Kenneth K. Fisher is a Partner in the Real Estate and Environmental & Land Use Practice Groups and is resident in the firm's New York office. His practice concentrates on the civic fabric of the metropolitan New York area: real estate development, zoning and land use matters; administrative, regulatory law, and government contracting, counseling clients on strategic business and legal matters including negotiations and litigation. He represents a number of not-for-profit organizations in employment, governance and real estate matters.

Mr. Fisher served as a member of the New York City Council from 1991-2001 (D-Brooklyn). As Chair of the Council's Land Use Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Siting and Maritime Uses, he was instrumental in helping to shape the landscape of New York and the approval of hundreds of millions of dollars of public works. Mr. Fisher also chaired the Youth Services Committee of the Council. He has authored numerous articles on public policy and is host of Citywide, a monthly public affairs television program produced by the CUNY-TV. He also currently serves as chairman of the board of directors of the Governors Island Alliance, a coalition of civic, environmental and preservation organizations working to redevelop historic Governors Island, and serves on the boards of the Friends of the Transit Museum and Historic House Trust.

He regularly appears before New York agencies, such as the Board of Standards and Appeals, City Planning Commission, Economic Development Corporation, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and Landmarks Preservation Commission, as well as other city and state departments, the Office of Mayor and New York City Council.

He received his B.A. from the University of the Pacific in 1973 and his J.D. from Syracuse University in 1976.

Mr. Fisher is a Fellow of the Institute for Urban Design and is a member of the board of Government Affair Professionals. He is a member of the Land Use Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and a member of the Brooklyn Bar Association and the New York Bar Association, for which he served two terms in the House of Delegates and co-chaired its Special Committee on Medical Information. He is admitted to practice in New York and before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and the Supreme Court of the United States.