About Us

Mr. Rottman joined Adelberg, Rudow as a member in 1991 with a concentration in the areas of real estate, business, estate planning and probate.  

Mr. Rottman represents developers and commercial clients in the purchase, sale, financing, development and utilization of residential, commercial and industrial real estate. He counsels in the drafting and negotiating of acquisition and sales agreements, condominium and homeowner association documents, forming partnerships, corporations and limited liability companies, and drafting and negotiating leases and construction contracts.

Mr. Rottman is a member of the Maryland State Bar Association, Section on Real Estate Practice and was the co-founder and first chairman of the Commercial Real Estate Attorneys' Discussion Group. He is admitted to practice before the U. S. Tax Court; U. S. District Court of Maryland, U. S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. Supreme Court.
He is the author of Maryland Condominium, Homeowner Association, Cooperative and Time-Sharing Forms and Practice, published by Aspen Publishers and Expandable and Phased Planned Unit Developments, part of the treatise Real Estate Transactions, published by Matthew Bender.

He served as an Assistant City Solicitor for Baltimore City (1961-1967) and an Assistant Attorney General of Maryland (1967-69).

Practice Areas:

• Real Estate Group
• Construction Law
• Business Law Group

Bar Admissions:

• Maryland, 1959

Education:

• L.L.B., University of Maryland, 1959
• B.S., University of Maryland, 1957

Professional and Civic Involvement:

• Member, Maryland State Bar Association, Section of Real Estate Practice
• Member, Baltimore City Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association

Publications and Lectures:

• "Maryland Condominium, Homeowner Association, Cooperative and Time-Sharing Forms and Practice," Maryland Legal Publishers, 1987
• "Expandable and Phase Planned Unit Developments," Matthew Bender Co, Real Estate Transactions Series, 1994
• "Statutory Disclosure Requirements in Real Estate Transactions," CREAD Program, 1998
• "Statutory Requirements in Residential Real Estate Transactions," Fourth Edition, 2005, Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers