FORSTERBOUGHMAN - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Co - Founder
• Partner
• General Counsel for Rotary District 6980
• Health & Medical Law, Technology, Business Counsel, and Asset Protection
• Writer

Eric is the Featured Healthcare speaker for SkillAcquire, he provides insights into healthcare payment systems, encompassing fee-for-service and managed care models, public and private payors, and the intricacies of healthcare financing. Eric Boughman leads the firm's healthcare and technology practices. He is also a Circuit Court Certified Mediator. Eric relies on a diverse background to solve complex legal issues for healthcare and medical professionals, businesses and business owners, investors, and entrepreneurs. Eric spent the first decade of his career as a commercial litigator representing clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to local business owners, professionals, physicians, group practices, and tech startups in complex legal disputes. Eric has settled and tried cases involving contract breaches, partnership/joint venture/corporate/shareholder disputes; real estate leasing, purchasing, development and other contract matters; business torts; licensing, franchising, trade secrets, theft, infringement, and breach; fiduciary claims, and professional licensing and professional negligence claims, fiduciary claims, and asset preservation and defense. Over time, a significant portion of Eric's practice involved representing companies, groups, and individuals in the medical and technology industries. As his expertise in these areas grew, and as healthcare and technology have become increasingly intertwined, Eric identified a void in comprehensive legal services specifically tailored to fulfill the needs to healthcare professionals, group practices, tech companies, and their entrepreneurial leaders. This led Eric to obtain a Certificate in Health Law and expand his practice to provide a full range of comprehensive legal services, including regulatory, transactional, and general counsel for companies in the healthcare, technology, and med-tech space. With a desire to help his client protect the fruits of their labor, coupled with an understanding that the risk of litigation is ever-present, Eric has for several years developed strategies to protect assets against known and unforeseen risks. Today, Eric's asset protection and preservation practice is nationally known. He represents clients across the country and is regularly called upon to educate lawyers and other professionals on asset protection strategies. Eric is a frequent writer and presenter on issues involving health law, privacy, technology, and asset protection. His writings have appeared in multiple American Bar Association publications, The Florida Bar Journal, Forbes, Daily Business Review, Accounting Today, Kiplinger, Financial Advisor Magazine, Law360, and CEO World, among others. Eric also co-authored The Law of Artificial Intelligence, published by the ABA in 2019, and he is the editor of the Florida Health, Tech, and Law Resource. Eric is rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell. He has been admitted to practice law in Florida and Nevada, as well as in the U.S. Tax Court, and in several other courts, nationwide, pro hac vice. He is a member of the ABA's Healthcare Law Section, Business Law Section, and Cyberspace Law Committee, the American Healthcare Lawyers Association, and American College of Healthcare Executives. Education Eric graduated, magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School, one of the oldest and most prestigious public law schools in the country. While in law school, he was a contributing author to the Minnesota Practice Series Business Law Deskbook (which is still in publication) and he argued before the Minnesota Supreme Court as a student. Eric earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland while he was serving in the U.S. Air Force, during which time his duty included tours in Saudi Arabia and Turkey in support of operations Desert Storm and Provide Comfort. Eric has earned post-graduate certificates in Health Law from the Brandeis School of Law and in Mediation and Conflict Management from Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation. Eric serves as general counsel for Rotary District 6980 covering central Florida. He is a past President of the Rotary Club of Lake Mary and continues to serve on that Club's Foundation Board of Directors. Eric is on the advisory board for the Paralyzed Veterans of American (Central Florida Chapter). Eric and his wife, Heather, proudly serve as Holiday Fundraising Consultants for Franklin's Friends, an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to supporting animal welfare in Central Florida. Eric also serves as a legal consultant for Franklin's Friends and his family was awarded that organization's first ever "Franklin's Friends of the Year" award in 2017.

Job Titles:

• Co - Founder
• Managing Partner
• Member of the Florida Bar

Gary Forster is the managing partner and co-founder of ForsterBoughman. Gary's practice includes domestic and international corporate law, asset protection, tax, and estate planning. Gary handles a wide variety of corporate and personal planning matters. Gary is a member of the Florida Bar (admitted in 1993), including bar sections for international and tax law, and the District of Columbia Bar (admitted in 1995), including bar sections for international and tax law. Mr. Forster is licensed to practice in the U.S. Tax Court and is a member of the American Bar Association Asset Protection Planning Committee. Gary has been involved in various civic organizations, including several chambers of commerce and served as President and Director of the International Council (a foreign affairs organization supported by the U.S. State Department).

Job Titles:

• Commercial

Job Titles:

• Real Estate

Mark A. Grimes is an experienced real estate lawyer, admitted to the Florida Bar in 1974. Mark has represented a wide variety of clients through the years, from commercial and residential real estate builders, developers and investors, to individual home purchasers and sellers. Mark has a broad background in title insurance matters, having served as underwriting counsel to three major title insurance underwriters (including Attorneys' Title Insurance Fund, Inc. in Florida), and as a title insurance agent for six major Florida title insurance underwriting companies. His background often enables him to resolve complex legal and title issues to the satisfaction of his clients. He also has broad experience in representing title insurance underwriters in title insurance claims matters. Mark has also acted as transactional counsel for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and as counsel for the Florida Real Estate Commission. Having extensive experience as a title examiner, he has spoken at numerous title insurance seminars. Mark has extensive legal experience and has been a member of the Florida Bar's Real Property, Probate and Trust law section. In the early 1990's, he assisted in forming and was later President of the Rhode Island Underwriters Association. He also served as Secretary of the New England Land Title Association. Mark was born and raised in Newport, Rhode Island, and is a graduate of Providence College (B.A. History, Cum Laude) and of Boston College School of Law. Currently residing in Deland, Florida with his wife Karen and her service dog Jeff, Mark volunteers his time as counsel to the popular Deland service dog program, My Angel With Paws, Inc. Having sung professionally for more than ten years, Mark's favorite hobby is singing and playing guitar with friends.

Job Titles:

• Financial / Let's
• Financial / Winter

Job Titles:

• Probate and Trust Administration, Litigation

Teresa's probate and trust experience is vast and ranges from handling modest, uncontested estates to highly complex, multimillion dollar estates and trusts involving offshore assets. No matter the value or complexity of the assets involved, Teresa handles each probate and trust matter with the same diligence and personal attention, carefully navigating her clients through the administration process. In those instances when litigation is unavoidable in estate and trust matters, Teresa applies her same strategy of preparing diligently and keeping the client fully aware of their options throughout the process. While these matters oftentimes settle through the negotiation or mediation process, preparing zealously for trial and demonstrating a willingness to see a matter through to trial, typically fosters the best chances for a successful out of court resolution. Because of her unique background in both fiduciary administration and litigation areas, she frequently lectures on a variety of probate and trust topics, throughout the State of Florida. Teresa is admitted in all Florida State Courts and the Northern and Middle Districts of Florida (Federal Courts). She graduated cum laude from Florida State University College of Law in 2001. She is also proud of the pro bono work she does with the Legal Aid Society wherein she serves as guardian ad litem in dependency cases. In her spare time, Teresa enjoys kickboxing, yoga, reading and traveling.

Job Titles:

• Estate Planning

Thomas Shaw practices in the areas of estate planning, estate and gift taxation, corporate and business law, probate and trust administration, and general real estate. Thom is Board Certified in Wills, Trusts and Estates Law, and he holds the highest possible Martindale-Hubbell rating of AV-Preeminent.