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Greg is a shareholder in Grant, Fridkin, Pearson, Athan & Crown and has practiced in Naples since 2000. He is board certified in Civil Trial Law by the Florida Bar and the National Board of Trial Advocacy and is also board certified in Business Litigation by the Florida Bar. He has an “AV” Martindale-Hubbell rating and has been recognized as a Florida Super Lawyer® by the publishers of Law & Politics magazine.
Greg has extensive trial and appellate experience in a variety of complex business matters and handles cases involving intellectual property, including patent infringement, securities, banking, construction, real estate disputes, corporate control disputes, and unfair competition claims. He frequently represents companies in injunctive proceedings involving usurpation of corporate opportunities, theft of trade secrets, deceptive trade practices and receivership.
Following law school, Greg served as a briefing attorney to Justice Raul Gonzalez of the Texas Supreme Court. Prior to moving to Naples in 2000, he was a trial lawyer in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, for 14 years. Greg has tried more than 70 cases to verdict.
EDUCATION
J.D., Baylor University School of Law, 1985
Managing Editor Baylor Law Review, 1984-1985
B.B.A., University of Iowa, 1981
PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY
- Member, Supreme Court of the United States
- Member, State of Florida
- Member, State of Texas
- Member, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Member, U.S. District Court for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida
- Member, U.S. District Court for the Northern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas
- Member, Collier County Bar Association, Trial Lawyers Section, Board of Directors 2005-2008, President-Elect
- Civil Trial Advocate, National Board of Trial Advocacy
- Former President, Thomas S. Biggs Inns of Court, 2006-2007
- Former Alternate Delegate, Collier County Republican Party, Executive Committee,
- Basketball Coach, Pine Ridge Middle School, YMCA; USSSA (traveling basketball)
PRESENTATIONS/PUBLICATIONS/CLE
Author, “Deadly Blood: Litigation of Transfusion Associate AIDS Cases in Texas,” 21 Texas Tech Law Review 669, 1990;
Author, “Invocation of Fifth Amendment Privilege Against Self-Incrimination as Evidence in a Texas Civil Trial,” 23 Trial Lawyers Forum 41, 1988;
Coauthor (with Professor Michael D. Morrison), “An Examination of the Duty Concept: Has it Evolved in Otis Engineering v. Clark?,” 36 Baylor Law Review 375, 1984;
Author, “Loss of Consortium: Extending Recovery to Unmarried Couples in Texas,” 35 Baylor Law Review 883, 1983;
Author, “Texas Bystander Recovery: In the Aftermath of Sanchez v. Schindler,” 35 Baylor Law Review 883, 1983