Sandy Boisrond
Assistant Professor of Academic Success and Bar Preparation
Email: sboisrond@stu.edu
Phone: 305.474.6018
Mail:
St. Thomas University College of Law
Academic Support Office (200)
16401 NW 37th Ave
Miami Gardens, FL 33054
Education:
B.S. Biology, University of Miami
M.B.A. Knowledge and Learning Management, Walden University
J.D., Thomas M. Cooley Law School
Expertise:
Estate Planning
Guardianship
Probate
Solo & Small Firm Practice
Autism Advocacy
Sandy Boisrond
Sandy Boisrond is an Assistant Professor of Academic Success and Bar Preparation with eight years of experience as an estate planning attorney. Professor Boisrond initially joined St. Thomas University Benjamin L. Crump College of Law as an Adjunct Professor of Professional Responsibility. She has taught numerous courses as an Adjunct Instructor at the collegiate level including Criminal Justice, Ethics, Career Development, and Business Law. She also served as a Science Teacher at the secondary level with Broward County Public Schools.
Professor Boisrond is a licensed Florida attorney who has focused her areas of practice on wills, trusts, estate planning, guardianship, and probate. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from the University of Miami, earned a Master’s Degree in Business Administration, with a concentration in Knowledge and Learning Management, from Walden University, and earned her Juris Doctorate degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School, with a concentration in General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Practice.
While in law school, Professor Boisrond was selected to serve as a Student Attorney for the Thomas M Cooley Law School Estate Planning Clinic, and she served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Michael Warren of the Oakland County Circuit Court. Following law school, she worked briefly for a Florida law firm providing estate and trusts services, and then she opened her own solo estate planning practice serving individuals and families in the areas of wills, trusts, advance directives, guardianship, and probate.
Professor Boisrond is currently a Fellow of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law (RPPTL) Section of the Florida Bar. She is an active member of the RPPTL Section, currently serving on the Law School Outreach Committee as a co-Liaison for NSU Law and STU Law. She serves on the Board of Directors as Secretary of Monarch Health Services out of Palm Beach County. She is also an Autism Advocate and is heavily involved in community education and outreach efforts to support autism families.
Professor Boisrond is the co-author of “Civility Wins: Find Your Peace While Taming the Beasts,” a book that provides guidance surrounding issues related to civility, professionalism, and ethics in the legal profession. She is heavily engaged in promoting resources and professional development to support attorneys, judges, legal support staff, law students, and other business professionals and entrepreneurs.
Books:
Sandy Boisrond & Kristen Goss, Esq., Civility Wins: Find Your Peace While Taming The Beasts (2023, Independently Published).
Articles:
Sandy Boisrond, Guardianship and Autism: How To Address the Non-Speaking Ward in Incapacity Determination and Guardianship Proceedings, ActionLine Vol. XXXXIV, No. 4 Summer 2023.
Sandy Boisrond, Probate Case Summaries, ActionLine Vol. XXXXIV, No. 3 Spring 2023.
Sandy Boisrond, Guardianship Practice: Working With Autism Families, ActionLine Vol. XXXXIV, No. 2 Winter 2023.
