ATTORNEY PROFILE
 Mr. Flood received a Bachelor's of Business Administration degree, in management, and his Juris Doctor degree from St. John's University in New York. He was admitted to practice law in New York in 1968, Florida in 1978, and 1992 in Louisiana, as well as before the United States Court of International Trade, the United States Tax Court, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and various Federal District Courts. He joined his father, Arthur E. Flood, in the firm of Pfister & Flood in 1968 and maintained a law practice in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York in the areas of family law, commercial law, taxation, estate planning, probate and real estate until 1988. Mr. Flood is listed and AV rated (the highest rating available) in the prestigious Martindale-Hubbell directory, click here. In 1984 Mr. Flood was appointed a member of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Legal Assistance to Military Personnel (LAMP), and served as the Committee's Chair from 1988 to 1991. He served as Vice Chair of the Government Lawyers Committee of the General Practice Section, and as a member of the Consortium for Legal Services and the Public. He again served on LAMP from 1995 to 2000, as well as the ABA Standing Committee on Delivery of Legal Services. He served as a member of the ABA Working Group on Protection of Servicemembers Rights as a representative of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, and is currently a member if the ABA Standing Committee on Paralegals.. He is a current or past member of the following: |
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American Bar Association Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section Family Law Section, member Military Law Committee General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section, member Military Law Committee Florida Bar Association Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, member of the Executive Council Family Law Section General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section Elder Law Section Unauthorized Practice of Law (UPL) Committee for the Fourth Circuit Florida Family Law American Inns of Court Jacksonville Bar Association |
New York State Bar Association Trusts and Estate Law Section Family Law Section General Practice Section
Louisiana State Bar Association
Judge Advocates Association
Navy Marine Corps Retired Judge Advocates
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has served as a director, New Orleans chapter, Federal Bar Association,
and is a former member of the Military Law Committees of the New York,
Florida and Brooklyn Bars, and the Navy and Marine Reserve Lawyers
Association. He is a member of the Naval Reserve Association (Life and
Bronze Plank owner), the Naval Enlisted Reserve Association, The Reserve
Officers Association, The Military Officers Association of America, the
Naval Aviation Commandery, the Association of Naval Aviation, American
Mensa, and is a Past President of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick of
Brooklyn. He has also served as a trustee of the Salvation Army of Kings
County, NY, and member of the Republican County Committees of Richmond
County and Kings County New York. In 1984 he mounted a campaign for Judge
of the Civil Court of the City of New York in an overwhelming Democratic
district, was found qualified by the Association of the Bar of the City of
New York, The Brooklyn Bar Association, the Brooklyn Woman's Bar
Association, was endorsed by the Citizen's Union and the New York Times as
"singularly well qualified". Naturally he lost, by 2300 votes out of
approximately 130,000 cast (7500 votes went to the conservative party) -
an outstanding campaign!In 1991 Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney awarded Mr. Flood the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service for his efforts with the American Bar Association in educating and enhancing the reputation of military lawyers, and for coordinating the private bar efforts in providing legal services to members of the Armed Forces and their families during Operation Desert Storm. In January 1999 Mr. Flood was awarded the Florida Bar Clayton B. Burton Award for legal excellence. In 2004 he was awarded the Navy Superior Civilian Service Award. From 1980 to 1983 he
taught Estate Administration, Business Organizations and Ethics in the
Paralegal Studies Program of Long Island University, and at Rollins
College, Winter Park, Florida, from 1992 to 1996. Since 1984 Mr. Flood has
taught attorneys Continuing Legal Education nationwide for the American
Bar Association and various state and local bar associations in the areas
of Ethics, Will Drafting and Estate Planning, Family Law, Uniformed
Services Former Spouses Protection Act, Uniformed Services Employment and
Re-employment Rights Act and Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. He is a
visiting instructor at the Naval Justice School, the Army Judge Advocate
General’s School, and the Air Force JAG school on those subjects. In
January 1999 he was appointed an honorary faculty member of the Army Judge
Advocate General’s School. In 1990 he was presented with the Judge
Advocate Association Distinguished Mr. Flood had enlisted in the Navy in 1960 and served as a reserve enlisted aircrewman in the P2V Neptune ASW patrol plane. He was commissioned in the Judge Advocate General's Corps in 1968, graduated with honors from the Naval Justice School Reserve Course, was certified as a Trial-Defense Counsel, has held numerous Reserve assignments and attained the rank of Captain in 1986. In 1988 he was recalled to active duty as the first Program Manager for the Naval Reserve Law Program, and established training programs and guidelines for approximately 1400 lawyers and 200 paralegals. His military awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, Naval Commendation Medal, Meritorious Unit Commendation, National Defense Medal (2), and the Armed Forces Reserve Medal (3), the RADM Hugh H. Howell Award, and many Reserve Law Program awards. He retired from the Reserve in November of 1998 after 38 years of service. From 1991 to 1997 he maintained a law practice in Winter Park, Florida concentrated in the areas of Family Law, Estate Planning, Probate, Elder Law, Real Estate, and Commercial Law. From 1997 to 2004 he was the regional director of the legal assistance program at Naval Legal Service Office Southeast, at Jacksonville Florida, responsible for the provision of civil legal services in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Puerto Rico, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the Caribbean. Mr. Flood is married to Angela Bowers, an attorney with the Navy Office of General Counsel, and has four children Lorraine, Dana, Michelle and Scott. |
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