Law

Peter Quinter

Chair, U.S. Customs and International Trade ATTORNEY, Gunster, Miami

Gunster, which turns 100 this year, is a full -service law firm with over 1,000 employees located in 15 offices statewide. Quinter joined the law firm in 2022 as chair of Gunster’s new U.S. Customs and International Trade Law Group. He has held numerous leadership positions in the legal profession and in his community and is a frequent lecturer/speaker at academic institutions, industry conventions and legal conferences.

EDUCATION: Cornell University (BS), American University (JD)

IF I WERE GOVERNOR: I would invest in infrastructure, protect land from overdevelopment, and require elementary students to take a second language and learn about local and state history.

MENTORS: Alan Becker and Gary Poliakoff, my mentors for 18 years as an attorney at Becker & Poliakoff, P.A., from 1994-2012.

READING: I suffered a serious heart attack on Jan. 17, 2024, so have been reading books recommended by friends such as Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity, by Dr. Peter Attia. I am now living what I call my ‘second life.’

MOTIVATIONAL MANTRA: The Golden Rule — treat others as you would have them treat you.

WHAT I’VE LEARNED: My heart attack taught me to be more patient, generous and optimistic. To wake up each day in sunny and warm Florida is a blessing.

BRYAN AYLSTOCK

Aylstock Witkin Kreis & Overholtz

Dean Cannon

GrayRobinson

CHARLES S. CAULKINS

FISHER PHILLIPS

Jamie Alan Cole

Weiss Serota Helfman Cole & Bierman

Lisa Colon

Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr

DEAN COLSON

Colson, Hicks, Eidson

Jaret L. Davis

Greenberg Traurig

Leticia Diaz

Barry University School of Law

ALBERT E. DOTSON JR.

BILZIN SUMBERG

Barbara Fernandez

Hinshaw & Culbertson

Michelle Gervais

Blank Rome

Robert J. Grammig

Holland & Knight

Donald J. Hayden

Mark Migdal & Hayden

YOLANDA CASH JACKSON

Becker & Poliakoff

Fred Karlinsky

Greenberg Traurig

LORI KILLINGER

LEWIS, LONGMAN & WALKER

BRAD KIMBRO

Holland & Knight

ALAN KLUGER

KLUGER, KAPLAN, SILVERMAN, KATZEN & LEVINE

Gary Lesser

Lesser Lesser Landy & Smith

Laird Lile

Laird A. Lile

Sigrid McCawley

Boies Schiller Flexner

Patricia Mendez-Cambo

Softbank Group International

Michael Minton

Dean Mead

Harvey E. Oyer III

Shutts & Bowen

MIKE PAPANTONIO

Levin Papantonio Rafferty

Wayne Pathman

Pathman Schermer Tandy

Bill Perry

Gunster

Eugene Pettis

Haliczer Pettis & Schwamm

Sean Pittman

Pittman Law Group

Edward Pozzuoli

Tripp Scott

Peter Prieto

Podhurst Orseck

Rocky Rodriguez

BUCHANAN, INGERSOLL & ROONEY

Gary L. Sasso

Carlton Fields

JILL S. SCHWARTZ

JILL S. SCHWARTZ AND ASSOCIATES

Adele Stone

Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney

EVERETT WILSON

Polsinelli

Jéan E. Wilson

Greenberg Traurig

Gregory C. Yadley

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick