Attorney L. Reed Bloodworth
Founder and CEO
Top Rated & Reviewed Attorney
Attorney L. Reed Bloodworth is Founder and CEO of Bloodworth Law, PLLC, a 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Law Firm Orlando in Trusts & Estates Litigation, Commercial Litigation, and Real Estate Litigation.
Reed has been recognized as a U.S. News & World Report Best Lawyer since 2019 and has been a Super Lawyer from 2019 through 2024.
Reed was selected by legal peers as a Florida Trend’s Florida Legal Elite in 2017-19, 2021. He’s a Justia Rated 10.0 Attorney, an Avvo-rated 10.0 Superb Attorney in Business Litigation and Trust and Estate Litigation.
Reed has been a Martindale-Hubbell AV Peer-Rated Pre-Eminent Attorney for the highest level of professional excellence since 2014. And he’s a 2019 FindLaw Lead Counsel-Rated Attorney.
Recent Cases
Doing the Right Thing for Clients
100% of my time is spent in trust litigation, probate and estate litigation, business litigation, employment litigation. I’ve had only one instance where a client had a judgment entered against them since 2004. Recently I’ve assisted clients in recovering:
$775,000 in a legal malpractice dispute
$750,000 in a trust dispute
$723,000 in a business dispute
$510,000 in a business dispute
$435,000 in probate litigation
$417,000 in a business dispute
$385,000 in a trust dispute
$250,000 in a trust dispute
I’ve handled hundreds of business litigation cases, trust litigation, and probate and estate litigation cases. I’m proud to provide my clients with powerful legal resources.
Practice Areas:
Trust litigation
- Trust Disputes: Represent beneficiaries challenging validity of a trust, or trustees defending a trust or trust actions.
- Undue Influence: Improper influence over a person to change a trust.
- Lack of Capacity: Absence of mental capacity when a trust was executed.
- Tortious Interference with a Testamentary Expectancy: Questionable, detrimental interference with a trust.
- Accounting Actions: Assist trustees, beneficiaries, petitioning court re: accounting issues.
- Breach of Fiduciary Duty: Represent trustees defending against a legal action, or, prosecute beneficiaries’ legal issues involving trustees.
- Lack of Execution Formalities: Challenges to whether a Florida trust was properly executed.
- Trust Construction: Review of trust instruments for ambiguous or conflicting language.
- Surcharge Actions: Represent beneficiaries bringing surcharge claims against trustees. Defend trustees against surcharge claims.
Probate & Estate Litigation:
- Undue Influence: Improper influence over a person to change a will.
- Lack of Capacity: Absence of mental capacity at time a will was executed.
- Breach of Fiduciary Duty:
- Tortious Interference with a Testamentary Expectancy: Questionable, detrimental interference with a will.
- Fraud: Where testator was intentionally misled resulting in a will he/she otherwise would not have made.
- Will Disputes: Beneficiaries challenging the validity of a will. Personal representatives with an obligation to defend the will.
- Duress: The testator is forced to make will under threat of coercion or physical harm.
- Accounting Actions: Assist beneficiaries petitioning for formal or informal accountings of estates or trusts.
- Personal Representative Misconduct/Breach of Fiduciary Duty: Prosecute claims on behalf of beneficiaries. Defend personal representatives against whom claims are made.
- Breach of Fiduciary Duty: Beneficiaries wishing to remove a personal representative or a trustee. Personal representatives or trustees defending against removal actions.
- Lack of Execution Formalities: Challenges to whether a will was properly executed pursuant to Florida law.
- Will Construction: Review of will to interpret ambiguous or conflicting language.
- Surcharge Actions: Beneficiaries bringing surcharge claims against personal representatives. Personal representatives defending against surcharge claims.
Business Litigation
Civil legal actions involving business disputes
- Breach of Contract: A valid contract is broken, a loss has occurred, a legal remedy is needed.
- Shareholder & Partnership Litigation: Negative actions between company entities require legal remedies.
- Business Torts: Describes the many causes of civil action within business litigation.
- Fraudulent Misrepresentation: One party lies to get another party into a contract with the other.
- Negligent Misrepresentation: One party makes false statements to close a deal.
- Breach of Fiduciary Duty: One party’s position breaches duty of trust to others in a contract.
- Employment Litigation: Legal issues between employers and employees.
- Investment Losses and Securities Fraud: Disputes over financial losses.
- Legal Malpractice and Professional Liability: Questionable professional ethics or actions.
- Real Estate Litigation: Actions to resolve property or contract disputes.
Employment Law
- Non-Compete Agreements: Prevent loss in enforceable Florida non-compete agreements between employers and employees. Defend against non-compete challenges.
- Discrimination or Harassment: Employers accused of discrimination or harassment, and employees who are victims of discrimination or harassment.
- Overtime & Minimum Wage: Complex overtime and minimum wage law problems for employers over paid wages, or employees who’ve not been paid appropriate wages.
- Business Consultations: Set company policies according to Florida employment law to create positive employer-employee relationships with clear workplace standards.
- Management Representation: Compliance and audits of overtime, wage, and record keeping requirements mandated by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
- Defense of Claims: Aggressively protect and defend clients through state and federal claims.
- Prevention of Claims: Assist executives, management, and human resources teams with comprehensive investigations, interviews to proactively prevent and protect from claims.
- Mediation & Arbitration: We represent companies in mediation and arbitration of employment-related disputes.
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Business Litigation for commercial businesses, small businesses, individuals, partners and shareholders.