One side is represented by a five-attorney, public interest law firm whose attorneys take on pro bono cases in the name of human rights and social and economic equity.

The other is perhaps Miami’s most prolific real estate attorney who leads Miami’s 129-attorney office of Akerman, which sits at No. 94 on the Am Law 100 list of major U.S. firms. Neisen Kasdin won approval for some of the city’s biggest, skyline-changing projects.