Robert A. Stok Esq.
Prior to becoming and attorney, I have benefited from over fifteen years of experience and accomplishment in the financial services, securities and commodities business. Career began as a trader of food products. With rapid advancement, established and managed my own brokerage firm representing a major Japanese trading cartel. Have traded metals, currencies and interest rate sensitive instruments in the cash and futures markets. Commodity futures experience encompasses working as a clerk on the exchange floor to tenure as a Partner at E.F. Hutton, where I developed and managed a large institutional customer base. Recent experience includes tenure as Director of Commodity Services for a London Metals Exchange member firm and as Senior Vice President of the precious metals division of a commercial bank. All aspects of my experience have been distinguished by substantial profitability, entrepreneurship, resourcefulness and creativity.
Areas of Practice
- Business and Commercial Law and Litigation
- Bankruptcy and Appellate Litigation
- Arbitrations
- Arbitral Tribunals
- Gamut of Business Disputes
- Insurance Defense
- Creditors Right's Matters
- Residential and Commercial Real Estate Transactions and Closings
- Business Transactions
Litigation Percentage
- 70% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
Certified Legal Specialties
- Commercial Litigation
- Bankruptcy
Bar Admissions
- Florida
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida
- U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Florida
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
Education
- University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, Florida
- J.D. (Cum Laude)
- Honors: Member, University of Miami Dean's Circle
- Queen's College of the City University of New York, New York, New York
- B.A.
- Major: English
Honors and Awards
- Member, INSOL (International)
- Member, Commercial Law League of America
- Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
- Member, Bankruptcy Bar Association of the Southern District of Florida
- New York Mercantile Exchange
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Art Center, South Florida, Board Member
- International Gold Symposium, United States Government Research Corporation and Consolidated Gold Fields, Delegate
Past Employment Positions
- Rosenthal Rosenthal Rasco Stok & Wolf, Partner, 1996 - 1999
- Gest & Stok, P.A., Miami, Florida, Partner, 1991 - 1996
Languages
- Spanish
Fraternities/Sororities
- Sigma Alpha Mu








