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Brian Joslyn has built an active practice as a commercial trial lawyer, with special concentration in all aspects of real estate law and development, land use, partnership and corporate litigation, and governmental representation. In addition to acting as lead counsel in many dozens of trials and arbitrations, Mr. Joslyn has argued over 20 appeals before Florida District Courts of Appeal and successfully argued before the Florida Supreme Court in Bitterman v. Bitterman, 714 So.2d 356 (Fla 1993), in which the Supreme Court held, for the first time, that a trial judge has inherent authority to sanction “inequitable conduct” by litigants.
Rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell, he graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Central Florida and earned a Juris Doctor degree with honors from the University of Florida in 1981.
He is a member of the American and Palm Beach County Bar Associations, the Palm Beach County Justice Association, the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, the American Justice Association, the Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida and the American Board of Trial Advocates. Mr. Joslyn was appointed several years ago by the Palm Beach County Bar Association to the Palm Beach County Environmental Appeal Board.
Mr. Joslyn has, over his life, had a wide range of interests outside the practice of law, including travel, photography, mountaineering and martial arts (in which he holds a Third Degree Black Belt in Shaolin Karate and a Black Belt in Kendo). In addition, Mr. Joslyn is nationally known in the field for constructing prize winning ship models, several of which are exhibited in museums in the United States and Japan. Mr. Joslyn served in the military from 1971 to 1994, where he served as a member of the US Army Rangers. |
