Timothy Collins

Bar Admissions

New York — 1986
United States District Court, Eastern District of New York — 1988
United States District Court, Southern District of New York — 1988
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit — 1999

Education

New York University School of Law, Master of Laws — 1995
New York Law School, J.D. cum laude — 1985
University of Vermont, B.A., Economics/Political Science — 1981

Professional Experience

• Partner, Law Firm of Collins, Dobkin & Miller LLP — 1997 to present

• Partner, Law Firm of Collins and Dobkin — 1996 to 1997

• Assistant Attorney General, New York State Department Of Law, Real Estate Financing Bureau — 1994-1995

• Executive Director/Counsel New York City Rent Guidelines Board — 1987-1994

• Assistant Counsel, New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Office of Rent and Housing Maintenance — 1985-1987

• Guest Lecturer:
  ¤ United States Military Academy at West Point
  ¤ City University of New York Graduate Center
  ¤ Yeshiva University/Benjamin Cardozo School of Law
  ¤ New York Law School
  ¤ Queens College

• Member, Board Of Consultants:
  ¤ Residential Landlord/Tenant Law In New York, By Andrew Scherer (1995)

Publications

• An Introduction to the New York City Rent Guidelines Board and the Rent Stabilization System. (1994)

• "Fair Rents" or "Forced Subsidies" under Rent Regulation Finding a Regulatory Taking where Legal Fictions Collide. 59 Albany Law Review 1293-1319 (1996)

• Real Property Service New York. Chapter 74. Rent Regulation, The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Co., with Stephen Dobkin, (1996).

Notable Published Opinions

• Car Barn Flats Residents Association v. Division of Housing and Community Renewal, NYLJ 2/23/00, p. 28, col. 5 (Sup. N.Y. Co.)
  Overturned State Housing Agency's formula for rent adjustments following a conversion to individual electrical metering.

• Beattie et al, v. Silvers, NYLJ 7/3/97, p. 32, col. 2
  Appellate Term held a trial judge may consider whether a landlord's sale of a building without notice to the tenants while a proceeding to correct violations was pending constituted sanctionable misconduct.