OEL R. MARCUS is a graduate of Hofstra Law School. He was an Assistant Corporation Counsel at the Certiorari and Condemnation Division of the New York City Law Department, from 1975 to 1980. From 1980 to 1990, he was in charge of the Tax Certiorari and Condemnation department at the law firm of Shea & Gould, where he became a partner in 1986. He is a former President of the New York City Real Estate Tax Review Bar Association and a member of Tax Certiorari and Condemnation Committee of The Association of the Bar of The City of New York. From 1990 to 2005 Mr. Marcus was a partner at Pottish Freyberg Marcus & Velazquez, LLP. He is a lecturer at the New York State Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Program and a member of the property tax committee of the Real Estate Board of New York. He is also published regularly in real estate industry magazines. Mr. Marcus won a decision at trial in 1990 involving One New York Plaza which resulted in a $42,000,000 real estate tax refund. This groundbreaking case established acceptance of asbestos contamination as a basis for tax reduction and still stands as the largest Court ordered award in New York City.
