Perlman Mediation & Trial Consulting

Florida Supreme Court Certified

Circuit Civil Mediator

Helping Parties Resolve Their Legal Disputes

Sandra Perlman is a retired Circuit Court Judge with over 35 years of trial experience.

Perlman Mediation & Trial Consulting, Sandra Perlman

Services

Mediation Services

Mediation services offer a valuable alternative to traditional litigation for resolving disputes.

Special Magistrate

Resolve matters and disputes efficiently and quickly by hiring a Special Magistrate. 

Trial Consulting

Help your legal teams prepare for trial by getting additional insights and expertise.

Meet Your Mediator, Sandra Perlman

Sandra Perlman, Esq, Perlman Mediation & Trial Consulting
Sandra Perlman is a Florida Supreme Court-certified Circuit Civil Mediator. Ms. Perlman is a former Circuit Judge for the 17th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida. She served from January 2011 to December 2022, where she most recently presided over a General Circuit Civil Division. Ms. Perlman received the Florida ABOTA (American Board of Trial Attorneys) Jurist of the Year award for 2022.

Prior to being elected as a Circuit Court Judge, Ms. Perlman served in the Broward County Public Defender's Office from 1985 to 1988. She then practiced law in San Francisco, California, with the law firm of Topel and Goodman, specializing in white-collar crimes and complex civil litigation in both state and federal courts. After her time at Topel and Goodman, Perlman spent four years prosecuting in the Santa Clara District Attorney's Office and then returned to the Broward County Public Defender's Office in 1994, where she ultimately became Death Qualified and specialized in death penalty litigation.

Sandra Perlman is a native of South Florida and received both her Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcasting and her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Florida College of Law, where she was an Editor on the University of Florida Law Review. During college, she worked as a news reporter for ABC's Weekend Edition of 'DATELINE NEWS' in Gainesville, Florida. During law school, Ms. Perlman served as a law clerk to Commissioner Mimi W. Dawson at the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C., and she interned as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Daniel S. Pearson of Florida's Third District Court of Appeal.

Ms. Perlman is admitted to practice in Florida (1985) and is a member of the Federal Bar, admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (1985). She is also admitted in California (1988). Ms. Perlman has tried cases in state and federal courts.

Meet Your Mediator, Nolan Klein

Nolan Klein, Perlman Mediation Mediator
Nolan Klein is a Florida Supreme Court certified Circuit Civil Mediator with nearly 25 years of civil litigation experience. He is one of Perlman Mediation’s go-to mediators for commercial and business disputes.

Mr. Klein has litigated over one thousand (1,000) circuit civil and federal cases at the trial and appellate levels, during which time he has participated in hundreds of successful mediations. Mr. Klein is admitted to practice in Florida, New York, the Eleventh and Second Circuit Courts of Appeal, and more than 10 federal judicial districts. Mr. Klein has taught more than 10 CLE classes on various aspects of civil litigation practice, which have been approved for credit by more than 15 state bar associations and have been taken by tens of thousands of lawyers across the country. Mr. Klein has appeared as a legal analyst on CNN, Fox News, CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, and was featured in a story on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper.

Mr. Klein is a graduate of the University of Florida (BA), and the University of Miami (JD). During law school, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Res Ipsa Loquitur journal, and clerked for the Florida Attorney General, and the President of the American Trial Lawyers' Association. He is a former law clerk to the Supreme Court of Israel (Hon. Eliezer Rivlin), and started his career in Miami at Thornton, Davis & Fein (now Clyde & Co.), and then Robert P. Frankel & Assoc., before starting his own law firm. Since opening his own firm in 2009, Mr. Klein has represented hotels, restaurant chains, shopping malls, ecommerce startups, and countless other businesses and individuals in complex civil litigation, including representation of more than 300 corporations over the past four years alone. Through this experience, Mr. Klein has gained a significant understand of what works (and what does not work) during mediation and is happy to assist adverse parties to resolve their pending litigation.

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