Shutts & Bowen LLP is pleased to announce that partner Alyssa L. Cory has been certified as a specialist by The Florida Bar in Appellate Practice. Board Certification is a distinction which only seven percent of eligible Florida Bar members hold.
Appellate Practice is one of the 27 areas of specialty recognized by the Florida Supreme Court for board certification. Board certification helps consumers identify specialists in various areas of law, and is the highest level of evaluation by The Florida Bar of competency and experience within an area of law, professionalism and ethics in practice. To obtain Board Certification, attorneys are required to demonstrate substantial involvement in the area of appellate practice, pass a rigorous written examination, and satisfy an extensive background peer review assessment from appellate lawyers. The standards for specialization in appellate practice require devotion of at least 30% of practice to appellate law in the previous three years, and personally handling at least 25 appellate actions and five appellate oral arguments in the previous five years. Out of the nearly 96,000 active Florida attorneys, Alyssa is one of only 216 attorneys to be Board Certified in Appellate Practice.
Alyssa L. Cory is a Partner in the Tampa office of Shutts & Bowen LLP, where she is a member of the Appellate Practice Group. Alyssa handles appeals and civil litigation support in a variety of cases in federal and state courts. Her practice covers appeals in the areas of constitutional law, administrative law, and complex commercial and business litigation law. She represents clients in all six Florida District Courts of Appeal, the Florida Supreme Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
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