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CLIENT NEWS: Ultra-exclusive country club in Miami Beach plans new clubhouse

September 10, 2025

The La Gorce Country Club has submitted an application to the Miami Beach Design Review Board to construct a new 74,000-square-foot clubhouse at its property at 5685 Alton Road. The proposal, which would replace an existing 45,000-square-foot clubhouse, is scheduled to be heard by the board on Sept. 11. According to a letter of intent filed on behalf of the club by attorney Michael Larkin of the Miami-based law firm Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes, the La Gorce requests[...]

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7th Consecutive Year Melissa Tapanes Llahues Selected a ‘Rising Star’ by SuperLawyers

June 18, 2018

MIAMI (June 18, 2018) – Bercow Radell Fernandez & Larkin, specializing in zoning, land use and environmental law, announced today that Shareholder Melissa Tapanes Llahues has been selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers-Rising Stars Edition 2018. Melissa has been selected a “Rising Star” every year since 2011. The Rising Stars edition is particularly selective, with 2.5 percent of the state’s under-40 lawyers represented. Once a year, Super Lawyers invites lawyers in each state to nominate the top attorneys they’ve personally[...]

Chambers USA Once Again Awards Firm Top Ranking in Zoning/Land Use Law

June 11, 2018

(MIAMI) June 11, 2018 – Chambers USA, one of the oldest and most prestigious legal guides in the world, has once again ranked Bercow Radell Fernandez & Larkin in Band 1 in the area of Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use Law – Florida, the highest recognition given by Chambers. Only five other firms in Florida placed at the top in this specialty area in the 2017 Chambers USA Directory. Jeffrey Bercow, co-founder and managing partner of the firm, and Shareholder and[...]

Recommended Again This Year by The Legal 500

June 5, 2018

Jeffrey Bercow Received ‘Gold Star’ in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame; Also Named ‘Leading Lawyer’ and ‘Recommended Lawyer’ Melissa Tapanes Llahues Named ‘Recommended Lawyer’ (MIAMI) June 5, 2018 – The prestigious Legal 500 2018 Directory has once again recognized Bercow Radell Fernandez & Larkin as a “Leading Firm” in Real Estate – Land Use/Zoning and Managing Partner Jeffrey Bercow received a “Gold Star” in The Legal 500 Hall of Fame, which honors his more than seven years on the[...]

Paul Cejas scores approval for partial demo at Washington Avenue project

May 13, 2018

10-story building will have apartments and ground-floor retail space A company controlled by former U.S. ambassador Paul Cejas and his wife Gertie reached a compromise with a Miami Beach board to move forward with a mixed-use project on a prime slice of Washington Avenue near Lincoln Road. By a 5 to 1 vote, the Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board approved an application submitted by 420 Lincoln Road Development LLC to save a portion of a two-story apartment building designed by[...]

After decades of neglect, South Beach’s Washington Avenue is getting a major renovation

May 7, 2018

Bercow Radell Fernandez & Larkin is pleased to represent a number of clients that are transforming Washington Avenue: Imperial Property, Moxy, Clay Hotel—Infinity Group, Washington Squared, Kimpton Angler’s Hotel, 1600 Washington Avenue—Paul Cejas, and 1685 Washington Avenue—Finvarb Group. After decades of neglect, South Beach’s Washington Avenue is getting a major renovation Consider the curious case of Washington Avenue. In the early 1990s, as South Beach transformed from sleepy retirement village to Art Deco playground, the street was the epicenter of[...]