Academy Member Inducted 2014
Video ConferencingAvailable
- Practice Commenced2011
- # of MEDS (as of 19/4/24)3500
- # of ARBS (as of 19/4/24)
Current Practice
Online / In-Person
Biographical
Hilary High mediates throughout Florida and the Southeast, and is available anywhere for mediation via online videoconference. She is a full-time mediator with 25 years of experience helping parties analyze risk and resolve cases involving wrongful death and catastrophic injury, professional malpractice (i.e. medical, dental, legal, etc.), nursing home/ALF liability, sexual abuse, funerary/mortuary liability, premises and products liability, insurance coverage and bad faith, auto, sinkhole, weather event damage, and other types of 1st and 3rd party claims. She mediates multi-party cases, and specializes in cases involving high emotion, high value and high risk.
Case Experience
- ADA Disability
- Appellate
- Automotive
- Aviation
- Bankruptcy/Creditors
- Civil Rights
- Class Actions
- Commercial/Business
- Community Associations
- Construction
- Consumer Fraud
- Contract Disputes
- Cross Cultural
- Debt Collections
- Discrimination
- Education
- Elder Abuse
- Employment
- ERISA
- Family Businesses
- Health Care
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- International
- Internet
- Landlord/Tenant
- Legal Malpractice
- Libel & Slander
- Local Govt./Municipalities
- Media & Communications
- Medical Devices
- Medical Malpractice
- Mortgage Foreclosure
- Natural Disasters
- Non-profit Organizations
- Nursing Homes
- Pensions
- Personal Injury
- Pharmaceuticals
- Police
- Postal
- Premises Liability
- Probate
- Product Liability
- Professional Fees
- Professional Liability
- Professional Malpractice
- Professional Negligence
- Property Damage
- Railroad & Trucking
- Real Estate
- Religious Institutions
- Sexual Harassment
- Sports
- Torts
- Trusts / Estates
- Wage & Hour/FMLA
- Workers' Compensation
- Wrongful Death
Education
- Florida State University College of Law, J.D., with honors, 1998
- Florida State University, B.A., History and English, magna cum laude, 1995
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Certified Circuit Court Mediator
- Certified U.S. District Court Mediator, Middle District of Florida
- Certified State Court Appellate Mediator
Memberships & Affiliations
- International Academy of Mediators, Distinguished Fellow
- Hillsborough County Bar Association -- ADR Section (Chair 2013-14; 2014-2015)
- Hillsborough County Bar Association -- Trial & Litigation Section
- Florida Bar Association -- ADR Section, CLE Committee
- Tampa Connection Class of 2014
Rates Information
Three Parties = $245/party/hour
Four Parties = $200/party/hour
Five or more Parties = $190/party/hour
Full day Mediations = 8 hour minimum.
Travel time outside of Hillsborough County, Florida will be billed for actual time spent traveling (rounded up to the nearest half hour), at a rate that is half of the applicable hourly rate, unless otherwise agreed between you and the Mediator.
The following fee will apply when a mediation is cancelled with less than 11 business days (15 calendar days) notice: half day cancellations will incur a fee of four hours times the applicable total hourly amount, and full-day cancellations will incur a fee of eight hours times the applicable total hourly amount. A trial caveat will not obviate a cancellation fee. The Mediator does not determine responsibility for the cancellation fee, and the cancellation fee will be assessed equally to all lawyers/law firms unless the Parties agree and instruct the Mediator otherwise.