Member Profile: Thomas H. Bateman III

	Thomas H. Bateman III Messer, Caparello & Self P.A. 2618 Centenial Place PO Box 15579 Tallahassee, FL 32308 Tel: (850) 201-5221 Fax: (850) 558-0674 Website: www.lawfla.com Thomas H. Bateman III regularly travels out of state to Georgia	View Printable Resume GoogleMaps for this Location View Available Dates Calendar View Published Articles

ADR Services Include:

Mediation; Arbitration; Early Neutral Evaluation; Med-Arb; Facilitation & Systems Design; Fact Finding; Discovery Referee; Mini-Trial Judge; Special Master; Insurance Umpire

ADA Disability Appellate Automotive Banking & Finance Civil Rights Commercial/Business Community Associations Condominiums Construction Consumer Fraud Contract Disputes Debt/Foreclosure EEOC Education Eminent Domain Employment Engineering Environmental

Health Care Insurance Intellectual Property Labor/Unions Land Use/Planning Landlord/Tenant Legal Malpractice Lemon Law Local Government Media & Communications Medical Malpractice Non-profit Organizations Nursing Homes Partnerships Personal Injury Police Premises Liability Probate

Product Liability Professional Fees Professional Liability Professional Malpractice Professional Negligence Public Policy Real Estate Software Sports Technology Title Disputes Torts Transportation Trusts / Estates Utilities Wrongful Death

BIOGRAPHICAL:

Mr. Bateman is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Mediator and long-serving member of the Florida Supreme Court's Alternative Dispute Resolution Rules and Policy Committee.  He specializes in complex civil trial court and appellate court mediation and litigation, pre-suit negotiation and mediation, and is a Florida qualified arbitrator. He has extensive civil and criminal litigation experience with disputes ranging from personal injury, medical malpractice, complex commercial transactions, insurance coverage, receivership, employment and non-compete law, doctor-hospital employment disputes, public body sovereign immunity, contract interpretation and declaratory judgment disputes, road and building construction, as well as residential and commercial foreclosure and other real property issues including title, eminent domain and inverse condemnation disputes.

From January 1990 to January 2009, Mr. Bateman served as a Leon County Judge and Florida 2nd Judicial Circuit Judge before retiring after 33 years of public service as a deputy sheriff, assistant public defender, assistant attorney general, agency general counsel and Florida trial judge. As an attorney, Mr. Bateman's practice focused on civil and criminal trial litigation and appeals, and he has appeared in all levels of the state and federal trial and appellate courts. From 1987 to 1990, Mr. Bateman served as General Counsel to the Florida Department of Transportation, the 4th largest transportation agency in the United States with 67 lawyers in 9 offices throughout the State of Florida.

He is a former member of the Mediator Qualifications Board, the discipline arm of the Florida Supreme Court as it relates to mediators and has served as chairman of the MQB's Northern Division. He chaired the Florida Supreme Court's Task Force on the Management of Litigation in Complex Cases and served as the chairman of the Florida Supreme Court's Work Group on Jury Management Issues.

Mr. Bateman has been appointed or elected to serve as the chairman of numerous Florida Bar Rules Committees including the Professional Ethics Committee, two court procedure rules committees and the Government Lawyers Section. Currently, Mr. Bateman is a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section as well as a member of The Florida Bar's Civil Procedure Rules Committee, which encompasses rules of procedure relating to mediation and arbitration  Currently, he chairs the Internal Operating Procedures and Uniform Time Standards Subcommittees of the Civil Procedure Rules Committee.  He will serve as Vice-Chair of the Committee during the 2012-2013 Bar year.

EDUCATION:

• George Mason University School of Law, J.D., 1981
• Nova University, B.S., 1977

Memberships & Affiliations

• National Association of Distinguished Neutrals (NADN)
• Florida Circuit-Civil Mediator Society
• American Health Lawyers Association (Dispute Resolver)
• American Bar Association (ABA)
• ABA Dispute Resolution Section
• The Florida Bar
• The Florida Bar Administrative Law Section
• The Florida Bar Alternative Dispute Resolution Section
• The Florida Bar Criminal Law Section
• The Florida Bar Government Lawyers Section
• The Florida Bar Trial Lawyers Section
• Florida Women Lawyers Association (FAWL)
• Tallahassee Bar Association (TBA)
• Tallahassee Women Lawyers (TWL)

Rates

Thomas H. Bateman III 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/thomas-bateman