Practice Experience

• Rick Gross has more than 22 years of legal experience serving a variety of business clients. He has a multifaceted commercial litigation practice including aspects of banking litigation, real estate, creditors’ rights, securities matters, and business torts, and has litigated cases involving such claims in Federal and State Courts in Florida and throughout the United States.

Professional and Civic Activities

• Federal and American Bar Associations (Business Law Section Business and Corporate Litigation Committee, Business Courts Subcommittee, Chair 2005-present; Vice-Chair 2004-2005; and Litigation Section – 2011 Section Annual Conference, Co-Chair 2009 – present; Trial Evidence Committee, Co-Chair 2008-2009; Business Torts Committee, Vice-Chair 2009-present; Corporate Counsel CLE Meeting, Co-Chair 2007-2008; Books Subcommittee, Co-Chair 2005-2007; Programming Subcommittee, Co-Chair 2001-2006; 11th Circuit Subcommittee, Chair 1999-2002; Commercial and Business Litigation Committee; Appellate Litigation Committee; Committee on Class Actions and Derivative Suits; Committee on Corporate Counsel)
• The Florida Bar (Standing Committee on Judicial Independence, 2007-present, Vice-Chair, 2009-present; Business Law Section, Immediate Past Chair, 2008-2009, Chair, 2007-2008, Chair-Elect, 2006-2007, Treasurer/Secretary, 2005-2006, Member, Executive Council, 1997-present; Member, Long Range Planning Committee, 2009-present; Chair, Business Litigation Committee, 1998-1999; Co-Chair, Business Courts Committee, 1999-2004; Chair, Legislative Committee, 2004-2005; Co-Chair, Section Annual Retreat Committee, 2002-2005; Co-Chair, MJP Committee 2003-2005, and Trial Lawyers Section)
• Dade County Bar Association (President, 2006-2007; President-Elect, 2005-2006; Vice President, 2004-2005, Director, 2001-2004; Civil Litigation Committee, Chairman, 2000-2002; Banking and Corporate Litigation Committee, Chairman, 1998-2000, 2002-2003; Federal Courts Committee, Chairman, 2003-2005), Ad Hoc Rules Committee of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, 2003-2007
• American Bar Foundation, Fellow
• Florida Bar Foundation, Fellow
• Eleventh Circuit Historical Society
• Florida Supreme Court Task Force on Management of Cases Involving Complex Litigation - 2006-2008 (appointed by Chief Justice R. Fred Lewis)
• The Honorable Peter T. Fay American Inn of Court

Professional Recognition

• AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America (2010)
• Listed in Florida Trend's Legal Elite (2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009)
• Selected for inclusion in Florida Super Lawyers (2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009)
• Florida Bar Business Law Section, Section Member of the Year Award (2002-2003)
• Dade County Bar Association, Committee Chair Exceptional Service Award (1999-2000, 2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2004-2005)
• American Bar Association Section of Litigation Outstanding Subcommittee Chair Award (2004-2005)

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Florida

COURT ADMISSIONS

• U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida

Background

• Akerman Senterfitt (Miami, FL)
  Shareholder (1995-2008)
• Stroock & Stroock & Lavan (Miami, FL)
  1990-1994

Education

• Boston University School of Law (J.D., 1987)
• Emory University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1984)