Dana R. Swickle
Senior Associate
Fort Lauderdale
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Phone: (954) 370-9970
Cell: 954-476-6490
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Dana Rosenhaus Swickle is a senior associate in the firm’s Family and Criminal law divisions. Her practice focuses on Family Law matters, including the drafting of prenuptial and post nuptial agreements, dissolution of marriage, paternity, dependency, child support, and relocation matters. Her background also includes serving as a Guardian ad Litem to aide and assist the court in the representation of minor children’s best interests in disputed timesharing matters.
While in her last year of law school, Dana interned at the Broward County Public Defender’s Office, receiving a certification by the Florida Supreme Court that allowed the practice of law, while supervised, to defend clients of the public defender’s office. During her internship, Dana represented clients in the juvenile division who were charged with misdemeanors and felonies while having tried countless bench trials. She also interned at the Miami-Dade Guardian Ad Litem office.
Upon her graduation from law school, she was immediately hired by the Broward County Public Defender’s Office and placed in a felony division wherein she represented clients who were charged with third and second degree felonies. She also sat second chair on the first degree felony offenses while trying numerous jury trials in the four years that followed.
Dana earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree with a double major in Communications and Criminal Law from the University of Miami in 1993. She later earned a law degree in 1997 from St. Thomas Law School in Miami, Florida.
