T.R. UNICE, JR., born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, December 29, 1957. Admitted to The Florida Bar, 1982; U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, 1983; U.S. Court of Appeals, 111h Circuit, 1985; and U.S. Supreme Court, 1987. Attended The American University, received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington and Jefferson College in 1979 and a Juris Doctor from Ohio Northern University in 1982. Board Certified by The Florida Bar as a Civil Trial Lawyer and, nationally, by the American Board of Trial Advocacy. Mr. Unice is also a member of the American Concrete Institute.

Mr. Unice began his law practice as an Assistant State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit in Pinellas and Pasco County, Florida in 1983, immediately after law school, where he served on the Arson Prosecution Unit working closely with insurance companies, state arson and fraud investigators and local fire investigative teams. After leaving the Office of the State Attorney in 1986, Mr. Unice devoted his practice to insurance defense litigation. His background includes representing governmental entities, insurance companies and self-insured entities in all types of personal injury matters, insurance coverage issues, bad faith claims, products liability, professional liability, nursing home/ACLF, motor vehicle and truck accidents, civil rights claims and employment matters.

Mr. Unice has been selected as Super Lawyer in the State of Florida and Tampa Bay's Top Lawyers. Mr. Unice is admitted to practice in the state courts of Florida, the U.S. District Court for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, the United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States.