About William T.
William T. Dzurilla built his legal foundation at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the place he earned a B.A. in records in 1978. He went directly to Tulane University School of Law and received his J.D. in 1981. Those early academic years led shortly into appellate work at the very best levels of the bench.
Immediately after law school Dzurilla served as a regulation clerk to Judge Albert Tate Jr. of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1981. The following year he served as a clerk for Justice Byron White of the U.S. Supreme Court. Those again-to-again clerkships positioned him in two diverse chambers during a pivotal era for federal jurisprudence and sharpened his skills in briefing, opinion drafting and appellate procedure.
He entered personal practice quickly 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 curiosity work and giant-company practice, a sample that broadened the kinds of matters he handled and the clients he advised.
In 2000 Dzurilla took on a counsel position with Southern Arizona Legal Aid, Inc., working through workplaces that served Gila, Navajo and Apache counties. That period further public-interest legal proceedings and client counseling in underserved groups to his résumé. He returned to national firm practice in 2004 as a companion at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, where he handled complicated civil things alongside other litigators.
His later profession persisted in excessive-profile legal proceedings shops. In 2020 he joined Roche Freedman LLP as counsel. Across these moves he has mixed appellate knowledge from his clerkships with trial and advocacy work from many years in each nonprofit and personal-company settings. He is admitted to practice in Florida and has treated things that required each state and federal judiciary experience.
Colleagues describe him as an attorney who brings trial experience and appellate perspective to client matters. He has worked in different practice environments: regional companies, national legal proceedings boutiques, and legal aid. That blend has influenced the types of techniques he favors and the audiences he briefs—judges, juries and administrative choice-makers.
He presently acts as counsel at Roche Freedman LLP, where his practice centers on civil legal proceedings matters in Florida and related jurisdictions.
