Wayne Pratt joined the firm as an associate in the firm’s West Palm Beach office after a successful career as a building contractor. His practices focuses on first party property and insurance coverage and building damage disputes.
Prior to joining Salmon and Salmon, Mr. Pratt operated a residential building contracting firm, and for several years served as a commercial property manager. His broad business experience includes ownership and management of a construction contracting company that focused on renovations in both residential and commercial properties, contract negotiation on projects in terms and scope for projects to $750,000.00; leadership of employees on-site; asset management; purchases and inventory control; permit procurement, inspection oversight; and establishing the procedures and process controls to ensure consistent performance to high standards. His experience includes hiring, developing, and training key employees in construction project management and property management.
IN addition to practicing law, he is a Florida State Certified Building Contractor and has gained extensive experience in arbitration presentation on building damage disputes as well as advocating coverage defenses in arbitration proceedings and dispute litigation. He gained initial court room experience as an extern with the State Attorney for the 15th Judicial District, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Wayne has participated in basketball coaching in the Upward, Boca Hoops program, and as a baseball pitching and hitting instructor for many years. He has also volunteered for the Foundation for Self Help in the past; as well as performed volunteer work in building schools, churches and homes in economically oppressed communities in Haiti, Dominican Republic, Africa, Western Europe, and the Navajo Nation in Arizona and New Mexico.
