Debra offers over 20 years of experience representing developers, property owners, and taxing authorities in property valuation disputes before boards of assessment review and state supreme and appellate courts. She primarily concentrates her practice on matters involving administrative assessment challenges, Real Property Tax Law Article 7 proceedings, eligibility for real property tax exemptions, and eminent domain concerns.
Debra additionally has extensive experience representing energy clients in matters involving the valuation and assessment of energy assets and infrastructure for real property tax purposes and related litigation. Debra handles issues involving hydroelectric, biomass, wind, and fossil-fuel electric generation; electric-transmission and distribution facilities; and supporting infrastructure such as substations. She also represents clients in eminent-domain proceedings that involve the siting of electric-transmission facilities.
Debra represents clients that include developers and owners of apartment complexes, condominium properties, golf courses, manufacturing and warehouse properties, office buildings, retail plazas, and shopping malls.