Bruce Bounds

About Bruce

Bruce Bounds has been a partner at large and small firms and has returned to boutique practice to better serve clients with more flexibility, and with the assistance of other individual practitioners in specialty areas as necessary. He is rated “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating available. The “AV” rating identifies a lawyer with very high to preeminent legal ability. It is a reflection of expertise, experience integrity and overall professional excellence. He is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Court Mediator and Family Court Mediator. After working with a mid-sized law firm and a bank’s legal department in Philadelphia he moved to Miami and worked with mid-sized and large firms in Miami and has returned to boutique or small firm practice. His practice focus is business, commercial, banking and lending, real estate, estate planning and probate, and mediation. Active in business and community affairs, Bruce has served as a Deacon and as vice chairman and chairman of the Board of Deacons and as a trustee and chairman of the board of trustees of Plymouth Congregational Church, director and president of the Coral Gables Bar Association, Vice-Chairman for Government and Legislative Affairs and Chair of the Public Policy Task Force of the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce and has served on a Florida Bar committee. Focus To provide legal services to individuals and businesses in both transactional and litigation situations in the areas of business, commercial law including corporate entity issues, and banking and lending, real estate purchases, sales and leasing, estate planning and probate, family estate disputes. Practice Description Legal assistance to individuals and businesses in matters that include representation of: Realtors’ sellers, buyers, developers and property managers with residential and commercial real estate to be bought, sold, or financed and title policies written; and leases to be written or reviewed, reviewed, modified, terminated or an eviction handled; Bankers with a regulatory question or lenders or borrowers with a commercial, industrial or real estate loan to be structured, documented or closed; or “worked- out” collected or foreclosed, restructured or resolved; Entrepreneurs and retailing, manufacturing and distribution businesses with businesses to be started, organized, bought or sold, sales distribution, employment and shareholder or membership agreements to be negotiated and drafted, and other business and contractual transactions; Individuals with wills, trusts, living wills, durable family powers of attorney, and similar family planning matters to be addressed or estates to be probated and family estate disputes; And the inevitable commercial, business or personal disputes to be resolved, by litigation, arbitration, mediation or negotiation. Generally consumer foreclosure defense cases are referred to attorney’s who specialize in that work and are current with the ever changing government programs in the field.

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