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Law Firm OverviewFox & Loquasto was formed on December 1, 2003, for the purpose of providing statewide appellate legal services. The founding members of the firm were Susan Whaley Fox, who had developed an appellate practice over her 27 years as a lawyer in private practice in Tampa, and Wendy S. Loquasto, who worked for 15 years as an appellate law clerk at the First District Court of Appeal before entering private practice in 2003. The firm had offices in both Tampa and Tallahassee. In 2011, Susan relocated to Orlando, and the firm closed its Tampa office. Attorneys Gray R. Proctor and Heather M. Kolinsky later associated as “of counsel” in the Orlando office, working primarily with Susan on civil appeals. The law firm has represented clients in the Florida Supreme Court and the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth District Courts of Appeal, as well as in the Second, Ninth and Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Courts sitting in their appellate capacity. The law firm has had a general appellate practice and represented clients in cases arising in civil, personal injury, and workers’ compensation, family law, termination of parental rights and dependency matters, probate and estate, criminal law and post-conviction proceedings, land use and zoning, and mortgage foreclosure. The firm has also provided trial support, including research and document production for complex trial motions, preservation of error, and post-appeal proceedings on remand. The firm has an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, which consists of a “very high or preeminent” legal ability component and a “very high” ethics component. This is the highest rating available under the Martindale-Hubbell peer review rating system. Over the years, both Susan Fox and Wendy Loquasto were also elected by their peers to be part of Florida Trend’s Legal Elite and Florida Super Lawyers. At the end of 2017, Susan “retired” and ceased taking new cases from clients. She continues an “of counsel” association with the firm as she closes down her practice. In 2019, Fox & Loquasto, P.A., was dissolved and the firm’s business was transferred to Fox & Loquasto, LLC, of which Wendy is President. The firm has one office in Tallahassee. |
