Gerald F. Richman

Gerald Richman, a trial and appellate attorney, represents clients in complex commercial litigation matters. He counsel clients, plaintiffs and defendants, on antitrust, securities, contract, construction, federal agency, corporate, banking, civil RICO, professional liability, consumer, employment, civil rights, probate litigation and class action issues. Gerald also handles real estate litigation, including mortgage foreclosures, condominiums, zoning and land use, brokerage disputes, governmental matters and election law issues. He is board certified by The Florida Bar as a civil trial and business litigation lawyer.

Gerald is distinguished for his extensive experience in high-profile trials, including serving as lead counsel at trial in one of the three nationally-televised presidential election vote cases in 2000.

Gerald served as a Captain in the United States Army Judge Advocate Generals Corp. in the Defense Appellate Division in Washington, DC, where he briefed and argued court martial cases, including murder cases. At the same time, he also served as a White House Social Aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson. During his three years in the service, he spent a year as Trial Counsel and Chief of Military Justice at I CORP headquarters in Korea, where he personally tried ten court martial cases before being reassigned to Washington, DC, to write an update of the Military Judges’ Handbook. Prior to this, he had been a law clerk to United States District Judge George C. Young in Orlando.

Gerald has served as lead counsel in numerous jury and non-jury trials in major civil cases, ranging from multimillion dollar federal antitrust, condominium construction and land use, personal injury and product liability and occasional major criminal cases, some involving the international arms trade. He has also been involved in numerous state and federal class action antitrust, RICO, securities, real property and consumer matters. Gerald has been appellate counsel, arguing before the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, the Florida Supreme Court and all District Courts of Appeal in the State of Florida.