Douglas M. Bregman is the founder and managing partner of Bregman, Berbert, Schwartz & Gilday, LLC, a general practice law firm in Bethesda, Maryland. For more than forty years, Mr. Bregman has maintained a general law practice with a concentration in real estate law and transactions. He has testified as an expert witness on a wide variety of real estate topics in Maryland and other jurisdictions. In recognition of his accomplishments as a real estate lawyer, he was elected as a Fellow in the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL) in 2004. He currently serves as a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School where he teaches a course on commercial real estate transactions. He has also taught courses on commercial real estate transactions as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and Howard University School of Law. He is the author of Maryland Landlord-Tenant Law: Practice and Procedure (Matthew Bender, 5th ed. 2021), and The Common-Sense Guide to Successful Real Estate Negotiation (with Peter G. Miller) (Harper Perennial, 1994). He is admitted to practice law in Maryland and the District of Columbia. He earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and his B.A. with Honors from Colgate University.