ADELE I. STONE

SHAREHOLDER & REAL ESTATE PRACTICE GROUP CHAIR, BUCHANAN INGERSOLL & ROONEY, FORT LAUDERDALE

Stone joined Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, a full-service law firm with 17 offices nationwide and more than 450 professionals, in 2014, when it merged with Fowler White Boggs. In addition to being a shareholder, she chairs the firm's real estate practice group and is a leader in Florida's legal industry: She has served on the Florida Bar's board of governors and chaired the Florida Bar Foundation and the Innocence Project of Florida, a nonprofit that strives to free wrongfully convicted prisoners. Stone also donates her time to the Children's Home Society and Legal Aid Service of Broward County.

EDUCATION: University of Florida (BA), University of Miami (JD)

IN MY DOWNTIME: I'm an amateur birder. And I love Florida history. In fact, I developed a series of presentations on the history of Florida real estate that a fellow lawyer and I presented at Florida Bar meetings held around the state.

GIVING BACK: The Innocence Project of Florida. Its mission is to exonerate the wrongfully convicted. I can think of no more important a cause than that.

NEXT BIG FOCUS: To continue to do what I love: practicing law. And get better at golf. Way better.