Practice Experience

• Nicole Kibert is a member of the Firm’s Real Estate & Finance Practice Group, and the Community, Condominium and Resort Development Group. She represents developers in the creation of planned communities, condominiums (mixed-use, conversions, age restricted, commercial and residential) and subdivisions with a special emphasis on projects involving sustainable development, downtown and brownfields redevelopment, and historic preservation.
• Ms. Kibert leads Carlton Fields’ “Go Green” initiative, a program that seeks to reduce the environmental impact of our business practices by implementation of waste reduction and recycling policies, adoption of a green procurement policy, and reducing our energy consumption. She incorporates her extensive experience in environmental protection initiatives into her law practice. Ms. Kibert promotes smart growth and sustainable development while also encouraging preservation of open space. To encourage smart growth, she assists development clients with incorporating sustainable development elements into their projects and also serves as legal counsel to a group working to promote green building practices. To preserve open space, she provides transactional legal services to a land conservation organization for land acquisition and conservation easements.
• Ms. Kibert is a certified mediator and a LEED^® Accredited Professional.

Professional and Civic Activities

• The Florida Bar
  Environmental and Land Use Law Section - Executive Council Member
  Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section - Executive Council Member, Development & Governmental Regulation of Real Estate Committee Vice Chair and Condominium and Planned Development Committee Member
• Hillsborough County Bar Association
  Environmental Law and Land Use Law Section and Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, Member 
• Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo Advisory Board
• Tampa Theater's Balcony Club, Planning Committee
• University of Florida Center for Governmental Responsibility, Board of Advisors
• University of Florida Law Alumni Council
• Election Protection
• Urban Land Institute

Professional Recognition

• BV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• Judy Florence Memorial Outstanding Service Award, The Florida Bar’s
  Environmental and Land Use Law Section (2005)
• 30 Under 30 Award, Tampa Bay Business Journal (2005)
• Order of the Coif
• Selected for inclusion in Florida Trend's 2007 Legal Elite
• Listed as Florida Trend's 2008 Legal Elite, Up-and-Comer

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Florida

COURT ADMISSIONS

• Florida State Courts

Education

• University of Florida (J.D., with high honors, 2003)
  Specialization certificates in international and comparative law, and environmental and land use law
  Florida Journal of International Law
• University of Florida (M.S., 2000)
• The George Washington University (B.S., 1997)
• Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (Intercultural Dispute Resolution Program, Summer 2002)
• University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica (International Environmental Law Program, Summer 2001)

LANGUAGES

• Macedonian