Pamela I. Perry

Pam Perry, a highly respected professional neutral, is a great believer in the power of persistence, preparation and creativity in approaching apparently insoluble problems. She is a panel member of the American Arbitration Association, a Florida Supreme Court Qualified Arbitrator, a certified mediator (since 2004) and author of several South Florida Daily Business Review articles concerning ADR.

Pam is often asked to speak on cutting edge ADR issues: She has appeared on panels at the Bench and Bar Conferences in Miami-Dade County and recently addressed the importance of preparing the mediator long before the mediation session. She also gave the keynote address at the Spellman-Hoeveler American Inn of Court’s South Florida Trial Lawyers Luncheon; participated in the ABA Panel, “Top Ten Mistakes We’re Making in Mediation and Didn’t Even Know It;” and moderated or participated in the Legal Malpractice and Professional Liability Roundtable sponsored by the University of Miami Center for Ethics and Public Service for several years.

Pam frequently serves as a neutral in professional malpractice, high-profile and other sensitive matters. She is painstaking in her approach to each matter and combines a penchant for legal research with a relentless commitment to fairness and neutrality.

In addition to her practice at a prominent commercial law firm, Pam practiced federal criminal law, handled a wide variety of health care matters and taught Federal Criminal Practice as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law. She has served her community in several capacities, including serving as chair of the Judicial Nominating Commission for the 11th Judicial Circuit; the first woman president of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Miami Chapter); a member of the Miami-Dade County Charter Review Task Force; a Director of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue K-9 Response Foundation; and the vice-chair of the Miami-Dade Independent Civilian Panel.

Pam has been AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell since 1990, won The Florida Bar’s G. Kirk Haas Humanitarian Award and is routinely named in Florida Super Lawyers and other listings that would have made her mother proud.