Our Attorneys

Arthur I.“Buddy” Jacobs
Founder & Principal

Arthur I. “Buddy” Jacobs’ family moved to Fernandina Beach in 1943 where he has remained a resident. He is a graduate of the University of Florida. While there, he was president of the student body, and upon graduation, he became dean of University Relations and Development at the age of 26. He has served as an Organized Crime Strike Force prosecutor in the fourth judicial circuit. While serving as Nassau County attorney for 13 years, he wrote the first zoning code for the county. He has been general counsel for the State Attorneys of Florida since 1971, representing them in the U.S. and State Supreme Court, District Courts of Appeal and the Florida Legislature. He has been counsel to the Trial Lawyers Section of the Florida Bar since 1977, representing 7,000 civil trial lawyers in Florida. He has represented them in the State Supreme Court and the Legislature.  He has served as chairman of the State Arts Council of Florida and was a member of the National Council of the Arts for a decade under presidents Reagan and Bush. He has been chairman of the Advocacy Committee of the American Arts Alliance in Washington. He has served since 1977 as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Preservation Institute of Nantucket and has been chairman of the board for over a decade. He has lectured throughout the country about historic preservation and how to restore towns and cities, using his work in the restoration of Fernandina as an example. He was recently selected as a regent on the Board of the American Architecture Foundation in Washington, D.C. The Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers named Jacobs the top advocate in Florida among trial lawyers for justice for the citizens of Florida for 2005. He has been head usher of his church, the Amelia Island Chapel, for more than a decade.

Richard J. Scholz
Associate

Richard J. Scholz was born in Medina, Ohio, and raised on the family farm where his parents still reside. He graduated from the Ohio State University College of Pharmacy in 1977, became a licensed pharmacist in the state of Ohio and embarked on a career in community pharmacy.  In 1987, Scholz founded Complete Pharmacy Network, a pharmacy benefit management company that pioneered the implementation of real-time computerized pharmacy management and cost controls to clients throughout the United States. In 1994, he negotiated and facilitated the sale of the company. He then launched The Denali Group Inc., a multi-faceted health care economics management consulting group to manage projects for stakeholders in the distribution, delivery and financing of pharmacy care. Throughout his career, he gained respect for the counsel of his legal advisers, lobbyists and the relationships between government, health care administration and technology — leading Scholz to pursue a legal education to fortify his health care management background. Scholz graduated cum laude from Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, Fla. in 2005 and became a member of the Florida Bar in 2006. He has received recognition from the Ohio House of Representatives for his work as president of the Board of Education of his local public school district in Ohio, has been an active member of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy and the National Council of Prescription Drug Programs. Scholz joined Jacobs & Associates in 2005.

Borden R. Hallowes
Associate

Borden R. Hallowes was born in Jacksonville, Fla. He attended the University of North Carolina, receiving his law degree with honors in 1963. For 43 years, he has practiced law in civil litigation; trusts, wills and estates; and most forms of business law. Hallowes has served as general counsel for the Christian Broadcasting Network of Virginia Beach and the Florida Physician’s Reciprocal Insurance Company in Jacksonville, Fla. Additionally, in the 1970s he was the assistant city attorney for the city of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He is a member in good standing of the Florida Bar and has been a member of the Broward County Bar Association, the Defense Research Institute, the Florida Academy of Trial Lawyers and the Jacksonville Bar. Hallowes has tried approximately 700 jury trials, including cases in the three federal district courts of Florida and in more than 19 county circuit courts. He joined Jacobs & Associates in 2005.