Meet John Reid

Senior Consultant

John Reid is an attorney with over fifteen years of experience in Florida’s political and government arenas, beginning his career as Legal Counsel to a prominent member of the Florida Senate who served as the Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Chairman of the Senate Community Affairs Committee, Ranking Member of the Senate Banking & Insurance Committee, and Ranking Member of the Senate Regulated Industries Committee.

 

John also served as Special Counsel to a prominent statewide trade association where he was responsible for drafting bills and amendments, providing thorough analyses of legislation, lobbying members of the executive and legislative branches of Florida government, and preparing legal memoranda and other documents.

 

John served as General Counsel to Lawson & Associates, a lobbying and communications firm based out of Tallahassee. Working with former Senate Minority Leader Al Lawson, John represented clients before the Legislature, drafted legislation and prepared legal memoranda. The firm’s clients include a respectable list of organizations within the corporate, nonprofit and political arenas.

 

John holds an impeccable reputation among political circles, managing political campaigns from Congress to state legislatures to county and city commissions. In 2010, John managed one of the highest profile Congressional races in the State of Florida. John also served as the Political Director the Florida Senate Minority Caucus during the 2006 and 2008 election cycles.

 

In addition to his role at the Florida Innovation Group, John is a shareholder at the Law Office of John Reid, where he practices administrative, business, insurance, family and appellate law.

 

A graduate of the University of Miami School of Law, John is licensed to practice law in Florida and the District of Columbia and before the United States District Court, Northern District of Florida, and the United States Supreme Court. John represents clients before Florida's legislative and executive branches.

 

John is married and has two children. The Reid family lives in Tallahassee.