William A. Fixel

Eminent Domain Experience

Mr. Fixel’s practice concentrates on the representation of private property owners and businesses in eminent domain cases throughout the state of Florida. Mr. Fixel’s eminent domain legal experience includes both preventing improper takings from occurring and obtaining full compensation for property owners and businesses who are subjected to eminent domain acquisitions.

In his practice, Mr. Fixel has represented hundreds of clients, ranging from individual homeowners to multi-billion dollar businesses who are subjected to potential eminent domain takings.  Mr. Fixel has represented these property and business owners in eminent domain matters throughout state of Florida including in Bay, Bradford, Brevard, Calhoun, Citrus, Columbia, Dade, Duval, Escambia, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lake, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Manatee, Marion, Okaloosa, Orange, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pasco, Polk, Putnam, Santa Rosa, Sumter, St. John’s, Wakulla, Walton and Washington Counties.

Mr. Fixel’s eminent domain experience includes first chair trial work.  In both 2023 and 2024, Mr. Fixel acted as the primary, first chair attorney in eminent domain trials, both of which resulted in complete judgments in favor of Mr. Fixel’s clients.  Mr. Fixel has acted as the first chair trial attorney contesting and stopping numerous eminent domain order of taking hearings, and Mr. Fixel acted as the first chair trial attorney in a nationally and state-wide recognized evidentiary hearing related to a contested motion for rehearing in an eminent domain case.

Prior Professional Experience

Prior to joining the Fixel Law Firm in the spring of 2010, Mr. Fixel spent five years as an associate with King & Spalding, LLP in Atlanta, Georgia. While at King & Spalding, Mr. Fixel’s practice focused on mass tort litigation throughout the country.

Mr. Fixel’s prior legal experience includes representing oil and gas, pharmaceutical, automobile, and transportation companies in product liability and personal injury matters throughout the United States.

Honors

Authorship/Speaking Engagements:

• Co-Author of “Eminent Domain Mediation,” Thirteenth Edition (2024), Eminent Domain Practice and Procedure, The Florida Bar Manual.
• Contributed to “Eminent Domain Mediation,” Twelfth Edition (2021), Eleventh Edition (2019), Tenth Edition (2017), Ninth Edition (2014) and Eighth Edition (2012), Eminent Domain Practice and Procedure, The Florida Bar Manual.
• Featured Speaker on Technology and the Practice of Law at the 21st Annual Eminent Domain Institute’s CLE International Conference in Tampa, Florida (2017)
• Featured Speaker on Attorneys’ Fees and Costs in Florida Eminent Domain Law at the 20th Annual Eminent Domain Institute’s CLE International Conference in Tampa, Florida (2016).
• Featured Speaker on Tree Valuation in Florida Eminent Domain Law at a 2016 International Society of Arboriculture Conference in Tallahassee, Florida (2016)
• Featured Speaker on Ethics Issues in Florida Eminent Domain Law at the 17th Annual Eminent Domain Institute’s CLE International Conference in Tampa, Florida (2013).
• Co-Author of Striking Back Against Peremptory Strikes, American Bar Association, Products, General Liability and Consumer Law Committee Newsletter (2010).
• Co-Author of How Mohawk Will Affect Litigation, Law360.com, Appellate and Employment Sections (2010).
• Co-Author of Trends in U.S. Product Liability Litigation, PLC Cross-border Handbook, Life Sciences (2007, 2008).
• Contributed to the article, “Proposed Changes to the Georgia Rules of Evidence Synthesizing 140 Years of Trial and Error, December 7, 2007 edition of the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia’s Product Liability Seminar Program Materials.
• Contributed to the article, “A Bedeviling Little Subject Called Metadata,” April 17, 2006 edition of the New York Law Journal.

Memberships:

• Member of The Florida Bar, 2010
• Member of The Georgia Bar, 2005
• Member of United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida (2011)
• Member of United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (2007)
• Member of the United States Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit (2007)
• Member of Georgia Court of Appeals (2007)
• Member of Georgia Supreme Court (2007)