Baker joins Certilman Balin's real estate group as partner

Daniel Baker has joined Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP as a partner in the real estate and land use and zoning practice groups. Baker was formerly a partner at the firm of Sahn Ward Coschignano & Baker, PLLC. He concentrates his practice in the areas of real estate, zoning and land use, and environmental law. Active with his alma mater and in his community, Baker is a member of the Touro Law Center Alumni Association, a member of the Touro Law Center Dean's advisory council, and an advisory board member to Touro Law Center's Institute of Land Use and Sustainable Development Law. He serves as the tenth judicial district representative to the real property law section of the New York State Bar Association, as a member of the advisory board of the Chicago Title Insurance Co., and as an appointed member of the State of New York Commission on Quality Care for the Mentally Disabled's Surrogate Decision Making Committee (SDMC) program. Baker served, for 15 years, as a trustee of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Long Island Chapter. He also served from 2010-2012 as the co-chair of the Nassau County Bar Association real property law committee. Admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, Baker has achieved the highest professional rating by Martindale Hubbell. He is a member of the American, New York State and Nassau County Bar Associations. Mr. Baker earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Albany in 1989 and his Juris Doctor from the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center at Touro College in 1992. For further information, contact Debra Scala-Giokas, Director of Marketing, at (516) 296-7087. Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP is Long Island's second largest full-service law firm with offices in Nassau and Suffolk Counties and New Jersey. Its 13 practice areas include: real estate, real property tax certiorari and condemnation, cooperative and condominium, land use/environmental law, corporate/securities, litigation, commercial lending, labor relations/employment law, bankruptcy and debtor/creditor rights, trusts and estates, elder law, telecommunications law, and criminal law. For further information, visit www.certilmanbalin.com.