About
Arna Cortazzo grew up in South Florida. Her love for the ocean and Florida s seashores commenced at a young age, so did her quest for justice.
As a lawyer, Arna has blanketed the rights of Floridians for greater than 30 years. While in her ultimate year of law college, Arna started the exercise of law in the juvenile department of the Broward County Public Defender’s workplace as a prison intern licensed by way of the Florida Supreme Court. Upon commencement from regulation school and passing the Florida Bar, Arna typical a role as a criminal defense trial attorney in South Florida. From 1987 to 1992 she won trial enjoy and the massive expertise of our regularly complex Criminal Justice System. Arna handled instances ranging from misdemeanors to felonies and attempted instances to verdict. She become in courtroom every day combating for the rights of her clients.
In 1992, Arna customary a role at a huge, prestigious insurance defense regulation workplace in Central Florida, wherein she represented some of the largest insurance businesses and huge organizations, such as Cigna Insurance Company, AT&T Corporation and Universal Studios. With the helpful enjoy gained from representing insurance businesses and big enterprise, Arna lower back to the coast and opened her own regulation workplace in Brevard County in1995. As a former insurance protection attorney, Arna understands how the opposite aspect thinks – an advantage that she uses as a zealous endorse for her customers.
Arna is devoted to treating all of her customers with compassion and admire and imparting the personal interest they deserve as she zealously represents them. She practices regulation inside the regions of personal damage, wrongful demise, property making plans, bankruptcy, divorce and circle of relatives regulation, and workers repayment.
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- Bankruptcy
- Chapter eleven Bankruptcy, Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, Debt Relief
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Appeals, Drug Crimes, Expungement, Fraud, Gun Crimes, Internet Crimes, Sex Crimes, Theft, Violent Crimes
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Divorce
- Collaborative Law, Contested Divorce, Military Divorce, Property Division, Same Sex Divorce, Spousal Support & Alimony, Uncontested Divorce
- Domestic Violence
- Domestic Violence Criminal Defense, Domestic Violence Restraining Orders, Victims Rights , Victims Rights
- DUI & DWI
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Family Law
- Adoption, Child Custody, Child Support, Father s Rights, Guardianship & Conservatorship, Paternity, Prenups & Marital Agreements, Restraining Orders, Same Sex Family Law
- Workers Compensation
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Experience
- Lawyer/ Owner
Law Office of Arna D. Cortazzo, P.A.
1995 - Lawyer
Rissman, Weisberg, Barrett, Hurt, Donahue and McLain
1992 - Trial Lawyer
Criminal Defense
1987 - Florida Supreme Court Certified Legal Intern
17th Judicial Circuit, Broward County Florida Public Defender
1987 - Fellowship Southern District of Florida
The Honorable Robert Scott
1985
Educations

Graduation year: 1984

Graduation year: 1982

Graduation year: 1974