Events - Office of Research

AAE Spring 2017 Special Seminar

Institute for Global Security and Defense Innovation

April 20, 2017

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

PHYS 223

Current UAV/UAS Law Landscape

Michael J. Corso

Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer, Practice Area Chair

Henderson Franklin

Fort Myers, Florida

Thursday, April 20, 2017

PHYS 223

2:30 pm

Michael J. Corso is Board Certified (by both the Florida Bar and the National Board of Trial Advocacy) in Civil Trial Law and

Business Litligation and serves as chair of the Tort and Insurance Litigation practice area. Mike’s current civil trail practice

area is heavily involved in the defense of non-medical professionals, including lawyers, accountants, architects, engineers

and surveyors, copyright/trademark infringement, product liability and also more general tort defense matters in litigation.

Mike has received much recognition throughout his legal career, including the President’s Award and Joseph P.

Metzger Outstanding Achievement Award from the Florida Defense Lawyers Association, and the Exceptional

Performance Citation from the Defense Research Institute. He is also the 2011 recipient of the Outstanding Aerospace

Engineer Award by Purdue University’s School of Aeronautics & Astronautics. For ten consecutive years (2007-

2016), Mike has been named to Florida Super Lawyers® magazine, which recognizes the state’s top five percent

of attorneys who are selected through an extensive peer review, statewide survey and independent evaluation. He

also has been included in Florida Trend magazine’s Legal Elite® (2009-2012, 2016) and Best Lawyers in America

(2012-2017), as well as was named “Personal Injury Defense Litigation Lawyer of the Year in Fort Myers for 2017.”

Mike is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell.