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Dorothy (Dottie) E. Bolinsky is a partner of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group. Dottie’s practice includes complex commercial and residential real estate transactions and guiding development projects through the land use planning process. In addition, Dottie is experienced in business operations, particularly with regard to hotels and restaurants. She has counseled clients with respect to transferring liquor licenses and has appeared before liquor licensing boards throughout New Jersey.
Transactional. Dottie has negotiated successfully a wide range of transactions for her clients. She counsels clients in matters involving all aspects of real estate transactions including commercial leasing, acquisition, disposition, financing, operations, development, zoning and land use planning. She has counseled numerous clients in the project development phase, advised clients regarding appropriate entity formation and has provided clients with creative solutions to complete these projects. Dottie has advised clients in the formation of commercial condominiums. For one unique development project, she guided her client through the intricacies of the National Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.
Land Use Planning. Dottie has represented many clients before zoning and planning boards throughout New Jersey. Her clients have developed office, retail, hotel, restaurant, industrial and warehouse facilities. Many of these projects involve intense negotiations with local and state boards and agencies. Dottie focuses on pragmatic solutions to ensure that clients are able to implement their projects.
In General. Dottie was the 2004 Mercer County Bar Association Young Lawyer of the Year and was honored with the 2004 New Jersey State Bar Association Young Lawyer Division, Service to the Bar award. She has served as a lecturer for the National Business Institute, the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, and the Mercer County Bar Association, in real estate and land use topics. Dottie received a bachelor's degree in hotel restaurant and institutional management magna cum laude from The Pennsylvania State University in May 1991 and received her J.D. with high honors from Rutgers University Law School Camden in May 1996. While in law school, she received American Jurisprudence Awards in criminal law, constitutional law and legal research and writing, the Corpus Juris Secundum Award for Scholastic Excellence in Criminal Law and several scholarships. She also was an award winner in the Hunter Moot Court Competition. As a member of the Rutgers Law Journal , Dottie published an article entitled New Jersey’s Medical Malpractice Model Jury Instruction: @#!?%, Comprehensible to the Jury?. Before joining Drinker Biddle, she clerked for The Honorable Michael Patrick King, Presiding Judge of the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey.
Dottie is a trustee of the Mercer County Bar Association and the Mercer County Bar Foundation. She previously served as Chair of the Mercer County Bar Association Real Estate Section. Dottie is also a member of the Princeton Bar Association and the New Jersey State Bar Association Real Property, Probate and Trust Law and Land Use Sections.
Prior to practicing law, Dottie held a number of positions with several national corporations as a manager of restaurant operations. | 