Side-by-Side Comparison
Compare Divorce Lawyers
Pick any two Pinellas County divorce attorneys and see their track records side by side — objective counts from public court records, 2020–2026. No reviews, no star ratings, no scores.
Track Records Compared
Objective counts from Pinellas County dissolution-of-marriage court records, 2020–2026. Em dashes mean the value is not available in public records. Neither column is “better” — these are facts, not scores.
| Metric | Callie KruegerBarnett Woolums | Kerya KoeutThe Law Office of Kerya L. Koeut, P. A. |
|---|---|---|
| Years licensedFlorida Bar | 10 | 24 |
| Pinellas dissolutions of recordAll-years dissolution-of-marriage cases | 133 | 171 |
| Active last 12 monthsCases filed in the last year | 16 | 20 |
| Final judgmentsCases ending with a signed final judgment | 54 | 151 |
| DismissedCases closed without a final judgment | 5 | 11 |
| Settlement rate *See caveat below — not a win rate | 24.1% | 39.1% |
| Cases with childrenCustody and timesharing involved | 28 | 103 |
| Expert-witness casesCases with experts in the docket | 27 | 81 |
| Motions per caseAverage filings per case | 5.3 | 2.2 |
| HearingsDocketed hearings across cases | — | — |
| BadgesDeterministic, threshold-based — hover for criteria | Very activeHandles complex | Very activeHandles complex |
* Settlement rate: Share of final judgments with a settlement agreement in the docket. Dismissals are not counted as settlements, and most private settlements never appear in dockets.
How They Match Up
Every sentence below is generated from the same fixed count templates for every pair of attorneys — filled in from public court records, with the data source and time window labeled on each block. Higher counts are facts of record, not recommendations, and nothing here measures skill or predicts outcomes.
Experience
Pinellas: Clerk portal-verified dissolutions of record (all years) · Hillsborough: derived from 13th Circuit clerk case records (not portal-verified) · Florida Bar years licensed · filings in the last 12 months
- Callie Krueger has 133 Pinellas dissolution cases of record vs Kerya Koeut's 171 — 38 more cases of record for Kerya Koeut. A larger count means more documented Pinellas dissolutions, nothing more.
- In Hillsborough County, Callie Krueger has 7 dissolution cases of record vs Kerya Koeut's 19.
- Callie Krueger has been licensed 10 years vs Kerya Koeut's 24 — a 14-year difference in time licensed, not a measure of ability.
- In the last 12 months, Callie Krueger appeared in 16 newly filed cases vs Kerya Koeut's 20 — 4 more recent filings for Kerya Koeut.
Filing Style
Analyzed 2020–2026 Pinellas docket sample
- Callie Krueger files an average of 5.3 motions per case vs Kerya Koeut's 2.2 — a higher-motion litigation pattern for Callie Krueger (3.1 more motions per case on average). Motion volume is a docket count, not a quality measure.
Documented Tendencies
Analyzed 2020–2026 Pinellas docket sample
- 13 of Callie Krueger's 54 sampled final judgments had a settlement agreement visible in the docket (24.1%).
- 59 of Kerya Koeut's 151 sampled final judgments had a settlement agreement visible in the docket (39.1%).
- Callie Krueger's sampled cases: 54 ended in final judgments, 5 closed without one (dismissed).
- Kerya Koeut's sampled cases: 151 ended in final judgments, 11 closed without one (dismissed).
Settlement figures count only settlement agreements visible in the docket — dismissals are not counted as settlements, and most private settlements never appear in dockets. This is a docket-visibility measure, not a win rate.
Judge Overlap
Case assignments in the analyzed 2020–2026 Pinellas docket sample — appearance counts, not outcomes
Both attorneys have appeared before 13 of the same judges in the analyzed sample. Appearance counts say how often each attorney has worked in that courtroom — nothing about results there.
| Judge | Callie Krueger | Kerya Koeut |
|---|---|---|
| Steve D. Berlin | 15 cases | 61 cases |
| Elizabeth Jack | 12 cases | 53 cases |
| Jack Helinger | 8 cases | 53 cases |
| Brian Gnage | 5 cases | 34 cases |
| Rebecca Hamilton | 2 cases | 31 cases |
| Benjamin Thomas | 3 cases | 27 cases |
| David R. Ellis | 6 cases | 21 cases |
| Frederick L. Pollack | 4 cases | 21 cases |
+ 5 more shared judges with smaller appearance counts
Head-to-Head
These attorneys have faced each other in 2 cases.
2 final judgments · 0 dismissed
In those shared cases, Callie Krueger was on the petitioner side 2 times and the respondent side 0 times — Kerya Koeut the reverse.
2 cases with mixed outcomes — no dominant pattern.
Most recent shared case filed 2021-06-03
Most Experience Against
Attorneys with the most documented cases opposite each of these two — useful if you are interviewing counsel and the other side has already retained one of them. Appearance counts are from public court records.
Opposite Callie Krueger
Deduped head-to-head case counts, 2020–2026 docket sample
- Richard A. Zacur2 final judgments · 0 dismissed2 cases
Opposite Kerya Koeut
Deduped head-to-head case counts, 2020–2026 docket sample
- K. Dean Kantaras2 final judgments · 3 dismissed5 cases
- Christopher Yeazell2 final judgments · 3 dismissed5 cases
- Laurie Sweet2 final judgments · 3 dismissed5 cases
- Brandon A. Fortuno3 final judgments · 1 dismissed4 cases
- Cody Emerson4 final judgments · 0 dismissed4 cases
Based on public court records covering 143 Pinellas County divorce attorneys, 2020–2026 · Data updated May 8, 2026 · How these rankings work