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Jeff Childers

Jeff Childers is the president and founder of the Childers Law firm. Jeff externed at the Federal Bankruptcy Court in Orlando, where he helped write several widely-cited opinions. He then worked as an associate with the prestigious firm of Winderweedle, Haines, Ward & Woodman in Orlando and Winter Park, Florida before moving back to Gainesville and founding Childers Law. Jeff served for three years on the Board of Directors of the Central Florida Bankruptcy Law Association. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Eighth Judicial Bar Association, and on the Rules Committee for the Northern District of Florida Bankruptcy Court. Jeff has published several articles as co-author with Professor William Page of the Levin College of Law (University of Florida) on the topic of anti-trust in the Microsoft case. He also is the author of an article on the topic of Product Liability in the Software Context. Jeff focuses his area of practice on commercial litigation, elections law, and constitutional issues. He is a skilled trial litigator and appellate advocate.
 
Book Awards: Order of the Coif
 
Professional Associations and Memberships
  • Northern District of Florida, Bankruptcy Court, Rules Committee
  • Business Section, Florida Bar
  • Bankruptcy/UCC Committee, Florida Bar
  • Florida Bar, Proceedings Supplementary Task Force
  • North Florida Bankruptcy Law Association, Board of Directors
  • Eighth Judicial Bar Association
  • Central Florida Bankruptcy Law Association, Board of Directors
  • Bankruptcy Bar Association of The Southern District of Florida, Inc.
  • Moms for Liberty, Advisory Board
  • The Supreme Court of the United States
Watch Jeff argue in Appellate Court
Meteor Education v. Ernie Morris Enterprises, November 23, 2020
Green v. Alachua County, July 13, 2021

Sarah Walker

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Sarah Walker is an associate at Childers Law. She focuses her area of practice on employment law and commercial litigation. Prior to beginning at Childers Law, Sarah practiced labor and employment litigation in Miami, Florida. She also clerked at the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida in Jacksonville, Florida.

Sarah is a member of the Florida Bar. She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Florida, Levin College of Law, graduating cum laude. During law school, she was Articles Editor for the University of Florida Journal of Law and Public
Policy.

Book Awards: Employment Law

Special Recognitions: Order of the Coif

Jonathan Hullihan

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Jonathan has been practicing law since 2007, with legal and leadership experience around the globe on complex matters of law, policy, and regulation.

Jonathan attended Texas State University on a football scholarship graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History in 2004, cum laude and subsequently earned his law degree in 2007 from Loyola College of Law-New Orleans.

After graduation from law school, Jonathan was commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. (JAGC).  As a uniformed attorney in the Navy JAGC, Jonathan gained a wide range of legal and leadership experience.  As a JAG, Jonathan was the trial attorney responsible for the prosecution of misdemeanor and felony level crimes under the Uniform Code of Military Justice; supported combat operations for II Marine Expeditionary Force in Al Anbar, Iraq, and was legal counsel to the East Coast based Navy SEAL teams based in Little Creek, Virginia, deploying as part of a Special Operations Task Force in Afghanistan to enable complex counter-insurgency operations, was the uniformed legal counsel to the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, otherwise known as the Blue Angels, and completed his active duty service assigned to Special Operations Command Central in Tampa Florida.

Jonathan resigned his active-duty commission in 2020. As a recognized expert in international law, cyber law, and intelligence law, he continues to serve as a Commander in the Naval Reserves, assigned to a National Security Law unit responsible for the full range of integrated national security law and policy analysis for military activities worldwide. Prior to joining Childers Law, Hullihan practiced law at a Houston based commercial litigation firm responsible for the full scope of legal client services for complex civil litigation.

Jonathan has been happily married for 14 years with three children. Jonathan enjoys being involved in his children’s activities, taking his family to theme parks, museums, and hunting and fishing.

Jonathan is licensed in Texas and New Mexico, is a member of the Montgomery County Bar Association, The Woodlands Bar Association, the Federalist Society Houston Lawyers Chapter, and is a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 4709.

Charles Hardage

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Charlie is an experienced litigator, having worked in a host of practice areas in state and federal courts and having represented clients in international commercial arbitrations in Asia.

Charlie has spent much of his career in litigation boutiques working on high-stakes, complex corporate litigation.

He also worked with a large, international law firm handling cross-border litigation and international commercial arbitration matters.

Charlie has always maintained a diverse practice, and in addition to business disputes, he also has substantial experience in construction disputes, insurance disputes, creditor-debtor disputes, appeals, administrative law, and state/local government law.

More recently, Charlie’s practice has turned toward public interest matters involving employee rights, governmental transparency and accountability, and health-care freedom.

Charlie obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Florida, graduating cum laude in Psychology, and earned his Juris Doctor from Georgetown Law Center, where he graduated cum laude.

Charlie speaks Mandarin Chinese and is licensed to practice law in Florida.

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Legal Assistant

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Legal Assistant

Ellen Lord
Executive Legal Assistant

Angela Masciulli
Senior Paralegal

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I.T. Specialist

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Legal Assistant

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