Mindy H. Stern
Partner
Ms. Stern specializes in representing closely held for-profit and not-for-profit entities, and individuals, in the areas of real estate law and trusts and estates law. Experienced in the areas of leasing, acquisition and lending, as well as providing personal services to individuals in the areas of real estate and trusts and estates.
Bar and Community Activities:
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Adjunct Professor, Real Estate Contract Drafting
New York State Bar Association
- Member, Executive Committee, Real Property Law Section
- Co-Chair, Committee on Not-for-Profit Entities and Concerns
- Member, Task Force on Attorney Escrows
- Member, Trusts and Estates Law Section
- Member, Elder Law Section
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
- Former Chair, Committee on Real Property Law
- Former Secretary, Committee on Cooperatives and Condominiums
American Bar Association
- Member, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
Member, NAMWOLF
City Club of New York, Former President and Trustee. Organized day-long Term Limits Retreat for the City Club discussing the impact of term limits legislation on the governance of municipalities, December 6, 2001 attended by civic leaders and elected officials.
Real Estate Board of New York – former Member, Legislation Committee
President, 83rd Street Owners Corp.
Pro Bono Counsel, National Association of Women Business Owners – NYC Chapter
Publications & Speaking Engagements:
Lecturer, "Trusts and Estates" section of New York State Bar Association Real Property Law Section program "Tax Aspects of Real Property Transactions" held on June 4 and June 5, 2008.
Quoted in Article entitled "Servant of Two Masters: Avoiding Conflicts of Interest" by Greg Olear, which appeared in the May, 2008 edition of The Cooperator Magazine (Vol. 28, No. 5).
Lecturer, "Mortgage Financing" section of New York State Bar Association Real Property Law Section program "Practical Skills: Purchases and Sales of Homes" held on November 13, 2007.
Chair and Participant in "Surviving the Residential Real Estate Closing: Better than Reality TV" program sponsored by the New York City Bar Association held on October 29, 2007.
Lecturer, "Mortgages and Mortgage Issues" section of New York State Bar Association Real Property Law Section program "Real Estate Titles and Transfers" held on October 13, 2007.
Lecturer, "Primer on Cooperatives and Condominiums" portion of New York State Bar Association Trusts and Estates Section program held on April 20, 2007.
The Cooperator Magazine, Nov 2006. Guest Columnist, responses to reader inquiries about ownership of cooperative apartments by trusts, and inter-family transfers of cooperative apartments to trusts.
Co-Author, “RPLS Report of the Task Force on Attorney Escrows – Current Practice, Alternatives and Improvements” published in Fall 2006 Vol. 34 No. 2 edition of the N.Y. Real Property Law Journal of the Real Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association Section.
Lecturer, “Financing” segment of “Selling and Buying a One Family House”, sponsored as a pro bono CLE Community Outreach Program by the American Bar Association Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, the New York State Bar Association Real Property Law Section, and various minority bar associations, January 18, 2006.
Moderator and Lecturer on Due Diligence Issues since mid-1990’s of annual CLE program sponsored by The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, first titled “Representing Buyers and Sellers of Residential Property”, now titled “Residential Closings: Soup to Nuts”
Lecturer, “Residential Real Estate Transactions: A Primer” presented as part of a program entitled “Bridging the Gap – Crossing Over into Reality” for newly admitted attorneys sponsored by the New York State Bar Association February 9, 2005.
Lecturer, “Ownership of Cooperatives and Condominiums by Trusts, Entities and Diplomats (Or, the Tale of the Non-Human and the Judgment-Proof)” for Program Entitled “Hot Topics Affecting Cooperatives & Condominiums” presented at The Association of the Bar of the City of New York on March 6, 2002.
Lecturer, “Ownership of Cooperatives and Condominiums by QPRTS and Other Intervivos Grantor Trusts, Testamentary Trusts and Family Limited Partnerships” for program entitled “Hot Topics for Cooperatives & Condominiums” presented at The Association of the Bar of the City of New York April 20, 2000.
Lecturer, Ethics Section, New York State Bar Association Real Property Law Section Annual Meeting.
Lecturer, Practising Law Institute Bridge the Gap Program, New York City.
Lecturer, “Financing Issues”, for program entitled “Practical Skills, Sales and Purchases of Homes” sponsored by New York State Bar Association, New York City, October 5, 1999, October 31, 2001, November 7, 2003, November 15, 2005.
Organizer, Moderator and Co-Author, “The Stupid Questions Panel Presents: Stuff You Used to Know But Forgot, or Never Knew and Are too Embarrassed to Admit it”, New York State Bar Association Real Property Section Summer Meeting July 12, 2002.
Lecturer, “Mortgage and Mortgage Issues” for Real Estate Titles and Transfers program, New York City June 14, 2001 sponsored by New York State Bar Association.
Lecturer, Living with the New Lead Paint Rules presented at New York State Bar Association Real Property Law Section Meeting July 25, 1997.
Author, “Reviewing the Financial Statements of Coops & Condos” appearing in Metes and Bounds, published by the The Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Moderator, “A New Jewel in the Crown – Christie’s Comes to Rockefeller Center” presented at a Dirt Lawyers Luncheon sponsored by the The Association of the Bar of the City of New York Committee on Real Property Law presented October 7, 1997 at the The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and Author, article with same title appearing in an edition of Metes and Bounds, published by The Association of the Bar of the City of New York Committee.
Author, “Testing Your Mettle – the New Lead Based Paint Regulations” published in N.Y. Real Property Law Journal of the New York State Bar Association Real Property Law Section Fall 1996 Vol. 24, No. 4.
Quoted in New York Law Journal Article entitled “Real Estate Valuation by Certified Appraiser, Following IRS Guidelines Can Prevent Tax Audits”, Lorna Liebowitz, March 25, 1996.
Moderator, “The Basics of Commercial Leasing” presented at the The Association of the Bar of the City of New York November 1, 1994.
Author, Note, "Successor Landowner Liability for Environmental Torts: Robbing Peter to Pay Paul?" 13 Rutgers Law Journal 329-359 (1982)
