Ronald P. Albert has practiced law since 1983, and founded his own law firm in 1994. Mr. Albert engages in a transactional, advisory and preventative law practice, with an emphasis on commercial real estate and estate planning matters. Mr. Albert advises clients in all aspects of transactional real estate, including acquisition, development and transfer of interests in real property including preparing purchase agreements, loan documents, development agreements, construction contracts, ground leases, tenancy-in-common agreements and tax-deferred exchange agreements. Mr. Albert also advises clients in connection with the choice of and formation of business entities, co-ownership and other operating issues with respect to such business entities, and estate planning matters.
Past professional positions include: Lecturer in Real Estate Law, U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business (1992-1998); private law practice with Griffinger, Levinson, Freed & Heinemann in San Francisco, California (1989-93), Adjunct Professor of Business Law, Utica College of Syracuse University (1988-89); private law practices in New York and Southern California (1983-89); and private accounting in San Francisco prior to law school (1979-80).