Mike Dickey joined the faculty of the Charleston School of Law in 2008, after nearly
eleven years in private practice in Panama City, Florida. Prof. Dickey’s commercial
litigation practice included matters involving partnership disputes, creditors’ rights,
complex real estate and land use matters, and business torts. He has tried roughly
fifteen cases to a jury, and has handled numerous nonjury trials, appeals, and
arbitrations.
Among his most notable representations were the highly-publicized jury trial of an
obstetrician accused (and ultimately convicted) of having never attended medical school,
the defense of a trucking company in the trial of a case arising out of an accident
resulting in the deaths of a grandfather and his two grandchildren, and the
representation of Joe Francis and the Girls Gone Wild companies in the defense of federal
civil claims brought by several young women under state and federal antipornography
statutes. He is also certified as a circuit civil mediator in the state of Florida, and
had an active mediation practice for six years before joining the faculty at CSOL.
Prof. Dickey has been a leader in both the state and national bars. From 2006 to 2008 he
was a member of the Florida Board of Bar Examiners, and has served as the chair of the
Florida Bar’s Code and Rules of Evidence Committee. He also serves as an editor of the
Florida Bar’s Evidence in Florida, and of the chapter on “Receiverships in Florida” for
the Florida Bar’s Civil Practice Before Trial. He served from 2006 to 2009 as an editor
of the journal Proof, published by the ABA Committee on Trial Evidence.
Prior to attending law school, Prof. Dickey served as an F-15 pilot in the United States
Air Force, and is a veteran of the Persian Gulf War. He graduated magna cum laude from
the University of Georgia School of Law in 1997, where he served on the editorial board
of the Georgia Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. He earned his
undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California, and his master of
science degree from Troy State University.
Prof. Dickey has been published in the Stetson Law Review, the Trial Advocate Quarterly,
and Proof. Prof. Dickey’s scholarly interests focus on the integration of mandatory ADR
as a docket management tool and in consumer transactions.
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