Practice Areas

Our attorneys provide comprehensive litigation and dispute resolution services to individuals, large and small businesses, and government and quasi-government organizations, including pre-suit mediation, traditional litigation and appeals, alternative dispute processes, private judging matters, and arbitrations, in state and federal, trial, and appellate courts throughout Florida. Our attorneys have successfully litigated, tried, and handled appeals throughout our state.

Litigation is an adversarial process, and it can be filled with uncertainty, emotion, and attacks. We recognize each matter is unique. We take time to understand each client’s goals to ensure our recommendations and litigation strategies are tailored to meet client-specific needs. During these high-conflict situations, we pride ourselves on providing a results-driven approach through preparation, detailed case analysis, ingenuity, and determined advocacy.

DownsAaron can smooth your way through an unlimited variety of matters with state and local government. We have unparalleled access and relationships – a claim many make, but we can prove – and the knowledge and experience to both assess and obtain the desired result. And if we can’t obtain your result, we’ll tell you up front. We can also work with you strategically about how to shape and scale what you need to heighten your chances of success.  

For some, family law is sometimes called “threshold law,” describing lawyers who’ll take any case that crosses the thresholds of their offices. Not us. We are selective about who we agree to represent, and the number of cases we take on, to ensure we can provide concierge level to our clients. Our most satisfying referrals come from our former opponents, who say they regretted not being represented by us.  

We understand there are many areas of law that intersect, including business entities and governance, asset valuation, tax and finance impacts, and mental health issues, and we have the resources to address them. Our attorneys specialize in assisting highly compensated individuals, including those in the public eye, and can offer the best strategic approach for them. Matters involving money, children and highly charged disputes are hard. We’re up to it, and know how to get you through it all. Some people are tough to deal with; we do that for you. And like our native son Tom Petty, we won’t back down. 

Need guidance on compliance, campaign finance, and election disputes? Concerned about a particular political ad campaign?  Unsure about disclosure requirements during a hotly contested election?   

Call us – we can handle it. This is an area of law where details matter and the smallest misstep could wind up on the front-page. DownsAaron knows and understands that, and has the experience to walk with you up to and through election day. 

Your reputation is one of your most valuable assets.  Whether it’s a false campaign on social media attempting to diminish your business, or wild accusations meant to attack you personally, our team knows the damage this causes to your reputation. Our attorneys have successfully litigated defamation claims throughout the State of Florida, and defended against spurious claims brought against people merely speaking the truth.

We have handled trademark investigation and litigation in state and federal courts, from both the standpoint of the owner of the intellectual property, to the defense of trademark infringement claims. We have also assisted in managing patent prosecution, and the launch of software and other technological matters related to patent development, registration, approval and even breach. As we do in our legal concierge practice, DownsAaron can also help manage all areas of intellectual property development and management. 

We support higher education institutions with legal advice on regulatory compliance, governance, labor issues, public records, and student affairs. The administration of education at the college level and beyond is a tough space filled with many challenges; we can help get you through those challenges, and we admire how important what you do is.   It is our educations that allow us to do what we do. 

DownsAaron offers one point of contact for your nationwide legal matters and business needs.  We offer a unique and exclusive concierge service to simplify your life.  This includes providing counsel related to your needs—even those that are personal.  This gives you the convenience of having one law firm—that is intimately familiar with your business, goals, and vision—to coordinate and manage your service providers in all areas to make sure there is a cohesive strategy to advance your best interests.  The services we provide are vast, and have included reviewing legal invoices to ensure fairness and efficiency, vetting providers and negotiating contracts for services, aggregating and analyzing information related to client’s insurance needs and other risk-management functions, and determining intellectual property analysis and protection.  With our management of these services, you can focus your time and attention where it matters most.

You won’t find this phrase in any statute or case book. But you know what it means. Sometimes a problem is more than just a dispute. Sometimes the outcomes matter almost more than you can explain, or process. Sometimes a problem has no easy answers. This is where we live. We have litigated, tried and strategically resolved critical, complex and one-off cases for decades. Our founder, Mayanne Downs, has been selected by peers, businesses and governments as the go-to “Bet the Company” litigator for years.

Our lawyers have been advising and fighting for local governments throughout the State of Florida for over 20 years. Help with public records? State preemption? Discrimination or abuse of power claims? Condemnation or annexation questions? Investigations, internal or external? Or any of the hundreds of other issues that local governments must handle daily – DownsAaron can help.

Lawyers and law firms used to routinely include this phrase on their brochures and stationery. Somewhere along the line, the phrase lost its cache. Not for us. We are deeply proud that business leaders, those well-known for excellence, public servants, even other lawyers and law firms call us for help, counsel and advice. Many of our clients confidentially seek help, strategy, and guidance and no one ever knows. This is partly why you’ll never see on this website – or anywhere else – a listing of our clients. You’d recognize a lot of names, but it’s not our place to identify them. We’re happy they come to us for help. That’s what counts.