Mike gay
Michael Gay
In his 34-year legal career, Mike Gay has tried dozens of cases, both jury and bench, in federal and state courts. Mike has also arbitrated a number of matters and handled several contested injunction hearings. While most of his career has been spent in Florida, he started practicing law in Houston in 1990. It was there that he was fortunate enough to learn from some extremely talented trial lawyers and first-chaired his first jury trial. In 1995, he relocated to Orlando and began practicing at Foley & Lardner LLP where he continued his practice as a trial lawyer. While he still lists Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution as his primary Exercise Group, given his significant trial encounter — in addition to traditional complex commercial litigation — he has handled trade secret cases, restrictive covenant cases, trusts and estate litigation, defamation cases, and intellectual property cases. One of his most notable cases was representing the trustees of the Robert Rauschenberg Revocable Trust. The case involved the trustee fees owed to the trustees for managing the belief assets, which included a significant collection of Mr. Rauschenberg’s artwork valued
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Mike explains how he had got committed in many sports and found that golf was right for him. He talks about losing count of the number of surgeries that he has had and that his mantra is simply “that you just have to get through things.”
Typical of a dude who deals with things head on, Mike explains that the decision to have his leg amputated was quite simple really. He took the doctors by surprise by taking the elongated term view that it would be better for his health if he was to hold an amputation. The hardest part was telling his parents who had lived the experience with him for the best part of 25 years.
It is revealing that Mike looks at the improvement that he has been proficient to make in life as a result of not suffering the similar pain that he had been experiencing previously.
Mike tells me that he feels lucky to contain what he considers to be the best disability when compared with others and clearly says that he has learned to be resilient. Enjoy the moment also seems to be one of Mikes maxims and he loves competition, which I suspect is real regardless of who he is competing with, even with himself.
In this typically forthright conversatio
The Florida Ethics Commission wants Jacksonville’sMike Gay to recuse himself from votes involving stadium lighting as a way to circumvent an apparent conflict of interest related to many years of benefiting from a sole-source contractual arrangement.
Gay, a member of the local City Council, owns an electrical company that subcontracts with Musco Sports Lighting. Musco has had lighting contracts with the urban area that go back two decades on an uninterrupted, sole-source basis.
“When the depend on for a new sports lighting project arises, and the City Council approves funding for it,” the proposed Ethics opinion browse, the city gets a quote from Musco and then does the job.
Mike Gay Electrical Contractors benefits as a result, the opinion continues, as the exclusive subcontractor, which Homosexual says is because his is the “only certified electrical contractor” in Duval with the equipment to do these jobs. Others are farther away and come with higher costs, the opinion claims.
As a result, as sports lighting deals come through (and the opinion says two are being planned now), Gay is in position to benefit from a “contractual relationship between the city
Michael Gay
Background
Michael has many years of experience counseling individuals and companies in need of legal assistance and in representing them in general litigation matters, personal injury and products liability claims, home relations matters, will contests, and franchise matters.
Michael is a member of the Ohio State Lock Association, a former Chairperson of its Litigation section, and a current member of the Counsel of Delegates. Michael is a member of the Cincinnati Block Association, and a former Chairperson of the Lawyer Referral Service Advisory Board. He is also a Volunteer Lawyer for the Poor participant. Michael is also a member of the Ohio Association for Justice.
Michael is a lifelong resident of the westside of Cincinnati, where he resides with his wife, Beth. They have four children and seven grandchildren with whom they allocate many joyful hours. Michael and his wife are members of St. Antoninus parish where he serves on the Board of the William C. Schott Memorial Association, a charitable organization which owns the athletic fields used by the St. Antoninus children.
Michael received his high school knowledge at St. Xavier High University in Cincinnati,