Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP.

Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP announced that partners, Jeffrey Reich, Steven Sladkus and Lisa Smith, have been named co-chairs of the firm's real estate practice with an emphasis on cooperative and condominium law. Partner Maria Beltrani will continue to head Wolf Haldenstein's landlord-tenant practice.

Reich, partner and co-chair, has extensive experience representing clients in a wide variety of real estate transactions. Reich represents a diverse group of clients, including real estate developers, lenders, and investors. He recently represented three of the country's largest condominium and cooperative developments, borrowing approximately $750 million to facilitate the rehabilitation of more than 25,000 apartments in New York City. Reich graduated cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law and Tulane University. He holds an undergraduate accounting degree and has passed all four parts of the CPA examination.

Sladkus, partner and co-chair, has extensive experience representing clients in real estate-related litigation and has a concentration in cooperatives and condominiums. He regularly handles a wide variety of construction defect, mold and general commercial and corporate-law cases. He also handles the defense of discrimination claims, including those against cooperative and condominium boards. He also lectures on many of these topics. He graduated from Brandeis University and Brooklyn Law School and holds a master's degree in taxation from New York University School of Law. He is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey, in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey, and in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Smith, partner and co-chair, practices transactional real estate both in New York and nationally, representing parties in acquisitions and sales, construction and mortgage financing, and residential and commercial leasing. She represents cooperative and condominium buildings on an ongoing basis in connection with their general corporate and condominium association matters, including those relating to tenant stockholders and unit owners, board members, managing agents and contractors. She is a graduate of Colgate University and Hofstra University School of Law and was admitted to the Bar in New York and Massachusetts.

Beltrani, partner Beltrani is an experienced civil litigator who represents the firm's numerous cooperative and condominium clients in a variety of landlord/tenant disputes. In addition, Beltrani represents the firm's many institutional clients and developers in both commercial and residential landlord/tenant disputes. Her experience also extends to cases involving rent regulation in New York City. Beltrani is admitted to practice in New York and Florida and routinely practices in Civil and Supreme Court, as well as New York's appellate courts. She also serves as an arbitrator for the Civil Court of the City of New York. She is a graduate of Queens College of the City University of New York and Brooklyn Law School.