Jeffrey A. Moerdler was appointed to the Board of Commissioners in April 2010 by Governor Paterson. Mr. Moerdler is a Member of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. where he is the New York office Section Head for the Real Estate and Communications Sections and is a member of the Environmental Section. His real estate practice is both national and local and includes representation of landlords and tenants in all types of leases, counseling owners and developers in the acquisition, sale, development and renovation of property, advising lenders and borrowers in commercial loans, and the representation of all parties in real estate litigation. Mr. Moerdler has been a general commercial real estate attorney for almost thirty years. He has represented large national companies, particularly in the high-tech, telecommunications, financial services, health care, supermarket and oil and gas sectors, as well representing numerous smaller local clients. During the past twenty years, he has developed a unique specialty practice in the intersection of real estate and communications issues. Mr. Moerdler is a member of the Executive Committee of the Real Property Section of the New York State Bar Association. Previously, he has served in numerous governmental positions, including representative of the President Pro Tem of the New York State Senate on the New York State Financial Control Board; Member of the New York State Banking Board; Member of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee of the Appellate Division, First Department, of the New York State Supreme Court; Assistant to the First Deputy Mayor of the City of New York; and Assistant to the Deputy Borough President of the Borough of Manhattan. Mr. Moerdler is admitted to practice in the States of New York, Florida and Massachusetts, in the District of Columbia, and before the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He attended the Horace Mann School and was awarded his B.A. by Columbia College of Columbia University and his J.D. by the New York University School of Law. Mr. Moerdler has written numerous articles on communications and real estate subjects. He is regularly quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Commercial Property News, Real Estate Weekly and other publications. In recognition of his professional achievement, in 2002 he was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL) and every year commencing with 2006 he has been a New York Super Lawyer in The New York Times.