Inside BS Show

Necessary Conversations: Today's show continues our discussion of diversity in the workplace with our guest, my friend Umar A. Sheikh. Umar is an attorney in New York and New Jersey and during our time together we discuss many aspects of the practice of law including being a Muslim and a lawyer.

Show Notes

About Umar A. Sheikh

Umar A. Sheikh is an attorney with over fifteen years of practical experience, having received his JD from Brooklyn Law School in 2000. Umar’s practice concentrates on all aspects of real estate law – purchases, sales, financing, development, leasing, evictions, foreclosures, management – and those areas of law that are related to real estate – corporate, tax, asset protection, estate planning, and litigation. Umar regularly represents parties in the purchase, sale and financing of multifamily, mixed-use, commercial and retail properties. He also represents borrowers in CMBS transactions, hard money lenders, and “fix and flip” investors.

In addition, Umar provides outside general counsel services to small and mid-size companies, as well as foreign investors and entities doing business, real estate or otherwise, in the United States.

Umar currently serves on the Board of Directors for both the New Jersey Muslim Lawyers Association and Muslims for Peace, Inc. He has previously served on the Board of Directors for the Asian American Bar Association of New York. He is a member of the American Bar Association, New Jersey Muslim Lawyers Association, and the Asian American Bar Association of New York.

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