About Florida Government Law Partners

Gigi Rollini serves as Managing Partner of Florida Government Law Partners. She is an experienced litigator and legal advisor to companies, organizations, associations, professionals, and government officials and employees regulated by Florida law. Her practice encompasses litigation, appeals, and all aspects of Florida administrative law, including:

• Corporate & professional licensing and registrations
• Regulatory compliance & evaluation
• Administrative notices, complaints & discipline
• Government contracts, procurement & bid protests
• Rulemaking, challenges & variance/waivers
• Florida tax audits, assessments & protests
• Government employee ethics advising & litigation
• Election compliance advising & litigation
• Non-profit/Association formation, compliance, registration & management
• Registered Agent registration, services & advising

Gigi has represented clients ranging from the world's largest companies to innovative startups and non-profits to successfully enter, strengthen, or expand their Florida regulated operations. She routinely represents companies, organizations, and individual professionals to gain and retain their Florida licensure and registrations. Her impact litigation in novel regulatory areas has helped shape Florida law within her areas of expertise. She has represented officials at the highest level of state and federal government, including a sitting President of the United States in the U.S. Supreme Court and Florida constitutional officers at all levels of Florida state courts, including in the Florida Supreme Court. She strives to employ a creative and strategic approach to achieve common sense, efficient solutions, including those that protect and enhance relationships between regulated entities and regulators, in large and small cases alike. Prior to founding Florida Government Law Partners, Gigi led the Florida Government and Administrative practice group within a statewide law firm which, under her leadership, gained state and national peer and client-based recognition. 

Gigi serves as President-Elect of the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL), and is a past president of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers (FAWL) and Tallahassee Women Lawyers. She has been recognized as one of Florida’s “Top 50 Women Lawyers” by Super Lawyers and one of The Best Lawyers in America for administrative and regulatory law, and is routinely named one of Florida’s “Legal Elite,” “Top Rated Lawyers,” and a “Super Lawyer” in both administrative and appellate law. She has been named a FAWL "Extraordinary Woman,"​ the Panhandle's "Woman of Distinction" in Law by the Girl Scout Council, and one of Tallahassee's "25 Women to Know"​ by the Tallahassee Democrat. She has earned Martindale's highest AV-Preeminent Peer Rating in appellate, administrative, and civil litigation, serves as The Florida Bar's Administrative Law Section Executive Council's Liaison to The Florida Bar Appellate Court Rules Committee, and is a past chair of the Appellate Court Rules Committee's administrative and civil appeals subcommittees.

Prior to entering private practice, Gigi was senior judicial clerk to Judge Robert T. Benton II at Florida's First District Court of Appeal, a judicial extern for The Honorable Robert L. Hinkle at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, and a Florida Bar Public Service Fellow. Gigi holds both Juris Doctor and Master of Public Administration degrees and, prior to law school, served as a legislative aide in the Florida House of Representatives.

Education:

• J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Florida State University, 2003
• M.P.A., Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University, 2003
• B.A., Florida State University, 1997

Court Admissions:

• All Florida State Courts
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
• Supreme Court of the United States

Representative Experience:

Florida Licensure, Administrative Complaints, and Disciplinary Proceedings

• Represents licensees, regulated entities, and interested parties before regulatory agencies and their professional boards, the Division of Administrative Hearings, and in Florida’s circuit and appellate courts to obtain licensure and ensure compliance.
• Advises and represents clients in compliance, disciplinary and appellate matters involving Florida’s agencies and professional boards, including Florida Department of Health, Agency for Health Care Administration, Agency for Persons with Disabilities, and Florida’s Boards including Nursing, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Medicine, Accountancy, Architecture and Professional Engineers, as well as national examination and professional boards.
• Serves as the Appellate Court Rules Committee Liaison to The Florida Bar’s Administrative Law Section Executive Council, and is a past chair of The Florida Bar Appellate Court Rules Committee’s administrative and civic appeals committees.
• Frequent speaker on licensure and regulatory issues, and developed The Florida Bar’s Basic Administrative Law segment on professional licensure in Florida.

Rulemaking, Rule Variances/Waivers, and Rule Challenges

• Advises and represents licensees and regulated entities in the agency rulemaking process, including attend public hearings, offer public comment, and draft/redline rules.
• Represents licensees and regulated entities in seeking variances and waivers from rules.
• Represents regulated entities in challenges of proposed and existing agency rules in DOAH and on appeal, including in cases of statewide import.

Regulatory Compliance and Association Creation, Compliance, and Management

• Routinely advises regulated entities and licensees in Florida regulatory compliance matters.
• Creates, manages and represents trade and professional associations in the rulemaking process and in rule challenges.   
• Created, manages and represents the Florida Association for Constitutional Officers in Florida agency forums and Florida courts.
• Assists trade associations and non-profits to secure tax-exempt status.

Government Contracts, Procurement, and Bid Protests

• Advises and represents vendors in Florida state procurement and government contract matters, from the issuance of a solicitation to an award, and through bid protest litigation and appeal.
• Advises and represents vendors in local government procurement and contract matters, from the issuance of a solicitation to an award, and through bid protest litigation and appeal.
• Represents government agencies, offices, and boards in their procurement matters, from general advising to the issuance of a solicitation, defending in litigation an award or rejection of all bids, and through any appeal. 
• Represents government agencies, offices, and boards in their procurement-related rulemaking.

Constitutional & Election Law

• Serves as General Counsel to the Florida Association for Constitutional Officers.
• Represents county constitutional officers and public officials in election law and charter amendment suits.
• Represents campaigns and candidates for public office in compliance and election-related litigation. 
• Represents organizations and public bodies in compliance and election-related litigation. 
• Represents amicus parties in all six of Florida's District Courts of Appeal, the Florida Supreme Court, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
• Represented a sitting U.S. President in the United States Supreme Court to defend against a petition for writ of mandamus in an election-related suit.
• Defended a contested amendment to the Florida Constitution from circuit court to the Florida Supreme Court, helping to preserve the measure for the general election ballot.
• Represented constitutional officer in circuit court, the Fifth District Court of Appeal, and Florida Supreme Court to strike a county charter amendment changing the method of election for county constitutional officers in case of first impression and statewide impact.
• Represented statewide association in litigation to strike attempted charter amendment abolishing certain constitutional officers.

State & Local Taxation

• Advises and represents clients in Florida Department of Revenue state tax audits.
• Represents clients in Florida Department of Revenue tax assessment protests, litigation, and appeals.