Pamela I. Perry

For nearly twenty-five years, Pamela I. Perry has represented people being investigated or prosecuted for alleged criminal conduct by federal and state authorities. In addition, she provides legal support to criminal and civil practitioners, and is a highly respected mediator, having resolved cases involving commercial, labor, insurance, health care, zoning, personal injury, and other matters.

A Florida native, Pam clerked for the Honorable Daniel S. Pearson on Florida's Third District Court of Appeal, and was a partner at Bierman, Shohat, Loewy, Perry, and Klein, P.A and Kenny Nachwalter, P.A. In addition to representing persons and entities facing state and federal criminal charges, she represents health care providers in connection with licensure, overpayment, termination, revocation, and related issues in investigations and proceedings brought by Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration ("AHCA"), the Florida Department of Health, Medicare, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. She also represents physicians in matters involving peer review and governmental investigations, and has represented hospitals in matters involving privilege and liability issues. Pam is also a respected Umpire and Special Master, and has extensive experience defending professional malpractice and general commercial claims.

Pam has served as Chair, Vice-Chair, and member of the Judicial Nominating Commission for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, and is a member of the Florida Bar Committee on Judicial Independence and the Florida Association for Women Lawyers. She has also served as president, secretary, and member of the Board of Directors of the Miami Chapter of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and as a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the American Bar Association. Pam was also a director of the Dade County Bar Association, and a member of the Executive Board of Miami-Dade County Community Relations Board. She is also a member of the Spellman-Hoeveler Inn of Court and the Regional Board of the Anti-Defamation League.

Pam became an "AV" rated lawyer in 1990, and received the G. Kirk Haas Humanitarian Award from the Florida Bar in 2000. She was listed in Florida Super Lawyers in 2010 and 2011, Florida Trend's Legal Elite in 2008 and 2010, and the South Florida Legal Guide's "Top Lawyers in South Florida" in 2009 and 2010. Pam co-authored the Change of Venue Chapter in "Jury Work: Systematic Techniques," by the National Jury Project, and "International Drug Cartels: Miami Vice or Government Spice," for the American University Law Review, and taught Federal Criminal Practice as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law for several years.

Pam earned her B.A. from Brandeis University where she was awarded the Butman Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Leadership. She earned her J.D., Cum Laude, from the University of Miami School of Law, where she received the American Jurisprudence Book Award in Labor Law and served as a member of the Moot Court Board and on the Lawyer of the Americas Journal of International Law.

Pam is admitted to the Bar of the U.S. District Court, for the Southern District of Florida, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

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