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gwoods@lawfirmnaples.com

PRACTICE AREAS
Business and Real Estate Services

EDUCATION
Baylor University School of Law J.D., 1985
University of Iowa B.B.A., 1981

BAR ADMISSIONS
Florida, Texas

COURT ADMISSIONS
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
U.S. District Court, S. District of Florida
U.S. District Court, N. District of Texas
U.S. District Court, E. District of Texas
U.S. District Court, W. District of Texas

MEMBERSHIPS
National Board of Trial Advocacy
Certified in Civil Trial
The Florida Bar
(Business Law Section)
Collier County Bar Association
President, Trial Lawyers Section,2008-2009
American Inns of Court, Thomas L. Biggs
(Collier County Section) Former President,2006-2007

  Gregory N. Woods - Member


Professional Experience:
Greg Woods is a shareholder of the firm, and has practiced law in Southwest Florida since 2000. Greg has an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, and is listed in Florida Super Lawyers. Following law school, Greg served as a briefing attorney to Justice Raul Gonzalez of the Texas Supreme Court.

Greg has extensive trial and appellate experience in a variety of complex business matters and handles cases involving intellectual property, including patent infringement, securities, banking, construction, real estate disputes, corporate control disputes, and unfair competition claims. He frequently represents companies in injunctive proceedings involving usurpation of corporate opportunities, theft of trade secrets, deceptive trade practices and receivership.

Areas of Concentration:
Complex real estate, title, and land use disputes
Defense of securities, anti-trust, and class actions
Intellectual property disputes
Banking and insurance disputes
Construction disputes
Serious personal injury and malpractice actions
Complex disputes between partners, members, and shareholders
Jury trial experience in a wide range of complex commercial matters, both as plaintiff's and as defendant's counsel, having tried over 70 cases to verdict

Attorney Publications/Presentations:
Author, “Deadly Blood: Litigation of Transfusion Associate AIDS Cases in Texas,” 21 Texas Tech Law Review 669, 1990
Author, “Invocation of Fifth Amendment Privilege Against Self-Incrimination as Evidence in a Texas Civil Trial,” 23 Trial Lawyers Forum 41, 1988
Coauthor (with Professor Michael D. Morrison), “An Examination of the Duty Concept: Has it Evolved in Otis Engineering v. Clark?,” 36 Baylor Law Review 375, 1984
Author, “Loss of Consortium: Extending Recovery to Unmarried Couples in Texas,” 35 Baylor Law Review 883, 1983
Author, “Texas Bystander Recovery: In the Aftermath of Sanchez v. Schindler,” 35 Baylor Law Review 883, 1983

Professional Involvement:
Collier County Republican Party, Executive Committee, Former Alternate Delegate
Pine Ridge Middle School, YMCA; USSSA (traveling basketball), Basketball Coach