Craig was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, 1961. He studied at the University of Miami School of Business and Law, earning his Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration in 1983 and his Juris Doctor with Honors in 1986. Craig was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1986 and thereafter to the trial and bankruptcy bars of the U.S. Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Florida and the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits. Craig began his legal career with Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in 1986, where he was part of the firm's International Litigation and Arbitration Section, and left in 1993 to become a founding member of this law firm.

Craig specializes in the representation of clients involved in complex commercial disputes. He has had extensive experience in representing individuals, corporations and governmental agencies in a wide variety of domestic and international commercial disputes in arbitrations and administrative proceedings, before judges and juries, and in the briefing and argument of appeals, in courts and tribunals across Florida, and in federal and state tribunals across the United States. He has developed a particular expertise in the defense of corporate clients involved in multi-state, class-action litigation.

Craig is a member of The Florida Bar (Trial Law; International Law; Business Law; Real Estate; Probate and Trust Law Sections), The American Bar Association (Litigation and Antitrust Sections), The Association of Trial Lawyers of America and The Maritime Law Association of the United States. Craig has earned Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating for his professional skills and his ethics: "AV."