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Aaron R. Resnick, Esq.

Managing Partner
aresnick@thefirmmiami.com
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Phone: (305) 672-7495
Fax: (305) 672-7496

100 North Biscayne Blvd.
Suite 1607
Miami, Florida 33132

Aaron Resnick, a graduate of Leadership Miami, is a leader in the Miami's legal and cultural arts scene. Mr. Resnick was awarded the "Shining Star" Award by the Arts & Business Council of Miami, Inc. This award each year honors the top Miami business professional supporting the arts and cultural community. Mr. Resnick was the founding chairperson of the Friends of the New World Symphony, and now serves permanently on its Executive Committee. He also sat on the Board of Directors for the Miami Design Preservation League for over 10 years. He has served on the executive committee for numerous young patron groups in South Florida including, but not limited to: Best Buddies of South Florida, Big Brothers Big Sister’s Impact Circle, Art Crowd of the Bass Museum, the Green Room Society for the Center for Performing Arts, the Tropees of the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, the Jewish Legal Society of Miami, and the MOCA Shakers amongst others. He is a member of the South Beach Athletic Club and an active in local, state and national politics. He is a Regional Board Member of the Maccabi World Union and a member of the Ben Gurion Society of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation.

Currently, he is a member of the Silver Director’s Circle for the Bass Museum, the Maestro’s Circle for the Friends of the New World Symphony, and a Supporting Member of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts (and a member of the Green Room Society). Mr. Resnick recently founded, with several friends, the Little Lighthouse Foundation, www.littlelighthouse.org, which is a Miami based charity that seeks, identifies and provides support to children and their families with health, educational, and financial challenges.

Professionally, Mr. Resnick is an attorney, who honed his craft at one of Florida’s oldest and most prestigious firms, Gunster Yoakley, before starting his own boutique law firm in 2005 with offices now in Miami, Boca Raton, Gainesville/Ocala, Jacksonville and New York City. Mr. Resnick received his Bachelors of Arts in Political Science with honors from Emory University and a Juris Doctor with honors from the University of Florida. Mr. Resnick is admitted to all of the state and federal courts in Florida and the United States Supreme Court. In 2009 and 2010, he was named one of the Florida Trend's Florida Legal Elite by Florida Trend magazine, an honor that goes to less than 948 lawyers of the 64,000 lawyers in Florida. He was also named one of the 40 best attorneys in South Florida under the age of 40 by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. In addition, in 2011, Super Lawyers Magazine named Mr. Resnick one of its Florida Rising Stars 2011. The South Florida Business Journal recently named Mr. Resnick as a 40 Under 40 Award winner recognizing the region’s top professionals under 40 years old for their professional success and community involvement.

He was elected three times to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of the Dade County Bar Association Young Lawyers Section and has served as a committee chair for the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, an organization which recognized him as the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division's Star of the Quarter. Recently, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation recognized him as the top young professional in South Florida.

Mr. Resnick's law practice concentrates on business and commercial matters, and sports and entertainment law. He has successfully represented a number of clients in commercial foreclosure matters and has a company that specializes in working with lenders on distressed assets.

His current practice also includes the personal representation of a number of current and former professional athletes in the National Football League, the National Basketball League and Major League Baseball, as well as members of the arts, fashion and entertainment world. Mr. Resnick himself is an avid collector of art, is in the process of coordinating a contemporary photography gallery in Miami for Art Basel in a partnership with a famous celebrity photographer that will focus on a ten year retrospective of Miami Beach. Mr. Resnick has lectured on art fraud and is in the process of writing a book related to some of the major art fraud cases of the 20th century.

In addition to being an attorney, Mr. Resnick is one of the owners of Faction Capital, LLC, a distressed asset consulting firm, and AJAX Entertainment, LLC, a marketing company targeting young professionals and patrons of the cultural arts.

Education

J.D., University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, Florida, 1995-1997
with Honors.

Universite de Montpellier, Montpellier, France, 1997
with High Honors.

B.A., Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1990-1994

Professional & Bar Association Memberships

State of Florida
Member Since: 1998

United States Supreme Court
Member Since: 2004

United States District Court for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida
Member Since: 1999

United States Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit
Member Since: 1999