Tampa Bay Chamber Involvement

• Board of Directors – Legal Counsel

Clients rely on Brad for his broad range of experience as a business lawyer, counseling clients primarily on labor and employment matters.  Brad’s practice focuses on representing employers in a wide variety of state and federal employment law issues, including wage and hour litigation, discrimination and retaliation actions, restrictive covenant and trade secret claims and other employment-related disputes.  A management-side labor and employment lawyer, Brad also routinely assists clients in developing and updating employment policies, employee handbooks, employment and independent contractor agreements, restrictive covenant agreements, and severance agreements.  

In addition to his law practice, Brad serves as the co-hiring partner for Shumaker’s Tampa office.  Drawing on his experience as a teacher prior to law school, Brad is also an instructor at the FSU College of Law’s Stoops Center of Law and Business.  Additionally, Brad serves on the Tampa Bay Chamber’s Board of Directors and volunteers with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay.  Brad and his wife, Dale, enjoy sharing their love of music, reading and travel with their two daughters.

Brad received his undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary in Virginia and his law degree from the Florida State University College of Law.