About
Earle W. Peterson, Jr., AV rated by using Martindale-Hubbell, has had a distinguished career practising regulation and serving as a decide on Florida s circuit and appellate courts. Prior to becoming a member of the Carlyle Appellate Law Office in 2006, Mr. Peterson became a choose on Florida s Fifth District Court of Appeal, where he turned into elected Chief Judge and served in that potential from 1995-1997.
In addition to dealing with appellate litigation topics inside The Carlyle Appellate Law Office, Mr. Peterson is to be had to help different appellate legal professionals during Florida via accomplishing mock oral arguments in substantial cases and providing appellate consultation and strategic critiques to out of doors appellate counsel and their clients.
Mr. Peterson earned his undergraduate diploma from Florida State University in 1957, in addition to a fee within the US Army Reserve. After fulfilling his lively obligation requirement, he practiced as a licensed pubic accountant till 1962 while he attended the University of Florida College of Law where he received his J.D. with high honors and graduating first in his class. He became additionally inducted into the legal honor societies, Phi Kappa Phi and Order of the Coif. During regulation faculty he served as editor in leader of the symposium problem of the Law Review and published Criminal Law: Plea of Nolo Contendere to an Indictment for First Degree Murder, sixteen E. Fla. L. Rev. 497 (1963) and Florida Procedures in Satisfying or Avoiding a Money Judgment, 17 U. Fla. L. Rev. 269 (1964).
After commencement, Mr. Peterson have become a companion with McCune Hiaasen, Crum, Ferris and Gardener in Fort Lauderdale, however moved to Lake County in 1979 in which he engaged in private practice until he was appointed to the Circuit Court bench in 1988. Two years later, he turned into appointed to the Fifth District Court of Appeal wherein he served with difference till his retirement in December, 2005.
Mr. Peterson has additionally been lively in his network in the course of his judicial profession. In 2005, he become instrumental inside the formulation of the Lake-Sumter Inns of Court. As an avid Paso Fino owner, Peterson is a member of the Paso Fino Horse Association, and has traveled with his horse, Carlota los angeles M "Carly", for the duration of the country taking part in parades and other activities. During one of the maximum memorable retirement events inside the Fifth District Court of Appeal s records, Carly carried Mr. Peterson (who was donned with tuxedo, hat and bolo tie) thru the Court s parking garage and bowed elegantly following the choose s farewell feedback.
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