Theodore H. Sandler

Partner

 

Practice Areas

Commercial Real Estate; Construction & Sustainable Development;

Environmental; Land Use & Government Relations

 

SUMMARY

Mr. Sandler’s practice areas have developed following his prior work experience as a city planner and civil engineer with Fulton County, Georgia and graduate work at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the areas of civil engineering and city planning. Mr. Sandler leads HSSW’s Land Use & Government Relations, Construction & Sustainable Development and Environmental Law practice areas. His environmental activities on behalf of firm clients include employing consulting firms, negotiating documents allocating remediation responsibility and pursuing liability protections when and where available. In the area of construction law, Mr. Sandler has negotiated numerous construction contracts for retail facilities, office buildings and multi-family developments. Mr. Sandler’s governmental compliance activities have included negotiating public/private development agreements, condemnation representation, pursuing re-zonings throughout the Southeast, general resolution of permitting issues, subdivision compliance and other related activities.

 

representative experience

• Lobbies for the International Council of Shopping Centers where he has served as the Georgia Governmental Relations Chair and the Southeast Division Government Relations Chair
• Owner Hartman, Simons, Spielman & Wood, LLP (1999 - Present)
• Associate and Partner with Altman Kritzer & Levick, PC (1986 - 1999)
• Road and Traffic Engineer, Fulton County, Georgia (1980 - 1986)
• Transportation Planner, Fulton County, Georgia (1975 - 1980)

Education

Georgia State University, J.D. with Distinction (1986)

Georgia Institute of Technology, MCP (1976)

University of Maryland, B. A. in Social Sciences (1972)

 

PUBLICATIONS & DISTINCTIONS

• Serves on Board of Zoning Appeals and Board of Ethics for the City of Sandy Springs, GA (2009 - 2013)
• Georgia Super Lawyer (Land Use/Zoning – 2007; Environmental - 2005) as published in Georgia Super Lawyers and Atlanta Magazine
• Serves as chairman for ICSC’s Georgia State PAC; Georgia Business Properties, Inc. (since 2006)
• Lectured for such groups as The International Council of Shopping Centers, The National Business Institute and The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Written articles on environmental law for a number of trade magazines and has presented papers on issues including boundary law, basic real estate law and advanced real estate law
• USDOT Fellowship
• Outer Barrister’s Guild National Scholastic Honorary Fraternity
• Georgia State University Law Review

MEMBERSHIPS

State Bar of Georgia (Environmental Law and Real Property Law Sections)

The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)

Georgia Business Properties (Political Action Committee, Chairman)

 

(770) 951-6588 - Phone

(770) 303-1168 - Fax

tsandler@hssw.com

 

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