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Ronald J. Marlowe

  • Founder/Managing Shareholder, 2017
Ronald J. Marlowe

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Practice Areas

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Business Law
  • Complex Commercial Litigation
  • Insurance Defense
  • Referrals

Biography

Mr. Marlowe is the founding shareholder of Marlowe Law, an A+ rated business with the Better Business Bureau. He is a business lawyer with over 40 years of experience, concentrating on mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. He has extensive past experience in complex business litigation, business disputes, general business law, and personal injury litigation. He has been a shareholder, equity partner, or senior trial counsel at prestigious Florida and national firms such as Fowler White Burnett (7 years), Arnstein & Lehr (now Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr) (9+ years), and others. He has been rated Preeminent® (the highest possible rating) by judges and peers on Martindale-Hubbell since 1995 and has an AVVO rating of 10 (out of 10). Mr. Marlowe's Preeminent® rating is a testament to the fact that his peers rank him at the highest level of professional excellence and deem him to have very high professional ethics and preeminent legal ability. Only lawyers with the highest ethical standards and professional ability receive a Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating of "AV." Mr. Marlowe has maintained that rating every year since it was initially awarded to him in 1995.

In addition to his experience in contract drafting and review as part of his mergers and acquisitions and business law practice, Mr. Marlowe's extensive past experience handling negligence, contract, business & commercial, warranty, indemnity, employment, fraud, defamation & privacy, intentional tort, physical tort, real property, construction, lien, and debt collection cases provides him with insights most pure business lawyers lack. He is also a Florida Supreme Court Approved Arbitrator.

Mr. Marlowe is a graduate of the University of Florida Levin College of Law where he was a member and editor of the University of Florida Law Review.

Mr. Marlowe, a computer programmer in the 1970s (remember COBOL?) and a former computer store owner, embraces technology in the practice of law as well as alternative fee agreements.

Mr. Marlowe’s complete CV, including qualifications and experience, is available upon request.

Education

  • University of Florida College of Law, Gainesville, Florida
    • J.D. - 1984
  • University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
    • B.S., Bachelor of Science - 05/1981
    • Honors: cum laude
    • Major: Broadcasting/Telecommunications
    • Minor: Computer Science
  • Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina

Bar Admissions

  • Florida, 1984
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 2014
  • U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida, 1987
  • U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida, 1988
  • U.S. Supreme Court, 1989
  • U.S. District Court Northern District of Florida, 2007
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas, 2008

Professional Associations

  • The Florida Bar, Member

Honors

  • Martindale-Hubbell “AV Preeminent” rating, 1995 - 2024
  • Martindale-Hubbell Platinum Client Champion, 2024
  • Three Best Rated Best Business Lawyers Tampa, 2010 - 2024
  • Expertise.com Best Business Lawyers in Tampa - Top 14, 2017 - 2024

Representative Cases

  • Harllee v. Professional Service Industries, Inc., 619 So. 2d 298 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992), Florida Third District Court of Appeal
  • O'Neill v. Sacher, 526 So. 2d 771 (Fla. 3d DCA 1988), Florida Third District Court of Appeal
  • Audiotext Comm'n Network, Inc. v. US Telecom, Inc., 912 F. Supp. 469 (U.S.D.C. KS 1995), District Court Kansas
  • Aum Shree of Tampa, LLC v. HSBC Bank USA, 449 B.R. 584 (U.S.B.C., M.D. Fla. 2011), Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of Florida
  • Spigler v. Southeastern Public Service Co., 610 So. 2d 512 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992), Florida Third District Court of Appeals

Past Positions

  • Mintzer Sarowitz Zeris Ledva & Meyers, Senior Trial Counsel, 2015 to 2017
  • Arnstein & Lehr LLP (now Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr), Partner, 2005 to 2015
  • Stephens Lynn Klein LaCava & Puya, P.A., Partner, 2001 to 2005
  • Martens-Dunaj & Marlowe, Managing Shareholder, 1997 to 2001
  • Cohen Berke Bernstein Brodie & Kondell, Partner, 1994 to 1997
  • Fowler White Burnett, Shareholder, 1987 to 1994