Florida Environmental Lawyers

Environmental Law

14 SE 4th St, Suite 36, Boca Raton, FL 33432

Ms. Miskel is currently a Senior Partner with Dunay, Miskel and Backman, LLP, and has been practicing in land use, zoning and regulatory law for 24 years. She is qualified as a land use and zoning expert witness in quasi-judicial proceedings; she has represented public and private sector clients in connection with Chapter 166, 163 and 380, Florida Statutes; represented private sector in over 50 variances and waivers over the past 24 years; represented over 50 code enforcement matters throughout Palm Beach and Broward counties; prepared and processed text amendments to Land Development and Zoning Code Regulations; prepared Comprehensive Land Use Plan Amendments in cities and counties; represented clients in connection with Developments of Regional Impacts; and she is well versed in Chapters 380, 163, 177 and other regulatory chapters of Florida law. She has represented clients before School Boards, Board of County Commissioners, City Commissions, FDOT and other Governmental Agencies and Housing Authority Boards.

Environmental Law

5491 N. University Drive, Suite 204, Coral Springs, FL 33067

The Firm’s principal, SCOTT N. GELFAND, is a trial and courtroom specialist, licensed in both Florida and New York. Mr. Gelfand has tried cases in state court, federal court, and arbitration tribunals throughout the United States. His practice includes all aspects of litigation at both the trial and appellate levels, focusing primarily on business litigation, with particular specialties in mold litigation and real estate litigation. His practice also includes other types of litigation such as professional sports litigation, professional malpractice, defamation and other intentional torts, class actions, telecommunications, antitrust, and other complex commercial litigation. One particular specialty is emergency action litigation, including injunctions and all provisional and expedited remedies. Mr. Gelfand’s cases have been routinely followed on television and in the print media, his writings have been published in national law journals, and many cases have resulted in reported decisions throughout the United States. Mr. Gelfand is licensed to practice in many courts throughout the country including the United States District Courts of Appeal for the Second, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida, and all state courts throughout Florida and New York. Before relocating to South Florida in 2001, Mr. Gelfand’s litigation practice was based in midtown Manhattan for more than a decade. This New York-based background, he believes, is what provides the competitive edge which has been integral to the success of Mr. Gelfand’s legal practice. A graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law in New York City (where he was senior editor of the Cardozo Law Review), Mr. Gelfand now resides in Parkland, Florida with his wife and children.