2025 Land Use Update – Session 2
Date: Apr 11, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick,
Member Price: $195.00
Non-Member Price: $244.00
Section Price: $183.00
Areas of Law: Land Use
Earn up to 6.7 credits! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
- Thomas J. Trautner, Jr., Esq.
- Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC, Roseland
Presenters
- Peter A. Chacanias, Esq.
- Hyland Levin Shapiro LLP, Marlton
- Adam J. Faiella, Esq.
- Sills Cummis & Gross, Newark
- Gary S. Forshner, Esq.
- Law Offices of Gary Forshner, South Amboyis the founder and Principal of the Law Offices of Gary S. Forshner in South Amboy, New Jersey, after previously serving as the Co-Chair of the Redevelopment and Land Use Department of one of New Jersey’s most prestigious law firms. He concentrates his practice in land use, zoning and real estate development and redevelopment, and represents local, national and international developers, property owners and other business clients engaged in mixed use, residential, industrial, office, retail and affordable housing development projects. Mr. Forshner provides sophisticated counsel and guidance across all phases of the project life cycle, including land use planning and approvals; permits and variances; appearances before municipal, county and state boards and agencies; and appeals of unfavorable land use decisions. He has also served as special land use counsel to municipalities and the New Jersey Builders Association (NJBA).
Admitted to practice in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Mr. Forshner is Past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Land Use Law Section and a member of the Mercer County Bar Association. He is a Director of the NJBA, has been Chair of the Association’s Master Sponsor Committee and has served on or chaired several other committees. Mr. Forshner has been a Trustee of the Shore and New Jersey Builders Political Action Committees as well as the Shore Builders Association of Central New Jersey. He has been a member of the Builders League of South Jersey, the National Association of Home Builders and the Legislative Affairs Committee of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties-New Jersey (NAIOP-NJ), and has served on several committees of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC).
Mr. Forshner has lectured on zoning and planning, sustainable energy land use, eminent domain, real estate transactions, financing and leasing, and attorney and government ethics topics for organizations including ICLE, the NJBA and ICSC, and is the author and co-author of articles which have appeared in the New Jersey Lawyer, the New Jersey Law Journal and other publications. He is the 2008 recipient of the Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Political Action and the 2013 Builders’ Choice Award, both bestowed by the New Jersey Builders Association, and several other honors. He is also a frequent contributor to the New Jersey Law Blog.
Mr. Forshner received his B.S. from Pennsylvania State University and his J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law.
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- Day Pitney LLP, Parsippany
- Steve G. Mlenak, Esq.
- Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis LLP, Roseland
- Robert F. Simon, Esq.
- Herold Law, PA, Warrenis a Shareholder in and Co-Managing Director of Herold Law, P.A. in Warren, New Jersey. He focuses his practice in land use regulation before local zoning and planning boards; real estate-related litigation including land use, tenancy, tax appeals, condemnation and title actions; and commercial and residential real estate transactions. Mr. Simon has been qualified as an expert witness in both Superior Court and District Court in legal malpractice and mortgage fraud matters. He has been Board Attorney for the Township of Tewksbury Land Use Board, Special Land Use Counsel for the Borough of Wallington as to Affordable Housing and land use litigation, and Board Attorney for the Township of Millburn Zoning Board of Adjustment.
Admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits, Mr. Simon is a member of the Board of Directors of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Land Use Law Section and has been Chair of the District XIII (Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren Counties) and District VB Fee Arbitration Committees. He has been a member of the NJSBA Real Estate Law Section and has lectured for ICLE and Lorman Education Services.
Mr. Simon received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and his J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, where he served as a member of the Editorial Board of the New Europe Law Review. He was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable R. Benjamin Cohen, J.S.C.
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Presented in cooperation with the NJSBA Land Use Law Section
Hundreds of land use attorneys attend the Land Use Update each year to gain a distinct practice edge and a nuanced understanding of the latest land use developments. Attorneys across New Jersey regard the event as the definitive source for current information about land use practice. Hear from the state’s leading land use attorneys about the recent regulatory, legislative and case law developments that every seasoned land use practitioner should know.
Register today to gain the essential information and strategies you will use immediately in your practice and receive an electronic copy of the latest “Land Use Citator”. Many thanks to Gregory Meese and Ed Purcell, of Law Office of Price, Meese, Shulman & D'Arminio, PC, for creating and updating this valuable document.
Note: This program is designed for those who already possess a general understanding of New Jersey land use law.
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