Biography
Mindy H. Stern, a partner of the firm, concentrates in real estate, estate planning and estate administration. Her real estate practice includes sales, acquisitions, leasing and financing on behalf of for profit and non-profit entities, public companies, and individuals. Her trusts and estate practice includes counseling clients on all aspects of estate planning to achieve their family wealth transfer, asset protection, philanthropic and other goals and integrating that planning with their changes in marital status and life partner relationships, as well as representing fiduciaries and beneficiaries in the administration of trusts and estates. Ms. Stern is a former Chair of the Real Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and is a member of that Section's Executive Committee. Ms. Stern is a former Chair of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York's Committee on Real Property Law. Ms. Stern was an Adjunct Professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law from 2007 through 2014, where she taught a Real Estate Contract Drafting course. She has lectured for the New York State Bar Association, Practicing Law Institute, the Real Estate Institute of New York University, Rossdale Seminars, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and authored numerous articles on a variety of real estate related topics. Ms. Stern is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, has been voted by her peers to be a New York Metro Super Lawyer since 2008 (and in 2015 was named by Super Lawyers to be one of the top 100 attorneys in the New York City Metro area, and between 2015 and 2017 was named one of the top 50 women attorneys in the New York City Metro area), Ms. Stern chairs the Board of Trustees of The Playwrights Realm, a nonprofit Off- Broadway theater company founded in 2007 devoted to supporting early-career playwrights.