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.
