Contact

Location:
One Orlando Centre
800 North Magnolia Avenue, Suite 400
Orlando, FL 32803

Phone:
(800) 863-1462

Direct:
(407) 661-1123

Email:
ebaxa@uww-adr.com

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About

Ed Baxa has significant experience representing owners, general contractors, design professionals, subcontractors, and suppliers in complex commercial litigation with a focus on construction disputes. He was a partner in his firm’s Construction and Litigation Practice Groups, where he regularly handled contract drafting and negotiation, bid protests, workouts, claims litigation and arbitration proceedings. He also has significant experience in negotiating AIA form contracts, and in preparing and negotiating engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for manufacturing facilities.

Ed has advised clients and tried cases involving myriad construction projects, including resort hotels, hospitals, senior living facilities, sports stadiums, public works projects (roads, utility plants, landfills, etc.), shopping centers, residential developments and high-end homes. In addition to his work in the construction industry, Ed has represented clients in litigation involving real estate disputes, covenants not to compete, trade secrets, ERISA, family-owned businesses, agri-business, executive compensation and corporate/partnerships dissolutions.

Education & Qualifications

J.D., University of Virginia, 1978
LL.M., University of Virginia’s Center for Law and Medicine, 1980
B.A., University of Virginia, with high distinction, 1975; Phi Beta Kappa

• Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Civil Mediator 

Bar Admissions

• Virginia Bar, 1978
• The Florida Bar, 1980
• U.S. District Courts for the Western District of Virginia and the Middle District of Florida

Awards & Recognitions

• Peer review rated as AV Preeminent®, the highest performance rating in the Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings™ system
• Listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers
• Selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© in the fields of:
  • Litigation – Construction (2011-2024)
  • Construction Law (2006-2024)
• Elected to the Florida Trend’s Legal Elite list and named to Florida Trend’s Legal Elite Hall of Fame (2019)
• Selected for inclusion in the 2006-2021 Florida Super Lawyers® lists
• Recognized by The Legal 500 for his work in the area of real estate – construction (2016)
• Selected by the Legal Aid Society of the Orange County Bar Association as the recipient of the 2011 Judge J C “Jake” Stone Distinguished Service Award
• Received The Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award (2011)
• Received the Bruce E. Holmes Distinguished Service Award from the Associated General Contractors of Central Florida (2003)
• Received the Legal Aid Society Award of Excellence in 2000 for his work with abused and neglected children

Areas of Practice

Including, but not limited to:

• Attorney Compensation
• Business Breakups
• Complex Litigation
• Construction Litigation
• Contract Disputes
• General Civil Litigation