Dennis A. Kerbel is chair of Akerman's Florida Land Use and Entitlements Practice. Dennis has extensive experience in the full range of local government law issues, with a particular legal concentration in land use law. He focuses his practice on helping clients achieve optimal results from governmental approval processes and, where appropriate, litigation. Dennis has experience in federal and state courts at both the trial and appellate levels. He handles a broad variety of cases, including zoning appeals, enforcement actions, and federal civil rights claims.
As former chief of the Zoning, Land Use & Environment Section of the Miami-Dade County Attorney’s Office, Dennis represented and advised Miami-Dade County on planning, zoning, environmental, platting, impact fee, historic preservation, and code enforcement matters. He successfully defended a variety of challenges to County land use decisions.