Palm Beach Gardens attorney Barry Balmuth, a former chairman of the Florida Bar’s eminent domain committee, achieved a landmark $42 million settlement for clients suing Broward County over acreage near the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Balmuth first won an order of taking. Broward Circuit Judge Jeffrey R. Levenson found the county’s construction and drainage work caused extensive flooding and damage to 38 acres belonging to Shaw Farms & Land Co. of Florida LLC.