Mark A. Hendricks |

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Mark A. Hendricks is the Managing Partner of Lydecker Diaz where he also serves as one of the firm’s lead Trial Counsel. He works out of the firm's main office in Miami as well as the Boca Raton office. Mr. Hendricks maintains an active civil trial practice in the Federal Court, State Court and Appellate Courts throughout Florida. He heads up and oversees the Lydecker Diaz Trial Management Team. Mr. Hendricks' trial experience includes Federal, state and appellate proceedings, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations.

Mr. Hendricks joined the Lydecker Diaz firm in 2007 as a shareholder and senior litigation partner. He is actively engaged in the administration, management, and expansion of the firm’s litigation and business law practices. Mr. Hendricks has been practicing in Florida for over three decades.

Mr. Hendricks' areas of practice include general civil trial litigation, insurance defense, large loss and high exposure cases including catastrophic injuries and wrongful death claim, complex commercial litigation, products liability, insurance coverage matters, E & O, D & O and professional liability defense.

Mr. Hendricks’ provides a high level of service and professional expertise to his clients in the course of his practice. His representative clients include private and public corporations, municipal governments, school boards, educational institutions, state agencies and political subdivisions, insurance companies, third party administrators and self-insured entities.

Honors, Awards and Recognitions
· Leading Lawyers 2012, South Florida Business Journal

· Legal Leaders 2013, South Florida Business Journal

· Most Effective Lawyers 2013 (Personal Injury) Category, Daily Business Review

· Florida Super Lawyers 2014, Excellence in Practice

· Florida Super Lawyers 2015, Excellence in Practice

· Florida Super Lawyers 2016, Excellence in Practice

· Top Attorneys in the Miami Area 2015, Peer Recognition and Professional Achievement

· Power Leaders in Law & Accounting 2014, South Florida Business Journal

· Power Leaders in Law & Accounting 2016, South Florida Business Journal

· Power Leaders in Law & Accounting 2017, South Florida Business Journal

· Nation’s Top Once Percent 2015, National Association of Distinguished Counsel

· Nation’s Top Once Percent 2016, National Association of Distinguished Counsel

· Nation’s Top Once Percent 2017, National Association of Distinguished Counsel

· Nation’s Top Once Percent 2018, National Association of Distinguished Counsel

· Nation’s Top Once Percent 2019, National Association of Distinguished Counsel

Educational Background

Mr. Hendricks graduated from the University of Miami where he earned a B. A. Degree in 1985 in English and psychology and a Juris Doctorate degree in 1988, where he graduated with honors. As an undergraduate, Mr. Hendricks was actively involved and assumed numerous leadership positions in various civil and community organizations. He served as Chairman of the Students Rights Agency, Chairman of the Student Legal Services, Vice President of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, Co-Founder of the College Republicans, member of the Young Republicans of Dade County, of the White House, Advance Team and has held various positions in numerous local and national charitable organizations.

In law school, Mr. Hendricks was the winner of the University of Miami Law School’s Mock Trial Competition and member of the National Trial Competition Team. He also served as a member of the Inter-American Law Review, member of the Society of Bar & Gavel, Society of Wig and Robe, and was inducted into the school's Moot Court Board.

Employment and Occupational Experience

Mr. Hendricks began his legal career as a law clerk at the Hayden & Milliken law firm in Coral Gables, Florida, where he assisted the firm's partners on cases involving Admiralty and maritime defense, Jones Act, commercial maritime litigation and subrogation matters.

Upon graduation, Mr. Hendricks began practicing as an associate at Greenberg Traurig, in the environmental litigation and land use department. Looking to further his litigation experience, he accepted a position as a practiced commercial litigation associate with Kimbrell & Hamann.

In 1990, Mr. Hendricks relocated to Palm Beach County where he spent several years practicing insurance defense and commercial litigation at Walton Lantaff. He subsequently joined the firm of Carman, Beauchamp and Sang as a senior associate and trial attorney where he worked for six years and served as lead trial attorney in the defense of bodily injury, premises liability, municipal liability and large loss claims.

From 1999 thru 2007, Mr. Hendricks was employed as a Senior Litigation Partner at Panza, Maurer & Maynard where he served as lead trial attorney for many of the firm's corporate, institutional, educational and governmental clients.

Mr. Hendricks joined the Lydecker | Diaz firm in 2007 as a Shareholder and Senior and Lead Trial Attorney. He has an active litigation practice that typically involves large loss and high exposure cases. Mr. Hendricks is retained by carriers in a primary counsel role and by excess carriers as monitoring counsel on high exposure claims. In many instances, he is required to parachute into a problem case to triage it and take over as lead trial counsel. As the firm’s Managing Partner, he is involved in the overall administration and management of the firm’s litigation practice. With over 30 years of experience litigating cases throughout Florida, Mr. Hendricks continues to provide a high level of service and professional expertise to his clients in the course of his practice.

Bar Admissions and Professional Memberships

Mr. Hendricks is admitted to practice in all Courts in the State of Florida, before the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, and the United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Hendricks has served as a member of the American Bar Association, the Florida Bar Association, the Broward County Bar Association, and the Palm Beach County Bar Association.

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