Areas of Practice

• Asset Protection Planning
• Real Estate
• Bankruptcy
• Commercial Landlord/Tenant
• Foreclosures
• Real Estate Tax Sales

Bar Admissions

• Maryland, 1972
• District of Columbia, 1980

Education

• The University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1971
  J.D.
  
  
• University of Pittsburgh, 1968
  B.A.
  Honors: Magna Cum Laude
  Honors: Dean's Lists
  Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
  
  

Published Works

• Does a Lease Mean What It Says?, D.C. Building Industry Association Pipeline, 2003
• Co-Author of a Chapter of ALI-ABA's Practice Checklist for Drafting Leases III (2001) also published as Drafting Letters of Intent for Leases (with Forms), The Practical Real Estate Lawyer, September, 1997
• Disposing of Excess Real Estate, NACORE Corporate Real Estate Executive, March/April, 1994
• The Retail Lease: What to Look for, Bargain for, Legal Times, April, 1986

Classes/Seminars Taught

• Buyinhg Assets Out of Bankruptcy, American Inns of Court, 2010
• Safety of Escrow Deposits Against General Creditors in Bankruptcy, American College of Real Estate Lawyers, 2009
• Maryland Real Estate Liens, 2009
• Bankruptcy Aspects of Drafting Commercial Leases and Workout Agreements, Law Seminars International, 2008 - 2009
• Title Insurance for Workouts and Bankruptcy Transactions, Stewart Title National Underwriters, 2008
• Assumption and Assignment of Leases in Bankruptcy, American College of Real Estate Lawyers, 2008
• Workouts, American Bar Association, 2008
• Bankruptcy Sales, Reorganizations and other Bankruptcy Transactions, American Inns of Court, 2007 - 2008
• "Ethics-SOX: Does Each Officer and Director Now Need His/Her Own Separate Counsel?", also known as Corporate/Partnership Attorney as Whistleblower, International Association of Attorneys and Executives In Corporate Real Estate, 2007
• Leasing Overseas, Particularly in China and India, CoreNet Global and International Association of Attorneys and Executives in Corporate Real Estate, 2006
• How Lawyers Can Mess-Up Transactions, Harvard Business School Club of Washington, D.C., 2006
• Panelist in programs on bankruptcy transactions and litigation, American Inns of Court, 2005 - 2006
• A Real Estate Lawyer's Guide To Broadband, National Continuing Legal Education Conference, 2001
• Programs - one on broadband wiring of buildings and one on developing real estate projects at metro-rail sites, D.C. Building Industry Association, 2000
• Programs on telecommunications and financing, American College of Real Estate Lawyers, 1998, 1999 and 2000
• Programs on leasing, American Bar Association, 1987 - 1998
• Shopping Center "University" course and various programs on lease negotiations, International Council of Shopping Centers, 1988 - 1998
• Telecommunications Law, National Association of Corporate Real Estate Executives, 1997
• Programs on leasing issues, D.C. Association of Realtors, Inc., 1992 and 1996
• Programs on real estate transactions, the Russian Duma Committee writing the New Civil Code, 1994 and 1995
• Programs on security interests under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, enforcing liens, easements, leasing, and other topics, Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, 1981 - 1994

Honors and Awards

• Chair, "Best Section Committee of the Year" by District of Columbia Bar, 1990
• Biographical Records in Marquis' "Who's Who in American Law"
• Biographical Records in Tiber's "Who's Who in Washington"
• Martindale-Hubbell Rating: AV preeminent 5.0 out of 5 (the Highest)
• AVVO Rating: 10.0 (Superb)

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American College of Real Estate Lawyers
  
  
• American Inns of Court, D.C. Chapter (Bankruptcy)
  
  
• American Bar Association, Governing Council, Real Property Section, 2000 - 2006
  
  

Past Employment Positions

• Of Counsel, Deckelbaum, Ogens & Raftery, Chartered, Bethesda, MD, 2001 - 2008
• Partner, Wilkes Artis, Chartered, Washington, D.C., 1995 - 2001
• Partner, Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, MD and Washington, D.C., 1993 - 1995
• Associate and then Partner, Linowes and Blocher, Silver Spring, MD, 1977 - 1993
• Assistant Attorney General, the State of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 1973 - 1977
• Associate, Dickerson, Nice, Sokol & Horn (no longer exists), Baltimore, MD, 1973
• Associate, Weinberg & Green (now Saul Ewing), Baltimore, MD, 1971 - 1973