Bruce A. Cholst joined the firm in June, 1989 as a senior litigation associate, and became a partner in January, 1996.  He represents the firm’s cooperative and condominium clients in complex sponsor defect and sponsor arrears litigation, shareholder controversies, commercial and residential non-payment actions, vendor claims, board election disputes, and governing document analysis.  He has also negotiated and drafted commercial leases, management agreements, and handled several successful board election campaigns on behalf of both management and insurgent slates.  Mr. Cholst graduated from New York Law School in 1977.  Prior to joining the firm, he clerked for two Supreme Court Justices.  Mr. Cholst currently serves on the New York City Bar Association Sub Committee on Cooperatives and Condominiums. He has also served on the Condominiums and Cooperatives (Liens Sub-Committee) of the New York State Bar Association, the Real Estate Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association (Cooperative and Condominium Subcommittee), the Association of Residential Boards Ltd. (Cost Control Committee), the Condominium/Cooperative Council of Long Island, and the Queens Borough President’s Task Force on Cooperatives and Condominiums.  He frequently lectures and writes on issues regarding cooperatives and condominiums for various community organizations and trade groups, and is regularly quoted in trade journals and in the New York Times Real Estate Section. .  He has authored a booklet When to Litigate, When to Mediate: a Guide to Dispute Resolution for Co-op and Condo Boards and co-authored (along with Partner Mary Kosmark) an article published in the New York Law Journal titled "Overcoming Limitations of Condo Boards In Dealing With Unruly Residents".  Mr. Cholst currently serves as a board member of his own Manhattan Cooperative.

E-mail Bruce A. Cholst at: bac@rosenlivingston.com