Law Office of Lori Vella, PLLC

">Lori is licensed in Florida and New York. She is originally from Rochester, NY. She graduated from Albany Law School in 2000 (25th in her class out of a class of over 300 after the first year) and soon after obtained the Florida and New York bars.

She became a judicial law clerk for the Fifth District Court of Appeal from 2000-2002, with Judge Griffin.

She joined the Tampa law firm of Butler Pappas in 2003, focusing on commercial and residential multi-million dollar catastrophic losses. She was a litigator and attended hundreds of depositions, hearings and mediations.

She became a partner in 2011. After the birth of her son in 2014, she withdrew from her practice to raise her son at home. After opening a fitness business for several years thereafter, she opened up her own law firm in 2017.

She is a first-generation Sicilian-American and a motivational life coach. She is an organic gardener, avid reader, studies Italian, and leads a strong mom's group in Tampa which nurtures relationships between moms and children.

Lori welcomes any Seinfeld trivia questions, any time--try to stump her!