Teresa A. Arnold-Simmons is managing partner of the Jacksonville office of Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A. She focuses her practice on long-term care and medical malpractice to include the defense of physicians, hospitals, nurses, nursing homes and prison healthcare providers. Mrs. Arnold-Simmons also handles automobile liability claims and premises liability matters. Additionally, she has lectured regionally and nationally on topics related to medical malpractice, long-term care, and evidentiary issues.
She is a 1988 graduate of the University of South Carolina where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English. She completed her Juris Doctorate from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1992. During law school, she was a member of the student editorial board of the ABA Real Property, Probate & Trust Journal and served as its managing editor. She was also a member of the Order of the Wig and Robe.
Following law school, Mrs. Arnold-Simmons clerked for the South Carolina Court of Appeals as law clerk to Acting Judge and Retired Supreme Court Justice Bruce Littlejohn. In 1993, Mrs. Arnold-Simmons joined the law firm of Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney in Columbia, South Carolina, with a practice focus on medical professional liability, becoming a partner there in 1999. While in South Carolina, Mrs. Arnold-Simmons was a board member of the Columbia (SC) Chamber of Commerce and a member of Leadership Columbia. She joined Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer in 2006.
Mrs. Arnold-Simmons is licensed to practice in Florida and South Carolina. She is a member of the Florida Bar and South Carolina Bar. Mrs. Arnold-Simmons is also a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America.
