Member, Moot Court Board; Trial Team, 1986-1987. Federalist Society. Teaching Assistant, Legal Research and Writing, 1986-1987. Adjunct Professor, Brevard Community College, 1998—. National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 1991. Who's Who in American Law. Leadership Brevard. Qualified Arbitrator, Inns of Court, 2006—.
Mr. Volk is Board Certified in Business Litigation by the Florida Bar Board of Legal Specialization and Education since 1996. Only three-tenths of one percent of lawyers in Florida have this Certification. Certification requires significant court experience, peer review, extensive continuing legal education, and written testing. First attorney in Brevard County to test to obtain this certification. There are only three other certified attorneys in the County. Qualified Arbitrator. Qualified in bankruptcy and collections under the Florida Bar Designation Plan based upon substantial experience and education in those areas of concentrated practice. National Institute for Trial Advocacy trial skills program (ten day program at North Carolina University). Advanced Trial Skills (five day program at University of Florida). Member of the Florida Bar Speakers Bureau, has spoken publicly on various bankruptcy topics including discharging taxes in bankruptcy, lender liability, environmental liability, collections, trade secrets and non-compete agreements, counseling clients, Real Property Litigation, Using Credit and Financial Planning, Attorney Ethics, Successful Business Practices, and How to Succeed At Work. Listed in Who's Who In American Law and Who's Who In America, adjunct professor: Brevard Community College (Introduction to the Legal System, Bankruptcy, and Bankruptcy/Debtor-Creditor Law. Instructor: Brevard Community College Small Business Venture Clinic providing start-up business advice. Regularly appeared on The Cerny Success Show on WMEL-AM and Bright House TV discussing legal topics. Author of Winning Listening & Negotiating Skills, BusinessLIFE (May 2005), and Evaluating a Nonconforming Construction Matter, The Ex Parte (February 2006), How to Mitigate Your Legal Risks, Space Coast Business Magazine (August 2011).
Mr. Volk has focused on trial practice. His experience includes the following areas:
Commercial Litigation: numerous and varied disputes such as partner and shareholder, employer-employee actions including trade-secrets, non-compete, and employment agreements, breach of contract, UCC, lender liability, RICO, securities, sale of business, and franchise actions.
Fraud: diverse matters including lending, automobile, prop and jet aircraft, race car, and real estate schemes.
Collections: prosecuted and defended attachments, replevins, garnishments, fraudulent transfer suits, and levies.
Real Property Rights: prosecuted and defended mortgage foreclosures and other matters involving real estate such as commercial landlord/tenant, ownership, nuisance, construction defect and lien, and eminent domain cases.
Bankruptcy: experience in virtually all aspects of that field. He has represented creditors, debtors, and professionals in bankruptcy proceedings, including personal, manufacturing, real estate, and restaurant reorganizations, liquidations, stay proceedings, claim disputes, fraud/preference litigation, and discharge litigation.
Governmental Misconduct: code enforcement misconduct and owner rights, administrative rights, and civil rights violations.
Forfeiture Litigation: represented the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles in contraband forfeiture suits.
Conducted approximately eighty trials and over seven hundred hearings as sole or lead counsel. Litigated cases around the State of Florida and in Colorado, New York, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and West Virginia. Experience and results of interest include the successful prosecution of a receivership involving an aircraft equipment manufacturer and approximately thirty other defendants with claims to property on the premises, preventing bankruptcy discharges of approximately $1,000,000.00 and $830,000.00 in business debt owed clients due to misconduct by debtors in filing their cases; obtaining an $830,000.00 fraud judgment at trial regarding false statements used to lease a jet; a $5,400,000.00 housing development foreclosure including negotiating terms by which the developer would allow foreclosure, not file for bankruptcy protection, and assist the lenders in completing the project; reported cases, including regarding bankruptcy dischargeability, regarding the scope of the Florida homestead exemption for rural property and Complaint drafting to obtain jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants; lender liability cases representing borrowers so that strict compliance with loan documents is excused; and commercial landlord-tenant cases where significant lease indebtedness was reduced to de minimize amounts. This dispute experience is also useful in drafting and negotiating agreements for clients.
Mr. Volk is President of the Melbourne Police Foundation. Board of Directors of Melbourne Central Catholic High School seven years (President 3 years; Vice-President 1 year), Chairman of The Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Unlicensed Practice of Law Committee, Brevard County Bar (Chair, Local Rules of Civil Procedure Subcommittee, member, Judicial Liaison Committee), Florida Bar (Civil Procedure Rules Committee, 1993-1996) the Central Florida Bankruptcy Association, the Federalist Society, the Melbourne-Palm Bay Area Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber Industrial Council, National Lawyers Association, 1994-1995 Leadership Brevard Chamber of Commerce program, College Leadership Brevard Mentor Program, Melbourne High School Academy Internship host, was an invitee to the 1998 Supreme Court Symposium on Professionalism, and is a past member of the Credit Professionals of Brevard (President, Vice-President), and International Credit Association.
Mr. Volk has a background of working in family-owned businesses, and this has been helpful in understanding how businesses are run. At the age of twelve, Mr. Volk went to work in his parents' beverage warehouse with tasks such as sweeping floors, loading, unloading, and cleaning trucks, working in the icehouse, forklift operation, and checking in drivers receipts and money. He continued to stay active in the family business affairs up through graduating law school.
Other activities included helping with leasing, cleaning, and bookkeeping for commercial and residential rental properties; surface coal mining including operating and servicing trucks and machinery; the sale, delivery, installation, and servicing of manufactured homes; and construction of a mobile home park and commercial building. (Board Certified Business Litigation Lawyer, Florida Bar Board of Legal Specialization and Education)