LePatner & Associates offers a new CLE course for
attorneys this year. Barry LePatner
will lead "Construction Cost Integrity: Protecting
Your Client's Construction Project Investment." Much
of the material is drawn from the firm's nearly thrity
year's of experience and Broken Buildings, Busted
Budgets, LePatner's new book published by The
University of Chicago Press. The free, 1.5 credit CLE
seminar has already been well received by real estate
departments in firms such as Fried Frank, Stadtmauer Bailkin,
Manett Phelps and LeBoeuf Lamb.
Evaluation comments include:
"...LePatner was top-notch..."
"...the veterans among us learned something. and
the kids were snowed..."
"...the war story examples are particularly good..."
To schedule the course at your firm, contact drubin@lepatner.com
or blepatner@lepatner.com.
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Real Estate Outlook 2006: Are We Entering
A New Economic Cycle?
New York's corporate executives, real estate developers
and design professional leaders attended LePatner &
Associates' Fourth Annual Secrets of the Expert Advisors
Executive Seminar Series. Real Estate Outlook: Are
We Entering A New Economic Cycle? was co-sponsored
by The Rampart Group, Sterling National Bank, Berdon LLP
and LePatner at the University Club in midtown Manhattan
on Thursday, June 8, 2006. Barry LePatner moderated a
panel that included: Rosemary Scanlon, an associate
professor of economics at NYU and a consultant in urban
and regional economics; John Powers, chairman of
the NY Tri-State Region of CB Richard Ellis; and Stuart
Match Suna, co-owner and president of Silvercup Studios
in Long Island City. Click here
to download the full seminar transcript.
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Real Estate Outlook 2005: Is the Rebound
for Real?
Over 250 corporate executives, real estate developers
and design professionals showed up to LePatner & Associates
Third Annual Secrets of the Expert Advisors Executive
Seminar Series, "Real Estate Outlook: Is the Rebound
for Real?" The seminar was co-sponsored by The
Rampart Group, Sterling National Bank, Berdon LLP and
LePatner on April 6, 2005 at the University Club in midtown
Manhattan. Barry LePatner moderated a panel that included:
Stuart Varney, noted business journalist for Fox News;
Steven Spinola, President of the Real Estate Board of
New York; and Michael T. Cohen, Chairman of GVA Williams
and President and CEO of Williams Real Estate Co., Inc.
The Summer
2005 LePatner Report provides an overview of the event
and excerpts from each speakers' presentation.
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Riding the Wave of a Rebounding Economy
Click here to read Barry
LePatner's opening remarks to the seminar. Click here
to view a full transcript of the conference.
Over 150 corporate executives, real estate developers
and design professionals attended "Riding the
Wave of a Rebounding Economy: Secrets of the Expert Advisors,"
an executive seminar co-sponsored by Ernst & Young
LLP, North Fork Bank, DSL.net and BBL&A on March 16,
2004 at the University Club in midtown Manhattan. Barry
LePatner moderated a panel that included: Dr. Irwin Kellner,
Chair of Economics at Hofstra University and Chief Economist
for CBS Marketwatch; Richard T. Anderson, President of
the New York Building Congress; Kenneth M. Krasnow, Senior
Managing Director of the New York Metro Region for Cushman
& Wakefield; and Mark Smith, Ph.D., Global Director
for Real Estate Advisory Services at Ernst & Young
LLP. A recording of the event on CD is available for purchase.
Contact Brad Cronk
for more information.
The Spring
2004 LePatner Report provides an overview of the event
and excerpts from each speakers' presentation.
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Henry H. Korn, moderator, the "Korn
Lecture Series: War Crimes and Iraq," Cornell University,
October 23, 2003.
Keynote Speaker, "Identifying Economic Trends In Real
Estate," sponsored by Berdon LLP at the Yale Club, New
York City on June 25, 2003.
Moderator, "Protection,
Survival, Readiness: Project Strategy in the Post 9/11
World" co-sponsored by Deloitte & Touche LLP,
Sterling National Bank and Barry B. LePatner & Associates
at the University Club, New York City on June 4, 2003.
Keynote Speaker, "9/11's Message to Architects: A Clarion
Call or a Death Knell?" California Polytechnic State University,
May 2, 2003.
Speaker, "Identifying Risk
in an Alliance", seminar on Strategic Alliances sponsored
by the American Institute of Architects in Washington
D.C., 2001.
Speaker, "Marketing Strategies and Presentation Skills,"
with A. Eugene Kohn, FAIA and others, Harvard Graduate
School of Design, 1992-2003. See the article "Does
Better & Faster Equal Smarter?" a roundtable discussion
from the August 2000 seminar.
Speaker, "Strategic Alliances," Society for Marketing
Professional Services, Atlanta conference, November 2000.
Keynote Speaker, "Good Business Doesn't Have to be Boring,"
American Institute of Architects Tennessee Chapter, September
1998
Design Juror and Speaker, "Negotiations: The Professional's
Test," North Carolina American Institute of Architects
Awards Ceremony, July 1997, Hilton Head, SC
Moderator/Participant, "The Re-Emerging Private Sector:
What's Hot," Society for Marketing Professional Services,
October 1995
Keynote Speaker, "Expanding Your Business and Making
It Work," New Partnering Strategies Conference, Sponsored
by PSMJ, Atlanta, Ga., October, 1994
Speaker, "Mergers and Acquisitions Forum," Washington,
D.C. Sponsored by PSMJ, June 1993
Speaker, "Winning Clients for Life," 1991 SMPS Annual
Convention Alexandria, Va.
Speaker, "Liability Insurance: Asset or Liability," American
Institute of Architects, New York Chapter, January 1990
Speaker, "Is the Liability Threat Stifling Creativity
in the Design of Projects?" New York Association of Consulting
Engineers, May 1989
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