Welcome, Kristin S. Ottinger, Esq., to the firm's Government Counsel Services practice group
Location: Tampa
November 24, 2025 — Tampa, FL — Bryant Miller Olive P.A. (BMO) welcomes Kristin S. Ottinger, Esq., to the firm’s Government Counsel Services practice group.
Kristin S. Ottinger joins the Government Counsel Services practice group based in the firm’s Tampa office. Ottinger focuses her practice on representing cities, counties, special districts, and local governments in all local government legal matters. With over 25 years of diverse legal experience surrounding local government law and litigation, her experience includes serving as City Attorney, Assistant City Attorney, general counsel and special counsel for a variety of municipal entities.
Ottinger’s local government experience includes serving as City Attorney for the Town of Indialantic and general counsel for the Florida Metropolitan Planning Organization Advisory Counsel, several regional Metropolitan Planning Organizations as well as the School Board of Hernando County. She also acted as a General Magistrate for the Town of Melbourne Beach. She previously served as an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Tampa where she initially acted as the City’s sole municipal prosecutor and later as a litigator handling the defense of the City in a variety of liability cases.
Ottinger has over two decades of litigation experience; she has successfully participated in over 80 jury trials and more than 100 bench trials. She has also served as in-house counsel for Progressive Insurance, where she managed all phases of litigation for the company in both property and bodily injury coverage disputes. At the start of her legal career, she served as a criminal prosecutor with the State of Florida.
Ottinger graduated from the Stetson University College of Law, where she was a Legal Writing Honor Society member, a Client Counseling competitive team member, and was awarded the William F. Blews Pro Bono Service Award. Ottinger received her Bachelor of Science in psychology and a minor in English from the University of Florida.
About Bryant Miller Olive
With a distinguished history of over 55 years serving its clients' needs, Bryant Miller Olive represents governments, businesses and agencies in legal matters relating to public finance, real estate, state and local government law, complex transactions, project finance, litigation, and labor and employment. Firm attorneys are often called upon to handle some of the most complex legal issues in the boardroom and in the courtroom. The firm has offices in Tampa, Tallahassee, Orlando, Miami, Jacksonville, Atlanta and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit: www.bmolaw.com/AboutUs.
