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New York Law School Announces New Master’s Degree in Real Estate Law

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New York, NY (PRWEB) November 6, 2008

New York Law School, one of the oldest independent law schools in the nation, today announced that it will offer an LL.M. degree in Real Estate Law, the only program of its kind in New York City and one of only four in the nation, to begin in the spring 2009 semester.

“The program will allow our students the opportunity to learn about real estate in the real estate capital of the United States,” Dean and President Richard A. Matasar said. “With the launch of the Law School’s Center for Real Estate Studies last year and the addition of four wonderful real estate experts to our faculty, New York Law School is developing a leading presence in the area of real estate law.”

The degree will initially offer two concentrations: one in Finance and Development and the other in Public Policy and Regulation. The program will help students develop the skills needed to excel in transactional practice or governmental affairs related to real property development, and provide them with a rich understanding of the interrelated legal issues, business principles, and policy concerns involved in real estate transactions, development, and financing. The LL.M. is designed to be flexible, allowing full-time students to complete the 27-credit program in one year, while part-time students can be enrolled in the program for up to four years.

The program will be directed by Professor Marshall Tracht, a real estate expert who was recruited from Hofstra Law School to develop the LL.M. degree at New York Law School. Along with Professor Tracht, the Law School has hired three other leading property and real estate professionals to help develop the School’s real estate programs: Professor Richard H. Chused from Georgetown University; Professor Gerald Korngold from Case Western Reserve University; and Professor Elise Boddie from Fordham Law School.

New York Law School’s LL.M. program will offer a wide array of courses taught by a mix of full-time faculty and leading practitioners from the New York City bar, and will emphasize business knowledge and skills such as contract negotiation and drafting, as well as more traditional study of legal principles. In keeping with its focus on the challenges and opportunities of practice in the real world, it is the only program in real estate law to require a course in the complex ethical issues surrounding real estate practice, business, and regulation.

“The LL.M. in Real Estate is part of New York Law School’s continuing emphasis on developing innovative programs that prepare students to excel in the practice of law,” said Professor Tracht. “By allowing students to study advanced topics in law, business, and regulation, and to develop their professional skills through close instruction from leading members of the real estate industry, the LL.M. curriculum will provide the tools needed to practice law at the highest levels, or to make the transition from legal practice to a career on the business side of real estate.”

The creation of the new LL.M. degree comes a little more than a year after the Law School launched its seventh specialized academic center, the Center for Real Estate Studies, dedicated to the study of both the private practice of real estate law and the public regulation of real estate. The Center is led by Professor Andrew R. Berman. The Center and the LL.M. program will be integrated, providing real estate opportunities for J.D. and LL.M. students, as well as events for alumni and the real estate community at large. The LL.M. program will also draw on the offerings of the law school’s Center for New York City Law, run by Professor Ross Sandler, which offers unique courses and programs on governmental policy and land use in NYC.

The primary faculty members affiliated with the new LL.M. program are Professors Berman, Boddie, Chused, Korngold, and Tracht.

Professor Berman, formerly a partner with Sidley Austin Brown & Wood’s New York Real Estate Group, spent nearly 15 years in private practice prior to joining the Law School. He has represented clients in all aspects of commercial real estate finance, including complex financing transactions such as mezzanine loans, preferred equity, and financing intended for securitization markets. He has extensive experience in real estate development projects, the sale and acquisition of real property and mortgage loan portfolios, and complex commercial leasing. He has been teaching at New York Law School since 2002. Some of the courses he teaches are Landlord-Tenant Law, Cooperatives and Condominiums Law, and Real Estate Transactions and Finance.

Professor Elise Boddie joined New York Law School this past year. Most recently, she was Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Fordham Law School. Her expertise includes land use planning and state and local governmental law. Prior to joining Fordham, she was an Associate Director of Litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund. She also worked at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, where she practiced corporate litigation.

Before joining the New York Law School faculty this past fall, Professor Richard H. Chused was Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He is an expert on an expert on property law, law and gender, copyright law, and cyberlaw. His recently published work includes a work on the treatment of the poor in American landlord-tenant law, a lengthy history of the famous landlord-tenant case Javins v. First National Realty Corporation, and a history of landlord-tenant court in New York City at the turn of the twentieth century.

Professor Gerald Korngold also joined the Law School this past fall, from Case Western Reserve University, where he was a professor and served as Dean from 1997 to 2006. He was a professor at New York Law School from 1979 to 1987 and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1984 to 1986. In addition to many articles, he is the author of Private Land Use Arrangements: Easements, Covenants, and Equitable Servitudes (2004); co-author of two casebooks, Real Estate Transactions (2004) and Cases and Text on Property (2004); and co-editor of Property Stories (2004).

