Elizabeth Stamoulis, 32

Elizabeth Stamoulis grew up with a father who was an attorney and a judge, plus a mother who worked as his assistant in his home office. And she never thought she wanted to follow in those footsteps. But after majoring in classical studies at Dartmouth, she began to consider the legal profession after all.

She then earned a law degree from Stanford, where she became interested in intellectual property law. Now, less than a decade later, she’s a partner at Williams Parker Harrison Dietz & Getzen, one of largest and most established firms in the Sarasota-Bradenton region, where her focus remains intellectual property law.  

“It’s such a growing area and becoming so important these days,” Stamoulis says. “Every day it’s changing, and I think the excitement of being on the edge of new technologies and trying to keep up with it is really interesting.”