WILLIAM J. TURBEVILLE, II
(1957-2005)

EDUCATION AND HONORS

University of Florida, Juris Doctor, 1984. Graduated top 5% of class; Order of the Coif; Phi Kappa Phi; Senior Articles Editor, University of Florida Law Review; President, Environmental Law Society; Recipient, Junior Crandall Memorial Scholarship as Top Graduate in the field of Constitutional Law; Book Awards in Constitutional Law I, Constitutional Law II, Conflict of Laws and Business Organizations.

Florida Atlantic University, Master of Arts in English, 1981.

Oxford University, English Speaking Union Scholarship, 1979.

Florida Atlantic University, Bachelor of Arts in English with Honors, 1978.

PROFESSIONAL DATA

Admitted to Practice before the Florida Bar (1984), Hawaii Bar (1992), Supreme Court of the United States (1988), United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (1986) and Ninth Circuit (1997), United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (Trial and General Bar) (1986), Middle District of Florida (Combined Bar) (1986), District of Hawaii (1992), District of Wisconsin (1994), Western and Eastern Districts of Arkansas (1997).

Lead trial counsel in numerous jury and bench trials, both state and federal, in Florida, California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Indiana and Utah.

Scuba Diving Instructor, 1978 to 1981
Nautilus Dive, Surf & Ski
Boca Raton, Florida

Nine year lecturer and panelist at the Dive Equipment and Marketing Association show as well as every Technical Diving show.

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Attorney, Burke, Bosselman & Weaver
Boca Raton, Florida; 1985 - 1990.
Litigation based practice in product liability and environmental law.

Law Clerk to the Honorable Paul H. Roney,
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; 1984 - 1985.

PUBLICATIONS

Note, "American Ocean Policy Adrift: A United States Exclusive Economic Zone as an Alternative to the Law of the Sea Treaty", 35 U. Fla. L. Rev. 492 (Summer 1983).

Case Comment, "Constitutional Law: Establishment Clause Standing Clarified": American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia v. Rabun County Chamber of Commerce, 678 F.2d 1379 (11th Cir. 1982) 35 U. Fla. L. Rev. 188 (Winter 1983).

"Nonregulatory Techniques for Growth Management: Locking in the Players" in Growth Management Innovations, FAU & FIU Joint Center for Environmental and Urban Problems, Monograph # 88-1 (1988).

"Liability Considerations of Nitrox Diving": The Undersea Journal (Fourth Quarter, 1992).

"Legal Risks of Technical Diving: How to Protect Yourself", Aqua Corps Journal, Vol. 3 No.2 (Winter 1992).

"Legal Releases in Recreational Scuba Diving", South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal, Vol. 25 No. 1 (March, 1995).