Smooth and steady: Law firm works the system to bring big projects to life

It might lack sizzle, but government legal work has fueled five decades of success for a trend-setting Tampa firm.

  • By Brian Hartz
  • | 6:00 a.m. March 8, 2019
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Mark Wemple. Grace Dunlap joined Bryant Miller Olive in 1993 and has been the firm’s managing shareholder since 2011.
Mark Wemple. Grace Dunlap joined Bryant Miller Olive in 1993 and has been the firm’s managing shareholder since 2011.
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Tampa-based law firm Bryant Miller Olive will celebrate 50 years in business in 2020.

Longevity aside, the firm’s most impressive quality might be how it’s managed to coax sustained success from operating mostly in the fixed-fee world of government and public-private partnership (P3) law. “It’s not the sexiest thing,” admits managing shareholder Grace Dunlap, 62, who joined the firm in 1993.

 

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