Jeffrey Golkin, Esq. is one of New York’s leading real estate, litigation, and tax certiorari practitioners. He is admitted to the New York, New Jersey, Federal, U.S. Supreme Court, and Tax Bars since 1982. Prior to establishing his own practice in 1995, Mr. Golkin served as Special Counsel to the law firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan and as a partner with the law firm of Herzfeld & Rubin. Mr. Golkin is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and has also worked in the field of public accounting as an Auditor, Staff Accountant, and Tax Associate for the firm of Ernst & Young.
Although he began his career as a tax attorney representing clients in complex real estate transactions and syndications, Mr. Golkin is well known for his diverse tax certiorari and litigation practice, which involves the annual administrative and judicial review of tax assessments in New York City, Long Island, upstate New York, and New Jersey. Clients of Mr. Golkin include the real estate portfolios of Fortune 100 companies and private developers as well as hundreds of large commercial projects, cooperatives, condominiums, and residential and commercial properties throughout the tri-State area. In addition to concentrating on tax certiorari and real property assessment matters, Mr. Golkin has expertise in leasing, acquisition, sale and financing of real estate, landlord/tenant disputes, real estate tax exemptions (Industrial and Commercial Abatement Program , 421(a), and J-51), condemnation, tax forecasting, state and local taxation of real property transactions and administrative law. Mr. Golkin also renders real estate tax opinion letters and forecasts required by condominium offering plans, developers, and those acquiring property.
Mr. Golkin is currently designated as Special Counsel and of Counsel to a number of prominent law firms. He has written for Matthew Bender, Bergerman & Roth, the New York Law Journal, the Journal of State Taxation, the CPA Journal, and Real Estate Weekly.
Mr. Golkin is a long serving Officer of the Real Estate Tax Review Bar Association, a former Chairman of the Committee on Condemnation and Tax Certiorari, and a former Chairman of the Municipal Affairs Committee on Taxation of the New York City Bar. He has also served as Advisor to the Finance Commissioner’s Real Property Tax Reform Council.
Since 2001, Mr. Golkin has held the title of Judicial Hearing Officer (JHO), having served in a judicial capacity for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority for several years. Mr. Golkin has also held public office as a County Committeeman, Councilman, and Fire Chief.
Mr. Golkin has served as an adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School where he has taught Tax Issues in Real Estate Law in the LL.M. Real Estate Program. He is an affiliated faculty member of the Center for Real Estate Studies at New York Law School. Mr. Golkin also served on the faculties of New York University and Rutgers University for nearly twenty years. As an adjunct Associate Professor of Real Estate at New York University’s Real Estate Institute, Mr. Golkin has taught numerous courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels as well as licensing courses and intensive seminars for salespersons, brokers, elected officials, and other professionals. He has also served as a member of New York University’s Real Estate Roundtable, an advisory group to the Real Estate Institute. Professor Golkin was the recipient of New York University’s prestigious Teaching Award for Outstanding Service.
Mr. Golkin has served as New York Chapter President and United States Eastern Region Vice President of Lambda Alpha International, the honorary land economics society established in 1930. He received Member of the Year honors from the New York Chapter in 1993 and 1995, and the International President’s Citation for Outstanding Leadership in 1995.
Mr. Golkin is recognized as a leader, innovator and reformer in his field of practice, and is a recipient of the Hofstra University School of Law Dean’s Award for Distinguished Alumni for his professional, academic and community service.
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