About Spiro J.
Spiro J. Verras earned his B.A. from Yale University in 1989 and his J.D. from Tulane University School of Law in 1993. He moved from classroom to courtroom early in his career and has practiced across several jurisdictions since. His education set the stage for a career that spans private practice and in-house work.
He began his legal career in 1993 as an associate at McAlpine Peuler Cozad & Davie, PLC. Two years later he joined O Neil Eichin Miller Saporito and Harris, PLC as an associate. By 1999 he had moved into partnership at Jones Verras & Freiberg, LLC. That role led to the establishment of his own firm, Verras Law, P.A., where he became a partner in 2003. In 2007 he took on the role of managing partner at Bilirakis Law Group, LLC. He also served as chief legal officer for Unthink Corporation beginning in 2010, a move that added corporate in-house experience to his portfolio.
His admissions cover multiple state and federal jurisdictions. He is admitted to practice in Texas, Louisiana and Florida. He also holds admission to the U.S. Supreme Court and is a member of the U.S. Fifth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals. Those credentials reflect a practice that reaches beyond a single courtroom or county line.
Verras maintains memberships in several bar sections that reflect the subjects he regularly encounters in his work. He is active in the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, Elder Law, and Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law sections of The Florida Bar. In Louisiana he participates in the Trusts, Estate, Probate & Immovable Property Law Section. He also holds memberships in the real estate, probate and trust, and LGBT law sections of the Texas Bar. Locally he is a member of the Clearwater Bar Association and the Hillsborough County Bar Association.
His practice is based in the Tampa Bay area. Verras Law operates a main office in Palm Harbor, and maintains appointment-only offices in St. Petersburg and Tampa. Over the years his work has crossed private client matters and corporate legal functions, and he has moved among small firm, boutique and in-house environments.
He focuses his current practice on estate planning, trusts and probate, real estate matters, elder law, and legal issues arising in entertainment and LGBT contexts.
