About our
firm
Our firm prides itself on delivering 100% customer satisfaction. To every client, we pledge our commitment to provide the highest level of legal services, keep you well-informed about your case’s progress, and to never stop fighting until you win.
No matter your language, ethnicity, or national origin we are here to serve you. We speak Arabic, Spanish, English. Our law firm specializes in personal injury, immigration, and business law.
If you or your loved ones need a reliable, trustworthy attorney, contact Badawi Law and one of our attorneys will be on the line ready to listen and take the best legal action.
OUR TEAM
SAM BADAWI
FOUNDER
MANDI CLAY
ATTORNEY
A dedicated problem solver, Mandi has experience in a variety of subject matters, including labor & employment, real estate, contracts, intellectual property, and class actions. Mandi has experienced the practice of law from both sides of the bench, having clerked for U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell and U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell, both in the Middle District of Florida. She prides herself on being efficient and responsive to her clients and is dedicated to providing practical advice tailored to fit each client’s specific goals.
Mandi truly has a talent for understanding and explaining the law and its nuances in ways that most law school professors and supervising attorneys never could. Her ability to adjust her writing to her audience and articulate complicated arguments in easily digestible facets is greatly admired.
Within the legal community, Mandi is well respected among both practitioners and the judiciary. She began her pro bono work in 2008, her first year in private practice, by representing a teenager who was shot in the back by police officers, giving her immediate trial experience.
Mandi is also a Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Court Mediator and U.S. District Court Mediator.
Most of Mandi’s free time is spent working with various community organizations and being a very invested Auntie to about 25 munchkins.
William R. Daniel
Attorney at Law/Counsel
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Bill was admitted to the Oklahoma Bar in 1980 after graduating from the University of Tulsa College of Law. Later that same year after relocating to Washington, D.C. Bill passed a second bar examination in the District of Columbia and was admitted to the Bar of the District of Columbia While in Washington, Bill worked as a legal automation consultant to governmental agencies, Fortune 500 Corporations, and national law firms. As a senior consultant and attorney he worked with trial counsel, corporate counsel, and systems analysts to develop and implement computer systems in complex litigation and thus enabled management and retrieval of evidence and related legal information.
In 1986 Bill was recruited to Florida to lead an effort to automate real estate contracts and franchise agreements related to the management and operation of over 5,000 restaurants. After being admitted to the Florida Bar in 1989, Bill left the Burger King Corporation legal department to focus on civil trial practice. In Florida, his practice in state and federal courts includes an emphasis on insurance coverage, wrongful death, and personal injury matters.
Bill and his family moved to Tampa from Miami in 1992. He came to Tampa to join the boutique litigation firm of Schropp, Buell & Elligett. He assisted Charles Schropp, in the representation of the Celotex Corporation. This litigation was coverage ancillary proceeding in Celotex’s bankruptcy. Celotex sought insurance coverage for asbestos-related bodily injury and property damage claims afforded by comprehensive general liability policies. Insurers that were defendants in this proceeding included Aetna, American Home Assurance, AIU Insurance Company, Continental Casualty, Columbia Casualty Company, Eric Reinsurance, Employers Mutual Casualty, Gibraltar Casualty Company, Granite State, Hartford Accident and Indemnity, Hudson, Lexington, National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA., Northbrook, as successor in interest to Allstate, Old Republic, Royal Indemnity, Transportation, Twin City, Employers Insurance of WAUSAU, Underwriters at Lloyd's of London, and Zurich American Insurance Company.
After the conclusion of the Celotex litigation, Bill joined Morgan, Colling & Gilbert, the predecessor to Morgan & Morgan. At Morgan, Bill led a team of legal assistants, paralegals, and case managers in the representation of Morgan clients in personal injury, nursing home and wrongful death claims. Bill was responsible for pre-suit matters and all phases of litigation, including drafting pleadings, conducting discovery, motion practice, as well as attendance at hearings, mediations, and trials,
In his career as an attorney, Bill has represented large corporations, including oil companies, public utilities and insurance companies. Nonetheless, he has found that there is nothing more rewarding than helping individuals when they confront these entities.
Bill has earned an “AV” rating by Martindale-Hubbell, a national publication utilized by law firms and corporate legal departments. This publication’s rating is the highest classification of ability and ethics bestowed after review of evaluations of other lawyers familiar with Mr. Daniel.