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Dillon L. Roberts is a member of the Firm’s Estate Planning and Tax Group. Mr. Roberts’s practice areas include estate planning, estate and trust administration, and business and real estate structuring and tax planning. He also handles matters regarding family business succession planning, valuation, and liquidity. Mr. Roberts has represented clients in entity formations, tax-sensitive restructuring, as well as matters involving acquisitions and dispositions of equity interests and assets. His practice also includes complex estate and gift tax planning and income tax planning matters.. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Roberts served honorably in the U.S. Army, 4th Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division, with service in Afghanistan as a scout platoon leader. He was a distinguished graduate from officer candidate school, officer armor basic course, and an honor graduate of U.S. Army Ranger School.. Mr. Roberts earned his Juris Doctor degree in 2011 from the University of Florida, College of Law, cum laude, where he earned the highest grade in his Real Estate Transactions course. Mr. Roberts later earned his Masters of Laws (LL.M) in Taxation, also from the University of Florida, where he earned the highest grade in his Estate Planning course. In 2019, Mr. Roberts earned his Florida Bar Board Certification in Tax - one of the only three attorneys in the state of Florida who were awarded that distinction in that year. Currently, less than 200 attorneys in Florida are Board Certified as Tax Specialists. He maintains an “AV” rating by Martindale-Hubbell’s peer review rating system, the highest such rating available to any individual lawyer. Since 2018 Super Lawyers has named him as one of Florida’s “Rising Stars,” effectively ranking him as one of the top 2.5% of attorneys in the state, as chosen by their peers and through the independent research.. Mr. Roberts is the Secretary of the Indian River County Estate Planning Council, is a member of the VNA Foundation Planned Giving Council Advisory Board and serves on the board for the ARC of Indian River County.

David Carter was born in Vero Beach, Florida, and has been a partner at Gould Cooksey Fennell since 1996. Mr. Carter founded and chairs the firm’s Personal Injury & Medical Negligence Group and serves on the firm’s Executive Committee.. Mr. Carter graduated with honors from the University of Florida College of Law where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and Senior Symposium Editor for Law Review. Upon graduation, Mr. Carter accepted a position with the Tampa law firm of Trenam, Simmons, Kemker, Scharf, Barkin, Frye & O’Neill, gaining early experience in cases involving personal injury, medical malpractice and wrongful death.. Since returning to Vero Beach and joining Gould Cooksey Fennell, Mr. Carter has been recognized for his work in litigating cases involving catastrophic injuries and death on behalf of the firm’s clients. Recent jury verdicts and settlements in personal injury and medical malpractice cases rank among the highest awards in personal injury cases in the county’s history.. Mr. Carter is Board Certified by the Florida Bar as a specialist in Civil Trial Law. He maintains an “AV” rating by Martindale-Hubbell, the largest and most comprehensive ratings document of lawyers in the world.. Since 2012, Mr. Carter has been included in the U.S. News and World Reports Best Lawyer rankings. In 2015 and 2021, that publication named him Personal Injury Litigation Plaintiff’s Lawyer of the Year for the Orlando area which encompasses 46 cities and 9 counties including Indian River, Osceola, Orange, and Brevard. He is the only Treasure Coast attorney to achieve this distinction.. From 2006 through the present, he has been named a “Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics Magazine. In 2016 and 2020, he was named as one of the Florida Trend “Legal Elite” in Civil Trial, a title only given to the top 1.4% of Florida lawyers. He was also invited as a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He maintains an Avvo rating of 10/10 and has been a member of the National Association of Trial Lawyers “Top 100” since 2016. After appointment by Florida’s Governor, Mr. Carter has twice served on the 19th Judicial Circuit’s Judicial Nominating Commission.. Mr. Carter has been named a Distinguished Fellow of the Florida Justice Association and served on the organization’s Board of Directors for nearly a decade. He continues to speak at FJA’s continuing legal education seminars on justice topics.. As a fourth generation Floridian, Mr. Carter is a member of one of Vero’s pioneer families. His great-grandfather, a land surveyor who moved to the area in the early 1900’s, is credited with staking out the original town of Vero Beach.

Darryl J. Jacobs, Esq., is the founder and a principal shareholder in the Vero Beach, Port St. Lucie, Boca Raton. Coral Springs and Aventura law offices of Jacobs and Jacobs, P.A.. Because he believes that helping his clients achieve their personal estate planning goals and objectives is one of the most worthwile professional activities he can purse, he has concentrated his law practice exclusively in the areas of Last Wills, Trusts and Tax planning.. Mr. Jacobs has been serving the legal needs of Florida residents since 1991. He provides his clients with carefully prepared estate plans that reflect each person's and family's unique goals. He believes that "Everybody has diffirent needs when it comes to passing on to their loved ones what took years of blood and tears to put together". That is why he prides himself on paying close attention to what his clients want and delivering to them an estate plan to fit their individual needs.

