Mark W. Rickard
Mark W. Rickard
mwr@floridacollections.com
Direct dial: 954-315-0922
Mark W. Rickard spent his early legal career socializing with elite athletes and sports owners as a sports attorney and athlete agent. Giving up the limelight, Mark has been with the firm since November of 2000 and we’ve found that his background and sarcasm fit in well.
Born and raised as an Air Force brat, Mark has been all over the world and, according to him, seen more than a soviet spy satellite. Mark graduated from Fullerton College (California) in 1982 with a major in Pre-Law and received a BSBA in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix (Arizona) in 1991. He worked for the US Postal Service from 1982 to 1993, having served as a supervisor and as a superintendent of postal operations. While at the University of Miami School of Law, he competed on the UM Bowling Team, was president of the Corporate Law Society, president of the Entertainment and Sports Law Society, Vice Chairman of the Orientation Committee, Master of Ceremony for the First Annual EASL Awards, Member of Phi Alpha Delta, Member of the Christian Legal Society, organized a Moot Court Competition for Corporate Law, organized a 10K Run for the benefit of AIDS Research, earned a Dean’s Honor Scholarship, earned a Merit Scholarship, leapt tall buildings in a single bound, etc. Despite the full plate, he still received a Juris Doctor degree in 1996 and was admitted to the Florida Bar later that year.
After his years practicing sports law, writing books, lecturing, teaching law to future paralegals, mediating disputes for the Broward County Courts, a brief stint in Arizona to help friends start a new business on the Colorado River, and a couple of years as a professional bowler, Mark joined the firm of Jacobson, Sobo & Moselle. Mark now handles all phases of litigation, including complex trials, subrogation, domestications, and appeals. Mark has won more than a dozen appeals since 2004, including several published opinions. Mark has also been very successful in proceedings supplementary to execution. He now lectures on proceedings supplementary, executing on final judgments and issues related to judgment liens for the National Business Institute and the Broward County Bar Association.
In his "free time", Mark runs, golfs, bowls, plays tennis, lifts weights, writes novels, prepares gourmet feasts, and generally enjoys life. Mark also enjoys traveling and has journeyed all over the world. So it is, perhaps, no surprise that he is the proud parent of a Siberian Husky here in sunny Florida. [Ed. - The firm has unofficially adopted Jack as its mascot, even as we try to keep him from eating the pleadings.]
