Holland & Knight Broadens Mid-Atlantic Land Use Team
September 1, 2004
Stuart Mendelsohn - Northern Virginia
MCLEAN, VA – Holland & Knight announced today the recent addition of a
group of four real estate and land use attorneys to the Mid-Atlantic region’s
land use practice. The group includes former Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
member Stuart Mendelsohn, who joined as a partner in May, partner Edward
Donohue, and senior counsel Terence Cooke and Tom Carroll. Holland & Knight's
Real Estate practice is the largest of any law firm in the country. It also has
the only land use practice that covers all of the jurisdictions in the region
including Washington, D.C. and suburban Maryland and Virginia with over 20 land
use attorneys.
“The addition of this group reflects the firm’s commitment to provide our
clients with the resources to compete in an increasingly complex real estate
industry,” said Whayne S. Quin, Land Use Practice Group Leader of the firm’s
Mid-Atlantic offices. “It also demonstrates the firm’s business strategy to grow
our commercial real estate practice in the Mid-Atlantic region.”
Mendelsohn practices in the areas of real estate, land use, litigation,
government affairs and corporate law. His clients include a broad range of
corporations, non-profit organizations, builders and developers. He received
both his B.S. and M.S. from the Florida Institute of Technology and his J.D.
from George Mason University School of Law.
Donohue specializes in zoning, land use and historic preservation matters as
applied to telecommunications facilities throughout the region. He earned his
undergraduate degree from Southern Connecticut State University and his J.D.
from the Washington College of Law, American University.
Terence Cooke practices in the areas of commercial transactions and
negotiations, telecommunications, real estate and land use. He earned his J.D.
from Tulane University School of Law. Thomas Carroll will focus his work in
telecommunications-related zoning matters and land use. He received his J.D.
from Georgetown University Law Center.
Mendelsohn and Cooke will be located in the firm’s Tysons Corner, Virginia
offices. Donohue and Carroll will work from the 2099 Pennsylvania Avenue
offices in Washington DC.
Contact: Katherine Diggs, (202) 419-2479