Jacob Liro

Jacob Liro

Jacob J. Liro is a partner in Wicker Smith’s Miami office. He focuses his practice in the areas of premises liability, construction, transportation, professional malpractice, and catastrophic injury. Jacob is a member of the firm’s Transportation Practice group and is on their Transportation Rapid Response team. Prior to joining Wicker Smith, he worked for the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, where he was clerk to the General Counsel for the Construction Law and Land Sales and Condominium Regulation Divisions. He also worked for a highly active insurance defense firm in South Miami.

A native of Massachusetts, Jacob graduated from Boston College in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts Philosophy. He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Miami in 2006. During his entire law school career, Jacob was a recipient of the Dean’s Academic Merit Scholarship. Admitted to the Florida Bar in 2006, Jacob is an active member of The Florida Bar, American Bar Association, Dade County Bar Association and the international legal fraternity, Phi Alpha Delta.

• The Florida Bar
• American Bar Association
• Dade County Bar Association
• Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel
• Phi Alpha Delta (Vice Justice 2006)

• Dean’s Academic Merit Scholarship, 2003-2006
• Certificate of Academic Achievement in Writing, 2005
• C.A.L.I. Award for Legal Writing Seminar, 2005