Joshua Stein

Joshua Stein has practiced commercial real estate law since 1981, and is an active member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and former chair of the New York State Bar Association Real Property Law Section.  In 2011, he was elected to membership in the Anglo American Real Property Institute.  He has written five books and over 200 articles on commercial real estate law and practice.

In 2011, Stein was recognized by Who's Who Legal as one of the ten "most highly regarded" commercial real estate attorneys in the world. In 2011, Chambers USA identified him as one of the leading real estate lawyers in New York--and the only one in that group who does not practice in a large firm.  The fall 2011 issue of Super Lawyers magazine devoted its cover story to Joshua Stein and his unusual move to his own practice after 20+ years at one of the largest law firms in the world.

He has closed hundreds of financing, leasing (both "space" and "ground" leasing), development, and hotel transactions. His legal work also includes workouts, loan modifications, and advice on loan enforcement.

He has acted as an expert witness on numerous commercial real estate issues, and is qualified as a New York State American Arbitration Association neutral. He is quoted regularly in the press about business and real estate issues, excluding matters in which he is involved.

Stein has chaired the Practising Law Institute's annual two-day seminar on commercial real estate financing since 1997 and the New York Mortgage Bankers Association education committee since 2008.  He teaches commercial real estate law as an adjunct professor at Pace University School of Law.

In 1982, he began to use computers in his law practice. Joshua Stein PLLC now relies on technology that matches or exceeds the technology available to lawyers at the largest law firms. Click here to see technical specifications of the computer equipment used at Joshua Stein PLLC.

Stein graduated from Columbia Law School (1981), where he was a managing editor of the law review, and University of California, Berkeley (1977), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was admitted to the California bar in 1981 and the New York bar in 1985. Before law school, he worked briefly in publishing and journalism. He has two daughters, born in 1988 and 1993. His elder daughter, Helaina, has worked in Rwanda since August 2010, blogging about that experience at www.helaina.com.

In 2010, Joshua Stein was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Bronx Museum of the Arts.