Barrack of Rosenberg & Estis honored at YMCA of Greater New York at 2014 Arts & Letters Reception

Name: Luise Barrack Title: Managing Member Company Name: Rosenberg & Estis, P.C. What year did you start your career in commercial real estate: 1984 Real Estate Associations/Organizations: Member of the Irvington Village Zoning Board, 2014-2018 New York City Bar Association, Member, Committee on Cooperative and Condominium Law, 2013-present What recent honor, achievement or recognition has meant the most to you and why? I am proudest of having been honored by the YMCA of Greater New York at its 2014 Arts & Letters Reception. Having had the incredibly good fortune to be able to accomplish my professional goals, I am intent on sharing that good fortune, especially to help children who would otherwise not have the means to fulfill their potential. Who or what has been the strongest influence on your career and why? The mother of a school friend who was an attorney. She was the custodial parent and would come home every night from work for dinner. After dinner, she would cover the dining room table with documents, sit at the head of the table, and work. I was in awe that she had such an important position that she took home all of the work she did every night. I did not realize at the time that she simply could not complete everything that she had to get done during the day. What is the first thing you do when you arrive in the office in the morning? Turn on my computer What time management strategies do you find to be the most effective for you? Address everything I can as soon as it lands on my desk or hits my computer so I start the next day with as clean a slate as possible. What is the best advice you have received and who was it from? When I began working at the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, one of the senior level attorneys told the incoming ADA's that all we would ever take with us from one position to the next were our reputations and to be mindful of that in every matter we handled and in every situation we found ourselves in. List 3 women that you would like to have drinks / dinner with and where would you go? Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton, and my mother's mother who I never met. The location would not be important to me at all as long as it was quiet enough to hear everything they said. What is your favorite quote? You trust your mother, but you cut the cards! What did you want to be when you grew up? An attorney