Joshua Stein PLLC, an independent law practice limited to commercial real estate matters, helps a wide range of clients negotiate major real estate transactions (financing, acquisitions, leasing, development, and hotel related) and solve problems with existing transactions. Joshua Stein, the principal of Joshua Stein PLLC, has nearly 30 years of experience practicing commercial real estate law. He has worked on many defaulted real estate loans, lease disputes, partnership disputes, intercreditor issues, and other real estate problems. He has handled foreclosures, real estate bankruptcies, deed in lieu transactions, and numerous loan modifications of every conceivable type. He has been engaged as an expert witness on multiple occasions. After a break that started as a result of the credit crisis in late 2008, Joshua has again started to negotiate substantial real-estate-related transactions, such as loans, developments, and acquisitions for lenders, borrowers, investors, and landlords and tenants (for both ground leases and space leases). He has also closed a wide range of other real estate transactions and has developed over 1000 model documents for commercial real estate practice, emphasizing distressed properties, development, finance, leasing, and hotels.

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. In October 2009, the Super Lawyers publication again included Joshua in a list of the top 100 lawyers in New York City (across all practice areas). 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. Joshua has published over 200 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 for more information on those books.) Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit recently cited one of Joshua's articles. 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. He has two daughters, born in 1988 and 1993. To contact Joshua Stein, click here.