Real Estate Law Fundamentals For The Development Process (Routledge, Nov. 2016), Foreword (original) (raw)
Real Estate Law: Fundamentals for The Development Process
IN NOVEMBER 1941, David Tishman's two sons were on top of the world. Both were recent Ivy League college graduates, newly married, with bright career prospects in the family company. i Bob was lanky and thoughtful; Alan, two years his junior, was similarly tall but broader and more outgoing, a born salesman. While working, Alan was taking accounting and law courses at New York University, as his father had done thirty years earlier. Bob had just finished a law course at Columbia. " You don't have to get a law degree, " Alan remembers his father advising, even though David had one. " Just take enough courses to know when to hire a lawyer. " ii [Emphasis added.] To paraphrase the David Tishman quote, above, you don't have to have a law degree, you just need to know enough about real estate law to know when to hire a lawyer. This is, arguably, the foundational theme of Real Estate Law: Fundamentals for The Development Process. However, even someone with a law degree but who has not been exposed to real estate law as a professional discipline, will benefit from what's presented in this textbook. This document reflects the most-recent draft of the Foreword for Real Estate Law: Fundamentals for The Development Process, due out in early November from Routledge.