I was granted the honor and privilege of attending the Bronx High School of Science, where I truly began to enhance the development of my left-brain logic and analytical skills to work in tandem with my right-brain creativity and expression. Thereafter, I graduated cum laude from The City College of New York, majoring in political science. That served as a springboard to obtaining a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia University Law School.
I went on to work diligently for more than three decades in a small Manhattan law firm, achieving full equity partner status and evolving into a transactional real estate attorney handling a wide variety of residential and commercial matters. For 24 years, I worked closely with the President of the New York Council of Cooperatives and Condominiums, and was entrusted with primary responsibility for shepherding and closing refinancings of multiple underlying coop mortgages. I have handled hundreds of coop and condominium transactions throughout the greater New York metropolitan area, and have developed a reputation as a problem solver who succeeds in closing often complicated deals. I am a member of the New York State and Nassau County Bar Associations and a member of the Nassau County Bar’s Real Property Law and Animal Law Committees.
When the time came that the law firm sadly ended its existence, I decided to boldly go where I had not dared to venture before. I struck out on my own as a sole practitioner, relying in part upon client relationships and professional friendships established over time, and have continued in that role for more than 13 years. Since my 2011 shift to sole practitioner status, I have closed on transactions aggregating over $100,000,000 in value.
