Practice Experience

• Gary Sasso represents business clients in securities fraud and consumer fraud class actions and other complex litigation at the trial and appellate level, in the financial services industry, energy sector, products manufacturing industry, and services sector.
• Mr. Sasso has tried cases in the areas of securities fraud, business contracts, products liability, professional malpractice, employment discrimination and termination, eminent domain, bankruptcy, construction, administrative law, and land use in Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
• Gary Sasso has argued appeals on diverse issues including business fraud, federal and state constitutional claims, products liability, personal injury, insurance coverage, national bank regulation, employment discrimination, federal occupational safety and health regulation, eminent domain, county taxation, and public utilities law.

Professional and Civic Activities

• American Bar Association, Death Penalty Steering Committee (2008-present)
• American Bar Association Section of Litigation
  Jury Innovation Task Force (2009-2010)
  Council Member (2003-2006)
  Task Force on Independence of the Judiciary, Co-Chair (2006-2007)
  Task Force on Vision Implementation (2006)
  Litigation journal (published by the ABA Section of Litigation), Editor-in-Chief (2001-2002)
• Federal Bar Association, Governing Board, Tampa Bay Chapter (2002-2006)
• International Academy of Trial Lawyers, Fellow (membership limited to 500 trial lawyers, by invitation only)
• American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, Fellow (membership limited to 500 appellate lawyers, by invitation only)
• American Law Institute, Fellow (and member of Consultative Group Aggregate Litigation Project)
• American Bar Foundation, Fellow
• Creative Kids Count, Inc., Chair, Board of Directors
• Tocqueville Society, United Way of Tampa Bay, Co-Chair
• United Way, Board of Trustees (2008)
• Tampa Bay Partnership
  Chair, Board of Directors (November 2009-November 2010)
• Tampa Chamber of Commerce Committee of 100
• American Heart Association, Chair, 2008 Heart Ball
• Hyde Park Preservation, Inc., President and Director (1990-1991)
• University of Pennsylvania Law Alumni Society, Board of Managers, Member (1994-1996)
• H. B. Plant Museum in Tampa, Vice President and Director (1992-1998)

Professional Recognition

• Recipient, Diversity Best Practices' 2008 CEO Diversity Leadership Award
• AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• Listed in Best Lawyers in America (recognized for Bet the Company Litigation, Business Litigation, Mass Tort Litigation, Appellate, and Professional Liability)
• Listed in Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers
• Selected for inclusion in Florida Trend's Florida Hall of Fame (top 100 lawyers), Florida Legal Elite (representing the top 1.6% of all attorneys practicing in Florida), and as one of Florida Legal Elite's "Top Managing Partners: Head of the Firm"
• Selected for inclusion in Florida Super Lawyers (listed among top 100 lawyers in Florida) 
• Listed in Lawdragon's 100 Lawyers You Need to Know in Securities Litigation

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Florida
• District of Columbia
• Pennsylvania

COURT ADMISSIONS

• Florida State Courts
• United States Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
• U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

Background

• Bredhoff & Kaiser (Washington, D. C.)
  Litigator (1979-1987)
• Law Clerk, United States Supreme Court, The Honorable Byron R. White (1978-1979)
• Law Clerk, United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, The Honorable Spottswood W. Robinson, III (1977-1978)

Education

• University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 1977)
  Editor-in-Chief, University of Pennsylvania Law Review
  Awarded Peter McCall Prize for attaining the highest grades in graduating class
  Awarded Carrye G. Barkenkopf Scholarship for first in class rankings
  Order of the Coif
• Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (B.S., magna cum laude, 1974)
  Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society