Garry W. O’Donnell
Partner
Garry W. O’Donnell is a partner in the Litigation, Regulatory Compliance & Defense, Class Action Defense, and Labor & Employment practice groups at Greenspoon Marder LLP. He is an experienced civil trial attorney and Florida Bar Board Certified in Business Litigation, which demonstrates a lawyer’s dedication, commitment and experience in a specialty area of the law at a heightened level of excellence through character, professionalism, ethics, and credibility. He devotes his practice to the area of business dispute resolution in state and federal courts and commercial arbitrations.
Mr. O’Donnell represents individuals and businesses in a broad range of disputes involving real estate, securities, contracts, employment and labor, banking, fair trade, business torts, consumer law, insurance, product liability, technology, intellectual property and tax.
Prior to entering private practice, he served as a law clerk to a federal district court judge elevated to the federal appellate court.
Experience
Professional and Community Involvement
- Federal Bar Association, Member
- American Bar Association, Member
- The Florida Bar Fee Arbitration Committee, Member
- Marine Advisory Board, Boca Raton, Florida, Vice Chair
- Florida Business Litigation Certification Committee, Former Chair, Vice Chair, and Member
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), former arbitrator and trainer.
- Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, former traffic hearing officer
- Fifteenth Judicial Circuit Grievance Committee, Former Chair, Vice Chair, and Member; Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Grievance Committee, former member
- Advisory Council, University of Dayton School of Law, Former Vice Chair and Member
- Alumni Board, University of Dayton School of Law, Former Member
- South Palm Beach County Bar Association, Former Member and Former Chair of Civil Practice and Library Committees
Awards
Recognitions
- The Boca Raton Observer, “Top Lawyers,” 2025
- Florida Bar Meritorious Public Service Certificate 2019
- The Boca Raton Observer, “Boca Raton’s Expert Lawyers,” 2016
Publications
Publications
- Contributor, ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law, Trade Secrets and Interferences with Contracts Committee Annual Trade Secrets Law Report, 2014-2015
- Panel Member, ABA Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries, 2010-2013
- Panel Member, FINRA Securities Conference, 2008
- “Patent Troll Litigation as an Artifice to Obtain Your Non-Client’s Trade Secrets: Not on Your Watch,” American Bar Association Intellectual Property Litigation Journal, Winter 2006
- “Negotiating Points for ADR Clauses in Entertainment Contracts,” The Florida Bar Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section, Annual Legal Symposium on the World of Music, Film & Television,” 2004