Professor Marshall Tracht will direct the LL.M. program. He teaches Bankruptcy, Real Estate Transactions and Finance, and Advanced Real Estate Financing. He is co-author of a leading textbook on real estate law, a member of the editorial board of The Banking Law Journal, a contributing editor to the Real Estate Law Report, and has written extensively in the areas of real estate development and construction financing, workouts, and bankruptcy. He is also the co-author of Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials. Before going into academia, Professor Tracht practiced in the real estate and bankruptcy groups at Arnold & Porter LLP in Washington, D.C., and clerked for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia.

For more information about the LL.M. in Real Estate Law, please visit http://www.nyls.edu/realestate.

About the Center for Real Estate Studies:

The Center for Real Estate Studies (CRES) at New York Law School provides students with a unique educational opportunity to study both the private practice and public regulation of real estate. Leveraging the School’s location in the prime real estate market of New York City, the Center enables students to gain practical experience in the real estate community and make contacts for future employment. Launched in 2007, the Center offers an extensive selection of classroom courses, advanced seminars, and independent study projects, as well as externships in governmental offices and real estate firms. It also sponsors conferences, symposia, and continuing legal education programs on a broad spectrum of issues. The Center for Real Estate Studies aims to help bridge the existing gap between the private practice and academic study of real estate, and is becoming one of the premier research centers in the country for the study of real estate.

About New York Law School:

Founded in 1891, New York Law School is an independent law school located in lower Manhattan near the city’s centers of law, government, and finance. New York Law School’s renowned faculty of prolific scholars has built the School’s strength in such areas as constitutional law, civil and human rights, labor and employment law, media and information law, urban legal studies, international and comparative law, and a number of interdisciplinary fields. The School is noted for its eight academic centers: Center for International Law, Center for New York City Law, Center for Professional Values and Practice, Center for Real Estate Studies, Center on Business Law & Policy, Center on Financial Services Law, Institute for Information Law & Policy, and Justice Action Center. New York Law School has more than 13,000 graduates and enrolls some 1,500 students in its full- and part-time J.D. program and its Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation program. http://www.nyls.edu

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Mount Vernon, New York, Author Publishes New Book

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Mount Vernon, NY (Vocus) October 5, 2010

Fundamentals of European Union Direct Tax, a new book by Dr. Felix Lessambo, has been released by RoseDog Books.

Dr. Felix Lessambo is an adjunct associate professor at St. Johns University (The Peter J. Tobin School of Business), where he teaches International Taxation, Individual Tax Planning, and Financial Reporting: Evaluation and Analysis. He also teaches International Finance, Financial Markets & Institutions, and Corporate of Mergers & Acquisitions at the King Graduate School of Business (Monroe College). Prior to his St. Johns appointment, Dr. Lessambo taught International Tax, European Union Tax, and Corporate Tax at the University of Kinshasa (DRC).

He specializes in the taxation of international transactions, transfer pricing, E.U. laws, and international finance. He is the author of Taxation of International Business Transactions and several leading articles in international tax law reviews. It is particularly in this area of E.U. direct taxation regime that Dr. Lessambo has been the most challenging. He foresaw what others were not willing to see, to hear, or to acknowledge.

Dr. Lessambo is the first scholar to argue against the incompatibility of the French Controlled Foreign Corporation (CFC), the French transfer pricing provision (Article 57), the French thin-capitalization rules (Article 212), the French taxation regime of artists (Article 155A), and the Luxembourg Securitization Law, with respect to both the E.U. laws and the OECD treaty.

Ten years earlier, in 1999, ahead of his time, Dr. Lessambo came out, for the first time, according to Professor Bernard Castagnede, with the opinion that the sole way to crack down the use of preferred tax regimes is to broaden the scope of the exchange of information among tax and financial authorities. The G-20 Summit in London has adopted the opinion in the midst of the world financial crisis (2009).

He lectured with the European American Tax Institute (EATI) and other business organizations.

He lives in New York and serves on the boards of various Christian organizations.

Fundamentals of European Union Direct Tax is a 232-page paperback with a retail price of $ 21.00. The ISBN is 978-1-4349-9951-1. It was published by RoseDog Books of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For more information or to request a review copy, please visit our virtual pressroom at http://www.rosedog.com/pressroom or our online bookstore at http://www.rosedogbookstore.com.

