
Robert Angus Williams has extensive experience in environmental, land use, and agriculture, both in public and private practice. Robert is a Martindale Hubbell AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated attorney and a Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Mediator. His practice focuses on land use and environmental permitting, zoning, state and local permitting, administrative matters and business and real estate transactions. Robert started his career as a prosecutor in Pinellas and Pasco Counties, and then went on to spend eleven years in a land use private practice in the Tampa Bay Area. Robert then moved to Tallahassee to work in the General Counsel’s office of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, also serving as the Clemency Aide for Former Ag Commissioner Adam Putnam. From there, Robert joined the Florida Department of Environmental Protection as Chief Deputy General Counsel serving the Defense Section and then the Public Lands Section before being promoted to General Counsel of the agency. Robert was raised on a small farm in Imperial Polk County. He received his Juris Doctor from Stetson University College of Law. Robert earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Food and Resource Economics from the College of Agriculture at the University of Florida.
Areas Of Expertise
- Administrative Law
- Environmental
- Real Property
Special Designation
- N/A
Areas Of Certification
- Circuit Civil
Contact
315 South Calhoun Street, Suit Suite 830
Tallahassee, FL 32301