Christopher H. Marine is a lifelong resident of Vero Beach.  He serves as chairman of the firm's Real Property  Group,  the Finance & Institutional Lending Group, and he is also a member of  the Business & Commercial Enterprise Group.  Mr. Marine has been awarded an "AV" rating by Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest rating issued by the largest and most complete ratings registry of lawyers in the world.. Mr. Marine graduated with honors from the University of Florida College of Law in 1983, and during his law school tenure he served on the Editorial Board of the Florida Law Review.  Mr. Marine has over 25 years of practice experience in the area of real property, including residential and commercial transactions, construction and development, zoning and land use regulation, and corporate/commercial law and lending. Current projects of note include the Marsh Island Club, Palm Island Plantation, Providence, The Fountains Medical Complex, Quail Ridge, Hidden Hammock and Boulevard Tennis Village. Mr. Marine's extensive transactional practice has been recognized by Land America/Commonwealth title insurance company with its Executive Award for outstanding performance for ten consecutive years.. Mr. Marine has also developed a practice emphasis in the area of wetlands mitigation banking, negotiated and regulatory conservation easement grants, and related transactional services. He is an active Associate Member of the National Mitigation Banking Association.. In addition to the practice of law, Mr. Marine remains active within the Vero Beach business and civic community. He has served on the Board of the Education Foundation and he is a past President and current member of the Indian River County Real Property Council. He has served as Chairman and member of the Board of Adjustment/Appeal for the City of Vero Beach, and he is the current Chairman of the Indian River County Board of Zoning Adjustment/Appeal.  Mr. Marine also manages the firm's commercial title insurance company, Island Title Agency.. Mr. Marine's professional memberships include the Indian River County and American Bar Associations, and the Florida Bar.

Chelsea A. Miller joined the firm in 2014, and practices solely in the area of Family Law.  Ms. Miller was born in New York and her family relocated to Indian River County in 1996. Ms. Miller is a graduate of the University of South Florida where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Criminology, with a minor in Political Science.  Ms. Miller earned her Juris Doctorate from Seton Hall University School of Law in 2013.. While at Seton Hall, Ms. Miller was a member of the Women’s Law Forum and had the opportunity to serve as a judicial intern to both The Honorable Tonianne Bongiovanni a United States Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey, in 2011, as well as The Honorable James G. Troiano of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Family Part, in 2012.

Brooke W. Odom is a member of our firm’s Litigation Department, and focuses her practice on personal injury, medical malpractice, commercial and business litigation, as well as probate and trust litigation. Ms. Odom grew up in Sanford, Florida, and spent her junior year in high school as a Congressional Page in Washington, D.C. She graduated from the University of South Florida with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science in 2000, and from Stetson University College of Law with a juris doctor in 2004. While a student at Stetson, Ms. Odom served on the school’s award-winning Moot Court Board.. Upon graduating from law school, Ms. Odom joined the appellate practice group of a large law firm in Tampa, Florida. To be closer to family, Ms. Odom moved to Vero Beach in 2006. Since moving to Vero Beach, she has worked as Assistant County Attorney for Indian River County, and at a small firm practicing commercial litigation. Ms. Odom’s broad range of experience is invaluable to her approach to litigating her cases and maximizing results for her clients.

Brian J. Connelly dedicates his service to obtaining fair and just compensation for clients who have suffered injury through the negligence of others. Born in Vero Beach, he returned to his hometown and has specialized in the practice personal injury and civil trial law for 25 years.  Mr. Connelly focuses his practice in the areas of personal injury, wrongful death, product liability, medical malpractice and insurance litigation.  He is Board Certified by the Florida Bar as a specialist in Civil Trial Law. Mr. Connelly also maintains an “AV” rating, the highest conferred for legal ability and ethics, from Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.  He is recognized as a Super Lawyer by nomination of his peers.. After attending the College of the Holy Cross and earning his law degree from Stetson University College of Law, Mr. Connelly began his career as a trial lawyer. Recently, Mr. Connelly’s trial advocacy skills resulted in the largest verdict in Indian River County history for a non-surgical automobile accident case. Working as co-counsel with then-partner David Carter, the two obtained a jury verdict, which ranked among the highest awards in personal injury cases in the history of our community. Florida Lawyer, a magazine covering legal matters throughout the state, profiled the case.. Mr. Connelly values his commitment to the community and is an active volunteer with Youth Guidance and serves as a mentor for two young men with his wife.  He has served on the boards of the ARC of Indian River County and the Mental Health Association. He is also co-founder and Chairman of the Board for the Indian River Lacrosse Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the growth and development of lacrosse for the youth of Indian River County. Mr. Connelly previously served as a past President for the Indian River County Bar Association, and spent three years as the Indian River County Pro Bono Liaison for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit.

Beckett Horner practices in the areas of Estate Planning, Real Estate, Probate, Trust Administration, Guardianship, Business, and Tax Law. Beckett was born and raised in Vero Beach, FL and attended the University of Florida, where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in History. He attended the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, IL, where he researched Property Law and was a member of the Moot Court Honors Council. Beckett is a Member of the VNA Foundation’s Planned Giving Advisory Council, a Member of the Indian River County Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division, Hibiscus Children’s Center, Kiwanis Club of Vero Treasure Coast Chapter, and a Member of the Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Section of the Florida Bar Association.

Anthony P. Guettler is co-chair of the Estate Planning & Tax Group of Gould Cooksey Fennell. Anthony concentrates his practice on estate planning, estate and trust administration, representing individuals and families with significant wealth, owners of closely held businesses, family offices, and private foundations. Since 2005, he has been helping clients develop and implement strategies to meet their estate planning goals, minimize taxes, and protect assets for future generations. He is Board Certified as a Specialist in Wills, Trusts and Estates, and a graduate of the Florida Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).. As an active member of the Florida Bar, Anthony frequently lectures on estate planning and related areas of taxation and is a contributing author for ActionLine magazine (a publication by the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of the Florida Bar). Anthony is grateful for the opportunity to live in Vero Beach with his family, and he is an active member of the United Way of Indian River County and other local charities.

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Experienced L attorney serving clients in Vero Beach and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Vero Beach and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Vero Beach and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Vero Beach and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Vero Beach and surrounding areas.