Dorothy ("Dottie") E. Bolinsky is a partner of the firm's Real Estate Practice Group. Dottie's practice includes complex commercial real estate transactions and guiding development projects through the land use planning process. In addition, Dottie is experienced in business operations, particularly with regard to hotels and restaurants. She has counseled clients with respect to transferring liquor licenses and has appeared before liquor licensing boards throughout New Jersey.
Transactional. Dottie has negotiated successfully a wide range of transactions for her clients. She counsels clients in matters involving all aspects of real estate transactions including commercial leasing, acquisition, disposition, financing, operations, development, construction zoning and land use planning. She has counseled numerous clients in the project development phase, advised clients regarding appropriate entity formation and has provided clients with creative solutions to complete these projects. Dottie has advised clients in the formation of commercial condominiums. For one unique historic hotel development project, she guided her client through the intricacies of the National Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. Dottie also counsels hotel clients on all facets of hotel operational issues.
Land Use Planning. Dottie has represented many clients before zoning and planning boards throughout New Jersey. Her clients have developed office, retail, hotel, restaurant, residential, resort industrial and warehouse facilities. Many of these projects involve intense negotiations with local and state boards and agencies. Dottie focuses on pragmatic solutions to ensure that clients are able to implement their projects.
In General. Dottie has been selected as one of NJ Biz's 2009 New Jersey's Best 50 Women in Business; a 2007 New Jersey Law Journal 40 Under Forty; and one of the 2006 Women of Influence in Real Estate by New Jersey Magazine. Dottie was the 2004 Mercer County Bar Association Young Lawyer of the Year and was honored with the 2004 New Jersey State Bar Association Young Lawyer Division, Service to the Bar award. She has served as a lecturer for the National Business Institute, the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, and the Mercer County Bar Association, in liquor licensing, real estate and land use topics. Dottie received a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, in hotel restaurant and institutional management, from The Pennsylvania State University in May 1991 and received her J.D., with high honors, from Rutgers University Law School - Camden in May 1996. Before joining Drinker Biddle, she clerked for The Hon. Michael Patrick King, Presiding Judge of the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey.
Dottie is a former trustee of the Mercer County Bar Association and currently serves on the Association's Budget Committee as well as chairs the Continuing Legal Education Committee. She is a trustee of the Salt Shaker Foundation, Inc. (a nonprofit that raises funds for cancer research and awareness) and the Mercer County Bar Foundation. She previously served as chair of the Mercer County Bar Association Real Estate Section. Dottie is also a member of the New Jersey Hotel-Motel Association, the Princeton Bar Association and the New Jersey State Bar Association Real Property, Probate, Trust and Land Use Law Sections.
Prior to practicing law, Dottie held a number of positions with several national corporations as a manager of restaurant operations.
Publications
8/1/2011, "Signing on the Dotted Line - Obselete?"
Mercer Business
Dorothy Bolinsky
10/22/2007, Fees Owed To Non-Brokers
New Jersey Law Journal - Title Insurance and Construction Law Supplement
Dorothy Bolinsky
10/1/2006, New Tax Impacts Bottom Line
New Jersey Magazine
Dorothy Bolinsky