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Stephen Hunter Johnson, ESQ

Professional Experience

Mr. Johnson specializes in the representation of professionals, corporations and insurers in a broad range of business and tort matters, including employment claims, environmental claims and other complex actions.  Mr. Johnson also has experience litigating government municipal matters throughout the state of Florida, as well as representing journalists and media companies in intellectual property and defamation litigation. Mr. Johnson’s practice also includes the defense of attorneys, accountants and real estate professionals in professional liability matters and non-profit corporations as well as their directors and officers in a range of matters.

Before joining Lydecker, Mr. Johnson began his career as an associate in the Miami office of a business litigation boutique headquartered in New York, where he represented banking and corporate interests in multiple international business and commercial disputes. Mr. Johnson is also an experienced and accomplished appellate attorney, having multiple published Federal and Florida opinions, as well as oral arguments and appellate mediations across multiple appellate courts.

In addition to his professional commitments, Mr. Johnson recognizes his responsibility to serve the community. He is a member of the 100 Black Men of South Florida, one of the leading youth mentoring organizations in the country, as well as the Miami-Dade County Black Affairs Advisory Board. He is also a director of BAC Funding Corp. a non-profit state funded lender for disadvantaged business. He is also Secretary of the Coppin State University Development Foundation which raises money for scholarships to his alma mater, Coppin State University. He also Serves as Vice Chair of the Miami-Dade School District Audit and Budget Committee. He has also served as a member of the Executive Board of the Miami-Dade Chapter of NAACP and the Polemarch (President) of the Richmond-Perrine (FL) Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

Education

  • 2003, J.D. University of Miami School of Law, Cum Laude
  • 2000, B.S. Management, Coppin State University

Bar and Court Admissions

  • 2020 United States District for the Southern District of Florida
  • 2020 United States District for the Middle District of Florida
  • 2008 Florida

Awards and Recognitions

  • Super Lawyers Rising Stars 2012-2015
  • University of Miami School of Law, Dean’s Scholar
  • American Board of Trial Advocates’ Bill Colson Trial Award

Publications

  • TheStreet.com, Inc. v. Carroll, 20 So 3d 947 (Fla. 4th DCA 2009)
  • Crowley Museum and Nature Center, Inc. v. Southwest Florida Water Management Dist. 993 So 2d 605 (Fla 2d DCA 2008)
  • Young Apartments, Inc. v. Town of Jupiter, FL, 529 F.3d 1027 (11th Cir. 2008)