Stacie Schmerling

Stacie J. Schmerling is a Partner and is a Co-Business Unit Leader of the Justice for Kids Division, the firm’s national practice dedicated to providing legal services to abused, disabled, and catastrophically injured children harmed in foster care, shelters, residential treatment centers, group homes, and other child welfare settings, as well as all children harmed by the acts of others. She practices in the areas of Foster Care and Disabled Persons's damages, Civil Rights, Personal Injury, and Child welfare litigation.

She has spent much of her legal career protecting children, especially in cases of foster child abuse, child sexual abuse, child sexual assault, child-on-child sexual abuse, and other harm and abuse in the child welfare system. She has helped achieve multi-million dollar damage awards and settlements and usher in systemic change in how governmental and private agencies care for the State’s most vulnerable citizens.

Florida

The Florida Bar

ID Number: 0083862

Since 2010

Florida Bar's Legal Needs of Children Committee

Member

Current

Broward County Bar Association

Member

Current

The Florida Bar  # 0083862

Member

2010 - Current