Caroline Valentin has extensive experience in city, county, and local government law, and assisting governmental and private entities in a broad spectrum of legal matters.

Prior to founding C. Valentin Law, Caroline served as the General Counsel of the Fort Pierce Utilities Authority, a local municipal utility, where she provided legal oversight for one of a few multi-service public utilities across the United States delivering electric, water, wastewater, natural gas, and internet services to the community. During her tenure as General Counsel, Caroline successfully established the utility’s first in-house legal department and was instrumental in advising its governing board and executive leadership on regulatory compliance, contract negotiations, legislative matters, and infrastructure development. She played a key role in intergovernmental relations, real estate matters, and ensuring compliance with federal and state laws.

With an extensive understanding of local government regulations, Caroline has spent over a decade advising city and county governments, elected officials, and public agencies on a wide range of legal matters.  Caroline has served local governments as an Assistant County Attorney for St. Lucie County, Deputy City Attorney for the City of Port St. Lucie, and Assistant City Attorney for the City of Fort Pierce. In her roles, she advised elected officials and departments on compliance with state and federal laws, open meetings and public records requirements, ethics, procurement, labor and employment, emergency operations, building, code compliance, economic development, legislative, airport, port, utilities and land use and zoning matters.

Her expertise includes drafting ordinances and policies, drafting and negotiating intergovernmental and contractor agreements, and representing government entities in litigation and administrative proceedings.

Prior to moving to Florida, Caroline assisted the University of Texas at Dallas in establishing its first centralized Office of Contracts Administration which was responsible for drafting, negotiating, and managing the business contracts of the University. She also served as a trial associate in the Southern California Office of Dorsey & Whitney, a previously AmLaw 100 law firm, where she handled multiple stages of complex commercial litigation such as pre-trial motions and discovery, courtroom advocacy, and settlement negotiations.

Caroline is known for her strong work ethic, practical approach, meticulous legal analysis, strong advocacy skills, and commitment to public service.