J. Richard Caldwell

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. 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 the Product Liability Advisory Council (PLAC).

He is admitted to practice in Florida, Alabama and Texas, and admitted before the Supreme Courts of Florida, Alabama, and Texas and the United States Supreme Court.

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.