PERSONAL AND EFFECTIVE LEGAL REPRESENTATION

If you are looking for an attorney or counselor who will personally and effectively represent your interests, please consider the qualifications of John Jabro. Mr. Jabro has been providing his clients with personal, high quality, professional legal services since 1983. His legal career began in Sarasota, Florida, with the Office of the Public Defender. In 1986, he was offered and accepted the position of Chief Assistant for the Upper Keys Division of the Office of the Public Defender for Monroe County, Florida. After rising to the position of Chief Assistant Public Defender for the entire circuit, Mr. Jabro went into private practice in January, 1990.

Throughout his legal career, Mr. Jabro has developed his legal skills primarily as a trial lawyer and worked with a wide variety of clients, from individuals to Fortune 500 companies, on a broad range of business, personal and related matters. Mr. Jabro's philosophy is to provide legal counseling and legal representation to clients in a personal setting and not merely on a 9 to 5 basis. It is Mr. Jabro's habit to work evenings and weekends and to accommodate his clients and meet with them or speak with them telephonically at those times if necessary.

As a President of the Upper Keys Bar Association for the last four years, Mr. Jabro has often stated "in a small legal community such as ours, it is certainly a great benefit to all of us to establish a rapport with the court, with other attorneys, with our clients, and with members of the public so that we are able to relate to each other, not only as adversaries, but as citizens of the Florida Keys in our attempts to make our community a better place to live".

Mr. Jabro was admitted to practice law in all courts of Florida, at both trial and appellate levels, and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. He received his law degree with honors from Detroit College of Law, and his undergraduate degree from Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit. Mr. Jabro practices in the areas of general, civil and commercial litigation, corporate and business law, which also includes personal injury cases of all types, criminal defense, building, planning and zoning law, administrative law, and cases dealing with condominium and timeshare law.


Personal Data


Professional Status

Member of the Florida Bar, Admitted 1983.
Member of the Bar for the Untied States District Court, Middle District of Florida Admitted 1983
Education Detroit College of Law Detroit, Michigan Legal Juris Doctor Cum Laude, December 1982
Legal President of the Upper Keys Bar Association, 1995 through Present
Chairperson of the Florida Bar Grievance Committee 16A, 1996, 1997
President of the Upper Keys Kiwanis Club, 1993 through 1996

Honors & Activities

Dean's List 1980, 1981, 1982
Academic Class Standing: Top 10%
Law Review Managing Editor, 1982
Law Review Publication
Casenote, Surrogate Motherhood: The Outer Limits of Protected Conduct, 1981 Det. Coll. L. Rev. 1131
American Jurisprudence 2d Book Award - Evidence 1982
American Jurisprudence 2d Book Award - Corporations 1982
John C. Bills Scholarship Award (highest grade point average for academic year), 1982
The Florida Bar President's Pro Bono Service Award 1996

Undergraduate Sacred Heart Seminary
Detroit, Michigan
Bachelor of Arts Degree, 1969

Work Experience

Sole Practitioner, August 1994 to Present. Law Offices of John A. Jabro 90311 Overseas Highway, Suite B Tavernier, Florida 33070

Partner, January 1, 1992 to August 1994 CULLEN & JABRO, P.A.
99228 Overseas Highway Key Largo, Florida 33037

Associate, January, 1990 to December, 1991 RUSSELL H. CULLEN, P.A. 99228 Overseas Highway Key Largo, Florida 33037

Chief Assistant Public Defender January, 1989 to January, 1990 Public Defender, Sixteenth Judicial Circuit 424 Fleming Street Key West, Florida 33041

Adjunct Professor and Certified Florida Department of Law Enforcement Instructor in High Liability Subjects January, 1987 to December, 1990 Florida Keys Community College Department of Criminal Justice Key West, Florida 33040

Assistant Public Defender, Chief of Upper Keys Office July, 1986 to January, 1989 Public Defender, Sixteenth Judicial Circuit 424 Fleming Street Key West, Florida 33041

Assistant Public Defender December, 1982 to June, 1986 Public Defender, Twelfth Judicial Circuit 2086 Main Street Sarasota, Florida

United States District Court Internship January, 1981 to April, 1982 The Honorable Ralph B. Guy 802 Federal Building Detroit, Michigan

Operations Manager February, 1978 to February, 1979 Sarasota County CETA Program Sarasota Board of County Commissioners Sarasota, Florida

Personal Data

Date of Birth: May 22, 1947 Marital Status: Happily Married

References Available upon request