Born
Troy, New York
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