Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named Jeffrey S. Bercow as the “Miami Best Lawyers Land Use & Zoning Law Lawyer of the Year” for 2012.
After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is designating “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”
Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current, 18th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2012) is based on more than 3.9 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” have received particularly high ratings in the publication’s surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity. “We continue to believe – as we have believed for more than 25 years – that recognition by one’s peers is the most meaningful form of praise in the legal profession,” said Steven Naifeh, President of Best Lawyers. “We would like to congratulate Jeffrey Bercow on being selected as the ‘Miami Best Lawyers Land Use & Zoning Law Lawyer of the Year’ for 2012.”
Bercow is the senior partner of Bercow, Radell & Fernandez, P.A., and has practiced land use and zoning law for more than 25 years. His practice covers all aspects of local, state and federal real estate permitting and licensing, including zoning approvals, amendments of local government comprehensive plans, developments of regional impacts (DRIs), due diligence reviews, growth management, concurrency and environmental matters.
Bercow is a member of the Environmental Law and Land Use Section of the Florida Bar, has served on the Regulation of Land Use Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section on Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, and has served as the reporter for the Eleventh Circuit for the Committee’s national newsletter on land use law. He has lectured on zoning and other land use issues to real estate and trade groups and has written extensively on growth management and land use issues.
