rschkolnick@bmk-law.com

Mr. Schkolnick has extensive experience providing solutions to property owners in complex land use and zoning matters. He has also served as counsel to local government agencies with respect to land use and zoning issues. Mr. Schkolnick specializes in applications to construct wireless communications facilities and has represented national wireless carriers in over 200 zoning applications.

Mr. Schkolnick also litigates land use cases. In addition to handling numerous prerogative writ matters, he secured a unanimous decision from the New Jersey Supreme Court on behalf of the Township of West Orange in the State's seminal eminent domain case, Township of West Orange v. 769 Associates, LLC, 172 N.J. 564 (2002).

Mr. Schkolnick is a member of the Board of Directors of the New Jersey State Bar Association's Land Use Law Section. He is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York. A graduate of Haverford College (Phi Beta Kappa), Mr. Schkolnick earned his Masters of Governmental Administration from the University of Pennsylvania's Fels of Center Government, where he was a Fels Scholar. He earned his J.D. degree from the U.C.L.A. School of Law in 1989.

Prior to joining Brown Moskowitz & Kallen, P.C., Mr. Schkolnick was associated with the Sills Cummis firm, later becoming a partner with Booker Rabinowitz Trenk, P.C. and Ramsey Berman, P.C.

Mr. Schkolnick has advised numerous political campaigns and served from 2002 to 2006 as the Co-General Counsel to the New Jersey Democratic State Committee.