Maria A. Santoro

Maria A. Santoro will teach Trial Strategy: Complaints, Answers, & Motions this semester. Her practice areas are employment, medical malpractice, commercial litigation, personal injury litigation, automobile litigation, construction and administrative law. She is AV® rated in legal ability and ethical standards by Martindale-Hubbell. Santoro is in the Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers and she is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. She is certified as a circuit mediator by the Supreme Court of Florida. She is admitted to practice before all Florida State Courts since 1987 and is admitted to practice before all three U.S. District Courts, the Middle District in 2007, the Northern District in 1996, and the Southern District in 1988. Santoro has been a past member of the Florida Supreme Court Work Group on Statewide Jury Panel Sizes, the Florida Supreme Court Task Force on Management of Litigation Involving Complex Cases and The Florida Bar Committee on Professionalism. In 1986, she earned her J.D. from Western Michigan University. She earned her B.A. in business and English from Florida State University in 1982. She is fluent in Spanish.