Jeffrey S. Bass
Where do you work?
Bass Law
What type of legal work do you do?
We are focused on complex commercial litigation and appellate practice, with a particular emphasis on the use, development, and regulation of land. We practice in the areas of administrative law, climate, commercial transactions, constitutional law, historic preservation, land use, local government law, real estate, real property, water, and zoning.
When and why did you join MDFAWL?
My professional life has been enriched in vitally important ways by the many great female lawyers with whom I’ve had the privilege to work and the great female judges before whom I have had the great privilege to appear. I joined MDFAWL to pay forward all of the great mentorship and career guidance that I’ve received from women in the law throughout my journey. I’d like to emphasize the great contributions that second-career, female lawyers have made to my career, i.e., those women who decided to go to law school after careers in other fields. MDFAWL does a great job helping women transition into the law from other fields.
What was your most rewarding professional achievement?
It was my great honor to represent the University of Miami in the very complex negotiation of a long-term development agreement with the City of Coral Gables. The agreement set the course for the University’s development of over 6-million square feet for educational use on the University’s Coral Gables campus. The conclusion of this transaction was deeply rewarding to me for three main reasons. First, it was an extremely complex, multi-factorial, long-lasting, and high-stakes transaction. Second, the agreement and its provisions will impact, on a very human scale, generations of students, educators, and staff who teach, study, and work at the University. And, third – perhaps most importantly – the agreement restored an element of joy and a spirit of cooperation to the very important relationship between these two extraordinary institutions.
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