Admitted
1969, New York; 1972, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 1974, U.S. Supreme Court; 1976, Florida and U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit; 1980, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York; 1994, U.S. Tax Court
Law School
Harvard Law School, LL.B., magna cum laude, 1968
Law School Graduation Year
1968
College
New York University, B.A., cum laude, honors in Philosophy, 1965
Memberships
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member: Litigation Section; Real Estate Section; Committee on Professional Responsibility; Chairman Subcommittee on Attorney Competence, 1985-1986); American Bar Association (Member, Real Property, Probate and Trust, Land Use Regulation and Dispute Resolution Sections); New York State Bar Association (Member, Commercial and Federal Litigation, Real Property Law, Environmental and Trial Lawyers Sections); The Florida Bar; Westchester Women's Bar Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa. Recipient, Founders Day Award, 1965. Co-author, Casner and Leach, Cases and Text on Property, 2nd Ed. 1969 and 3rd Ed., 1984; Advisor, Restatement of Law Second, Property, 1970-1977; The Special Concerns of Counsel When Representing Small Store/Non AAA Shopping Center Tenants, Practising Law Institute Article, 1975 (reprinted 1976-1982 of Commercial Real Estate Leases); Analysis of New Law Designed to Curb Reduction of SROs, New York Law Journal Article, August, 1985; Negative Declarations Under Environmental Quality Review Act, New York State Bar Association Law Journal Article, December, 1985 (Reprinted in 6 New York Land Report 20109-20122); Strict Liability for Contaminating States Groundwater Resources, New York Law Journal Article, April 1, 1986; SEQRA: Declaration of Nonsignificance and Issuing a Negative Declaration, New York State Bar Journal Article, July, 1986; Materiality Standard Under Martin Act, New York Law Journal Article, July 27, 1988; Prolegomenon to Understanding the Developer's True Statutory Responsibilities Under SEQRA, Touro Law Review, Vol. 5-2, Spring, 1989. Faculty, Practising Law Institute, Commercial Real Estate Leases, 1975-1981. Faculty, Fordham Law School Continuing Legal Education, Practical Real Estate Litigation, 1986—. Speaker, Expediting the Environmental Permitting Process, Annual New York State Bar Association Meeting, Environmental Law Section, 1984. Speaker, Environmental Law Update—1988, Representing Developers Under SEQRA, New York State Bar Association Seminars in Syracuse and New York City co-sponsored by the Real Property Law Section and the Environmental Law Section (CLE). Panelist, Coping With SEQRA, Annual Planning and Zoning Institute, 1985. Member, Board of Governors, 1986-1988, Vice Chairman, Law Committee, 1984—, Fenway Golf Club, Scarsdale, New York. Member, Panel of Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association.