About William T.
William T. Dzurilla built his legal foundation at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he earned a B.A. in history in 1978. He went on to Tulane University School of Law and received his J.D. in 1981. Those early academic years led quickly into appellate work at the highest levels of the bench.
Immediately after law school Dzurilla served as a law clerk to Judge Albert Tate Jr. of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1981. The following year he clerked for Justice Byron White of the U.S. Supreme Court. Those back-to-back clerkships placed him in two different chambers during a pivotal era for federal jurisprudence and sharpened his skills in briefing, opinion drafting and appellate procedure.
He entered private practice soon after and became a partner at Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan in 1983. That role grounded him in trial and appellate work at a regional level. Over time he moved between public interest work and large-firm practice, a pattern that broadened the kinds of matters he handled and the clients he advised.
In 2000 Dzurilla took on a counsel role with Southern Arizona Legal Aid, Inc., working through offices that served Gila, Navajo and Apache counties. That period added public-interest litigation and client counseling in underserved communities to his résumé. He returned to national firm practice in 2004 as a partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, where he handled complex civil matters alongside other litigators.
His later career continued in high-profile litigation shops. In 2020 he joined Roche Freedman LLP as counsel. Across these moves he has combined appellate experience from his clerkships with trial and advocacy work from decades in both nonprofit and private-firm settings. He is admitted to practice in Florida and has handled matters that required both state and federal court experience.
Colleagues describe him as an attorney who brings courtroom experience and appellate perspective to client matters. He has worked in different practice environments: regional firms, national litigation boutiques, and legal aid. That mix has influenced the kinds of strategies he favors and the audiences he briefs—judges, juries and administrative decision-makers.
He currently serves as counsel at Roche Freedman LLP, where his practice centers on civil litigation matters in Florida and related jurisdictions.
