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J. Richard Caldwell, Jr.

Of Counsel
Tampa Office
813.223.4253
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    Dick Caldwell has been a Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer since 1983 and is one of the firm’s founding partners. He is engaged in civil trial and appellate practice, concentrating in the defense of product liability, insurance, professional liability, and commercial litigation.

    Dick is a past member of the Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions, and has served on The Florida Bar Civil Procedure Rules Committee as well as the Appellate Rules Committee, which drafted the current Florida Appellate Rules.  Dick is Vice-Chair of the Florida Bar Senior Lawyers Committee. He lectured on appellate practice and product liability in Florida Bar CLE seminars, and is the author of the chapter on “Defenses” in the Florida Bar CLE handbook on product liability, as well as the chapter on “Florida Law” in the DRI Product Liability Handbook.

    In addition, he is a member of the Committee on Product Liability Litigation of the Section of Litigation and the Product, General Liability, and Consumer Law Committee of the Tort and Insurance Practice Section, both of the American Bar Association.  Dick is also an emeritus member of PLAC.

    He is admitted to practice in Florida, Alabama and Texas, and admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the 5th, 6th and 11th United States Circuit Courts of Appeal, several United States District Courts, and the Supreme Courts of Florida, Alabama and Texas.

    In 1971, Dick served as a law clerk for Judge Spencer C. Cross, Fourth District Court of Appeals. He also served as City Attorney and Prosecutor for Ocoee, Florida, from 1973 to 1975.

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    • Florida Department of Financial Services, Approved Instructor
    • Product Liability Advisory Council (PLAC)
    • Federal Bar Association
    • Defense Research Institute
    • Florida Defense Lawyers Association
    • Hillsborough County Bar Association
    • Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel
      • Chair, Trial Tactics Section (2005-2008)
      • Vice-Chair, Admissions Committee, 2017-present
    • American Bar Association
      • Torts and Insurance Practice Section
      • Products, General Liability and Consumer Law Section
      • Section of Litigation
    • The Florida Bar
      • Supreme Court Standard Jury Instructions Committee (Civil) (2000-2009)
      • Civil Procedure Rules Committee (1989-1997)
      • Appellate Rules Committee (1975-1978)
      • Senior Lawyers Committee 2017-present (Vice-Chair 2019-present)

    • Board Member and Past President, The Florida Orchestra
    • Florida International Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, Docent 2007-2011
    • St. Petersburg Opera, St. Petersburg, Florida (Board member 2011-2017, president 2013-2015)
    • Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Suncoast Chapter (2003-2008), Board Member

    University of Florida College of Law — J.D., 1970

    University of Florida — B.A., 1965

    • Texas — 1996
    • Alabama — 1995
    • Florida — 1971

    • U.S. District Courts of Alabama (Middle)
    • U.S. District Courts of Florida (Northern, Middle, Southern)
    • U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th, 6th and 11th Circuits
    • U.S. Supreme Court

    • Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer (1983-date)
    • AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

    • Listed in Florida Super Lawyers, Personal Injury Defense: Products Liability, 2007-2019

