Tee Persad
Of Counsel
Orlando Office
255 South Orange Avenue, Suite 900
Orlando, Florida 32801
Tee Persad serves as Of Counsel in the Orlando hub of Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A. With over 30 years of experience as a business litigator, consultant, and mediator, Mr. Persad has dedicated his entire professional career to helping individuals and businesses resolve complex personal, business, and societal problems. Mr. Persad specializes in multifaceted business cases, class action consumer protection cases (including being a certified lead class counsel), complex family law cases, domestic cases, international cases, and cases involving businesses and government agencies, including foreign governments. He has represented clients in State and Federal Courts in Florida and other States (pro hac vice), and in the Territorial Courts in the U.S. Virgin Islands. His practice also includes representing businesses in transactional matters, including business growth and development issues, mergers and acquisitions, risk analysis and management, negotiations of deals, real estate purchase and sale, and reorganization issues.
Mr. Persad is a Certified Mediator offering comprehensive counsel for the following types of cases: Federal and State Commercial, Employment, Class Action, Consumer Protection, Tort, and General Contract Disputes; Complex Family Law Disputes; and Disputes between Businesses and Government Entities. He is certified by the Supreme Court of Florida as a Certified Circuit Civil and Family Mediator, and by the Courts in the U.S. Virgin Islands to mediate all types of cases in that territory.
Beginning his mediation experience in law school, Mr. Persad facilitated the start of the mediation and negotiation program and collaborated with the professors and students to develop the curriculum and case studies used to train student mediators and help students develop their negotiation skills. As a law clerk to two judges in Family Court, he mediated property disputes between parties and helped to train subsequent law clerks on mediation. From 1995, his practice included mediating a variety of cases, from simple contract disputes to complex class action matters. As a mediator, he has aided parties successfully resolve complex family law matters, complex business law matters, complex employment matters, complex consumer protection matters, class actions, personal injury matters, and complex matters between multinational companies and government agencies.
Mr. Persad's expertise extends to serving as Private Corporate Counsel and Consultant to Small and Medium-Sized Businesses ("SMEs"), and Fortune 500 companies. In this role, he advises businesses through a range of legal, organizational, and leadership issues typically overseen by in-house corporate counsel and business consultants and coaches. Throughout his practice, Mr. Persad has also functioned as an arbitrator for a variety of matters, from lemon law cases to intricate commercial transactions. As a seasoned arbitrator and mediator, he uses his dispute resolution skills to help his clients resolve conflicts without litigation.
In 1993, Mr. Persad earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Akron School of Law, followed by a Master's in Public Administration from the University of Akron in 1994, and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the University of the Virgin Islands in 1991. While in law school, he participated in the Harvard Law School Executive Education Program for Negotiation, Leadership, and Conflict Resolution. Additionally, he served in the U.S. Army's Quartermaster School.
Mr. Persad is admitted to practice in Florida State Courts, U.S. Virgin Islands Territory and Federal Courts, the Federal Court for the Middle District of Florida, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mr. Persad regularly lectures on topics relevant to lawyers, mediators, and other dispute resolution professionals, where the attendees received continuing legal and mediation education credits. He lectures at National Corporate Counsel conferences, state conferences, including Florida's annual Dispute Resolution Conference, local bar associations, Mediation Mastery Seminars, and Practice Mastery Seminars. His speaking engagements include, but are not limited to the following topics:
- Business Skills for Lawyers
- Civility, Professionalism and Conflict Resolution
- Conflict Resolution Models
- Connecting and Influencing Others to Create Lasting Change
- Cultural Diversity
- Designing Your Reputation
- How to Become a More Effective ADR Leader
- Interest-Based Negotiation
- Leadership Skills for Lawyers (lawyers as leaders; the ethical duty to lead; becoming a world-class leader; the psychology of leadership; team leadership for lawyers; and tribunal leadership for lawyers)
- Leadership Skills for Mediators (self-leadership; social awareness and relationship management; managing change in yourself and others; and the ethical duty to lead, energy leadership)
- Managing Client Matters and Client Relationships
- Master Steps for Creating Lasting Change in Others
- Master Steps for Lasting Change in Yourself
- Self-Awareness and Becoming More Resilient
- The Lawyer's Professional Life Cycle
- The Mediator's Professional Life Cycle
- Value Analysis - How to Determine Your Hourly Rate