Rosenblum Goldenhersh, P.C.

Focus and practice areas

Founded in 1953, the St. Louis firm builds its work around commercial transactions and commercial litigation. Its attorneys divide between transactional practice and courtroom work, and the site names 21 of them. The firm calls its own size small to medium, which fits a roster of that scale.

The published practice list reaches across several fields. It covers bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring, charitable organizations, corporate matters, creditors' rights, healthcare, HUD and FHA financing, labor and employment, litigation, real estate, tax credit financing, and tax and estate planning. That spread points to a general business practice with room for both deal work and disputes. In my opinion the mix reads as a firm that keeps transactional and litigation capacity under one roof, so a client with a deal and a dispute can keep both in the same office.

The transactional practice

On the deal side, the firm handles real estate, tax credit financing, HUD and FHA financing, charitable organizations, corporate work, and tax and estate planning. Healthcare is part of this group as well. These areas often connect in a single matter: a housing development can draw on tax credit financing and HUD or FHA financing at the same closing.

Tax credit financing, as a general matter, ties a project's funding to credits allocated under state or federal programs. Deals of that kind move through layered agreements among lenders, investors, and public agencies. HUD and FHA financing follows federal underwriting rules for multifamily and healthcare properties. Work in these fields tends to run long, and closings depend on regulatory sign-off before money changes hands. A firm that lists all of these together can keep the financing pieces aligned as a deal comes together.

What the litigation department handles

The litigation group tries civil cases and argues appeals in both federal and state court. Its stated emphasis falls on construction litigation and on labor and employment. The firm represents employers and employees alike in labor and employment matters, so it works both sides of that field.

Construction disputes usually turn on contracts, schedules, and payment. They can pull in owners, general contractors, subcontractors, and sureties, and they often pass through negotiation, mediation, and trial before they close. Labor and employment cases often involve wage claims and discrimination charges, and the firm's work on both the employer and employee side gives its lawyers a view of how each argument tends to land in court. Appellate practice works from the trial record and briefs legal questions to a higher court. Having both trial and appellate capacity in one department means the firm can carry a case through trial and then appeal without handing it to outside counsel.

Development and revitalization work

Beyond the individual practice areas, the firm has represented owners and developers of urban revitalization projects. That work has run in St. Louis and Kansas City and reached other parts of the country. Projects of this type combine real estate, financing, and public incentives, which lines up with the firm's tax credit and HUD or FHA financing work.

Urban revitalization deals commonly involve historic or low-income housing tax credits, more than one lender, and city or state approvals. The legal work covers entity formation, financing agreements, and compliance over the life of a building. As a reviewer, I read the firm's role here as steady transactional support for developers across a project's stages.

Teaching and the wider profession

Several of the firm's partners teach as Adjunct Professors in the Masters of Law in Taxation Program at Washington University School of Law. That connection ties the tax practice to graduate legal education in the same city. It also keeps the tax group close to current law, which feeds the estate planning and financing work.

The firm names its attorneys individually, among them John J. Gazzoli, Jr., Roger M. Herman, David G. Bender, Sean P. Clancy, Carl C. Lang, and David S. Lang. Brian Auger, Brian J. Beck, Thomas A. Duda, Annika C. Eckenrode, Jessica C. Gittemeier, and Alexander H. Kuehling appear on the same list. With 21 attorneys named, the firm has enough hands to run deals and disputes at once.

What the record shows

Across the public pages, the picture is a business firm with roots in 1953 and a working split between transactional and litigation attorneys. The firm's own materials place commercial work at the center and treat the two departments as parallel tracks. The transactional group reaches real estate, financing, corporate, tax, and healthcare matters. The litigation group tries and appeals civil cases, with construction and employment work named first.

For someone weighing this firm, the useful signals are the depth of its financing practice, its named work for developers in St. Louis and Kansas City, and the teaching roles its partners hold at Washington University. The firm has practiced under the Rosenblum Goldenhersh name for more than seventy years.