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Maria A. Santoro
Senior Counsel,
Tallahassee, FL
Attorney at Law, her practice areas are, Employment, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation, Medical Malpractice Automobile Litigation, Construction, and Administrative Law. She is AV® Preeminent rated in legal ability and ethical standards by Martindale-Hubbell. She is in the Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers. She is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and Past President of the American Board of Trial Advocates, North Florida Chapter. She is fluent in Spanish.
Ms. Santoro is certified as a Circuit Mediator by the Supreme Court of Florida.
Ms. Santoro is an adjunct professor at Florida State University, College of Law.
Ms. Santoro is admitted to practice before all Florida State Courts since 1987. She also 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. She is admitted to practice in the Eleventh Circuit United States Court of Appeals since 2015.
Ms. 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, Ms. Santoro earned her Juris Doctor degree from Western Michigan Law School in Lansing, Michigan. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business and English from Florida State University in 1982.
Honors & Distinctions
- AV® Preeminent Rating by Martindale-Hubbel
- Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers
Education
- Western Michigan University, College of Law (J.D., 1986)
- Florida State University (B.A., 1982)
- Miami Dade Community College (A.A., 1980)
Court Admissions
- All Florida State Courts (1987)
- United States District Courts for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Florida
- Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals (2015)

