A founding member of the firm in 1974, Wally has over 47 years of experience as a business civil trial lawyer. His associates voted him to be the most effective litigation trainer. The judges of the Pinellas County Circuit Court voted him the most professional civil trial lawyer in the circuit for the year 1999.
DISTINCTIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
Admitted to The Florida Bar in 1970
Admitted to U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida – 1970
Admitted to U.S. Supreme Court – 1975
Admitted to U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit – 1981
Admitted to U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida 
– 1987
Admitted to U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida – 1987
Admitted to U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, Civil Mediator – 2007
Clearwater Bar Association, President, 1980-1981
Hillsborough County Bar Association Member
 St. Petersburg Bar Association Member
American Bar Association Member
The Best Lawyers in America© since 1991, in the fields of Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Antitrust, Litigation – Labor and Employment, Litigation – Real Estate, Litigation and Controversy-Tax
Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year”, 2013 Litigation Controversy-Tax,Tampa area
American Bar Association Member.  Former member of the Council of Litigation, and former Editor-in-Chief of Litigation, the journal of the Section of Litigation.
Member, Board of Governors of The Florida Bar, 1982-86
EDUCATION
University of Florida B.A. – 1962
Boston University A.M. – 1965
University of Florida J.D., with honors – 1969
WHEN HE’S NOT WORKING HARD FOR CLIENTS
Wally likes to get away to Colorado for some hiking, biking and music festivals.

Sharon Reid-Kane, Ed.D. serves as Vice President & Chief Education and Community Engagement Officer at Ruth Eckerd Hall, overseeing arts education programs currently reaching 58,000+ students of all ages and abilities throughout Tampa Bay. Prior to joining the Hall, Sharon served as a community relations specialist and educator within the state’s public school system and as Director of the United Way in Pinellas County. Throughout her career, she has been the recipient of several prestigious accolades including the Florida Alliance for Arts Education’s Arts Education Professional of the Year Award, the Juvenile Welfare Board’s Cooperman-Bogue Award for service to children and families, and has been nominated for the Tony Awards^® Excellence in Theatre Education Award and the Pinellas County Dillinger-McCabe “Putting Children First” Leadership Award. Most recently Sharon was named as a subject matter expert by Americans for the Arts.

With a doctoral degree in education specializing in arts education and integration, she is devoted to fostering the next generation of non-profit and arts leaders. Sharon shares her passions regularly as a guest speaker and instructor at colleges and universities about the immeasurable value of mission-driven work. Her personal background includes years of instruction and performance in all artistic genres, leading to a lifelong passion for the arts and arts education.

Dr. Shulman is board certified by the Board of Neurological Surgeons as well as a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Shulman specializes in both minimally invasive cranial and spinal neurosurgery. Her comprehensive practice emphasizes brain aneurysms, stroke, tumors, spinal disorders and chronic pain.  Dr. Shulman also focuses on spinal motion preservation as well as spinal disc restoration and outpatient spine surgery.

Dr. Carrie L. Shulman graduated from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service before she was commissioned in the United States Army in 1994. Dr. Shulman studied medicine at the Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, DC and completed her neurosurgical training at the premier military hospital in the United States, Walter Reed Medical Center, the National Capital Consortium. She was promoted to Chief Resident and became the first female Army graduate from the program.

Dr. Shulman served as an active duty neurosurgeon in the United States Army and was awarded several distinctions for her extraordinary service, dedication and care of her patients. During her military service she served as the Neurosurgical Director for Operation Iraqi Freedom and oversaw neurosurgery throughout the Theater of Operations.

Dr. Shulman is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons as well as a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. She specializes in minimally invasive brain and spine surgery.

Born in a rural village in Germany, Kate Tiedemann immigrated to the United States at age 18, speaking no English and having no formal education beyond 8^th grade.   Her first job was on the household staff of New York Governor Thomas Dewey. Fortuitously, one of the clerical positions that followed was at a surgical instruments business that exposed her to what would be her career. When Storz sold, she and her boss launched an eye, ear, nose and throat division at Weck (which sold to Squibb). She then co-founded SPARTA (which sold to Cooper Labs).  In 1975 in the basement of her home in Denville, NJ, she founded KATENA Products whose name represents Kate in North America.  Assembling a team of skilled craftsman making over 1400 products and creating a multi-national sales force in over 100 countries, Katena set industry standards for product quality and excellence of customer service in ophthalmic instruments for eye surgery.   Katena sold in 2009 to the Cortec Group, a private equity firm.  Philanthropy has become her second career, funding the Katena Birthing Center at Saint Claire’s Hospital in Denville, establishing the Tiedemann Technology Fund at Morton Plant Mease in Clearwater and the Kate Tiedmann College of Business at USFSP.  She and her spouse, Ellen Cotton, continue to support numerous Tampa Bay charities with transformational gifts.