Roy Black
Partner
Email: RBlack@royblack.com

Practice Areas: Criminal Trial; Appellate Practice; State and Federal Courts; Grand Jury Investigations; Civil Litigation.

Admitted: 1970, Florida; 1975, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 1976, U.S. Supreme Court; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 1984, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Circuits and U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit; 1985, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 2001, U.S. District Court, District of Colorado; 2003, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 2007, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida; 2008, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida

Law School: University of Miami, J.D., 1970

College: University of Miami, B.A., 1967

Member: The Florida Bar; American Bar Association; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Life Member); Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; International Academy of Trial Lawyers; American College of Trial Lawyers (Fellow); American Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Executive Committee).

Biography: Recipient: Award for Highest Score on 1970 Florida Bar Exam; Nelson Poynter Award by American Civil Liberties Union for voluntary representation of prisoners on Florida's death row; 1991 Criminal Justice Award, Dade County Bar Association; University of Miami Alumni Association William R. Butler Community Service Award, 2005. Listed, "The Best Lawyers in America," since 1987. Selected: Chambers & Partners USA Guide, 2005-2008 (finalist, Top White Collar Lawyer in US, 2006, 2007); "Florida Legal Elite," Florida Trend, 2004-; Inducted into Florida Trend's "Legal Elite Hall of Fame," 2009; "Super Lawyer," Florida Super Lawyers, 2006-; "Best of the Bar," South Florida Business Journal, 2004; "International Who's Who of Business Crime Lawyers"; "Who's Who Legal: Florida 2008," Who's Who Legal, 2007-2008; "Top 100 Trial Lawyers," The American Trial Lawyers Association, 2006-; "Top Lawyer in South Florida," South Florida Legal Guide, 2009. Author: <i>Black's Law: <i>A Criminal Defense Lawyer Reveals his Defense Strategies in Four Cliffhanger Cases, </i></b>Simon & Schuster, 1999. Adjunct Professor, Criminal Evidence Workshop, University of Miami Law School, 1973-. Senior Assistant Public Defender, Miami, 1971-1976. Legal Consultant: NBC News, and other major network and cable TV stations.

Languages: Spanish.

Born: New York, N.Y., February 17, 1945

ISLN: 909001399