Florida Law Partner Gail Serota Dies in Snorkeling Accident

Gail Serota, a partner in Florida’s Weiss Serota Helfman Cole & Bierman, died Sunday in a snorkeling accident in Biscayne Bay. She was 65.

The Miami Herald reported that her husband Joseph, one of the founders of the firm, said he and his wife loved to be on their boat and often spent days in the Ragged Keys. His wife, who loved the water, went snorkeling Sunday afternoon and got caught in a current, Serota said.

He said the two met while students at Princeton. Gail Serota turned down going to law school at Stanford to attend the University of Miami, where he was studying. The two married in 1980.

Read the Miami Herald article.