Areas of Practice

• Leasing, including office leasing, retail leasing, commercial and industrial leasing, net leases and shopping center leases
• Represent buyers and sellers in the purchase and sale of all types of real property
• Extensive experience in real estate litigation including commercial landlord and tenant work for major landlords in New York, brokerage and lease disputes, and construction
• Counsel schools and not-for-profit corporations on real estate issues
• Financing and construction loans

Represent

• Major landlords and tenants
• Property developers and managers
• Schools and not-for-profit corporations

Bar Admissions

• New York, U.S. District Court Eastern & Southern Districts of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second and Third Circuits; U.S. Claims Court; U.S. Supreme Court

Legal Career

• Associate General Counsel, United Merchants & Manufacturers Inc.
• Associate, White & Case

Author/Speaker

• Author, "Bearing Risks Under A Cloud of Terrorism," Trends in Real Estate & Title Insurance Special Section, NYLJ (June 27, 2005)
• Author, "A New Era for Lease Negotiations," Real Estate Supplement, New York Law Journal, January 13, 2003
• Speaker, "Staying Out of Trouble: What Every Attorney Must Know About Ethics," PLI Conference, 2003, 2004

Professional Activities & Associations

• Member, Panel of Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association
• Arbitrator, Small Claims Court, Civil Court of the City of New York
• Member, Complaint Mediation Panel of the Committee on Professional Discipline of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
• Member, Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct, New York State Bar Association

Education

• J. D., cum laude, University of Michigan (1976)
• M.P.A., Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse University (1971)
• B. A., Syracuse University (1969)