Introduction

Over the last 40-years, Mr. Winer has represented clients in a variety of civil lawsuits and appeals.  Some, but not all, of his specialized areas of litigation are: contracts; personal and business torts, declaratory actions regarding statutes, ordinances, administrative rules, contracts, and deeds; injunctive actions; administrative law; real estate litigation including challenges to property tax assessments; corporate and partnership litigation; American Indian law; and, civil racketeering cases.

Key Cases

• Won one of the first cases in the United States establishing American Indian tribe’s rights to provide gambling on their reservations regardless of state laws prohibiting it.
• Won one of the largest reductions of property taxes in Florida at that time involving 10-acres of ocean front property.
• Won a record setting punitive damage award against a national bank for confiscating his client’s bank account.
• Won appeal in New Zealand’s highest court establishing women’s right to sue for misdiagnoses regardless of the Accident Compensation Corporation Act’s prohibition against personal injury suits.
• Successfully defended New Zealand Receiver in its highest court facing personal, multi-million-dollar exposure.  Issue there, as with many of his cases, involved statutory construction.