Background
Geis, Norman Winer was born on July 13, 1925 in St. Paul. Son of Alexander Winer and Shirley (Magid) Winer.
Geis, Norman Winer was born on July 13, 1925 in St. Paul. Son of Alexander Winer and Shirley (Magid) Winer.
AB with honors, University Chicago, 1947. Juris Doctor, University Chicago, 1951.
Managing editor University Chicago Law Review, 1949-1950. Practice in Chicago, 1951-1996. Counsel firm Miller, Shakman, Hamilton Kurtzon & Schlifke.
Advisor National Conference Commissioners Uniform State Laws special drafting committees for Uniform Condominium Act, 1976-1977. Advisor Uniform Planned Community Act, 1978-1980. Advisory National Conference Commissioners Model Real Estate Cooperative Act, 1979-1980, Uniform Common-Interest Ownership Act, 1982, Uniform Land Security Interest Act, 1985.
Advisory American Law. Institute Restatement of Servitudes, 1993-1996. Adjunct professor John Marshall Law School, 1989-1990.
Author: Condominiums, Planned Communities and Other Forms of Common-Interest Ownership, 1987. Co-chairman joint editorial board on Uniform Real Property Acts of American Bar Association/American College Real Estate Lawyers/National Conference Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, 1991-1996. Contributor articles on condominium and homeowner association law and mortgage financing law to legal journals.
Chairman Highland Park (Illinois) Board Zoning Appeals, 1983-1985. With infantry, Army of the United States, 1943-1945. Member American Bar Association (chairman committee on condominiums, coops, homeowners associations 1978-1980, secretary real property division, section real property probate/trust law 1981-1983), Illinois State Bar Association (real estate section), Chicago Bar Association (chairman real property law committee 1970-1971, member condominium subcommittee 1966-1968, member executive council 1972-1996), American College Real Estate Lawyers (governor 1980-1983, secretary 1983-1985, vice president 1985-1986, chairman uniform real property acts committee 1989-1995), Anglo-American Real Property Institute (governor 1985-1989), Mid-Day Club Chicago, Pi Lambda Phi.
Married Dorothy Bockman, October 17, 1954. Children: Deborah, Nancy, Carolyn (deceased), Sarah.