Lupella & Rehr

Attorney Shawn Lupella helps residents and vacationers that have been arrested in the Fort Walton Beach area and throughout Okaloosa County, Florida.

Lupella & Rehr helps residents and vacationers that have been arrested in the Fort Walton Beach area and throughout Okaloosa County, Florida.

ABOUT OUR FIRMIn 2005, the firm of Smith, Grimsley, Bauman, Pinkerton, Petermann & Shaw, formed by the late Walter J. Smith in 1961, merged with the firm of Anchors, Foster, McInnis & Keefe, established in 1980. The new firm of Anchors Smith Grimsley provides a full range of legal services in this rapidly developing area of Florida, particularly in the Fort Walton Beach, Destin and South Walton County areas of the Panhandle.The firm's objective is to provide a full range of transactional and litigation based legal services to our local clients and to be uniquely positioned to provide representation and local support to out of state clients and their general counsel on all transaction and litigation matters in Northwest Florida. Our transactions expertise includes real estate, tax, banking, governmental, corporate, regulatory and administrative law. The transaction side of the firm is complimented with an extensive and full range civil, criminal and administrative trial practice.Members of the firm have provided their time to the legal profession and the civic community through service on the Judicial Nominating Commissions for trial and appellate judges, the Florida Bar Grievance Committee, the Florida Bar Board of Bar Examiners, the First Judicial Circuit Committee on Legal Professionalism, and presidencies of the Okaloosa Walton Bar Association and the Greater Fort Walton Beach Chamber of Commerce. Members of the firm include former and present city attorneys, school board attorneys, assistant state attorneys, deputy general counsels to the governor and several of the firm members are certified by the Florida Supreme Court Circuit Court mediators.