Dale Degenshein has over 20 years of experience in cooperative and condominium matters. She has represented and advised more than 100 cooperatives, condominiums and homeowners’ associations on a range of issues. Ms. Degenshein has particular expertise in breach of fiduciary duty, review and interpretation of governing documents, housing discrimination, reasonable accommodations for disabilities, claims against individual board members and transactions.

Prior to joining Stroock in 2007, Ms. Degenshein was a founding partner of the law firm Cantor, Epstein & Degenshein LLP, where she had practiced cooperative and condominium law since 1995.

Memberships

Cooperatives and Condominium Law Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York; Committee on the Judiciary, Women’s Bar Association; Real Property Section’s Committee on Cooperatives and Condominiums, New York State Bar Association

Activities

Chair, Cooperative and Condominium Law Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York (2001 - 2004), Secretary (1998-2001) and Member (1997- Present); Faculty and Lecturer: Annual Hot Topics Affecting Cooperatives and Condominiums, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 2003 Present; Annual Cooperatives and Condominiums: Governing Legal Principles and Recent Developments, New York State Judicial Institute, 2006-Present; Condominium Law for the New Attorney, Council on New York Cooperatives and Condominiums, 2007; Reasonable Accommodation Requests from Persons with Disabilities in Coops and Condos: Practical Considerations, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 2007; Fair Housing Training for Real Estate Brokers, Brown, Harris, Stevens, LLC, 2007; Principles In Residential Cooperative Law Housing Court, New York City Civil Court, Housing Part, 2007; Cooperatives and Condominiums For the Housing Court Practitioner, New York State Bar Association, Real Property Section, Committee on Landlord and Tenant Proceedings, 2007; Author or Co-Author: How Do We Challenge Our Tax Assessment?, Habitat Magazine, February 2008; Case Notes, Habitat Magazine, January 2008

Admitted to Practice

New York, 1985; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1987

Education

J.D., Brooklyn Law School, 1984

B.A., Hofstra University, 1981