Terri is the Managing Partner of Shook’s Tampa office and a seasoned litigator who defends Fortune 500 companies in high-stakes product liability, toxic tort, personal injury and employment matters. She handles every phase of litigation — from case strategy and discovery through trial — including managing discovery, taking and defending key depositions, preparing expert witnesses, arguing dispositive motions, mediating toward resolution and third-chairing trial teams.
She has managed dockets of thousands of cases across multiple jurisdictions and has a track record of building the facts and narrative needed to win — or to resolve cases efficiently without trial. Her detail-driven approach to discovery has closed dozens of matters before they ever reached a courtroom.
Before law, Terri spent 15 years in operations and management at a Fortune 500 insurance and financial services company. That business background, paired with an Executive MBA, gives her a practical, bottom-line understanding of the risks corporate clients face — and shapes how she defends them.
Pro bono work remains a priority for Terri, who previously led Shook’s Tampa pro bono program for many years on behalf of disadvantaged youth and adults in her community. She continues that commitment today through her seat on the board of a nonprofit serving those same populations.
Publications and Presentations
Florida’s New Tort Reforms — What’s All the Buzz About? Association of Corporate Counsel Tampa Bay CLE, May 19, 2023 (with Ashley Hayes and Cary Silverman).
Hot Topics in National Employment Law, Association of Corporate Counsel Mid-America, September 9, 2021 (with Bill Martucci, Carrie McAtee, Adriana Paris, Emily Pedersen, Yara Rashad, Charlie Rosebrough and Timia Skelton).
Hot Topics in National Employment Law, Association of Corporate Counsel Tampa, August 19, 2021 (with Carrie McAtee, Adriana Paris, Ashley Hayes, Yara Rashad and Timia Skelton).
Employment Update and Hot Topics, Teleconference, October 18, 2018 (with Bill Martucci, Andrew Chang, Erin Leffler, Riley Mendoza and Kristen Page).
How In-House Counsel Should Handle Leaked Documents, Law360, Dec. 13, 2013 (with William C. Martucci, W. Edwards Muñiz).
I Didn’t Even Raise My Hand: A Mother’s Retrospective Journey through End-of-Life Decisionmaking at the “Threshold of Viability,” 35 Stetson L. Rev. 207 (2005) (Recipient of Distinguished Writing Award, Fall 2005).