William T Stone
Practice Areas
* Civil Litigation:
For over 50 years, our Civil Litigation department has successfully represented corporations and insurance carriers in all aspects of complex tort and insurance contract litigation. We aggressively defend personal injury, premises liability, products liability and bad faith claims on behalf of our clients. Our Civil Litigation department is the backbone of our firm's tradition of advocacy and our active case list keeps our lawyers at the forefront of innovative trial practice.
* Workers Compensation & Employment Law:
We defend employers against claims by workers and employees claiming injuries, discrimination, and violations of federal and state statutory protections. Including companies facing Stop Work Orders, we know how to work with employers to produce the right result when they are faced with worker's compensation and employee discrimination actions. Our long experience in these fields gives us the expertise to counsel our clients facing pending actions, and in implementing proactive employment policies. The breadth and depth of our current work defending employers allows us to set the standard of advocacy in this field.
* Commercial Litigation:
We excel in the field of complex commercial litigation. This field includes commercial and residential landlord-tenant disputes, commercial collections, the negotiation and preparation of contracts, shareholder disputes, and injunctive relief and specific performance proceedings. It also includes trademark, domain name and intellectual property disputes, as well as insurance coverage disputes. We enforce and defend the rights and policies of our corporate, business and shareholder clients with the goal of producing economically sensible, value-driven results.
* Longshore & Admiralty:
Our firm represents shippers, ocean carriers, stevedoring firms, port facilities, shipowners, insurers, freight forwarders, shipbuilders, dry dock companies, and intermodal firms in a variety of maritime-related disputes. Our firm has handled longshore claims, Defense Base Act claims, Jones Act claims, 905(b) claims, and maritime damage claims across the country and throughout the world. Wherever the claim occurs, whether the suit is for worker injury, cargo loss or damage, or liability to third-parties, we have the expertise honed from long experience in this field to secure the right result.
*Transportation:
Cargo claims. Coverage disputes. We represent some of America's leading motor carriers, carrier insurers, and logisticians. The right handling of transportation disputes can mean the difference between an effective risk management policy and a disastrous one where litigation expenses exceed the value of a claim portfolio. Our litigation practice in the transportation and admiralty fields advances our clients' cases to final resolutions quickly, with the efficient approach that these claims demand.
Board Certified Civil Trial Attorney - Florida Bar
William T Stone
Boyd & Jenerette
201 N Hogan St #400
Jacksonville FL 32202-4220
Tel: 904 353-6241
Fax: 904 353-2863
E-mail: wstone@boyd-jenerette.com
CIVIL LITIGATION
Mr. Stone was raised in Jacksonville, Florida. After graduating with honors from the College of Charleston in 1975, he received his law degree with honors from the University of South Carolina in 1978. Mr. Stone returned to Jacksonville where he began his practice with a large insurance defense firm. He has continued to practice as an insurance defense attorney since 1978 handling all types of personal injury and wrongful death cases, including automobile accidents, premises liability, products liability, trucking cases, nursing home liability and construction litigation.
In 1989, Mr. Stone became Board Certified as a Civil Trial Lawyer in the state of Florida. In 1999, he was invited to become a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). Mr. Stone is a past president of the Jacksonville Association of Defense Counsel. He is also rated AV by Martindale- Hubbell, it's highest rating.
Together with his partner Robert A. Cole, Mr. Stone founded Cole, Stone, Stoudemire & Morgan, P.A. in 1986. Mr. Stone is a member of all local, state and federal courts in Florida. He is also a member the State Bar of Georgia, where he handles cases in southeast Georgia.
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