Steve Shaw practices in Florida and South Carolina. He has focused virtually his entire education and professional experience in real estate, land use & planning. Further, he has currently earned the degree of Ph.D. in Planning from the University of Florida College of Design, Construction & (Urban) Planning and is a member of the Florida Environmental and Land Use Law Section.

  
     Steve is keenly interested in governmental land takings and public finance of infrastructure. His Ph.D. dissertation topic centers-on municipal public school impact fees. The chairman of his committee is James Nicholas who is a joint-professor of Urban & Regional Planning/Law at the University of Florida. Also, his major professor for his Master’s Thesis was James Frank who was professor of Urban & Regional Planning at Florida State. Both have authored extensively and are considered preeminent experts in planning.

Steve has represented clients and tried cases in courts throughout Florida and South Carolina from small claims to Federal District Court. Further, he has brief writing experience in both state courts and the United States 11^th Circuit Court of Appeals. He has represented clients in land use, real estate, housing, tenant/landlord, condominium, time-share, and mobile home actions as well as consumer, employment, accident/injury claims, and civil-rights actions. Further, he holds an active Florida Real Estate Broker License and is a member of the Ocala/Marion County Board of Realtors.  Also, he has been exposed to high-level political process through his three years experience on staff with United States House of Representatives Member Cliff Stearns.

Steve was raised in South Florida (Broward County) and moved to North Central Florida (Ocala) at the commencement of high school in 1980.  He attended Florida State University and lived in Tallahassee for a total of seven years and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Real Estate (College of Business) and Master of Science degree in Urban and Regional Planning.

While graduate school, he passed five Appraisal Institute MAI exams and performed over three hundred residential and commercial appraisal reports for major lenders at Bell, Griffith & Associates, MAI. Thereafter, he moved to Gainesville, Florida and graduated from the University of Florida College of Law. While in Law School he clerked for land use attorney David Coffey and worked on precedent-setting appeals.

He has traveled to virtually every county in Florida and has filed cases or performed hearings or trials in 23 Florida counties. Born in Cape May, New Jersey and raised in South Florida, his family later moved to Ocala. In 2005 he was married to Melanie Donna Moore of Greenville, South Carolina and is a member of the South Carolina Bar.