Roy Kobert

Practice Areas

Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Banking and Finance

Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights

Hospitality

Litigation

Professional Memberships

Florida Supreme Court

- Certified Circuit Court Mediator

American Bankruptcy Institute

- Advisory Board for Winter Annual Seminar

The Florida Bar

- Alternative Dispute Resolution Section

- Business Law Section

- Bankruptcy/UCC Committee

- Revisions to the Assignment of the Benefit of Creditors Statute, Past Chair

- Inaugural Business Lawyers in the Courtroom, Steering Committee, Senior Member, 2015

- Board of Legal Specialization and Education, 2015

- Consumer and Bankruptcy Law Subcommittee, 2015

- Reviews all third-party National Accreditation applications

American Board of Certification, 2007-2011

Bankruptcy Law Educational Series Foundation (Pro Bono, Middle District of Florida)

- Incorporator and Registered Agent

- Founding Executive Director

Central Florida Bankruptcy Law Association

- Past President

Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee, 2016

- Central Florida Bench/Bar Program

Publications

“Virtual Mediation 2.0,” The Common Ground, Volume 5, Issue 1, Spring 2023

“ZOOMing Along…How to Get the Most Out of Your Next Virtual Mediation," The Cramdown, April 2021

“Five or 20 Years? Exactly What is the Deadline to Complete Post-Judgment Discovery to Collect on a Federal Money Judgment Pursued in the Sunshine State?” The Florida Bar Out-of-State Division Annual Report, Spring 2018

Experience

Roy is a shareholder and resident in the Orlando and Tampa offices of GrayRobinson. He is a member of the firm’s bankruptcy and creditors’ rights practice group. Roy is a Certified Specialist in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification, accredited by The Florida Bar, since 2003. He has lectured for The Florida Bar and The National Business Institute on bankruptcy and insolvency issues. Roy has served as a visiting Professor at the University of Florida College of Law, Florida A&M Law School, Florida Gulf Coast University and Mountain State University.

In 2013, Roy was named a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honorary society comprised of less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. The fellowship is highly selective and by invitation only.

Roy is a lifelong advocate for financial literacy. He is the founder of the Credit Abuse Resistance Education of Central Florida Chapter, which educates high school and college students on the responsible use of credit and other fundamentals of financial literacy, as well as the potential consequences of poor money management and credit card and student loan abuse.

Roy is active in the community and currently serves on the board of directors of the Downtown Orlando Breakfast Rotary Club. He devotes time to Blankner Elementary School Foundation and the Boone High School Foundation.

In 2015, Roy served on The Florida Bar Diversity and Inclusion Committee and helped establish a two-day intensive trial skills program geared toward minority trial lawyers, the first of its kind offered in Orlando, featuring jurists from the State Circuit and Federal benches.

Awards

Education