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Law Offices of Kramer and Kaslow: New York Bank Investigation Could Leave Banks Facing Charges

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Calabasas, CA (PRWEB) June 13, 2011

The Law Offices of Kramer and Kaslow is weighing in on a new report from the New York Times that claims that the New York attorney general is investigating large banks for alleged wrongdoing. According to the May 16 New York Times article, The New York attorney general has requested information and documents in recent weeks from three major Wall Street banks about their mortgage securities operations during the credit boom, indicating the existence of a new investigation into practices that contributed to billions in mortgage losses.

Recently elected New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman declined to comment but according to people briefed on the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly, Eric T. Schneidermans office have also requested meetings with representatives from Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

The article also spoke with Daniel C. Richman, a professor of law at Columbia. Part of what prosecutors have the advantage of doing right now, here as elsewhere, is watching the civil suits play out as different parties fight over who bears the loss, said Richman. Thats a very productive source of information.

Noted attorney Philip Kramer, senior partner at the law firm of Kramer & Kaslow whose consolidated litigation plaintiffs have been suing banks for their foreclosure practices agrees with Richman, A lot of wrongdoing has been uncovered in civil cases. What is particularly interesting about the New York Attorney Generals approach is that they seem to have picked up on some of the issues we have used in our suits: fraud and greed in the securitization process being key elements.

More of Philip Kramers comments can be found at the Law Offices of Kramer and Kaslow blog.

ABOUT PHILIP KRAMER

PHILIP A. KRAMER is the senior partner of the Law Office of Kramer & Kaslow, in Calabasas, California. Kramer & Kaslow is Martindale Hubbell AV rated. Mr. Kramer is a perennial recipient of the prestigious Southern California Super Lawyer award.

Mr. Kramer received his undergraduate degree from Ohio State University and his Juris Doctorate from the Catholic University of America, in Washington, DC. His practice emphasizes commercial litigation and trial advocacy, with a concentration on business litigation, and real property matters. He has prosecuted and defended cases for over twenty five years.

Mr. Kramer is a licensed real estate broker and has spent considerable time providing legal services in connection with real estate issues relating to loan modification and loss mitigation, land use and zoning, environmental issues, easements, construction and development, finance, and landlord tenant matters.

Mr. Kramer is admitted to practice before all courts in the State of California, the United States Supreme Court and the United States Court of Military Appeals. Mr. Kramer has tried in excess of 200 cases. He has appeared on nationally televised programs regarding pre-trial procedure and trial strategy and has appeared as a guest lecturer on topics ranging from constitutional law to trial practice, and Mr. Kramer frequently lectures on a broad spectrum of various legal and business issues.

Mr. Kramer also serves as a Judge Pro Tem for the Los Angeles Superior Court and as a Mediator.

Mr. Kramer is also a past president of the Los Angeles West Inns of Court, a national organization dedicated to bringing professionalism and civility back into the legal profession. He also serves on numerous Boards of Directors and serves as an officer in many companies. For more information call (818) 224-3900 or visit http://kramer-kaslow.com

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Capital OF Funds Exhibition to Open at Museum of the Metropolis of New York

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New York, NY (PRWEB) Might 21, 2012

Capital of Cash: New York Town Banks and the Generation of a Global Financial system, a new exhibition opening at the Museum of the Town of New York on Could 22, 2012, charts the rise of the citys banks from early sources of credit history for nearby merchants to institutions that reworked New York City into a world-wide economic heart. The exhibition characteristics historic documents and artifacts which includes nineteenth-century examples of lender-issued income, a 1922 predecessor to the ATM, and artifacts associated to the 2008 fiscal crisis.

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The exhibition explores far more than two centuries of New Yorks banking program, from the founding of the citys very first banks following the American Revolution to the citys emergence as a leading international economic electricity. Together the way, the exhibition reveals how banks and the funds they amassed fueled progress of the citys stock industry, the advancement of new industries and made New York the nations banking middle by the center of the nineteenth century and the fiscal capital of the planet in the early 20th century. Additionally, guests will see how financial institutions turned intertwined with New Yorks increasing economy, changing with the metropolis alone as it became more substantial, more influential, and much more worldwide in attain.

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Funds of Cash unfolds in 4 sections, highlighting the improvements that gave every era its character the bank-issued notes that served as the nations paper forex and created feasible the mercantile economic system of the pre-Civil War Era the shares and bonds that underwrote the nations investments in business and infrastructure in the late nineteenth and early 20th generations the new tools of customer credit and banking that became a progress business in the middle of the 20th century, and the derivatives and securitized assets that fueled the booms and busts of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Susan Henshaw Jones, Ronay Menschel Director of the Museum, stated, This exhibition will show that the heritage of New York Citys banking institutions is, unexpectedly, very fascinating, loaded with twists and turns, booms and busts, and the saga carries on to the present working day, with newspapers crammed with discussion above the foreseeable future of the industry.

