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Fill IWEISS SEROTA HELFMAN ®IAT nnCOLECROViWADS o&gBSIERMANTill LAW Member eguedes@wsh-law.com 2525 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Suite 700 Coral Gables, Florida 33134 P:(305)854-0800 F:(305)854-2323 Practice Areas • Administrative and Regulatory Law • Appellate Law • Appellate Practice Group • Bankruptcy and Creditors Rights Group • Education Law • Election Law • Litigation Division • Local Counsel Representation • Real Estate, Land Use and Zoning Litigation • Special Counsel to Local Government Bar Admissions • Florida, 1988 • U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 2010 • U.S. Court of Appeals, 11 ' Circuit, 1996 • U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, 1999 • U.S. Supreme Court, 1998 • U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, 2013 Education • Harvard University Law School JD, 1988 • Amherst College, BA, magna cum laude, 1985 • John Woodruff Simpson Fellowship for the Study of Law Edward G. Guedes Ed is the Chair of our Appellate Practice Group. He is Board Certified by The Florida Bar in the field of Appellate Practice and a former finalist nominee to serve on the Florida Supreme Court. He is also chief appellate and trial support counsel for a national supermarket chain concerning all of their premises liability cases in South Florida. Ed's broad appellate practice encompasses significant representations in fields as diverse as medical malpractice defense, premises liability defense, intellectual property, land use and zoning law, election law, constitutional law, civil rights law, and employment and labor defense, to name a few. Among those. representations are: • Obtained favorable Unanimous decision from Florida Supreme Court restricting the subpoena power of Florida trial courts to compel out -of -slate corpordfions to produce valuable proprietary documents In Florida and overturning adverse intermediate appellate decisions being applied throughout the state; • Overturned on appeal mule -million dollarjury verdict against plastic surgeon In medical malpractice claim asserting negligent design and execution of procedures; • Successfully defended multi -national corporate manufacturer of breath-alcohol testing instruments used by law enforcement throughout the Stale of Florida against declaratory judgment action challenging corporation's ownership of intellectual property associated with the instruments; • Successfully defended at trial and through appeal to the United Stales Supreme Court a municipal charter provision setting forth an oath of office for elected officials. The oath was challenged on First Amendment grounds because it required the office holder to swear or affirm to support the constitutions and governments of the United States and the Stale of Florida; • Successfully litigated on behalf of State and local governmental entities concerning the interpretation of vested rights statute conferring development rights on owners of more than 12,000 residential lots in the Florida Keys and affecting all Areas of Critical Stale Concern throughout the State of Florida; • Successfully litigated and defended on appeal multi-million dollar class action for unpaid overtime waged under the Fair Labor Standards Act; • Upheld multi-million dollar ad valorem tax exemption for municipal marina competing with privately owned marinas; • Successfully defended against constitutional challenge authority of local governmental entity to regulate and restrict ownership of animals within community; • Successfully asserted a constitutional challenge to a municipal ordinance precluding private country club from fencing its property over the objections of surrounding neighbors, who asserted a historical right to a view onto and across the club property; • Successfully defended constitutional challenge to municipal charter provision allowing for appointment of official to fill vacancy on elected body; • Overturned on appeal denial of development approval for 300 -unit trailer park in South Miami -Dade County; • Overturned on appeal to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals lower court's injunction halting all limestone mining in the Lake Belt region of South Florida; • Overturned on appeal order requiring privately owned hospital under contract with local government to comply with Florida's public records laws; • In case of first impression interpreting statutory burdens of proof, overturned on appeal adverse discovery order requiring supermarket chain to review and divulge lens of thousands of records for more than 1000 stores; • Successfully represented the Cuban American Bar Association as amicus curiae in an bans proceedings before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in connection with a panel opinion that had vacated the conviction of five Cuban spies operating in South Florida; • Wide-ranging experience defending at trial and on appeal against dvil rights claims asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the American with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992. Ed has held leadership positions in The Florida Bar Appellate Court Rules Committee and the Dade County Bar Association's Appellate Court Committee. He is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades from his professional peers, having been recognized year over year in The Best Lawyers in America, Florida Super Lawyers Magazine, and Florida Legal Elite Top Lawyers. He holds