    • Author, "Florida Extends Apex Deposition Doctrine to Corporate Officers," June 2022
    • Moderator, "Crossing the Line: Zealous Advocacy or Unprofessional and Unethical Conduct," The Florida Bar Senior Lawyers Committee CLE, January, 2022
    • Author, "Thinking of Signing Up for an ABA Course for CLE? You May Want to Think Again," The Florida Bar Senior Lawyers Newsletter, Experience Matters, February 21, 2022
    • Moderator, "Crossing the Line: Zealous Advocacy or Unprofessional and Unethical Conduct," The Florida Bar Senior Lawyers Committee CLE, January 26, 2022
    • Presenter, "Automated Vehicles and the Law," with Prof. Nicholas J. Wittner, Michigan State University College of Law, April 28, 2021, Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel
    • Author, "30(b)(6) Discovery in the Age of COVID-19: Defending Corporate Representative Depositions in the New Reality," Product Liability Advisory Council, February 2021
    • Presenter, "Defending Corporate Representative Depositions in the Age of COVID-19," PLAC, January 26, 2021
    • Co-Author, "What Are the Constitutional Considerations in Resuming Civil Jury Trials During a Pandemic?" Daily Business Review, October 13, 2020
    • Co-Author, "Pandemic-Era Civil Jury Trials Require Constitutional Scrutiny," Law 360, October 6, 2020
    • Co-Author, "Negligence Per Se," The Trial Advocate Vol. 39 No. 1, February 2020
    • Presentation, “Keeping the Craft Alive,” Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, White Sulphur Springs WV, July 2014
    • Presentation, “Negligence Per Se,”, Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, White Sulphur Springs WV, July 2014
    • Presentation: “Damages-Only Trials: Preliminary Considerations,” Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, Phoenix AZ, March 2012
    • Presentation: “An Appeal to Reason – Proposed Rule 26.1,” Lawyers for Civil Justice, Washington, D.C., May 2011
    • Presentation: “Motions for Sanctions,” Florida Defense Lawyers Association, Orlando, FL June 2010
    • Presentation: “Overhaul of Florida Standard Jury Instructions,” Product Liability Advisory Council, San Antonio, TX, May 2010
    • Presentation: “Motions for Sanctions – Riding the Storm,” Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, Banff, Alberta, August 2008
    • Presentation: “Faces of Evil – Cambodian War Crimes Trials,” McMaster School for Advancing Humanity, Defiance College (Ohio), April 2008,
    • Presentation: “Death of the Trial Lawyer? – Keeping the Craft Alive” – Products Liability Advisory Council, Chicago, April 2007
    • Presentation: “How to Get the Bad Case Settled at Mediation (Mediating the Bad Case – Trial Counsel Perspective), Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, Bermuda, July 2006
    • Presentation: “Tailoring Case Presentation to Fit Geographic Venue,” Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, Chesapeake Bay, MD, July 2004
    • Presentation: “Pretrial Motion Practice – Addressing Punitive Damages Claims”, Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, La Malbaie, Quebec, July 2003
    • Presentation: “Don’t Get Shifted in the Courtroom – Experts and Electronic Discovery Pitfalls”, Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, Boca Raton, FL, March 2002
    • Presentation: Florida Bar CLE Civil Trial Certification Review, “Products Liability”, Miami 1998
    • 64 Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel Quarterly 465, “Negligence Per Se” (2015)
    • The Briefs, Vol. 78, No. 1 (December 2009/January 2010), “Jury Service in the Electronic Age: New Solutions for New Challenges”
    • FDCC Quarterly, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Winter 2009), “Motions for Sanctions – Riding the Storm” (Co-Author)
    • Sales & Marketing Magazine, “Are Salespeople Responsible for Their Customers’ Injuries?” (June 2009) (Co-Author)
    • Journal, McMaster School for Advancing Humanity, Vol. 3 (Spring 2009), “The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia – A ‘Magic Tree’?”
    • Defense Research Institute, Product Liability Handbook, “Florida Law”
    • Florida Bar, CLE Products Liability, Ch. 5, “Defenses”
    • Note, 23 U. Fla. L. Rev. 157 (1971)
    • "Case Comment" — University of Florida Law Review (Vol. 80, No. 470)

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    07.01.2022
    Product Liability

    Florida Extends Apex Deposition Doctrine to Corporate Officers

    The Apex Deposition Doctrine (“ADD”) provides powerful protection against abusive...

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    01.26.2022
    Events

    Crossing the Line: Zealous Advocacy or Unprofessional and Unethical Conduct

    Sponsored by The Florida Bar Senior Lawyers Committee, the CLE...

    09.20.2021
    Beyond the Bio

    Tampa Office Celebrates 30th Anniversary

    Managing Partner Frank Sheppard shared these thoughts on the 30th...

    03.05.2021
    Beyond the Bio

    Founding Partner Dick Caldwell Marks 50th Anniversary as Member of Florida Bar

    Since Dick Caldwell was first sworn in to The Florida...

    02.10.2021
    Product Liability

    30(b)(6) Discovery in the Age of COVID-19

    Defending corporate representative depositions in the new reality. If there...

    01.26.2021
    Events

    Defending 30(b)(6) Depositions in the COVID Age and Beyond

    Dick Caldwell participated on a panel discussion for PLAC (formerly...

    11.11.2020
    Beyond the Bio

    Celebrating our Veterans

    RumbrgerKirk honors all who have served in the U.S. Armed...

    10.14.2020
    Commercial Litigation

    What Are the Constitutional Considerations in Resuming Civil Jury Trials During a Pandemic?

    As the judicial system attempts to recover from the effects...

    10.07.2020

    Pandemic-Era Civil Jury Trials Require Constitutional Scrutiny

    The COVID-19 pandemic has stalked the land for more than...

    09.21.2020
    Firm News

    RumbergerKirk Attorneys Serve as Jurors and Scoring Judges During the UF Law Trial Team Final Four Competition

    Several lawyers from RumbergerKirk served as jurors and scoring judges...

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