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Experienced Guidance to Resolve Disputes Efficiently and Creatively
Experienced Florida Mediator
Ford Fegert has focused on mediation for the past decade, handling personal injury, medical malpractice, maritime, real estate, and business disputes with extensive expertise.
He earned a B.S. from the University of Michigan, studying Naval Architecture and Kinesiology, then a J.D. from Tulane University with maritime law emphasis.
Florida Supreme Court Certified
Experienced in Maritime Law
Healthcare & Legal Expertise
Mr. Fegert practiced maritime law in Louisiana and California before joining the Florida Bar in 1990, emphasizing medical malpractice, personal injury, and admiralty cases.
He has served as a lecturer and adjunct professor, contributed to the USF Maritime Law Journal, and represented clients in complex maritime and insurance matters.
Active in professional and community organizations, Mr. Fegert has held leadership roles in bar associations, boards, and healthcare nonprofits, demonstrating commitment to law and civic service.
Practice Areas
Mediation effectively resolves admiralty and maritime disputes without resorting to litigation.
Mediation resolves medical malpractice cases faster and more efficiently than court.
Insurance claims can be complicated, frustrating, and often overlooked until truly needed.
Arbitration offers a fair, efficient, private, and cost-effective alternative to litigation.
Civil mediation efficiently resolves disputes involving contracts, trusts, negligence, and more.
Frequently Asked Questions
Mediation has been proven effective in a wide variety of cases, ranging from family law and probate disputes among family members to complex commercial disputes and intellectual property matters.
Civil mediation begins by exchanging some information with the mediator so that he or she understands the basics involved in the dispute. At the mediation, the mediator discusses the various benefits of mediation and gives an overview of the process, including telling the parties that the process is voluntary and confidential and the mediator’s role is to help the parties achieve an amicable settlement on the claim.
Because the mediation process is confidential, the mediator cannot discuss what was relayed in mediation. Instead, a mediator can only confirm that the parties mediated in good faith and were not able to reach a conclusion or that they reached an agreement that is incorporated into the written settlement agreement he or she presents to the judge.
The length of mediation depends on the parties, the complexity of the dispute and the willingness to avoid litigation.
