Fruit Cove Lawyers

Attorney Dylan Tessier practices U.S. immigration law exclusively, focusing her practice on family petitions, employment-based visas, adjustment of status, waivers of inadmissibility, consular processing, naturalization, VAWA petitions for survivors of battery and/or extreme cruelty, and U Visas for victims of crime. Dylan brings diverse experiences that give her a unique perspective when representing her clients. Prior to practicing law, Dylan worked in the U.S. refugee resettlement program, welcoming and resettling refugees from Somalia, Liberia, Afghanistan, and many other countries throughout the world. She then moved to Ghana, West Africa, where she worked for the U.S. Refugee Admissions...

Marianne Howanitz, Esq. is the founder of MARIANNE HOWANITZ, PA, an Ocala, Florida law firm that limits its practice to the representation of accident victims and their families who have been injured or killed as a result of the negligence of others. Ms. Howanitz started her legal career in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where she first worked as an Assistant State Attorney and then as an Assistant Public Defender. While working in the criminal justice system, Ms. Howanitz discovered her desire to help accident victims and made it her ultimate goal to concentrate her practice in the field of...

Craig J. Cannon grew up in Ocala and graduated from Forest High School in 1980. He attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia where he graduated cum laude in 1984 with a B.S. degree in Geology. After working as a tennis professional for several years, Craig attended law school at the University of Florida College of Law where he graduated in 1991. Since graduating from law school, Mr. Cannon has been working as a trial attorney in Ocala. Mr. Cannon began his practice as an insurance company lawyer. In February 2000 he shifted his focus to personal injury law and...

Todd Mazenko is a decorated U.S. Navy veteran who received his law degree from the University of Florida (Cum Laude). Attorney Mazenko is the founder and owner of the Mazenko Elder Law Firm located in Mount Dora, Florida. His law practice focuses on estate planning, probate, Medicaid Planning, and will contests and trust litigation. Attorney Mazenko is the chairman of the Advent Health Waterman Foundation Board of Directors, is a member of the Christian Legal Society and is active in his local Church. He also serves as a volunteer for several Veteran’s groups including the Wounded Warrior Project...

Recent law school graduate (with actual employment).

I am a native Floridian raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. Since I first learned about the U.S. Constitution and the civil rights cases of the 1950s and '60s when I was a young boy, I knew I wanted to be a lawyer: to help and serve people when liberty, freedom, or property are on the line; to ensure justice is served. I am a fervent defender of the Constitution and its guarantees enumerated in the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments. Nothing is more integral to my practice of law than helping others, serving my community, and ensuring the protection...

Prior to beginning her appellate practice, Kelly L. Rooth was a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Paul H. Roney, Circuit Court Judge of the Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Ms. Rooth was a commercial litigation associate at Holland & Knight LLP and Trenam Kemker P.A. where she practiced civil litigation, including business torts, contracts, unfair trade practices, and creditors' rights. Ms. Rooth is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in Florida and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Ms. Rooth graduated summa cum laude from the University of South Florida in 2000...

Earle W. Peterson, Jr., AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell, has had a distinguished career practicing law and serving as a judge on Florida's circuit and appellate courts. Prior to joining the Carlyle Appellate Law Firm in 2006, Mr. Peterson was a judge on Florida's Fifth District Court of Appeal, where he was elected Chief Judge and served in that capacity from 1995-1997. In addition to handling appellate litigation matters within The Carlyle Appellate Law Firm, Mr. Peterson is available to assist other appellate lawyers throughout Florida by conducting mock oral arguments in significant cases and providing appellate consultation and strategic evaluations...