HOCHERMAN TORTORELLA & WEKSTEIN - Key Persons
ADAM L. WEKSTEIN is a founding partner of HTW. His practice concentrates on land use, zoning, environmental and constitutional law. He has handled dozens of complex litigation matters on both the trial and appellate levels. He appears regularly before municipal agencies and boards seeking land use approvals and environmental permits.
Mr. Wekstein has lectured and/or written articles regarding various zoning, environmental law, property rights, and constitutional issues for the Local and State Government Law and Environmental Law Sections of the New York State Bar Association, Lorman Education Services, the Practicing Law Institute, The New York Zoning Law and Practice Report, The Municipal Lawyer, The Urban Lawyer, the Municipal Law Resource Center of Pace University and the Westchester Municipal Planning Federation.
Job Titles:
- Founding Partner
- Partner
- Membership Committee ( Chair )
GERALDINE N. TORTORELLA is a founding partner of HTW. Her practice focuses on land use, zoning and environmental law, and commercial and residential real estate transactions. She appears regularly before municipal agencies and boards seeking land use approvals and environmental permits, and has done so for more than 30 years.
Ms. Tortorella has lectured and/or written articles regarding various zoning, environmental law, property rights, and constitutional issues for the Practicing Law Institute, the Local and State Government Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, the Municipal Law Resource Center of Pace University, the Westchester Municipal Planning Federation and the League of Women Voters of White Plains.
Job Titles:
- Founding Partner
- Retired Partner
Mr. Hocherman, a founding partner of HTW, retired from the practice of law in April of 2011. For decades he was an accomplished and highly-regarded land use lawyer who obtained approvals for dozens of commercial, residential and not-for-profit projects. He represented the victorious developer in the landmark Court of Appeals case, Bayswater Realty & Capital Corp. v. Planning Board of the Town of Lewisboro, 76 N.Y.2d 460, 560 N.Y.S.2d 623 (1990), which refined the law regarding the imposition of recreation fees as a condition to approval of residential subdivisions. He also had an extensive transactional real estate practice.
Mr. Hocherman graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 1968, and from Columbia Law School in 1971, where he was elected a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a Forsythe Wickes Fellow.
NOELLE C. WOLFSON, Partner. Ms. Wolfson's practice focuses on land use, zoning and real estate law. She has represented both private and municipal clients in land use matters and related litigation, and purchasers and sellers in real estate transactions.
She has published articles in the Pace Environmental Law Review, the New York Zoning Law and Practice Report and has written numerous articles for The Municipal Lawyer, a publication of the Local and State Government Law Section of the New York State Bar Association.
Job Titles:
- Research and Writing Editor