Thomas H. Bateman III Messer, Caparello & Self P.A. 2618 Centenial Place PO Box 15579 Tallahassee FL 32308 Tel: (850) 201-5221 Fax: (850) 558-0674 Email: tbateman@lawfla.com www.lawfla.com

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FL Certification Qualifications: County Court Mediator Circuit-Civil Mediator Fl. Supreme Court Qualified Arbitrator Certified Appellate Mediator Serving the following Judicial Circuits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 [ Click for Map of Florida's Civil Circuits ]

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Biographical Notes:

Mr. Bateman is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Mediator and long-serving member of the Florida Supreme Court's Alternative Dispute Resolution Rules and Policy Committee.  He specializes in complex civil trial court and appellate court mediation and litigation, pre-suit negotiation and mediation, and is a Florida qualified arbitrator. He has extensive civil and criminal litigation experience with disputes ranging from personal injury, medical malpractice, complex commercial transactions, insurance coverage, receivership, employment and non-compete law, doctor-hospital employment disputes, public body sovereign immunity, contract interpretation and declaratory judgment disputes, road and building construction, as well as residential and commercial foreclosure and other real property issues including title, eminent domain and inverse condemnation disputes.

From January 1990 to January 2009, Mr. Bateman served as a Leon County Judge and Florida 2nd Judicial Circuit Judge before retiring after 33 years of public service as a deputy sheriff, assistant public defender, assistant attorney general, agency general counsel and Florida trial judge. As an attorney, Mr. Bateman's practice focused on civil and criminal trial litigation and appeals, and he has appeared in all levels of the state and federal trial and appellate courts. From 1987 to 1990, Mr. Bateman served as General Counsel to the Florida Department of Transportation, the 4th largest transportation agency in the United States with 67 lawyers in 9 offices throughout the State of Florida.

He is a former member of the Mediator Qualifications Board, the discipline arm of the Florida Supreme Court as it relates to mediators and has served as chairman of the MQB's Northern Division. He chaired the Florida Supreme Court's Task Force on the Management of Litigation in Complex Cases and served as the chairman of the Florida Supreme Court's Work Group on Jury Management Issues.

Mr. Bateman has been appointed or elected to serve as the chairman of numerous Florida Bar Rules Committees including the Professional Ethics Committee, two court procedure rules committees and the Government Lawyers Section. Currently, Mr. Bateman is a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section as well as a member of The Florida Bar's Civil Procedure Rules Committee, which encompasses rules of procedure relating to mediation and arbitration  In addition, he chairs the Internal Operating Procedures and Uniform Time Standards Subcommittees of the Civil Procedure Rules Committee.

Education:

• George Mason University School of Law, J.D., 1981
• Nova University, B.S., 1977

Languages

English

Memberships & Affiliations :

• National Association of Distinguished Neutrals (NADN)
• Florida Circuit-Civil Mediator Society
• American Health Lawyers Association (Dispute Resolver)
• American Bar Association (ABA)
• ABA Dispute Resolution Section
• The Florida Bar
• The Florida Bar Administrative Law Section
• The Florida Bar Alternative Dispute Resolution Section
• The Florida Bar Criminal Law Section
• The Florida Bar Government Lawyers Section
• The Florida Bar Trial Lawyers Section
• Florida Women Lawyers Association (FAWL)
• Tallahassee Bar Association (TBA)
• Tallahassee Women Lawyers (TWL)

Rates: Vary depending on number of parties involved and nature of the service provided. Please call for details.

Payment: Pro rata with payment due at close of session unless otherwise agreed.

Cancellation Policy: Two (2) hour minimum for short noticed mediation or if cancelled 14 days or less from scheduled date.

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Calendar Last Updated: 17 May 12	Click your preferred date to send our office a Date Request form. All such requests will go immediately to Tom Bateman's scheduling staff (Tanya Weiss, tweiss@lawfla.com)