George J. Felos graduated from Queens College of the City University of New York, received a juris doctor degree from Boston University School of Law, and is a national expert in “right-to-die” cases. He is best known for his work as the lead attorney in the Terri Schiavo case—a multi-year struggle to end the artificial feeding of a young woman in a persistent vegetative state. Prior to Schiavo, George argued Florida’s landmark case establishing an individual’s constitutional right to refuse or discontinue unwanted medical treatment—Guardianship of Browning—cited by courts around the country.

From 1996 to 1998, George served as board chair of The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, Inc., the largest nonprofit hospice in the world, and was a hospice patient volunteer. George created and teaches the accredited continuing-legal-education (CLE) course, Meditation for Lawyers® and the accredited continuing-medical-education course, “The Legal Aspects of End-of-Life Care.” He is the author of Litigation as Spiritual Practice. He has studied and resided with meditation masters around the world, sat for a months-long silent meditation retreat, and has taught meditation for decades.