About Herbert Fried

Professional Background: Florida Supreme Court Certified Mediator in Civil Circuit, Family Law, Dependency and County Court. Supreme Court Certified Arbitrator February 1982 Present: Partner with Fried & Fried, P.A. Practice concentrates on marital and family law.

June 1976 June 1981: Attorney in general practice in Lee County. Professional Associations and Memberships Association of Family Law Professionals, Member Lee County Personal Injury Association, President 1998 / 1999 Former Member of the Board of Directors, Temple Judea UJA Lee County, Chairman, 1978 to 1979 Jewish Federation of Lee County, Member of the Board of Directors Jewish Federation of Lee & Charlotte Counties, President, 2006 to 2008 Southwest Florida Trial Lawyers Association, President, 2007 / 2008 I’ve practiced law since 1976 in Lee, Collier and surrounding counties, about half civil trial practice and half family law for the first 25 years or so.

I was President of the Lee County Personal Injury Association in 1998/1999 and President of the Southwest Florida Trial Lawyers Association in 2007/2008. In the last few years I have, for the most part, limited my practice to mediation and arbitration including “hybrid” mediation/arbitrations. I’ve handled more than 2,000 mediations of primarily civil and family law. I’ve arbitrated numerous cases over the last 4 years or so, including mediation/arbitration hybrids. I have given a two hour seminar to Florida Rural Legal Services titled “Mediation as a Hostage Negotiation” and given that seminar also as at a luncheon meeting of the AFLP and as a one hour Zoom seminar sponsored by the Lee County Bar Association. Since September 2020, I’ve led a group of arbitrators primarily from Lee and Collier, twice a month, in an informal hour discussion as to various techniques and issues in arbitration and mediation/arbitration. We’ve had guests including a local judge and Jack Hughes, the mediation/arbitration coordinator for the Lee County mediation/arbitration department.