Practice Focus & Experience
Mr. Feldman represents owners of complex industrial and commercial properties in New York State in tax assessment and eminent domain trials and appeals. He represents assessed owners of complex industrial and commercial properties throughout New York State. Recently, he represented the City of Watertown and six surrounding communities in the defense of tax assessment proceedings brought by the owners of over 1000 units of military family housing at Fort Drum.
Mr. Feldman served as Corporation Counsel of the City of Rochester from 1967-1970. He was its chief legal officer, managing an active law firm representing the City in, among other things, labor negotiations, real estate acquisitions, tort defense, and condemnation, tax assessment, zoning and planning litigation. After leaving his position as Corporation Counsel, Mr. Feldman continued his concentration in municipal law, real estate litigation, zoning, and the representation of property owners in urban renewal litigation. In addition, he represented transit systems or governments in the District of Columbia, Denver, Minneapolis, and Montreal in litigation by which transit systems changed from private to public ownership.
