rwatstein@wargofrench.com		Printer Friendly Page

Practice Areas: Mr. Watstein litigates in the following practice areas: Complex Commercial Labor and Employment Class Actions Technology & Intellectual Property

Experience:

• Successfully defeated appeal challenging the application of an arbitration provision in a commercial real estate covenant.
  
  
• Counseled multiple clients in breach of contract actions, including a chain of medical clinics in its action against a software company.
  
  
• Counseled multiple employee leasing companies in trade secret and non-competition litigation against former employees.
  

Education:

• University of Florida College of Law, Gainesville, Florida,
  Juris Doctor, Magna Cum Laude, 2009
  
  
• Honors & Activities:
  • Top 5% of Graduating Class
  • Order of the Coif
  • Florida Law Review, Board Member
  • Book Awards for Highest Grade in Employment Law & Legal Drafting
  • Teaching Assistant for Legal Writing & Appellate Advocacy
  • Honors in Legal Writing & Appellate Advocacy
    
    
• Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
  Bachelors in Finance, Summa Cum Laude, 2006
  Bachelors in Philosophy, Summa Cum Laude, 2006
  
  
• Honors & Activities:
  • E. Ray Solomon College of Business Scholar
  • John Phillip Pomeroy Presidential Scholar
  • Joseph Gangloff College of Business Scholar
  
  

Publications & Professional Activities:

• Out of Jail and Out of Luck: The Effect of Negligent Hiring Liability and the Criminal Record Revolution on an Ex-Offender's Employment Prospects, 61 U. FLA. L. REV. 581 (2009).
  
  
• American Bar Association, Member

Bar Admissions:

• Georgia
• Florida (admission pending)