Giselle Girones represents clients in matters involving content, intellectual property, defamation, privacy, and First Amendment law. She originally joined Shullman Fugate in 2017 and, after six years of practice at the firm, spent two years as in-house counsel at NBCUniversal advising on editorial, newsgathering, and First Amendment matters for NBCUniversal News Group including both Telemundo and NBC News. During that time, she gained hands-on experience with network and local newsrooms, providing guidance on a wide range of production and content issues, including pre-publication review, sponsored content, longform programming, podcasts, and other production-related matters.

Giselle’s return to Shullman Fugate brings clients the benefit of her deepened perspective on newsroom operations and her practical, real-world approach to navigating today’s fast-changing media landscape. She continues to offer strategic guidance on content practices, defamation defense, access issues, and IP disputes, and provides pre-publication and pre-broadcast review, newsroom trainings, and newsgathering advice to print, digital, television, podcast, and production clients in both English and Spanish media.

Giselle began her legal career at a respected Jacksonville firm and previously worked at a boutique intellectual property law firm, where she handled copyright and trademark matters. She received her undergraduate degree in communication and sports management from Florida State University, where she worked for Universal Music Group and in the Sports Information Office at a major NCAA Division I university.

She is a former Fellow of both The Florida Bar’s Wm. Reece Smith, Jr. Leadership Academy and the Business Law Section, and she has served on the ABA’s IP Law Section CLE Board and the Jacksonville Bar Young Lawyers Board of Governors. She currently serves on The Florida Bar’s Media and Communications Law Committee and co-chairs the Media Law Defense Center’s Next Gen Committee and the ABA Forum on Communications Law’s Media Advocacy Workshop.

Giselle is fluent in Spanish and conversational in Italian.

Education

• J.D., cum laude, Stetson University College of Law, 2016
• B.A., cum laude, Florida State University, 2013

Bar Admissions

• Florida
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
• U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Recognitions

• Florida Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2020-2022)

Speaking & Media

Giselle has been quoted on matters of access and/or defamation involving the media including in the Orlando Sentinel and Law360. Additionally, Giselle has participated in the following speaking engagements:

• Panelist, “Libel & Privacy,” The Florida Bar Reporters’ Workshop (September 2022)
• Speaker, “RBG and ACB: Supreme Court Copyright and Trademark Jurisprudence, webinar ABA Communications Law Forum (December 2021)
• Panelist, “Journalists conversando: prensa bajo vigilancia en estados unidos,” Fundamedios (June 2021)
• Speaker, “Trademark Law for Paralegals”, Lorman Education Services (September 2020)
• Faculty Speaker, “Best Practices for Collecting Information Using Public Records” Lorman Education Services (2019)
• Presenter, "Conoce tus derechos como periodista – Libertad de Expresion, Accesso a la Informacion y Medidas de Seguridad", National Association of Hispanic Journalists (2019)
• Part-time Adjunct Professor, "Law and Ethics of Communications", University of North Florida (Fall 2019)
• Panelist, “IP and Video Games Issues: Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents”, American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division (2018)
• Panelist, “Marketing and IP”, The Florida Bar Wm. Reece Smith Jr.’s Leadership Academy (2018)
• Speaker, Girls’ Leadership Council, Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center (2018)

Publications

• Author, Forum Lawyer Gets “Slapped” for Frivolous Suit over Updated Article, MLRC MediaLawLetter (November-December 2021)
• Co-Author, RBG and ACB on Circle C: A copyright defender history and a copyright jurisprudence mystery, Communications Lawyer (Summer 2021)
• Author, Court Allows Roy Moore’s Lawsuit Concerning Device Prank to Proceed, MLRC MediaLawLetter (December 2020)
• Author, Plata o Plomo? District Judge Adopts Award of Attorneys’ Fees and Costs in Narcos Copyright Suite, MLRC MediaLawLetter (November 2020)
• Author, Second Circuit Affirms Fair Use Finding in Drake Sampling Case, MLRC MediaLawLetter (February 2020)
• Co-Author, Overbroad Victims’ Rights Laws Impede Access to Public Records, Communications Lawyer, (Summer 2019)
• Author, “#TWIBEL: Is your retweet defamatory?,” Bar Bulletin, Jax Daily Record (2019).
• Author, “Starting Up Right: Common Pitfalls Startups Can Avoid in Copyright Law”, ABA-IPL Landslide Magazine (2018).