{"id":1512,"date":"2025-09-19T17:59:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dinsmore.com\/?post_type=people&#038;p=1512"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:24:24","slug":"jay-w-small","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/www.dinsmore.com\/people\/jay-w-small\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay W. Small"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For over 35 years, Jay has practiced in the areas of condemnation, real estate litigation, and land use law for public and private clients. He has tried to jury verdict over 35 condemnation and inverse condemnation cases for condemning authorities and private property owners throughout Florida. His inverse condemnation experience includes flooding, physical takings, easement overburdens, and regulatory and exaction takings. He has a practice in the area of transportation infrastructure and serves as General Counsel to MetroPlan Orlando, the local regional transportation planning organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has argued, as chief appellate lawyer, cases before Florida appellate courts. He has represented clients Bert J. Harris Jr. Private Property Protections Act cases &nbsp;and relocation benefits administrative proceedings throughout Florida. He has litigated cases for right-of-way, airport expansion, flood control, railroad, petroleum and natural gas pipelines, community redevelopment, and expansion of public facilities. He has represented private developers, landfill owners and operators, national convenience store owners and operators, retail establishments, single-family residential homeowners, regional hospitals, golf course owners and operators, churches, national homebuilders, outdoor advertising companies, and cellular communication tower owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a lawyer committed to providing legal services to the most vulnerable, Jay also is a member of the Orange County Bar Association (\u201cOCBA\u201d) and the Legal Aid Society of the Orange County Bar Association, Inc. (\u201cLAS\u201d). He chaired&nbsp; OCBA\u2019s Real Property Committee. He served as President of the LAS and for years has provided <em>pro bono<\/em> legal services as a volunteer attorney-guardian <em>ad litem<\/em>. He has been recognized by the Florida Bar for his <em>pro bono<\/em> service. 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