Attorneys

Mark A. Brown

Shareholder
Tampa

ph : 813.229.4317
fax : 813.229.4133

Practice Experience

Mark Brown has over twenty-five years of business litigation experience at Carlton Fields. His career has covered a broad range of complex commercial disputes in both federal and state courts, trial and appellate.
Among other areas of business law, Mr. Brown has been the principal litigation attorney for several title insurance companies. As such, he has handled literally hundreds of real property disputes involving challenges to title, challenges to the priority and enforceability of liens, boundary and easement disputes, adverse possession claims, access issues, and fraud and forgery claims.
In addition, Mr. Brown has particular experience handling class actions and cutting edge impact litigation in the title insurance industry. He has been the lead trial attorney in four putative class actions alleging violations of RESPA, fourteen putative class actions across the country alleging violations of title insurance rate regulations, a challenge to the constitutionality of Florida's anti-rebate statute (the "Butler" case), defalcation actions, "flip" transactions, and investigations by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Florida Department of Financial Services, and the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation concerning title agent and title insurer market conduct.
Mark Brown serves as Chair of the Firm's Real Property Litigation Practice Group. He is also a member of the Firm's Board of Directors and is a Former Chair of the Firm's Executive Committee.

Professional and Civic Activities

The Florida Bar
Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Section
Executive Council (2006-present)
Chair, Real Property Litigation Committee (2007, 2008).
University of South Florida, Adjunct Professor, teaching Government Law and Advocacy (2001, 2002, 2003).
Tampa Museum of Art, Board of Trustees (1996-2001).
Gasparilla Festival of the Arts
Board of Directors (1989-1997 and 2002-2005)
President (1994).
Hillsborough County Public Art Committee (2000-2007)
Vice Chair (2006-2007).
Florida Land Title Association (1997-present).

Professional Recognition

Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, 2007, 2008, and 2009 editions.
Selected for inclusion in Florida Trend’s Florida Legal Elite, 2007 edition.
Selected for inclusion in Florida Super Lawyers, 2006, 2007, and 2008 editions.
AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
Recognized for Exceptional Pro Bono Service in 2005 by the Supreme Court of Florida, Young Lawyers Division of the Florida Bar, 13th Judicial Circuit’s Pro Bono Committee, and the Florida Pro Bono Coordinators Association.
Recipient of Hillsborough County Bar Association’s Outstanding Pro Bono Service Award 2005.
Selected by the Florida Supreme Court as winner of the Florida Bar’s 1980 Moot Court Competition.

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