The Tullo Law Firm

Attorney Biography

Andréa T. Tullo is the managing attorney at The Tullo Law Firm. Ms. Tullo's practice provides transactional, litigation and alternative dispute resolution services for individuals and businesses with growth, compliance-related, technology-related, or franchise-related disputes and/or transactional needs. Ms. Tullo graduated from Princeton University and received her law degree from Hofstra University's School of Law. She has completed additional coursework at Cornell and Harvard Universities. During her legal studies, Ms. Tullo interned for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Eastern District, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District, the U.S. Attorney's Office, and the Major Offense Bureau of the District Attorney's Office in Nassau County, New York.

After law school, Ms. Tullo held key positions in the offices of the General Counsel of a prominent risk management firm, as well as a federal Congressman. In addition to the practice of law, Ms. Tullo has held a five-year position as lead writer and editor of The Guide to Computer Law, published by CCH Incorporated. Ms. Tullo has been a featured guest speaker at a number of business law and tech-related legal conferences, including those sponsored by the Computer Law Association, ITEC, the Association of Information Technology Professionals and Stetson University's College of Law. Ms. Tullo has been further featured on the Time Warner program, Insights, to discuss HIPAA and database privacy issues.

Ms. Tullo has worked to register numerous trade and service marks for clients in a variety of industries as well as register copyrights for works of various media. Ms. Tullo has qualified multiple non-profit clients for tax-exempt status and counseled both for-profit and non-profit entities in areas of compliance and growth. She has created Uniform Franchise Offering Circulars for entities wishing to franchise their concept, and has served as counsel to several franchisors, handling the commercial real estate acquisition, construction, technology, and franchisee closing issues for each.

Ms. Tullo has built a significant commercial and residential real estate practice. In addition to Ms. Tullo's involvement with real estate sales, leases and related issues, she is also a member of the firm's title group which, as of January 2008, has facilitated (either in the capacity of Title Agent or Closing Agent) over $363 million in sales over the prior 17 months. The firm affiliates with underwriters Chicago Title, Ticor Title, and Attorney's Title Insurance Fund (The Fund).

During their tenure, Ms. Tullo was the only attorney invited to serve on the Tampa Bay and South Florida CIO Councils. These councils, combined, represented 118 Chief Information Officers from corporations generating $100 million or more in revenue per year. She has created curriculum and instructed business development, computer crime and network security law classes at various universities in Florida, including St. Petersburg College. Ms. Tullo has served as the chairperson of the Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Committee of the Florida Bar's practice section on Sports and Entertainment Law, the Advisory Board to the Technology and Management Bachelor's Program at St. Petersburg College, as well as the Co-Chairperson of the Hillsborough County Bar Association's Technology Committee. She continues to serve on the Board of the FBI's Tampa Chapter of Infraguard.