Trend reversal: Corporate attorney bucks tradition

For time immemorial, a standard operating procedure in the legal field was for lawyers to move from private practice to in-house counsel. The blueprint usually calls for lawyers to develop a specialty while working for multiple clients at a firm, then take that knowledge to a bank, university, hospital, government entity or other large institution that needs legal services on a routine basis.

Jonathan “Tre” Dixon III isn’t interested in following blueprints. Instead, he’s blazing a trail in reverse, going from in-house counsel at Tampa General Hospital to private practice with Carlton Fields, a rapidly growing Tampa law firm.