Lecturer Bios
Neil B. Davidowitz, Esq.
Neil B. Davidowitz, Esq., is a lawyer, principal and president of Orsid Realty Corp., a residential real estate management firm located in Manhattan. Orsid currently manages a portfolio of 90 co-ops and condominiums in the New York metropolitan area. He is a graduate of Villanova University School of Law. Mr. Davidowitz was an assistant district attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office from 1981 to 1986. Thereafter, he joined Orsid Realty Corp. Mr. Davidowitz frequently lectures on many topics related to co-op and condominium management. He has lectured for the Council of New York Cooperative & Condominiums, Habitat Magazine and The Cooperator.
Ronald Jay Gold, Esq.
Ronald Jay Gold, Esq., is an attorney practicing in the city of New York. He is a partner in the firm of Kagan Lubic Lepper Lewis Gold & Colbert, LLP. Mr. Gold’s practice focuses on real estate and corporate law. In addition, he has represented tenants’ associations during the conversion of buildings to cooperative and condominium ownership, and represents numerous cooperative and condominium associations as general counsel. Mr. Gold served on many committees involving cooperative and condominium law for The Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the New York State Bar Association. He has lectured extensively for such associations at committee meetings and in CLE presentations. Mr. Gold has also lectured for both the Council of New York Cooperatives & Condominiums, and the Federation of New York Housing Cooperatives and Condominiums, as well as at seminars for The Cooperator and Habitat Magazine. He participated in the state bar Cooperatives & Condominiums Subcommittee on liens and also on the committee that served as advisors on the amendments of the revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Joel E. Miller, Esq.
Joel E. Miller, Esq., is a partner in the law firm Miller & Miller LLP, with offices in Manhattan and Queens. He is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review, won several honors and prizes, and finished first in his class. Mr. Miller served as law secretary to Judge Harold R. Medina of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. He was, for three years, an associate with the New York City firm Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, where he focused on both litigation and corporate law. Mr. Miller was, for a number of years, an associate, a partner and then a senior partner in the New York City law firm Demov, Morris, Levin & Shein, after which he went into solo practice. In addition to maintaining that practice, he was, for many years, a professor of law at St. John’s Law School. Mr. Miller has authored the BNA Tax Management portfolio, Cooperative & Condominium Apartments; the AICPA self-study course, “Tax Considerations for Real Estate Cooperatives & Condominiums;” the materials for the AICPA group-study course “Real Estate Accounting including Condominiums, Cooperatives and Homeowner Associations” (along with John Bussman, Ph.D., CPA); “Federal Taxation of Trusts” (Prentice Hall); and numerous articles in law reviews and other legal publications. He has chaired bar association committees and has lectured extensively at continuing legal education programs. In addition to his J.D. degree, Mr. Miller holds an LL.M. degree in taxation from New York University Law School.
Martin B. Miller, Esq.
Martin B. Miller, Esq., is a partner in Miller & Miller LLP. Mr. Miller is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a lead articles editor for The Tax Lawyer. He subsequently received an LL.M. degree in taxation from New York University Law School. Mr. Miller spent more than 16 years as an associate at the New York City firm Kelley Drye & Warren LLP before becoming a partner in Miller & Miller LLP. His practice centers upon tax law, estate planning, estate and trust administration and real estate law. Mr. Miller writes and lectures in the areas of taxation and real estate, and is frequently quoted in the real estate section of The New York Times on tax issues involving real estate. He is admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut.
Arthur I. Weinstein, Esq.
Arthur I. Weinstein, Esq., is an attorney whose practice over the past 30 years has focused on the full range of cooperative and condominium matters. Mr. Weinstein represents many functioning co-ops and condominiums, and has acted as legal counsel for sponsors of co-op and condo offering plans, tenant groups facing offering plans and tenant groups forming tenant-sponsored co-ops. He has handled sponsor defaults, 80-20 problems and problem mortgages. He was one of the first attorneys to utilize flip taxes and played a part in the effort of the Council of New York Cooperatives & Condominiums to amend the New York state business corporation law to recognize flip taxes. Mr. Weinstein has been a part of the council since its formation and is its first vice president and a member of its board. He has lectured on behalf of the council at New York University, Hunter College, Baruch College and numerous symposia. He has written for, and been quoted in, hundreds of articles in various publications, including The New York Times, Habitat Magazine, New York Magazine, Newsday and The Cooperator. Mr. Weinstein is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
