Purchase and Sale of Real Property

Mr. Holtzschue graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1959. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1959 to 1962, and graduated from Columbia University School of Law in 1966. From 1966 to 1988, he was an associate and a partner at the law firm of Webster & Sheffield. From 1988 to 1990 he was a partner and head of the real estate department in the New York office of the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. As of January 31, 1990, Mr. Holtzschue resigned from O'Melveny & Myers to devote his efforts to writing and teaching law and serving as an expert witness. He is currently teaching as an Adjunct Professor at the Fordham University School of Law.

Mr. Holtzschue has concentrated in all aspects of real estate law and all types of realty transactions including public and non-profit developments. These affiliations have included the Bedford-Stuyvesant Redevelopment Corporation, the United Nations Development Corporation, the Museum of Modern Art, the South Street Seaport, the Children's Aid Society, the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, the United States Postal Service and Battery Park City. He has also represented institutional lenders in construction lending, joint ventures and workouts.

From 1987 to 1990, Mr. Holtzschue served a three-year term as chair of the Committee on Real Property Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, during which time its "Mortgage Loan Opinion Report" was completed. In 1998, he became a member of the Executive Committee of the Real Property Section of the New York Bar Association and has written and lectured extensively. He is the author of Real Estate Transactions: Purchase and Sale of Real Property( Matthew Bender) and is the Editor of the NYSBA's Residential Real Estate Forms on HotDocs (with Matthew Bender). He is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and is listed in "Who's Who in America" and other similar publicatons.

In addition, Mr. Holtzschue has published articles in the American Bar Association's Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal, in the New York Law Journal and in Real Estate Review. He created several model real estate contracts printed as forms by Julius Blumberg, Inc. He has also lectured on real estate matters for the Real Estate Institute of New York University, the Title Guarantee Company, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York County Lawyers Association and the New York State and American Bar Associations.

Mr. Holtzschue is accredited to provide Continuing Legal Education courses (ethics in real estate transactions, caveat emptor, mortgage contingencies, new developments in real estate transactions).