Aleksas Barauskas

Aleksas A. Barauskas, Esq.

Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Civil Mediator | Business & Commercial Disputes

Commercial Litigation • Banking & Finance • Contracts • Business Torts • Real Estate

Jacksonville, Florida | Serving Northeast Florida & Statewide & Georgia, Michigan & Texas

Professional Overview

Aleksas A. Barauskas is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Civil Mediator and business litigation attorney in Jacksonville, Florida, with nearly 20 years of experience handling sophisticated commercial disputes.

As Head of the Business Litigation Department at Terrell Hogan Law, Aleksas represents businesses, financial institutions, and individuals in matters involving contracts, commercial lending, banking and finance, business torts, real estate, judgment enforcement, and other complex commercial issues.

Before joining Terrell Hogan, Aleksas was a partner at both a national AMLAW 100 firm and an international AMLAW 200 law firm. His experience includes litigation in state and federal courts and representation of clients through multiple stages of complex commercial disputes.

As a mediator, Aleksas brings this litigation and business perspective to the neutral process, helping parties and counsel evaluate risk, identify the issues preventing resolution, and explore practical settlement opportunities before incurring the additional cost and uncertainty of continued litigation.

Business & Commercial Mediation

Aleksas focuses his mediation practice on business and commercial disputes where legal issues frequently intersect with financial, operational, and strategic considerations.

His background is particularly relevant to matters involving:

• Breach of contract
• Business and commercial disputes
• Partnership and shareholder conflicts
• Corporate and operational disagreements
• Commercial lending
• Banking and financial disputes
• Commercial real estate
• Business torts
• Commercial collections
• Judgment enforcement

His experience representing businesses, lenders, financial institutions, and individuals provides perspective on the competing interests that frequently influence commercial settlement negotiations.

Banking, Lending & Financial Disputes

Banking and commercial finance represent significant areas of Aleksas's litigation experience.

His professional background includes matters involving:

• Commercial loan enforcement
• Lender liability
• Receiverships
• Out-of-court restructurings
• Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) matters
• UCC asset sales
• Commercial foreclosure
• Commercial collections
• Judgment enforcement

This experience provides familiarity with the contractual, financial, and business considerations that can arise when lenders, borrowers, businesses, guarantors, and other stakeholders become involved in commercial disputes.

Additional Commercial Litigation Experience

Aleksas's broader legal experience includes commercial and residential property disputes, intellectual property enforcement, and civil claims involving allegations of fraud, tortious interference, negligence, product liability, defamation, trade secrets, confidential proprietary information, and internet infringement.

This background can be particularly valuable in mediations where a commercial dispute involves multiple legal claims or overlapping business, financial, property, or intellectual property concerns.

Mediation Approach

Aleksas approaches mediation from a practical, business-focused perspective.

His litigation experience enables him to understand the risks, costs, evidentiary issues, and uncertainty parties face when a dispute continues toward trial. At the same time, he recognizes that commercial settlement decisions may depend on considerations extending beyond the legal merits of a case.

His approach emphasizes:

• Identifying the legal and business issues driving the dispute
• Evaluating litigation risks and alternatives
• Encouraging practical, interest-based negotiation
• Identifying potential obstacles to settlement
• Exploring workable business solutions
• Pursuing efficient and cost-effective resolution when possible

As mediator, Aleksas serves as a neutral rather than an advocate for either party, helping participants evaluate their positions and explore opportunities for agreement.

Professional Background

Aleksas serves as Head of the Business Litigation Department at Terrell Hogan Law in Jacksonville, Florida.

His commercial litigation experience includes state and federal matters involving businesses, financial institutions, commercial lenders, property interests, and individuals. Before joining Terrell Hogan, he practiced as a partner at national and international law firms.

His professional memberships include the Jacksonville Bar Association, Federal Bar Association's Jacksonville Chapter, and prior service as an Associate and Barrister Member of the Chester Bedell Inn of Court.