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Robert S. Greenbaum is Of Counsel to the firm, where he is a member of its Real Estate Department. Mr. Greenbaum concentrates his practice in the representation of builder/investor entrepreneurs, financial institutions, brokers, contractors and users, in all aspects of real property transactions from acquisition through the land use approval process, environmental regulations, financing, construction, leasing and sale. He has trial experience in state and federal court, and has testified as an expert witness in state (N.J.) and federal courts. He is admitted to practice in New Jersey (1949) and New York (1983). He is an experienced neutral as mediator and arbitrator. Mr. Greenbaum is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (1943). Following World War II service aboard a Navy destroyer, he was discharged with the rank of lieutenant U.S.N.R.. He received his law degree from Columbia Law School (1948) and has practiced with the firm since 1949. Mr. Greenbaum was elected to the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL) in 1982 and is the immediate past chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Committee. He is a past chair of the Land Use Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA), past chair of the Dispute Resolution Section of NJSBA and member of the Real Property Probate and Trust Law Section of NJSBA. He is also a past chair of the State and Local Government Law Section of the American Bar Association (ABA), member of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section and member of the ABA Real Property Probate and Trust Law Section. He is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He has also been on the Adjunct Law Faculties of Rutgers and Seton Hall Universities teaching Land Development and Financing. He has been a frequent lecturer for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education on numerous real estate and alternative dispute resolution related topics. Mr. Greenbaum has served on the Special Advisory Committee on Natural Resources to the New Jersey Office of State Planning in conjunction with the adoption of the State Development and Redevelopment Guide Plan. He is a frequent contributor to professional journals on subjects of land use, real estate financing and alternative dispute resolution subjects. Mr. Greenbaum has also served as chair of the Planning Board and on the governing body of South Orange, and as chair of the Board of Trustees of Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, 1993-94. He is a member of the Board of Governors, New Jersey Chapter of the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ). He has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Greater Newark Chamber of Commerce and as president of the Columbia Law School Association of New Jersey. Mr. Greenbaum is a member of the New Jersey Mediation Panel for the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the AAA Construction Industry Panel of Arbitrators and the AAA New Jersey Public Sector Panel. Mr. Greenbaum is a Master and the Inn Counselor of the Justice Marie L. Garibaldi American Inn of Court for Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is also a member of the Mediation Panel for the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and is on the Roster of Mediators of the Superior Court of New Jersey Statewide Mediation Program for Civil, General Equity and Probate Cases. Mr. Greenbaum is profiled in Who’s Who in American Law (1991) and Who’s Who in America (49th Edition, 1994-95) and is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America, since its initial publication in 1983. In 1997, he was the first recipient of the ADR Practitioner of the Year Award from the Dispute Resolution Section of NJSBA and in 2007 Mr. Greenbaum was honored as a Legend of ADR, also from the Dispute Resolution Section of NJSBA. Also in 2007 he received the Industry Service Award from the New Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP). | 