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Ed Birk attended the University of Massachusetts-Amherst where he received his B.A. in Journalism in 1983. He earned his J.D. with honors in 1995 from Florida State University College of Law. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Florida State University Law Review.
His practice focuses on labor and employment litigation, primarily defending management, but also representing worthy plaintiffs. Concentration in severance agreements, employment contracts, non-competition agreements, and employee benefits-ERISA, as well as EEO discrimination litigation based on gender, pregnancy, age, disability, race. Also practices in First Amendment-media law, medical malpractice, and products liability defense.
Mr. Birk has practiced law with Marks Gray, P.A. since June 1999. He was previously with McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe. He served as law clerk to U.S. District Judge Lacey A. Collier, Northern District of Florida from 1995 to 1997. Before becoming a lawyer, Mr. Birk worked as a reporter and editor for The Associated Press in Boston, Miami and Tallahassee from 1983 to 1989. He also worked for the Florida Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles, as Public Information Administrator from 1989 to 1992. He is a member of the Jacksonville, Florida, and Federal Bar Associations.
Mr. Birk's publications include:
EDWARD L. BIRK, Employment Lawyers: If you want to litigate, do not investigate; TRIAL ADVOCATE QUARTERLY, FLORIDA DEFENSE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION (SUMMER 2002).
E-Mail Issues for Law Firms, Presentation to Florida Defense Lawyers Association, Annual Meeting and CLE (August 2001, Amelia Island, Fla.)
EDWARD L. BIRK, AMERICAN INNS OF COURT SERIES ON FLORIDA CIVIL PROCEDURE & PRACTICE, Chapter 3: Burden of Proof and Presumptions, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing (1996)
EDWARD L. BIRK, NOTE, Protecting Truthful Advertising by Attorney-CPAs-Ibanez v. Florida Department of Business Regulation, 114 S.Ct. 2084, 23 FLA. ST. UNIV. L. REV. 77 (1995).
Among the cases he has handled are Ball v. Heilig-Myers Furniture Co., 35 F. Supp. 2d 1371 (M.D. Fla. 1999) and Cox v. Denny's, 1999 WL 1317785 (M.D. Fla. Dec. 22, 1999).
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