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Funds of Cash will give visitors perception into New Yorks banking background and expose how a lot of of the issues experiencing the industry today resonate back again to the quite early times of the town and its banking institutions. The exhibition will give critical historical context to the ongoing discussion encompassing the availability of credit score, the security of investments, and governments position in the banking sector. Funds of Capital will also go over common protests against the industrys power and procedures and the link between New York Metropolis and the international economy.

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The exhibition was manufactured feasible by a generous grant from Citi, which is funding the exhibit as portion of its commemoration of its 2 hundredth anniversary yr.

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Citi was established on Wall Street in 1812, and we have named New York our house at any time because as we have worked to help economic progress in our home metropolis and over and above, said Citi CEO Vikram Pandit. In the course of our 2 hundredth anniversary yr, we are excited about supporting a well timed exhibit which explores the banking industrys role in transforming New York City into the fiscal capital of the planet.

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Cash of Cash has been arranged by an exhibition team led by Sarah M. Henry, the Museums Deputy Director and Main Curator and Guest Curator, Prof. Brian P. Murphy of Baruch Higher education, City University of New York, with Jessica Lautin, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of the City of New York.

Andrews Kurth Provides Company Spouse Roger Griesmeyer in New York

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New York, NY (PRWEB) August fifteen, 2012

The worldwide law organization of Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce the addition of company and transactional attorney Roger Griesmeyer as a Partner in the corporations New York business office.

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The addition of Roger to our group assists us deepen and strengthen our corporate abilities in New York in reaction to shopper desire, says Bob Jewell, Managing Associate for Andrews Kurth. His arrival is also a reflection of the progress of our corporations international and domestic corporate techniques. We expect Roger to have an instant impact on the amount of experience and personalized support we offer our clientele.

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Mr. Griesmeyer signifies firms, investment resources, private fairness funds and other institutions, as well as person and institutional investors, in a assortment of corporate advisory and transactional matters. He specializes in refined, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, securities and joint ventures throughout a quantity of industries, including production, retail, genuine estate, computer software and technological innovation. He adeptly guides boards of directors, unique committees and other traders on growth method, restructurings, financial efficiency, and other corporate governance problems. His current expertise includes advising a number of global entities on their investments in strategic U.S. assets. He has also recommended on some of the most higher-profile transactions in current memory, such as the redevelopment of the Planet Trade Heart in New York Metropolis.

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Couple of corporations can match the entrepreneurial spirit at Andrews Kurth, claims Mr. Griesmeyer. “In addition to their dedication to straight discuss, shopper service and accomplishment, the firm gives a innovative global system that clients want and want. I seem ahead to developing the company exercise with my colleagues about the globe.

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Mr. Griesmeyer was the founding and taking care of member of LaSasso Griesmeyer Regulation Team in New York since 2008. Prior to that, he was an associate with Sullivan &amp Cromwell LLP in New York and Hong Kong, and with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen &amp Katz in New York. He at the moment serves as an adjunct corporate drafting professor at Brooklyn Law College. Mr. Griesmeyer acquired his legislation diploma, summa cum laude, from Brooklyn Law Faculty, soon after acquiring his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth University. He serves on the Asian Affairs Committee of the New York Metropolis Bar Association the Alumni Admissions Board for Brooklyn Legislation School and on specified alumni committees for Dartmouth College.

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About the Andrews Kurth Company Apply Group

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Andrews Kurth attorneys recommend the business people, organizations, investors and enterprise executives who determine worldwide dealmaking and cash marketplaces. Our Corporate apply group is made up of much more than one hundred attorneys and routinely earns best-tier league scorecard rankings. We are recognized and acknowledged as guide counsel on the most advanced transactions, which includes learn minimal partnerships, preliminary public choices, mergers and acquisitions, asset securitizations, true estate investment trusts and royalty trusts.

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Our attorneys aid clientele continue being in compliance with an at any time-modifying regulatory and corporate governance landscape and complete transactions even though obtaining their company objectives. Our clientele incorporate organizations (ranging from begin-ups to huge multinationals and Fortune 500 organizations), underwriters, obtaining, concentrate on and promoting companies, boards of directors and unique committees, investment banking institutions, monetary advisors, expense cash, non-public fairness money and their portfolio companies, individual and institutional traders, sponsors, originators, trustees, commercial banks, financial companies establishments and other dealmakers.

