EXPERIENCE:

Sid is a Jacksonville native. He practices principally in administrative land use and environmental law. He holds an LL.M. in Agricultural Law from the University of Arkansas.

Sid practiced in the Division of State Lands for the Florida Department of Natural Resources, working on such purchases as Guana River, Kingsley Plantation, Ft. Clinch, the Truman Little White House in Key West, and the Big Bend. Additionally, he acted as General Counsel to the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind from 2005 through 2008.

In private practice, Sid has a wide ranging administrative, environmental and land use practice. He also helped write the environmental lending policy manuals for multiple statewide banks.

EDUCATION:

• University of Florida, B.A. (1981)
• Hamline University, J.D. (1985)
• University of Arkansas, LL.M. (1989)

PROFESSIONAL:

• The Florida Bar (1986)
  • Environmental and Land Use Law Section (ELULS), Past Chair
  • Environmental and Land Use Law Section (ELULS), Executive Council, Ex-Officio Member
  • Council of Sections, Member, 2000-2002
  • Environmental and Land Use Law Treatise, Managing Editor, 2001-Present
  • Judy Florence Outstanding Service Award, 1992, 2000
• The Jacksonville Bar
  • Environmental and Land Use Law Section, Chair, 1993-1995
• U. S. District Court, Middle District of Florida (1988)
• United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1994)
• United States Supreme Court (2009)
• "AV" Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• Who's Who in American Law
• Recognized by Jacksonville Magazine as one of the "250 Best Lawyers of 2010" in Jacksonville in Energy Law and ADM Law
• Florida Super Lawyers, 2008-2010
• Selected as Best Lawyers in America, Administrative Law and Energy Law, 2009-2011
• Listed in Leading Florida Attorneys: Real Estate and Environmental Law (Top 1 percent of specialty)
• Florida Trend Magazine, Twice selected among Florida's "Legal Elite" (Top 1.7 percent of Florida lawyers)
• Florida High School Mock Trial Competition, Scoring Judge, 2006
• Stetson University College of Law International Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, Presiding and Scoring Judge, 2006 and 2010

CIVIC:

• St. Johns County Weed and Seed Committee, Member, 2002-2007
• West Augustine Community Redevelopment Agency, Counsel, 2002-2007, 2010-present
• Regional Community Institute of Northeast Florida, Affordable Housing Committee, Member, 2010
• Northeast Florida Regional Council, Leadership Academy, 2010

PUBLICATIONS:

• "Breaching the Trust Fund," published in the Environmental and Land Use Law Section Reporter, Volume XXXI, Number 1, September 2009

Author or Co-Author of the following Florida Bar Journal articles:

• Strictly Speaking, Does F.S. §376.313(3) Create Duty to Everybody, Everywhere?, Part I
• The Delicate Tax Ramifications of Donating Environmentally Sensitive Lands
• Local Government Riparian Rights and Authority
• What Is a Bad Faith Administrative Petition
• The Evolution of Declaratory Statements
• What's a Local Government Got to Do to Get Reviewed Around Here? - Review of Local Administrative Actions by Common Law Certiorari after Pleasures II v. City of Sarasota
• We Thought We Were Safe: Federal Court Holds RCRA Preempts State Petroleum Cleanup Bar Statute
• Environmental and Land Use Section Treatise: Antitrust Implications of Environmental and Land Use Law; Nonconforming Uses and Structures; and Spot Zoning
• Author or co-author of various Law Review articles
• Various speaking engagements