Member Profile: Terrance Edward Schmidt

	Terrance Edward Schmidt Bledsoe, Schmidt, Lang & Wilkinson, P.A. 1301 Riverplace Blvd. Suite 1818 Jacksonville, FL 32207 Tel: (904) 398-1818 Fax: (904) 398-7073	View Printable Resume GoogleMaps for this Location View Available Dates Calendar

ADR Services Include:

Mediation

ADA Disability Admiralty Appellate Banking & Finance Civil Rights Commercial/Business Condominiums Construction Consumer Fraud Contract Disputes Debt/Foreclosure EEOC

Employment Engineering Environmental Franchise Insurance Intellectual Property Land Use/Planning Landlord/Tenant Libel & Slander Medical Malpractice Nursing Homes Partnerships

Personal Injury Probate Product Liability Professional Fees Professional Negligence Real Estate Securities Torts Trusts / Estates Wrongful Death

BIOGRAPHICAL:

I have mediated more than 1700 cases in state and federal court over the past nine years, including a breach of contract claim in the telecommunications industry involving a claim of more than $400 million; a consolidated action involving multiple securities fraud and negligent supervision claims in excess of $20 million; a dispute between FDIC and a borrower and a subsequent dispute between the borrower and a third party involving real property valued in excess of $20 million; a dissenting stockholders-rights dispute involving claims in excess of $15 million; a catastrophic burn case involving claims in excess of $10 million; a dispute between a sponsor and a cigarette manufacturer over a NASCAR promotion involving a claim in excess of $5 million; a condominium construction dispute involving claims in excess of $5 million; a wrongful death/Civil Rights case involving claims in excess of $2 million; and numerous personal injury, employment discrimination, construction, and other commercial cases involving claims in excess of $100,000.

As an attorney representing a party to multi-party cases, I have been involved in numerous multi-party mediations or settlement conferences, including litigation involving antitrust and tort claims filed by a former National Football League team owner against the National Football League, several of its teams, and a Jacksonville corporation in which the claimed damages exceeded $450 million; an ERISA class action against the trustees of profit sharing plan involving a claimed loss exceeding $10 million; a toxic tort case in which 43 families sued a major waste hauling company and the United States Government for personal injuries arising out of a contaminated landfill which was settled by one defendant for $8.5 million and was tried against the other defendant; and construction litigation by a condominium association against the developer, architect, and contractor for damages exceeding $3.0 million. As a mediator, I have been involved in over 350 multi-party disputes involving all kinds of claims, including major construction cases.

EDUCATION:

• Wittenberg University, B.A., Political Science (1967)
• Duke Law School, J.D. (1973)
• Editor, Duke Law Journal (1972-1973)

ADR Training:
Florida Dispute Resolution Center, 40-Hour Mediation training, 2/23-2/26/95; Florida Bar CLE Course on Alternate Dispute Resolution, 2/20/98; AAA Commercial Arbitrator Training Workshop, 07/12/99; Florida Bar sponsored Private Judges, Mediation and Arbitration Seminar, 06/12/2000; ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Collaboration in the Capital: The Power of ADR Program, 4/26-28, 2001; AAA Commercial Arbitrator II - Advanced Case Management Issues Workshop, 4/30-5/1, 2001; ABA Section of Dispute Resolution: New Vistas in Dispute Resolution, 2002.

Memberships & Affiliations

Awards & Honors:
Master, Chester Bedell Inn of Court; Senior Counsel, The College of Master Advocates and Barristers; listed in The Best Lawyers in America 2001- , (Woodward White, Inc.) for Commercial Litigation; named in Jacksonville's Best Lawyers by Jacksonville Magazine (February 2001) and November 2004; honored in 2002 with a Resolution by The Florida Bar for pro bono service as Special Counsel to the Florida Bar in the F. Lee Bailey disbarment

Professional Associations:

• American Bar Association (Section on Dispute Resolution);
• Florida Bar Association (Special Counsel to The Florida Bar);
• Jacksonville Bar Association;
• Florida Academy of Professional Mediators;
• Florida Circuit-Civil Mediator Society

Rates

• $370 per hour (two-party dispute)
• $400 per hour (multiple party dispute)

• $3200 per day, $400 per hour

Terrance Edward Schmidt is a member of the Florida Circuit-Civil Mediator Society, Florida's premier roster of distinguished attorney-mediators. The FCCMS profile includes more specific local information, such as counties and regions served, and can be visited directly at www.floridamediators.org/terrance-schmidt