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Bio:

Howard Goldman is the principal of the firm, which he founded in 1999.  Mr. Goldman graduated from law school in 1975 and practiced municipal and environmental law in Alaska from 1976-1980.  From 1980-83, he was the Deputy Counsel to the City Planning Commission.

Prior to starting his firm, Mr. Goldman was a partner at the Manhattan law firms of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, Winthrop Stimson Putnam & Roberts, and Wachtel & Masyr.  Howard is a respected member of the City's land use bar and an adjunct professor at the NYU Real Estate Institute.   

Caroline Harris

Expertise:
-Zoning and landmarks preservation; sustainability
-Real estate transactions

Experience
Law Offices of Howard Goldman, LLC, Member (12/08 – present)
Troutman Sanders, LLP (formerly Jenkens & Gilchrist, Parker Chapin, LLP), Counsel (1/04 –12/08)
Law Offices of Caroline G. Harris, Solo Practitioner (9/91- 1/04, including “Of Counsel” affiliations with Siller Wilk LLP and Stadtmauer Bailkin LLP)
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Real Estate Associate (5/88-9/91)
Tenzer, Greenblatt, Fallon & Kaplan, Real Estate Associate (6/86-5/88)
NYC Department of City Planning, Associate Counsel (5/84-6/86)
Webster & Sheffield, Litigation Associate (1/82-4/84)

Recognition and Honors:
Super Lawyer (2007 and 2008)
Trailblazer Award, Sustainable South Bronx (2008)
Wexner Heritage Foundation (Fellow 1992-1994; alumnae 1994-2009)
“ Rooftop Gardens Could Bloom with Taxbreaks,” Crain’s (8/16/08)
“Focus On: Caroline Harris, President, Harris Enterprises & Realty Co.,” The Ezone, (4/01)
"Top 20 Real Estate Movers & Shakers in NY," The New York Post (4/1/96).

Publications:
“Discretionary Land Use Approvals in a Down Market” (with Howard Goldman), New York Law Journal (December 18, 2008)
 “Green Zoning,” Torchlight, Sallan Foundation Newsletter (October 1, 2008)
 “The Basics of Development Rights Deals,” New York Real Estate Law Reporter (March 2007)
 “Higher and Higher: Acquiring Development Rights Through Zoning Lot Mergers,” New York Law Journal (January 16, 2007)
“Not In My Domain,” (interviewed) Commercial Property News (December 1, 2004)
“The Zen of Cities: Meditative Spaces in Urban Environments,” 3 AIA/J The AIA Journal of Architecture 11 (December 2003)
“Shelter from the Storm,” The Jewish Week (September 20, 2002)
“(Landmarks) Coming of Age in New York,” New York Law Journal (April19, 1997)