Rob Shulman
Rob Shulman is a partner at Reidenbach & Associates, LLC. He joined the firm shortly after its inception, following positions with several prestigious law firms including Reed Smith, Wolf Block and Cozen O’Connor. Rob maintains a diverse practice in Condominium and Community Association Law, Construction Litigation, Transactional Real Estate and related areas. Rob’s clients include regional and national banks, developers, landlords, managing agents and tenants, property owners, brokers and declarants, as well as hundreds of condominium and planned community associations throughout the region.
Rob has a deep transactional background, which includes drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, mortgage lending, and leasing. He also has extensive experience handling construction defect cases and other real estate and business litigation. Rob works with developers to create public offering statement packages for new condominium and planned communities and to update their form sets. He regularly advises association clients on a range of issues, including answering governance questions, advising on transition of Executive Board control and new property management, initiating collection actions, and the modernization of outdated governing documents. Rob assists banks, real estate investment trusts, and other corporate clients to secure financing and handle land acquisition, sales, and other complex commercial transactions.
Rob has helped hundreds of residential homeowners sell and purchase their homes and can provide valuable advice on any phase of that process. Rob also regularly guides local Realtors, buyers, sellers and developers in the purchase and sale of vacant land and custom home build projects and is knowledgeable about conservation easements, preferential tax assessment programs and other tools to protect open space and natural resources.
Rob is a self-described “title nerd” and has developed a reputation with Realtors, lenders and title agents in the region for being able to step in last minute and resolve title problems and other difficult issues to allow residential and commercial settlements to proceed.
Rob assists both homeowners and contractors with the creation and negotiation of construction contracts and resolution of project management disputes. He also is also experienced in drafting easement and other agreements to resolve boundary and other title issues for property owners. Additionally, Rob has been trained in facilitative mediation and uses it regularly to resolve conflicts that arise in his practice.
Education
B.A., Lafayette College
J.D., MBA, Villanova University
Personal
Rob was born in Lower Gwynedd, PA and after much international travel (including stints living in Israel and India) currently resides with his wife Alicia in Philadelphia.
Rob has practiced ashtanga yoga daily for many years and recently discovered a love for scuba diving.
Rob is interested in ecological sustainability and enjoys counseling local businesses and organizations in these initiatives.
HONORS
Best Lawyers, Real Estate – 2023
Main Line Today Magazine, Named Ranked “Top Lawyer” (Real Estate) – 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Representative Matters
Helped multiple residential clients along the Main Line amicably and cost-effectively resolve boundary disputes through easement agreements and other alternative means, rather than through expensive litigation.
Mediated various commercial and residential lease disputes for both landlord and tenant clients.
Drafted post-settlement agreements that enabled both seller and buyer clients to close on the sale/purchase of homes, despite ongoing remediation and litigation related to construction defects at those communities.
Resolved complicated title issues for multiple clients (buyers, sellers, title agents, realtors, developers, etc.) that permitted stalled closings to proceed at new construction condominiums and planned communities and for estate sales of existing homes.
Regularly provide statutory opinions to developers and association clients to address issues at their communities (e.g., act as general counsel to builder clients so they comply with statute and transition association board properly to unit owners; draft corrective and substantive amendments to update outdated or poorly-drafted governing documents; advise executive boards regarding how to best manage remediation projects to resolve construction defects; resolve long-standing governance and collection problems at mature communities, etc.)