Robert Fine Email & Phone Number

Robert is a board certified construction law attorney and a Florida-registered, nationally-certified architect. He focuses his practice on land use, zoning, historic preservation, environmental, and administrative law. Robert’s work ranges from representation before local governments for zoning and other development approvals to building code appeals, code enforcement and unsafe structure defense; and at a state level, petitions for declaratory statements, lobbying for and challenging building code provisions and other administrative rulemaking related to his practice areas. Additionally, he assists clients with matters relating to disabled access, building and life safety codes.Formerly the initial ADA/Rehabilitation Act Coordinator for the City of Miami Beach, Robert has provided defense counsel, litigation support, expert witness testimony, and other related consulting services to clients in over 500 Title II and III of the ADA lawsuits. Clients have included hospitals; hotels; restaurants; retail stores; shopping centers; office buildings; pari-mutuels; and municipalities, including several national class actions and over 20 million square feet of hospitals and health care facilities from Florida to Alaska.Robert additionally provides defense counsel in claims under the Fair Housing Act and has consulted in over 60 multi-family residential projects, time shares, and condo-hotels on Fair Housing Act accessibility provisions. He also works to adopt as well as challenge building accessibility and life safety codes and laws, where such laws and codes have beneficial or detrimental effects on his clients.Specialties: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) Titles II & III Litigation, Expert witness and consulting; Fair Housing Act accessibility issues, familial status issues and supporting litigation; Construction law; Building department relations and permitting; Building and Life Safety Codes; Land use and zoning; Historic preservation; Administrative law; Green building and sustainable development; Local government enforcement proceedings and appeals.