Paul C Huck Jr Biography
Paul C Huck Jr is an American lawyer serving as a partner at Joines Day. His practice focuses on business litigation, regulatory advice, and government investigations. He is the husband of Justice Barbara Lagoa.
Paul C Huck Jr Family
Paul is the son of Paul C. Huck, a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He was nominated by President Bill Clinton on May 9, 2000 and was confirmed by the senate on June 30, 2000 and received commission on July 11. On August 31, 2010 he assumed senior status.
Paul C Huck Jr Wife
Paul is married to Barbara Lagoa, a United States Circuit Judge–Designate on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She previously seved as Chief Judge at the Supreme Court of Florida becoming the first Hispanic woman to be appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.
She was included in President trump’s list of potential nominees to the Supreme Court. After the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18, 2020 she has been mentioned as one of the frontrunners to fill the vacant seat.
Paul C Huck Jr Children
Huck together with his wife have three daughters together.
Paul Huck Jr Miami
Paul began his legal practice at a Miami litigation boutique law firm from 1993 to 2002. He focused on complex commercial litigation. During that time, he represented a wide range of clients on business torts, shareholder disputes, and violations of the federal securities and antitrust laws.
Paul Huck Jr. worked at Colson Hicks Eidson in Coral Gables for four years and served as general counsel to then-Governor Charlie Crist from 2007 to 2008. Paul Huck Jr., the husband and son of judges, has joined Hunton & Williams as a partner in the Miami office.
He served as general counsel to the governor of Florida from 2007 to 2008 and was the principal legal advisor to the governor on a host of constitutional, legislative, and statutory issues affecting the executive branch. He also supervised the major litigation being prosecuted or defended by the governor’s executive agencies, including cases arising in the environmental, transportation, and health care arenas.
He also engaged in extensive sovereign-to-sovereign negotiations and dispute resolution proceedings, including the negotiation of a gaming compact entered into between the state of Florida and the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the dispute among Florida, Georgia, and Alabama regarding the allocation of water rights among those three states.
He additionaly served as the deputy attorney general for Florida, where he was involved in the prosecution of a wide variety of civil enforcement and criminal matters in the health care, telecommunications, and pharmaceutical industries, among others.
Paul C Huck Jr Jones Day
Huck is a partner at Jones Day and his practice focuses on business litigation, regulatory advice, and government investigations.
Paul C Huck Jr Political Party
Paul has revealed his political affiliation.