Mr. Prevaux joined the Office as General Counsel in 2003 after 7 years with the Office of the General Counsel at the University of Florida where he served as the Senior Associate General Counsel and specialized in labor and employment law and cyber law issues. He has represented higher education clients in Florida since 1990, including service as Counsel to the former Florida Board of Regents in Tallahassee. He received his J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member and competition coach for the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court team and was inducted into the Order of Barristers. He began his legal career in private practice as a litigation associate with an AV rated labor and employment defense firm. Mr. Prevaux was recently a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA) a not-for-profit corporation headquartered in Washington D.C. that advances the effective practice of higher education law. Mr. Prevaux is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Mediator (Circuit Civil and County Court) and Certified Appellate Mediator. He is admitted to practice in all Florida state courts in addition to the federal district courts in the Northern, Middle and Southern districts of Florida, the Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.