Fowler White Boggs Names Adele Stone Managing Shareholder of Fort Lauderdale Office

Nov. 11, 2013 - PRLog -- Fort Lauderdale, FL – Adele I. Stone has been named managing shareholder of Fowler White Boggs’ Fort Lauderdale office.  She succeeds Terrence Russell, who will remain a shareholder with the firm splitting his time between the firm's Fort Lauderdale and Jacksonville offices.

"I am honored to have been chosen for this important role in the firm,” said Stone.  “It is exciting to be able to lead a great group of attorneys who are highly respected in their practices.”

An AV® preeminent ratedattorney by Martindale-Hubbell and Florida Bar board certified in real estate law, Ms. Stone brings more than 30 years of legal experience to every engagement.  In addition to her real estate practice, she also has built a robust business law practice, including the structuring of new entities, preparation of business agreements and asset based transactions. She is also an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association.

A leader in Florida professional and community organizations, Ms. Stone served as president of The Florida Bar Foundation from 2009 – 2010 and was on the Board of the Foundation for eleven years.  She is also a founding member and past chairperson of the Executive Council of Legal Aid Services of Broward County/Coast to Coast Legal Aid of South Florida.  Ms. Stone was elected to the Florida Bar Board of Governors from the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit and served as a Governor from 2011 – 2013.

Ms. Stone is a fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and authorized title insurance agent for Old Republic National Title Insurance Company, Chicago Title Insurance Company and First American Title Insurance Company.  She earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami School of Law in 1978 after graduating with high honors from the University of Florida in 1975.

Providing comprehensive legal services to our clients for 70 years, Fowler White Boggs is internationally connected with a Florida focus with 100 attorneys in five offices located in Tampa, Fort Myers, Tallahassee, Jacksonville and Fort Lauderdale.