About
Mr. Clayton has been working towards law due to the fact 1987 and is admitted to exercise in Florida, New Jersey and New York. He attended Washington & Lee University and acquired his undergraduate and regulation degrees from Seton Hall University. He based The Clayton Law Office, P.A. in 1996 after practising with notably appeared regulation workplaces previous to that point. After twenty years of having his personal law workplace, Mr. Clayton became a shareholder in Icard Merrill in 2016.
Mr. Clayton has been “AV” rated with the aid of Martindale Hubbell on the grounds that 1998 and has been particular as a Florida Super Lawyer from 2012 to 2018 , a distinction presented to less than five percentage of Florida lawyers, signifying the truth that his peers inside the felony profession rated his paintings and ethics at the very best degree. He has also been identified as considered one of Florida’s “Legal Elite” by using Florida Trend mag in 2013 and 2014. For his entire career, Mr. Clayton has engaged in complicated industrial litigation and funding associated court cases and arbitration.
He has a completely unique historical past, having worked inside the securities industry in New York and New Jersey for several years earlier than he have become an lawyer. That has provided him with priceless insights in investment-related matters. “Drew” has treated hundreds of securities disputes regarding tens of millions of bucks, starting from client disputes with brokerage companies to a federal courtroom case in which he recovered nearly $24 million in funding losses for Sarasota County arising from a first-rate financial institution’s mismanagement of the county’s securities lending portfolio.
He additionally represents registered representatives of brokerage corporations who've disputes with their former employers.
Mr. Clayton is well known within the network of attorneys who cope with investment instances, changed into president of the Judge John M. Scheb American Inn of Court from 2010 to 2011, and might be president of the Sarasota County Bar Association starting in September, 2019.
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Location
Legal Issues
- Arbitration & Mediation
- Business Arbitration, Consumer Arbitration, Family Arbitration
- Stockbroker & Investment Fraud
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Certificates
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Experience
- Shareholder
Icard Merrill
2016 - Owner
The Clayton Law Office, P.A.
1996 - Partner
Snyder, Groner, Schieb & Clayton
1993 - Associate Lawyer
Grady & Associates, LPA
1992 - Associate attorney
Ravin Sarasohn Cook Baumgarten Fisch & Baime
1990
Educations

Graduation year: 1983

Graduation year: 1980

Graduation year: 1978