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Joshua is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. His name regularly appears in published lists of the leading real estate lawyers in the United States and the world. The "Chambers" guides have identified him as one of about 20 leaders of the New York commercial real estate bar.
For the year ending May 31, 2006, he chaired the Real Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association. He has chaired the Practising Law Institute's annual two-day seminar on commercial real estate financing since 1997.
He has published well over 100 articles on real estate law and related topics, as well as dozens of legal outlines, model documents, and other continuing legal education materials for real estate lawyers. Most of his published articles have been updated, expanded and integrated into several books. (See the lower right-hand corner of the home page of this website.)
He 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, and has practiced exclusively real estate law since 1982.
Before law school, Joshua worked briefly in publishing and journalism, and did some computer-related work. Here are a few great moments and claims to fame from Joshua's work life before law school:
-- After graduating high school, Joshua worked for a few months covering the Davis, California city government. After a particularly busy late night city council meeting, Joshua wrote a group of articles that collectively filled the front page of the Davis Daily Democrat.
-- As a staff writer for the UC Berkeley Daily Californian, he scored an exclusive interview with Steven Weed, Patty Hearst's former boyfriend, which ran at the top of the front page a few days after the kidnapping.
-- Another of his Daily Californian articles -- this one about the life of a cop on the beat -- led to Joshua's being invited to join a hard-to-get-into writing seminar taught by the late novelist Leonard Michaels, then a professor at UC Berkeley.
-- As assistant to the president of Stein & Day/Publishers (no relation), one of his jobs was to dig through the "slush heap" -- unsolicited manuscripts that arrived daily. He picked out one of those manuscripts, edited it into a book, took it through publication, and later learned that it won a national award.
-- While at UC Berkeley, he worked part-time in the computer center at the help desk, where his job was to figure out why other students' programs weren't working. He developed working familiarity with Fortran, COBOL, Compass (CDC Assembly language), Artspeak, and a number of other languages, and solved programming problems in all those languages as well as some he had never seen before.
-- As a part-time reporter for his local paper in high school, he skipped school one morning so he could ride around on a garbage truck; then he wrote a front-page article about the experience. This article itself became the subject of an article in a national garbage collection industry magazine, complete with a photograph of Joshua hanging on the back of a garbage truck.
Joshua has two daughters, ages 14 and 19, neither of whom plans to go to law school, write for a newspaper, publish books, collect garbage, or program computers.
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