Thomas Gonzalez

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About Thomas Gonzalez

Thomas F. Gonzalez is an AV rated trial lawyer. As a partner in Beggs & Lane's litigation group he represents companies and individuals in tort claims and business disputes. He also handles matters before the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings in the field of health care. Mr. Gonzalez has been with Beggs & Lane since He has developed a varied and diverse trial practice which includes plaintiffs and defense products liability work, and medical malpractice defense for physicians and hospital defendants. He has tried a wide variety of personal injury cases, including wrongful death, premises liability, and aircraft/automobile accidents. He has also litigated complex commercial disputes involving copyright infringement, aviation insurance claims, air ambulance contract disputes, electric utility contracts and homeowners' insurance. Mr. Gonzalez served in the Navy for eight years in a variety of positions, including a combat deployment as a helicopter pilot in support of the NATO mission in Bosnia, counternarcotics interdiction missions, and service in the Pentagon as the administrative aide to the Navy General Counsel. His work on behalf of insured homeowners following Hurricane Ivan in 2004 was profiled in the cover story of the Pensacola Business Journal in February, 2005. Subsequently, he was named by Florida Trend magazine in October 2009 as one of Florida's Legal Elite's Up and Comers, Lawyers on the Way Up. He has recently been appointed by Florida's Governor to a three-year term as a Commissioner on Florida' First Judicial Circuit's, Judicial Nominating Commission. In 2013 he earned his certification from the Supreme Court as a Circuit Civil Certified Mediator. Mr. Gonzalez is licensed to practice law in Florida, Alabama, Washington, DC and Texas.