Jeffrey McFarland

Jeff McFarland received his Juris Doctor degree, with honors, from the University of Florida. He was the Managing Editor of the University of Florida Law Review and is a member of the Order of the Coif. Mr. McFarland was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1995. He focuses on business and corporate law, securities, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and contracts.

Following law school, Mr. McFarland spent eight years as an attorney in the corporate and government finance divisions of Foley & Lardner LLP, first as an associate and then as senior counsel. While with Foley & Lardner, Mr. McFarland's practice included private and public securities issuances, business acquisitions, tax-exempt public finance transactions for local governments and non-profit health care facilities, and day-to-day counseling of businesses regarding corporate governance, contracts and business formation. After leaving Foley & Lardner, Mr. McFarland spent seven years as a professor of law at Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, where he taught Contracts, Business Associations, Business Lawyering, Sales, Secured Transactions, and Mergers and Acquisitions. He served for three years as chair of the curriculum committee at the law school and as faculty advisor to the Florida Coastal Law Review. He also coached several Moot Court teams, including the team that won the national championship at the National Constitutional Law Competition in Chicago. While at Florida Coastal School of Law, Mr. McFarland was awarded the Faculty Vision Award by the student body and the Infilaw System Chairman's Award by the law school's Board of Trustees. He has been published in law journals at the University of Florida, University of California-Hastings, Fordham University and DePaul University.

Mr. McFarland is currently a member of the Technology Committee of the Jacksonville Bar Association and has been the Friday morning host of a two-hour radio program for WJCT's Radio Reading Service for more than eight years (and counting). He also has served as a member of the Florida Bar CLE Committee, a member of the Board of Directors and as treasurer of the Tree Hill Nature Center, and as an instructor in the Jacksonville Public Library Center for Adult Learning's English as a Second Language program.

University of Florida

J.D. (1995) | Law

1992 - present

University of North Florida

B.A. | Communications - Broadcasting

1984 - 1989

Of Counsel

Driver, McAfee, Peek and Hawthorne

2010 - Current

Associate Professor of Law

2003 - 2010

Senior Counsel

Foley & Lardner

1995 - 2003

Warming Up to Climate Change Risk Disclosure

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

2009

Good News Investors! You’ve Got A Financial Expert on the Board: The Bad News? It Doesn’t Mean Anything

Hastings Business Law Journal

2006

The Effect of Repeal of the Baseball Antitrust Exemption on Franchise Relocations (with Thomas Hurst

Depaul Journal of Art and Entertainment Law

1998

Corporate Compliance Programs: Protecting the Business from the Rogue Employee (with Gardner Davis

Florida Bar Journal

1996

Note, Florida Corporation Law: Proposed Statutory Relief for Oppressed Minority Shareholders in Florida

Florida Law Review

1994

Florida State Bar  # 61999

Member

1995 - Current

Jacksonville Bar Association

Member

1995 - Current

Florida

Since 1995

• Mergers and Acquisitions