Robert M. Shalhoub is our Festival’s Legal Advisor. He is a Board Certified Matrimonial and Family Law Attorney. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Shalhoub teaches several legal courses at Palm Beach State College. Mr. Shalhoub is a frequent lecturer at seminars on business valuations and custody concerns and an author on parent alienation syndrome and other family law issues. Mr. Shalhoub has been listed in the top 5 percent of Law and Leading Attorney’s in Florida. He is in Who’s Who in American Law from 1992 through present. He has also received the highest rating for an attorney by Martindale Hubble as well as being recognized for high professional legal standards and ethics by the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.
Mr. Shalhoub has won several awards including The Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award from the 15th Judicial Circuit in 1992, Outstanding Young Men of America Award, The Juvenile Law Award from the Palm Beach County Bar Association and Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County in 1989. In 2000, he received the first ever “…And Justice for All” award from the Legal Aid Society for his contribution to the community, its residents and to the Law.