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Robert S. Goldsmith is a partner of the firm where he is a member of its Real Estate Department, chair of the Redevelopment Practice Group and member of the Land Use Practice Group. Mr. Goldsmith has a practice concentration in redevelopment. He also has broad experience in complex commercial litigation, construction litigation and appellate work. Mr. Goldsmith has litigated in the federal and state courts. Since 1983, Mr. Goldsmith has served as counsel to the Morristown Parking Authority. In that capacity, he has been involved in numerous downtown redevelopment projects. He serves as counsel to Morristown Partnership, a Special Improvement District established in Morristown in 1994. From 1978 to 1990, Mr. Goldsmith served as special counsel to the Town of Morristown for the Headquarters Plaza Project, a $100 million redevelopment venture in Morristown, where he handled all aspects of the negotiations, contracts and litigation relating to the project. He has served as special counsel to the City of Long Branch with respect to major redevelopment projects and has served as special counsel for redevelopment to the municipalities of Morristown, Woodbridge, Princeton, Westfield, Millville, North Wildwood and Belmar. He has also provided counsel with respect to redevelopment projects in Woodbridge, Rahway, South Amboy, Jersey City, Morristown, South Bound Brook, Matawan, Wildwood, Stanhope, Netcong, Phillipsburg, Trenton, Aberdeen, East Brunswick and Cranford. He also serves as counsel to Special Improvement Districts in the Wildwoods, Livingston, Seaside Heights, and Newark. He has provided counsel to SIDs in Atlantic City, Westfield, Keyport, Collingswood, Jersey City, Haddon Township, Bergenfield, Gloucester City, Teaneck, the Highlands, West Orange, Red Bank, Bound Brook, Seaside Heights, Ocean City and Summit, among others. He has argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court in 2nd Roc-Jersey Associates vs. Town of Morristown, 158 NJ 581(1999) and Gallenthin Realty Development, Inc. vs. Borough of Paulsboro, 191 NJ 344(2007). A graduate of Rutgers Law School, Newark (1977), Mr. Goldsmith clerked for the late Honorable Milton B. Conford, presiding judge of the Appellate Division (1977-78), serving as clerk to both the Superior Court, Appellate Division and the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Upon completing his clerkship, he practiced in Morris County with a Morristown law firm where he was a partner. Mr. Goldsmith has developed and currently teaches a new course in redevelopment law at Rutgers Law School, Newark. He has also served as an adjunct professor of environmental law in the Graduate Department of Urban Planning and Policy Development at Rutgers University and also has taught environmental law in the masters program for environmental engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Mr. Goldsmith frequently lectures on downtown redevelopment and revitalization issues. In 2007 he was the recipient of a President’s Award for Leadership in Planning from the New Jersey Chapter of the American Planning Association. Mr. Goldsmith is a board member of New Jersey Future and past president of Downtown New Jersey. Mr. Goldsmith serves on the New Jersey Committee of the Regional Plan Association and is a member of the Main Street New Jersey Board of Advisors. He also is a member of the Morris County, New Jersey State and American Bar Associations. From 1981 through 1985, Mr. Goldsmith served as a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Civil Practice and Procedure and is a former member of the Editorial Board of New Jersey Lawyer. He is listed in Chambers USA- Leading Business Lawyers in the Real Estate: Zoning/ Land Use category and The Best Lawyers in America in the Real Estate category. Mr. Goldsmith is admitted to practice in New Jersey (1977) and New York (1989). |
