Attorney Information

Mr. Daniel Woodring has been handling significant education cases for over 15 years.  He was General Counsel for the Florida Department of Education, Pre-K though 12th grade, community colleges[now state colleges] and the Florida University System, for about 5 years. He was also the first General Counsel for the Florida Board of Governors, when that board was constitutionally created to manage the State University System. He is a past Chair of the Education Law Committee of the Florida Bar.

Mr Woodring is recognized as a Florida Super Lawyer, an honor given to fewer than 5% of Florida Attorneys, and holds an Avvo “Superb” rating in education law. Mr. Woodring also has an AV Preeminent® Peer Review rating.*

During his time at the  legal helm of the Florida  Department of Education, Mr. Woodring advised and litigated on matters including, but not limited to: constitutional challenges to Florida’s education programs, including Opportunity Scholarships and the charter school approval and appeal process; doing away with race as a preference in university admissions and state contracting; teacher and professional discipline cases; union, labor and employment matters; state procurement and bid protest proceedings; administrative rule challenges and rule making proceedings; IDEA and Section 504 proceedings; public records, government in the sunshine and ethical matters; contract negotiations and disputes.

Since 2007, Mr. Woodring has been back in private practice as the principal attorney of the Woodring Law Firm, located in Tallahassee, Florida, and with a statewide practice, including Pensacola, Jacksonville, Gainesville, Tampa Bay, Orlando, West Palm Beach, Ft. Myers, Ft. Lauderdale, and Miami. One of his primary areas of practice is education law.

He is a member of the Florida and Georgia Bars, and is admitted to practice before the Florida Federal Southern, Middle and Northern District Courts, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. He has worked at the trial level on cases in many of Florida’s 20 judicial circuits, in addition to cases in state administrative tribunals. He has argued cases at the Florida Supreme Court and Florida District Courts of Appeal, and has briefed cases at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Daniel Woodring graduated from the University of Florida, College of Law with a Juris Doctorate, Cum Laude, and received his B.A. degree from Clearwater Christian College, Summa Cum Laude. His wife Jean is also an attorney and they live in Tallahassee with their two children.
* AV®, AV Preeminent® are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies, and the ratings are explained at www.martindale.com/ratings.