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 Edward Schiff
Counsel
Direct Line: (212) 836-4936
Email: eschiff@hartmancraven.com
Edward L. Schiff is the senior real estate partner in the New York City law firm of Hartman & Craven, LLP. During his 45 years of practice, Mr. Schiff specialized in cooperative and condominium law and has acted as attorney for more than 500 cooperative and condominium buildings in the metropolitan New York area. In addition, Mr. Schiff has represented the developers of some of the largest residential condominium communities in the Eastern United States, including the large-scale Heritage Developments in Westchester and Connecticut and Sea Pines Plantation in Hilton Head, North Carolina. He has also represented owners who convert their properties to condominium and cooperative ownership as well as tenant associations in buildings undergoing conversion to cooperatives or condominiums. Mr. Schiff is also general counsel to a large number of boards of directors and boards of managers of existing cooperative and condominiums.
Mr Schiff, in 1965 was the attorney for the first conversion in the United States of an apartment building to a condominium under a condominium statute and in 1970 was the attorney for the first conversion of a cooperative apartment building to condominium ownership.
Mr. Schiff has written extensively and lectured in universities (Columbia, Farleigh Dickensen and New York University) on the subject of the legal aspects of cooperative and condominium housing organization and operations. He has been called upon to lend his expertise in testimony before congressional and New York State legislative committees dealing with legislation affecting condominium and cooperative housing programs.
In addition, his practice includes Alternate Dispute Resolution as a qualified mediator and arbitrator in conflicts relating to real estate and construction matters.
Mr. Schiff is currently a member of the Urban Land Institute, the Federation of Cooperative Housing of New York, the Cooperative and Condominium Committee of the Real Estate Section of the New York State Bar Association as well as the Committee on Cooperatives and Condominiums of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of the American Bar Association.
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