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Our corporate expertise includes the total assortment of domestic and worldwide transactions throughout many industries, which includes aviation, banking/financial services, biotechnology and existence sciences, development, strength (equally classic and substitute), finance, food and beverage, franchise, health treatment, hospitality and resorts, information methods, infrastructure, insurance policy, world wide web/e-commerce, investment cash, manufacturing and income, mining, oil and gasoline, non-public fairness, true estate, cafe, retail, computer software, athletics/leisure, engineering, telecommunications, transportation, utilities, venture funds and waste management. In distinct, we are marketplace leaders in the power and technology industries. A substantial area of our expertise involves aiding our consumers with the structuring, funding and advancement of energy projects, each conventional and substitute, in the United States and internationally.

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About Andrews Kurth LLP

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For a lot more than a century, Andrews Kurth has built its follow on the perception that straight discuss is great enterprise. Real solutions, very clear vision and mutual regard outline the corporations interactions with customers, colleagues, communities and workers. With 400 attorneys and workplaces in Austin, Beijing, Dallas, Houston, London, New York, Analysis Triangle Park, The Woodlands and Washington, DC, Andrews Kurth represents a vast array of clients in several industries. For much more details about Andrews Kurth, you should pay a visit to andrewskurth.com.

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Greenberg Traurig Proceeds to Increase its Franchising Capabilities With the Addition of David W. Oppenheim in New Jersey and New York

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Morristown, NJ (PRWEB) June 05, 2013

The international regulation organization Greenberg Traurig LLP, has additional shareholder David Oppenheim to its New Jersey and New York workplaces. Oppenheims practice will focus on franchising, transactional and regulatory issues.

Kramer Levin Expands Insurance coverage Practice Team in New York

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New York, NY (PRWEB) June 10, 2013

Kramer Levin Naftalis &amp Frankel LLP introduced nowadays that Daniel A. Rabinowitz has joined the firm as a companion in the companies Insurance Exercise Group. Rabinowitz, who will reside in Kramer Levins New York business office, specializes in transactional and regulatory advice in the insurance sector.

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Rabinowitz has comprehensive knowledge in all sorts of transactional exercise and regulatory matters affecting the insurance policy company, like mergers and acquisitions, cash marketplaces, restructurings, securitization and structured finance, reorganizations, reinsurance, corporate governance and all facets of NAIC and condition regulatory oversight. He currently serves as Chair of the Committee on Insurance Legislation at the New York Town Bar Association.

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Dan has a reliable popularity for supplying customers with specialist counsel across a amount of sophisticated concerns, mentioned Paul S. Pearlman, Kramer Levins Handling Companion. His knowledge will complement our nicely-recognized insurance policies, corporate and securitization techniques.

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Amid a extended list of representations, Rabinowitz provided counsel to two leading global monetary establishments in quite a few transactions and regulatory matters arising out of the 2008 financial crisis, which includes product sales of subsidiaries, securities choices and initial-of-type federal government assistance transactions providing money and liquidity help. He also has been concerned in quite a few insurance policies company demutualizations and comparable conversions, reinsurance transactions, insurance policies-connected securities and other types of alternative risk transfer. Rabinowitz is a repeated writer and speaker on insurance-related matters and also served on a operating group at the ask for of the New York Insurance policies Section in its Submitting Modernization Initiative in 2010.

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Kramer Levin is mentioned for providing clients useful authorized tips and company technique in a way that produces results and Im seeking ahead to growing consumer associations and operating alongside a team I respect and admire, said Rabinowitz.

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Rabinowitz gained his J.D. from the University of Chicago and his A.B., magna cum laude, from Brandeis University where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor modern society.

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About Kramer Levins Insurance coverage Apply:

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Kramer Levin delivers transactional and regulatory suggestions and counsel in the insurance policy industry on the point out, federal and global ranges. Our services incorporate corporate and economic transactions involving the insurance policy and reinsurance industries, insurance coverage and reinsurance merchandise, insurance policies-connected structured finance and alternative risk transfer, insurance policy business restructuring and insolvency and insurance coverage litigation.

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About Kramer Levin: Kramer Levin Naftalis &amp Frankel LLP is a leading, total-services legislation firm with workplaces in New York, Silicon Valley and Paris. Organization lawyers are foremost practitioners in their respective fields. The organization represents World-wide one thousand and rising development businesses, establishments and individuals, throughout a wide selection of industries. For much more information, please pay a visit to http://www.kramerlevin.com.

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