EILEEN O’TOOLE has extensive experience representing owners and tenants before the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR), as well as in all phases of landlord-tenant litigation, from initial notice through appeal. She also counsels owners, prospective purchasers, and lenders on compliance with rent-stabilized leasing and registration requirements, frequently performing “due diligence” review of rent history records in anticipation of sale or purchase of apartment buildings.
O’Toole is the author of the 2020 New York Rent Regulation Checklist, published by The Habitat Group. A former legal publishing executive, O’Toole also writes or edits a number of other publications of interest to landlords, tenants and real estate attorneys. She is a frequent speaker on housing matters, and, in 2019, was a panelist at the Jack Newton Lerner Landlord-Tenant Practice Institute, speaking on how the Housing Stabilization and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (HSTPA) affects the practice of law for landlord-tenant attorneys.
O’Toole graduated from Boston University School of Law, received her B.A. degree from New York University, and is admitted to practice before the courts of the State of New York and in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the New York City Bar Association, and the New York Women’s Bar Association, as well as a past member of the Advisory Council of the Housing Part of the New York City Civil Court.