Attorneys

Jon N. Santemma
jsantemma@jaspanllp.com

Jon N. Santemma is a partner in the firm’s Tax Certiorari and Condemnation Law Practice Group. Mr. Santemma brings over 35 years of tax certiorari and condemnation law experience to the firm. Mr. Santemma was designated as the law secretary to the Administrative Judge assigned to the condemnation and tax certiorari part of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, and for five years assisted the Court in deciding sophisticated valuation questions involving hundreds of parcels of property in both condemnation and real estate tax proceedings. In 1971, Mr. Santemma started his own practice and became special counsel to many attorneys, law firms, and private clients throughout the state in both condemnation and tax certiorari proceedings. Throughout his career, he has represented owners and tenants of all types of real property, including golf clubs, farms, vineyards, shopping centers, telephone companies, theatres, office buildings, restaurants, hotels, industrial properties, schools, charitable foundations, as well as residential and multi residence structures in New York State and the City of New York.

Mr. Santemma served as president of the Nassau County Bar Association, as a member of The House of Delegates, vice president of the New York State Bar Association, and as trustee to the Village of Laurel Hollow. Mr. Santemma presently serves as co-chair of the Condemnation and Tax Certiorari Committee of the New York State Bar Association and has served as a chairman or member of the Condemnation and Tax Certiorari Committees of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York County Lawyers, and the American, Nassau and Suffolk County Bar Associations. He has received numerous recognitions for his professional, community, and charitable endeavors. Mr. Santemma frequently lectures to various educational and professional organizations on condemnation and tax certiorari issues. He has also appeared on both radio and television, and has been quoted in Newsday, The New York Times, the New York Law Journal and a variety of other publications. Mr. Santemma is the co-editor and co-author of the 2000 Supplement to the Review and Reduction of Real Property Assessments in New York, and is currently the editor and co-author of a book to be entitled Condemnation Law in New York.

B.A., Cornell University – 1960 J.D., Forham Law School – 1963

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