Setting the usual for effectivity, achievement, and group engagement, whereas embodying a dynamic mix {of professional} acumen and altruism
Jane Muir is a frontrunner within the Miami authorized panorama. The founding father of J. Muir & Associates, established in 2018, Jane has devoted over 15 years to constructing a enterprise legislation observe, a powerful crew, and a sterling status for dedication to her shoppers and group.
Agency Philosophy
Pushed by a real want to help shoppers to achieve spite of challenges, the agency J. Muir & Associates’ observe is rooted in offering efficient authorized help whereas investing in the neighborhood.
Most just lately, other than serving to her shoppers handle their very own operations, Jane has been appointed or served as a receiver for a number of embattled corporations in hospitality, automotive, and lending, throughout Florida. She additionally assisted an legal professional who was sued by his former legislation agency by means of arbitration, defeating claims that the legal professional usurped company alternatives and recovering authorized prices after trial.
Companion Victoria Morton, an skilled group affiliation supervisor, householders’ affiliation board member, and affiliation common counsel, applies her experience to supporting numerous non-profit associations of their operations.
The executive crew, led by workplace supervisor Devon Schweidel, leverages expertise to help the agency’s attorneys in order that the agency has sufficient capability to deal with important quantity and will likely be well-prepared for the rigorous new civil procedures that went into impact January 1, 2025. The agency’s philosophy emphasizes making use of the newest expertise to allow very good consumer service – and giving again to the group by means of service.
Schooling and Skilled Background
Jane’s authorized profession started on the College of Miami’s College of Regulation, the place she was drawn to oral advocacy. Throughout her research, she competed in six intramurals, 4 state, 4 regional and two nationwide competitions in negotiation, mock trial and appellate advocacy. She gained and earned “Greatest Transient” in Miami Regulation’s Superior Moot Courtroom competitors and within the prestigious Litigation Expertise program obtained the John F. Evans Memorial Scholarship for distinctive efficiency.
For her dedication to advocacy and efficiency in competitors, she was inducted into the Order of Barristers, a nationwide honor society recognizing the nation’s finest pupil advocates.
Graduating after the 2008 subprime mortgage disaster, destiny led her to ascertain a agency. “In my first month in enterprise,” Jane recounts, “our gross income was $350 which I used to pay for a $100 digital workplace and enterprise playing cards. I began out by attending group occasions and that was the place I discovered shoppers.”
At first, she dealt with a peculiar assortment of instances for buddies who had nowhere else to show, noting, “I even recovered a canine from an ex-boyfriend, for instance!” Novel conditions grew to become an space of experience for her, and shoppers who had good outcomes grew to become her greatest followers and referral sources.
Because the observe grew, Jane gravitated in direction of representing good, detail-oriented, entrepreneurs in search of to attain nice outcomes effectively – and the agency grew to become centered on enterprise legislation, dealing with contracts and litigation as exterior common counsel to companies.
Management and Awards
A self-described “joiner,” Jane’s group service has led to her election to varied government and management roles. “I confirmed up for a luncheon for the Coral Gables Bar Affiliation, and it turned out the web site was old-fashioned. After I lastly made it on the best day, I volunteered to repair the web site, so that they invited me to take a seat on the board.” She shortly was elevated to Treasurer, President-Elect, and President for 2012-2013.
Jane additionally volunteered for the Miami Dade Bar, previously often called the Dade County Bar Affiliation, at first as a author and editor for the Bulletin. She ran for the board of administrators in 2010, and supported quite a few initiatives together with one other web site redesign, implementing monetary controls and worker handbooks, contracting a succesful government director whereas serving as Treasurer, Secretary, Vice President, President-Elect and President for 2020-2021.
Jane’s tenure as President of the Miami-Dade Bar Affiliation was marked by important achievements, together with initiating renovation of the affiliation’s headquarters as a co-working area for attorneys and the profitable rebranding of the affiliation with a brand new identify and emblem.
Because of these contributions, Jane and her agency have been acknowledged extensively. She was honored by the Florida Bar with their 2015 Lynn Futch Most Productive Younger Lawyer Award, by the Miami Dade Bar with their 2023 Johnnie M. Ridgely President’s Award, and by the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce with its 2020 Businesswoman of the Yr.
The agency has grown to a crew of 12 with 4 attorneys and has been acknowledged as a Regulation Agency Champion of Ladies by the Miami-Dade Chapter of the Florida Affiliation for Ladies Legal professionals and was the 2023 Diamond Award Winner from the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce.
Contact Info
For extra data, go to J. Muir & Associates at 121 Alhambra Plaza, Suite 1500, Coral Gables, FL 33134. You may additionally attain the agency by telephone at 786-756-8442, observe them on Instagram @jmuirandassociates, or go to https://www.jmuirandassociates.com/ to make use of their contact kind.
