Michael T. Sheridan is a seasoned general civil law practice attorney and litigator with significant experience in commercial and business litigation, personal and commercial real estate, copyright and trademark law, estate planning and administration, business law, and contracts.  As a sole practitioner in Orlando, Florida, Mr. Sheridan’s diverse portfolio of clients and case work engenders a personalized and holistic approach to each matter.

Mr. Sheridan is a graduate of the Shepard Broad Law Center of Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he earned a Juris Doctorate degree in 1996.  During law school, Mr. Sheridan was an editor of the Nova Law Review, technical editor of the Journal of International & Comparative Law, and participated in mock trial competitions statewide.  Mr. Sheridan’s article on the evolution in eminent domain law resultant from the State Road 84 and Interstate 595 highway widening project in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, won him the prestigious Attorney’s Title Insurance Fund Real Estate Law writing competition and accompanying scholarship in 1996.  In addition, his 1996 article on Equal Protection Law and Genetics earned him an American Jurisprudence Award for excellence in civil rights authorship.  While studying law, Mr. Sheridan clerked in the Eminent Domain Section of the Florida Department of Transportation in Fort Lauderdale.  After graduation from law school, Mr. Sheridan moved to Orlando and began practicing eminent domain defense law with the Fishback Dominick Law Firm.

In 1998, Mr. Sheridan joined Stump, Storey, Callahan, Dietrich & Spears, P.A., as an associate practicing commercial litigation, in addition to handling the firm’s substantial banking and collection litigation practice. Almost two years later, Mr. Sheridan left the firm to pursue private practice opportunities in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 2000, while practicing plaintiff’s asbestos products liability law. Mr. Sheridan also spent two years of counsel to a general civil law firm in Philadelphia.  In 2003, Mr. Sheridan returned to Florida to practice federal commercial and anti-piracy litigation with Stump, Storey, et al., for the nation’s largest provider of satellite television programming (DirecTV).  Mr. Sheridan was the first lawyer in Florida to bring a DirecTV satellite television theft/anti-piracy case to trial in federal court in Miami, where, as a result of Mr. Sheridan prevailing on the merits, the court awarded DirecTV the maximum in statutory damages.

Mr. Sheridan is a member of the Florida, Pennsylvania, and Orange County, Florida, Bar Associations. He is also admitted to practice law in all Florida U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts, the U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for Eastern Pennsylvania, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Court of International Trade.

Mr. Sheridan runs his independent practice in the Conway section of Orlando, Florida.