Biography
Mr. Sklar is the Tallahassee Office Managing Shareholder and Firmwide Government Law and Consulting Practice Group Leader of the law firm of Carlton Fields. Mr. Sklar is Board Certified in Real Estate Law and Condominium and Planned Development Law by the Florida Bar. He received his B.B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) and J.D. from the University of Miami. He is admitted to practice in Florida and New York and the Bar of the United States Supreme Court and Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Sklar's law practice includes representation of developers and lenders in a broad range of planning, drafting and development of residential, commercial and complex mixed-use condominiums and planned developments.
Mr. Sklar is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law and a member of the faculty of the LLM graduate law program in real property, teaching courses in condominium and planned development law and a related drafting and litigation workshop since 1980. Mr. Sklar is Director of the University of Miami's Boyer Institute on Condominium and Cluster Developments. Mr. Sklar is the co-author of a two-volume casebook, “Cases and Materials on Condominium and Cluster Housing”; and former co-editor of Professor Ralph Boyer's treatise, “Florida Real Estate Transactions”; author of numerous articles in the Florida Bar Journal and other legal publications, including the Nova Law Review and Florida Bar’s Florida Condominium and Homeowner Association Law and Practice.
Mr. Sklar is a Supreme Court of Florida Certified Circuit and County Court Mediator. He is a member of both the Florida Bar RPPTL and ABA RPTE; immediate past Chairman of the Condominium and Planned Development Committee of the RPPTL Section of the Florida Bar; former member of the Florida Bar Condominium and Planned Development Law Certification Committee; Former Chairman of the American Bar Association General Practice Section's Sub-Committee on Condominium and Cooperative Housing; Fellow and member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL), and member of College of Community Association Lawyers. Mr. Sklar is a member of the Executive Council of the Florida Bar RPPTL Section and served as Co-Editor of the Section's monthly column in the Florida Bar Journal from 2000 to 2012. Mr. Sklar is the recipient of the 2017 John Arthur Jones Service Award from the Florida Bar RPPTL Section. In 2021-2022, Mr. Sklar served as the Chair of the Florida Bar RPPTL Section’s Condominium Law and Policy Life Safety Advisory Task Force and was the recipient of the William S. Belcher Lifetime Professionalism Award in recognition of lifetime contributions to RPPTL, the Executive Council, Florida attorneys, and the public in promoting the highest of standards of ethics and professionalism.
In 2003-2004, Mr. Sklar served as Co-Chair of Governor Bush's Homeowners Association Task Force, responsible for legislative reform of Florida's Homeowners Association Statute (Chapter 720). Mr. Sklar is a recipient of the 2002 Lynford Lardner Community Service Award. Mr. Sklar is the recipient of the University of Miami School of Law's 2012 Alumni Achievement Award.