Former judge David M. Gersten becomes litigation partner at Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod

David M. Gersten, a former judge in Florida's Third District Court of Appeal, has joined Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP as a partner in the law firm's litigation group. He also will head the firm's appellate practice. Gersten retired from the bench in July after more than three decades of service to the judiciary. He worked as a private practice attorney until 1980, when he was elected as a judge in the Miami-Dade County Court. Two years later, he was elected as a judge in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida and in 1989 was named to Florida's Third District Court of Appeal.