Bio
Bill Hollimon is a registered patent attorney and circuit civil mediator. His practice focuses on patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Bill is also an experienced litigator, and regularly appears in state and federal courts. He also in involved in administrative litigation at the state and federal levels. He is admitted to practice before all Florida State Courts, all Florida Federal District Courts, the United States Court of Claims, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal.
Bill has litigated patent, trademark, and copyright disputes, and has experience in other complex litigation including class actions and proceedings before the Florida Public Service Commission. He also assists clients in cancellation and opposition proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and in domain name disputes before ICANN. He provides legal advice and strategic planning services to many local technology businesses.
His mediation practice concentrates on complex commercial disputes and disputes involving intellectual property. Prior to beginning his legal career, Bill practiced as an engineer in the electric utility industry in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina.
Bill was selected by his peers as one of the Top Florida Lawyers in Florida Trend’s 2007 Legal Elite Survey.
Loranne Ausley is an attorney who served in the Florida legislature for 8 years, and ran for statewide office in 2010. Her practice focuses on strategic advice and general government consulting.
Loranne began her law practice with the Miami offices of Steel, Hector & Davis as a member of their litigation practice. Since that time she has held high level posts throughout state and local government, including 8 years as an elected Member of the Florida House of Representatives.
As a Democratic leader in the State House, Loranne established herself as an independent-minded leader unafraid to take on tough problems and find real solutions. As the ranking Democrat on the House Health Care Council, Ausley developed a policy expertise in health care, and in 2008 was selected to oversee the Florida Healthy Kids Corporation, Florida’ s $300 million child health insurance program. In addition to her state legislative service, Ausley has held high level posts in all branches of government at the state and federal level, including the Executive Office of the Governor of Florida, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, the US Department of Commerce, the US Senate and the US House of Representatives.
Ausley is active in a number of local state and national organizations. She was instrumental in creating Whole Child Leon , a community based initiative focused on young children and their families, and she continues to actively serve as Chair. She serves as a Board Member to the United Way of the Big Bend, as a member of Leadership Florida’s Class XX, and was selected as one of 25 inaugural Fellows of the Democratic Leadership Council.
Loranne graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College with a degree in Economics and earned her J.D. from the Washington & Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia. She is an avid triathlete (Ironman Florida finisher, 2007) and marathon runner.