Law

Jéan E. Wilson

Orlando Managing Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, Orlando

Greenberg Traurig is a global law firm with more than 2,750 attorneys and about 5,000 employees in 47 offices worldwide. Wilson has been co-managing shareholder or managing shareholder of the firm’s Orlando office since 2013. He has led the development of the firm’s programs and initiatives focused on the recruitment, retention and development of Black lawyers.

EDUCATION: DePaul University (BS), University of Florida Levin College of Law (JD)

MENTOR: My father was not an educated man, but he was the wisest and hardest-working person I have ever known. He worked tirelessly to provide for our family and created a path for me and my eight other siblings to achieve what he was deprived of.

INSPIRING FLORIDIAN: Former Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal Judge Emerson Thompson, known as a judge’s judge for his mastery of the substantive law, has opened doors and helped pave the way for many Black lawyers like me to make an impact on the profession and in our communities.

IF I WERE GOVERNOR
“Setting term limits for all state and local elected officials, to incentivize them to rise above political, regional, and other affiliations to come together to achieve results.”

BRYAN AYLSTOCK

Aylstock Witkin Kreis & Overholtz

Dean Cannon

GrayRobinson

CHARLES S. CAULKINS

FISHER PHILLIPS

Jamie Alan Cole

Weiss Serota Helfman Cole & Bierman

Lisa Colon

Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr

DEAN COLSON

Colson, Hicks, Eidson

Jaret L. Davis

Greenberg Traurig

Leticia Diaz

Barry University School of Law

ALBERT E. DOTSON JR.

BILZIN SUMBERG

Barbara Fernandez

Hinshaw & Culbertson

Michelle Gervais

Blank Rome

Robert J. Grammig

Holland & Knight

Donald J. Hayden

Mark Migdal & Hayden

YOLANDA CASH JACKSON

Becker & Poliakoff

Fred Karlinsky

Greenberg Traurig

LORI KILLINGER

LEWIS, LONGMAN & WALKER

BRAD KIMBRO

Holland & Knight

ALAN KLUGER

KLUGER, KAPLAN, SILVERMAN, KATZEN & LEVINE

Gary Lesser

Lesser Lesser Landy & Smith

Laird Lile

Laird A. Lile

Sigrid McCawley

Boies Schiller Flexner

Patricia Mendez-Cambo

Softbank Group International

Michael Minton

Dean Mead

Harvey E. Oyer III

Shutts & Bowen

MIKE PAPANTONIO

Levin Papantonio Rafferty

Wayne Pathman

Pathman Schermer Tandy

Bill Perry

Gunster

Eugene Pettis

Haliczer Pettis & Schwamm

Sean Pittman

Pittman Law Group

Edward Pozzuoli

Tripp Scott

Peter Prieto

Podhurst Orseck

Rocky Rodriguez

BUCHANAN, INGERSOLL & ROONEY

Gary L. Sasso

Carlton Fields

JILL S. SCHWARTZ

JILL S. SCHWARTZ AND ASSOCIATES

Adele Stone

Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney

EVERETT WILSON

Polsinelli

Jéan E. Wilson

Greenberg Traurig

Gregory C. Yadley

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick