ST. PETE’S PREMIER BUSINESS LITIGATION BOUTIQUE
Cantrell Astbury Kranz, P.A. represents businesses, executives, entrepreneurs, sales producers, attorneys (including general counsel), directors, shareholders/partners, and individuals at all employment levels. Our clients face disputes involving non-compete agreements, shareholder or partnership disputes, wage and hour claims, discrimination and sexual harassment, employee benefits, and whistleblower and retaliation.
We have obtained excellent results for our clients in trials, arbitrations, and administrative proceedings, across a broad spectrum of industries and professions. To provide top-tier legal services, we limit our practice areas to:
OUR CLIENTS
As a litigation boutique, Cantrell Astbury Kranz, P.A.is known for its expertise. Executives, entrepreneurs, professionals, businesses, and sales producers hire Cantrell Astbury Kranz, P.A. for:
- Competition disputes – including individuals or teams in transition, unfair competition and intellectual property claims under the Lanham Act, trade secrets, deceptive business practices, and enforceability of restrictive covenants (e.g., non-compete, non-solicit, and non-disclosure agreements).
- Compensation disputes – including claims for unpaid bonuses, commissions, and stock options.
- Whistleblower actions – including the False Claims Act and Dodd-Frank Act.
Cantrell Astbury Kranz, P.A. represents partners, shareholders, and LLC members, including those in closely-held companies. Disputes often arise over the direction of company, compensation, allocation of assets, valuation, and unlawful conduct by individual partners, directors, or officers. We understand the sensitivity of many of these situations and, when prudent, work to discreetly resolve disputes.
Cantrell Astbury Kranz, P.A. also represents all levels of employees. We specialize in non-compete and non-solicit disputes (including injunction hearings), unpaid bonuses and commissions, independent contractor misclassification, improperly treating positions as exempt from overtime pay, sexual harassment and gender discrimination, and representing all types of whistleblowers (e.g., reporting fraud, abuse, corruption, or danger to public health or safety), and non-compete and non-solicit defense
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OUR TEAM
Cantrell Astbury Kranz, P.A. is distinguished by talent. Our attorneys hail from top law schools and graduated near the top of their class. Both intellect and judgement are important in the practice of law. Those attributes are no substitute for hard work. Each of our attorneys are committed to working hard on behalf of our clients. View our team here
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
ST. PETE OFFICE
Our St. Petersburg, Florida office is located at: 9800 4th St. N. #200, St. Petersburg, FL 33702
St. Pete, Florida is on the gulf coast of Florida and is one of the cities that compromises the region known as Tampa Bay. St. Pete is in Pinellas County, Florida. The Tampa Bay area has a population of nearly 4 million people. St. Pete is a beach town, with primary industries focused on tourism and hospitality, financial services, medical technologies, and marine sciences.
Like much of Florida, St. Pete is experiencing significant population growth. St. Pete is known for having one of best beaches in the entire world, trendy downtown scene, waterfront pier, Dali Museum , Tampa Bay Rays Tropicana Field, the Mahaffey Theater, and yearly St. Pete Grand Prix
The court system in St. Pete, Florida include county, state, and federal courts. The state courts in St. Pete include the county court and circuit court. The circuit court is known as the Sixth Judicial Circuit in Pinellas County. The federal court is in the Tampa Division of the U.S. Middle District of Florida Tampa | Middle District of Florida | United States District Court. Cantrell Astbury Kranz, P.A. practices in virtually every court in Florida, including the state and federal courts in Tampa.
