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Zachary J. Glaser

Zachary J. Glaser

Zachary J. Glaser
Partner

813-272-1400
zglaser@bja-law.com

 

Zach Glaser is a partner in the firm. Zach practices primarily in the areas of commercial litigation, corporate law, intellectual property and employment defense. Mr. Glaser represents businesses large and small and provides advice in all aspects of business law. Zach has successfully represented businesses in a wide range of matters including complex commercial litigation, patent disputes, trademark registration and prosecution matters, employment discrimination, wage and hour, restrictive covenants, union grievances, union organization attempts and whistleblower actions. Mr. Glaser also represents businesses in transactional matters. Zach has successfully drafted and negotiated hundreds of contracts for his clients including mergers and acquisitions, asset purchase agreements, license agreements as well as corporate governance matters.

 

Zach received his bachelor of science degree in Business Management from the University of Maryland, College Park and his Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration from Stetson University College of Law, cum laude. While at the University of Maryland he was a Dean’s list student and a Scholar-Athlete while playing for the University of Maryland Football Team. During law school, Mr. Glaser received book awards for the highest grade in his section in Secured Transactions, Delaware’s Influence on Corporate law and International Sales and Arbitration. As a member of Stetson’s Moot Court Board Mr. Glaser won awards for both his writing and oral advocacy while competing in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration competition in Vienna, Austria, the second largest moot court competition in the world.

 

Prior to joining Bennett, Jacobs & Adams, while in law school Zach served as the sole legal intern to the general counsel of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Mr. Glaser is an active member of the American Bar Association, the Hillsborough County Bar Association and was previously the co-chair of the Hillsborough County Bar Association’s Community Services Committee. Originally from Upstate New York, Zach lives in Tampa now with his wife, Sarah, and their two 9-year old puppies.

Education:
Stetson University College of Law
Cum laude
J.D., 2007
Gulfport, FL

 

Stetson University
Master of Business Administration, 2007
Deland, FL

 

University of Maryland
B.S. in Business Management, 2004
College Park, MD

 

Admissions:

Florida Supreme Court, 2007
United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, 2008
United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, 2009
United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, 2010
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 2010

Practice Focus:

  • Commercial Litigation: breach of contract actions, breach of non-competition agreements, assists in representation of businesses in complex commercial litigation.
  • Business Transactions: various corporate transactions for public and private companies, corporate and business formation transactions, contract drafting and negotiations.
  • Intellectual Property: registration and maintenance, including policing, of federal and state trademarks and copyrights, litigation before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Labor and Employment Defense: litigation and counseling to employers regarding discrimination, wrongful termination, non-competition and non-solicitation and other employment and benefit matters.
  • Real Estate: transactional counseling on real estate transactions, assists in representation of buyers and sellers in real estate litigation.

Practice Areas:
Automobile Negligence
Business Law
Commercial Litigation
Creditor’s Rights
Insurance Defense
Intellectual Property
Labor and Employment Defense
Real Estate

Representative Engagements:

  • Assisted with pre-trial motions, memoranda and trial preparation in several litigation matters that went to trial.
  • Counsel to Fortune 500 companies on all trademark and copyright matters before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Negotiated public relations and website hosting transactions with Multi-billion dollar Entertainment Corporation and major Hollywood studio.
  • Counsel to several corporate executives regarding negotiations of seperation agreements, severance packages, estate planning and new executive employment contracts.
  • Assisted in the successful defense of several employment matters and discrimination charges in state, federal and governmental proceedings.
  • Successfully litigated an action to recover a client’s domain name before the World Intellectual Property Organization.
  • Counseled and successfully negotiated corporate transactions on behalf of both buyers and sellers of several business entities.