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 Bar's Legal Needs of Children Committee
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- Broward County Bar Association
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- The Florida Bar # 0083862
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- Florida
- The Florida Bar
- ID Number: 0083862
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- Juvenile Law