David Oliver has a national trial practice and has handled litigation in state and federal courts throughout Florida, as well as having been admitted pro hac vice to serve as lead counsel in cases pending in California, New York, Maryland, Indiana, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Georgia, Delaware and Nevada. Mr. Oliver typically tries several cases to verdict each year.
Prior to joining the Business Trial Group of Morgan & Morgan, P.A., in 2010, Mr. Oliver served as a Litigation Partner in the prestigious national law firms of Carlton Fields, P.A., Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn, LLP, Greenberg Traurig, P.A., and Baker & Hostetler, LLP.
In July 2004, Mr. Oliver was selected for inclusion in the inaugural edition of Florida Trend's "Legal Elite," a peer-ranked survey of the top 1.6 percent of all lawyers in the state of Florida. He was one of approximately 50 percent of the first-year nominees to repeat the honor in 2005 and was again listed in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Mr. Oliver was selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 editions of The Best Lawyers in America (where he was selected for "Bet-the-Company Litigation" in the 2010, 2011 and 2012 editions), was honored by being included in the 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 editions of Florida Super Lawyers and was named by Orlando Magazine as one of the "Best Lawyers in Orlando" in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. He was additionally voted by his peers as a member of the 2008 "Best of the Bar" survey by the Orlando Business Journal. Mr. Oliver has retained an "AV" rating for the last 18 years - the highest rating available - from Martindale-Hubbell, the authoritative resource on the legal profession.
AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell