? Pamela I. Perry, who defends healthcare providers in regulatory, civil and other matters, joined Miami-based Dresnick & Rodriguez.
? James T. Ferrara and Jonathan D. Louis joined the Boca Raton office of Kluger, Peretz, Kaplan & Berlin.
? Joanne Rogers, a former vice president for Citigroup trust and estates divisions, joined Morris Law Group of Boca Raton as an associate attorney specializing in estate planning.
? Longtime real estate appraiser George W. Powell Jr. has opened a law firm, Powell Law, in Naples, where he'll practice eminent domain/ condemnation law and real property taxation.
? Akerman Senterfitt tapped commercial and civil litigator Wesley A. Lauer as business manager of the firm's 36-lawyer West Palm Beach office.
? Orlando firm Dean Mead expanded corporate and estate planning practices in Brevard County by moving shareholder Jay Van Heyde and hiring associate Jessica Tupis for the Viera office.
? Bankruptcy attorney Michael Horan left Akerman Senterfitt for Trenam Kemker, where he will practice in the firm's business reorganization and bankruptcy practice group and work out of the St. Petersburg office.
? David Shulman, a seven-year veteran of the chief counsel's office at the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C., joined Greenspoon Marder's Fort Lauderdale office, where he practices trusts and estates, taxation, probate and guardianship.