Cash is flowing, banks are cracking open their vaults, cranes are popping up and lawsuits are flooding the courthouse.

South Florida law firm managing partners paint a bright picture of their firms, and it's almost all attributable to the renewed real estate boom, which trickles into other practices like litigation, banking and finance, international transactions and public-private partnerships.

“One only needs to look at the skyline in Fort Lauderdale or Miami and see the cranes active once again and projects coming out of the ground to know that real estate has been trending very positively,” said Gary Rosen, managing partner of Fort Lauderdale-based Becker & Poliakoff. “With that comes work for real estate lawyers.”