Dean’s Roundtable with Edgar Lampert (LL.B ’65) (LL.M. ’66), Partner, The Georgetown Company LLC, on Thursday, March 12, 2009
Regularly during the school year, the dean hosts roundtable discussions with prominent guests who have utilized their law degrees in a variety of nontraditional ways. Over lunch with a small group of students, guests speak autobiographically about their work experiences, sharing valuable insight about how they found their chosen path. Please note that the roundtables are informal and off-the-record.
Edgar A. Lampert (LL.B ’65) (LL.M. ’66), who will be the dean’s guest on Thursday, March 12, is a real estate developer with The Georgetown Company.
Edgar serves as a Partner in The Georgetown Company, a privately held real estate and financial services company and affiliate of The Georgetown Group. The Georgetown Group’s recent projects include the redevelopment of Madison Square Garden; the development of the Frank Gehry-designed IAC building in Manhattan; redevelopment of the Paramount Pictures Studio and Sony Pictures Studio in Los Angeles; and the development of numerous real estate projects in Ohio. Previously, Edgar served as President of the New York City Housing Partnership and the New York City Community Preservation Corp. He also was General Counsel to the Mayor’s Development Offices and New York City Housing & Development Administration. He began his career as an Associate at Debevoise & Plimpton, where he worked from 1967-1969.
Currently, Edgar serves as Trustee, Chairman of the Real Estate Committee, and Member of the Executive Committee at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He also is a Founding Supporter of Colgate University’s Politics, Philosophy and Economics Institute. He is on the Trustees’ Council of the Preservation League of New York State, and serves on the Construction Committee of the Scarsdale Board of Education. In addition, Edgar serves on the boards of other charitable organizations including New York Landmarks Conservancy, NYC Performing Arts Spaces and Eldridge Street Synagogue Project. He is a former member of the board of advisors of the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies (formerly the NYU Real Estate Institute).
Edgar received a bachelor’s degree from Colgate University in 1962 and an LL.B from New York University School of Law in 1965. At NYU, he was a Root-Tilden-Kern scholar and served as Managing Editor of the Law Review. He received an LL.M. in International Law from New York University School of Law in 1966.
The dean’s roundtables are open to 18 interested NYU School of Law J.D. and graduate students. In order to achieve a representational mix of students, we will designate a proportionate number of seats to J.D. students and graduate students, respectively, to be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. The roundtables will begin at 12:30 p.m. in Snow Dining Room, on the fourth floor of Vanderbilt Hall. Lunch will be served. If you would like to attend a roundtable, please sign up in advance by calling Penelope Fernandes at (212) 998-6003 or by emailing her at penelope.fernandes@nyu.edu. Please indicate whether you are a J.D. or graduate student, and whether you have any dietary restrictions.
March 9th 2009