Marc A. Wites, founding shareholder of WITES & KAPETAN, P.A.

Marc A. Wites is a founding shareholder of WITES & KAPETAN, P.A. He directs the Firm's class action, personal injury and wrongful death, and securities practices.

Marc is a graduate of The University of Florida College Law, where he served as a board member of The University of Florida Law Review and the Justice Thornal Campbell National Moot Court Board. Marc earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from The University of Michigan.

He is admitted to the Florida Bar, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. Marc is also an arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers, and a member of The Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers.

Class actions and brokerage disputes are the primary focus of Marc's practice. Marc has successfully prosecuted many class actions through class certification and settlement, and is actively litigating cases on behalf of aggrieved consumers and shareholders in Florida and throughout the nation. Florida attorneys routinely seek Marc's counsel in class action lawsuits. Marc also represents individual investors in securities arbitrations, and has obtained substantial settlements and arbitration awards for such clients. Marc represents his clients before both trial and appellate courts, and has served as counsel in many appeals in both state and federal appellate courts.

Prior to founding WITES & KAPETAN, P.A., Marc practiced law with Homer & Bonner P.A., a well-known Miami law firm, for over 5 years. There, his practice included the prosecution and defense of class actions, commercial litigation and transactions on behalf of brokerage firms, corporations, general contractors, aviation companies and banks, and equine litigation and transactions. During 2000, Marc served as Associate General Counsel and General Counsel for Link2Gov Corp. and HostLogic, Inc.

Marc authored The Florida Civil Litigation Handbook: Actions, Defenses and Evidence and Rules, which was published annually by Matthew Bender & Co., Inc. from 1997 through 2000. He now publishes the original content of the Handbook, for which he owns the copyright, through his own publishing company, in an annual series entitled The Florida Litigation Guide. The Guide contains a listing of the elements of popular common law causes of action, citations for the most recent state and federal court cases listing the elements of the actions and various defenses to the actions. Lawyers from virtually every major Florida law firm, as well as countless practitioners from medium and small firms, solo practitioners and government attorneys, as well as members of the judiciary, routinely rely on Marc's publication in Florida litigation matters.

Marc also has published several articles, including Do Equine Immunity Acts Provide a False Sense of Security, The Chronicle of the Horse, Vol. LXI, Number 33, August 14, 1998; Back in the Saddle Again: An Analysis of Florida's Equine Immunity Act, Florida Bar Journal, Volume LXXI, Number 10, November 1997; and The Franchisor as Predator: Encroachment and the Implied Covenant of Good Faith, The University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy, Volume VII, Issue 2, Spring 1996.

Marc was born in Queens, New York, and raised in Coral Springs, Florida. He now resides in Boca Raton, Florida, with his wife, Jennifer, and sons, Asher and Leo.