Honors and Awards:

• Fellow of the American Bar Association
• In recognition of contributions to planning and land use issues, Distinguished Service Award, Rockland Municipal Planning Federation, 2012

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Member Board of Editors, New York Real Estate Law Reporter
• Past Chair - Education Board ABA Law Practice Management Section
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. District Courts (Southern and Eastern Districts)
• New York Bar
• Past Chair -  Environmental Law Committee of the Westchester County Bar Association, 1998 to 2005
• Past Member - Board of Directors of the Westchester Municipal Planning Federation, 2001 to 2008
• Past Chair - Planning board of the Village of Piermont,  2008 to 2009
• Member of Council of the ABA Law Practice Management Section, 2012

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Board of Directors - Westchester Municipal Planning Federation 2001-2006
• Chair - Village of Piermont Planning Board 2008-2010
• Board of Trustee - Village of Piermont, 2010

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Author of "Subdivisions and Site Plan Review", a chapter in Warren's Weed New York Real Property Law (Matthew Bender, 1990)
• Author, Court of Appeals Upholds Atlantic Yards Condemnation, New York Real Estate Law Reporter (2010)
• Co-author of the book Wetlands and Coastal Zone Regulation and Compliance (John Wiley & Sons, 1993) and a chapter in American Jurisprudence Proof of Facts 3d, Vol. 31, "Zoning Proof of Inverse Condemnation From Excessive Land Use Regulation" (Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, 1995).
• Author, The Application of RLUIPA to Land Use Regulation, ABA State & Local Government News (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2005)
• Author, The Ultimate Challenge to SEQRA, New York Law Journal (2008) 
• Former Adjunct Associate Professor of Law, New York Law School, taught State and Local Government Law
• Speaker at training program for municipal officials reviewing the environmental impact statement process under SEQRA., Speaker, State Environmental Quality Review Act , Rockland County Municipal Planning Federation, 2011
• Presented lecture at the annual meeting of the Municipal Law Section of the NYS Bar Association regarding recent Federal cases relating to municipal law issues such as RLUIPA, wireless telecommunications and sign regulations., Speaker, Federal Case Law Update, Municipal Law Section, NYS Bar Association, 2011
• Discussion of cases analyzing local laws which require pre-occupancy inspection of residential rental units., Author, The Constitutionality of Pre-Occupancy Inspections, New York Real Estate Law Reporter, 2012

Verdicts and Settlements:

• Wickes v. Kaplan, 304 A.D.2d 769, 758 N.Y.S.2d 383 (2nd Dept. 2003)
• Bronxville Field Club v. Irwin Davison, 305 A.D.2d 591, 759 N.Y.S.2d 382 (2d Dep't 2003)
• Chambers v. Old Stone Hill, 1 N.Y.3d 424, 774 N.Y.S.2d 866 (2004)
• Xavier Contracting LLC v. City of Rye, 29 A.D.3d 687, 815 N.Y.S.2d 638 (2d Dep't 2006)
•   Matter of Vinrus Corp. v. Village of Pelham Manor Building Inspector, 66 A.D.3d 690, 885 N.Y.S.2d 444 (2d Dep't 2009), 2009
•   South Liberty Partners LP v. Town of Haverstraw, 82 A.D.3d 956, 918 N.Y.S.2d 563 (2d Dep't 2011), 2011

Representative Clients:

• RPW Group, Tuck It Away, Town of Haverstraw, Village of Mamaroneck

Educational Background:

• Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, 1969